Bruin's Mom

i completely understand your desire to fire this person; however, have you thought about talking to her about her behavior and why she has done the things she has done? maybe there is more to the story. as far as the med error, was it investigated? w...

And in the day and age of email, PLEASE do not encourage employees to email the DON/DNS or yourself with interpersonal conflicts that cannot be resolved because they are petty and small. Yes, I know that everyone doesn't see eye to eye all the time;...

Thank you so much to everyone for the fantastic advice!! I think I will tell the interviewer what they want to know and wont expand much on being off. All posts were deeply appreciated!!:)

Hello everyone! After reading the article "Ten ways to tell your burning out" I realize I made the correct decision by taking off some time and regrouping. I have been off since June. I needed to take a look at myself as a person and as a nurse and...

i love this!! thank you!!

I don't believe people are angry here or hostile, I just think that everyone at this site has different types of experiences and would like to share the way they cope with the nursing profession itself. Nursing experience is a beautiful thing when it...

Do you actually think that every nurse that you work with has perfect credit? No you cannot be denied a job due to the fact that you have bad credit, it is discriminatory. And just to let you know, I do get out alot. Prospective employers may chec...

I have never heard of a place checking your credit for a nursing position; in fact, I believe it is illegal to even look into that. I think if they didn't hire you because of bad credit wouldn't that be discrimination. When they do a background che...

I am currently on break from nursing. My last job was in addictions nursing which was horrible. First, I don't believe people have addictions they make choices; then my supervisor never did anything regarding interpersonal conflicts, scheduling, et...

It disappoints me that the nursing profession has come to this. I have been in the same boat. I have been berated, information told to the supervisor that wasn't true, etc. I have decided to take some time off from nursing to regroup and try and u...

Let 'em fire you then you can collect unemployment and look for a better job

I love how we nurse ask patients to please "try and do things themselves" and as a result we are cruel and nasty nurses to the patients. I think there should be an inservice to incoming patients to let them know that if they can do it themselves then...

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful!!! Yes they are the ones and if any LPN reads this and is offended go back to school, quit getting drunk and stop the baby momma/daddy drama..........or better yet, quit nursing!!!

Unfortunately in the field of geriatrics people fall and we as nurses have no control over it. Please do not blame yourself, just make sure you document heavy and filled out the incident report correctly. Take a breather, and go in to work and do th...

Hospitals especially med surg are breeding grounds for hostile work environments. I believe she should go to the meeting with hospital admin, make a game plan, and proceed if she wishes to stay there and work. She has nothing to forgive herself for...

I apologize deeply to you that you are going through this and that this is how nursing is being portrayed to you. One thing I can suggest is that every facility has a corporate compliance or HR department where you can file a complaint or grievence ...

I believe you missed the: "Wannabe RN" LPN who can't keep her nose out of others business, does very little work and expects the RN supervisor to pick up the rest. The "Up the DON's *** LPN/CNA/RN who snitches out everyone else on the shift over stu...

Well if you are not responsible for it who is? You took the meds and now you are claiming that addiction is a "disease?" As a nurse you should have known the risk when taking opioids and the fact they could cause you to become "addicted" to them. ...

Being a drunk and a drug addict is a choice. I don't think anyone who has these issues should be in nursing at all. I have been exposed to working with nurses who claim to have "addiction" issues and I personally can't trust working with them. I t...

I just left a facility of drug addicts and alcoholics where they would be discharged on monday and back on wednesday. The facility would take anyone back even if they left AMA and were adm. discharged the first time. It had to do with money. As lo...

To define negligence you have to have cause and effect. The cause here is that the patient was diabetic, the effect was that no harm was done no one died and the patient was ok. I think "regular" people, meaning non medical, expect nurses to know ...

Another satisfied customer of overworked, under appreciated nurses. I feel that maybe the doctor should have ordered daily cleansing enemas QID for this individual.

One thing I have gotten into the habit of is keeping a list of all the meds missing and making out an incident report. At least you would have a paper trail and it looks like the pharmacy may not be delivering the meds on a timely manner. Another th...

everyone here is entitled to an opinion which includes myself; therefore, i will express that however i see fit.

No comment made was derogatory just factual. In addition, it is my first amdendment to free speech whether offensive or not.