Everline

Everline

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  1. Is it wrong to leave a job during orientation?

    Orientation is the time to leave if you see it's not going to work.
  2. IM injections- to aspirate or not?

    I give a lot of IM injections. I do not aspirate. I try to give injections as quickly as possible.
  3. Is this normal??!?!

    Yes.
  4. New grad RN, absolutely hate nursing

    I can relate to a certain extent. I hated clinicals in nursing school and my first nursing job in a hospital really made me miserable and drove me to drink. I wish I was kidding. I hung in there about 7 months, networked and was able to move on to an...
  5. Anybody else feel this way?

    Yup, I get it. Since I have a BA in another field and didn't want the expense of another one, I applied to graduate school. To my suprise, I got accepted. Then just before class was about to start, I realized I have NO desire to basically ruin all m...
  6. RN, ADN being obsolete

    Oh, how people warned me that I would not be able to get a hospital job with an ASN. Put me in a bit of a panic. Turns out I had no problem getting a job. Not when I first graduated, nor any time since. My first nursing job was at a magnet hospital. ...
  7. I am proud and happy to be a nurse. However, I questioned my career choice nearly every day of my first year of nursing. To say I was miserable was an understatement. But something kept me hanging on. And I can honestly say I am happy with my career ...
  8. Qualities for a nurse in public health

    I am a public health nurse who does direct patient care every single day. I have to chart, of course but I don't have an abundance of paperwork and there is not much that I do that could be called case management. The thing about public health nursin...
  9. Are nurses and doctors equal?

    As has been posted, I am not subordinate to any doctor. I am subordinate to my nurse manager. In addition, doctors don't order me to do anything. They write orders for the care of a patient and I may or may not follow their plan, depending on its app...
  10. So TIRED OF IT

    I left hospital bedside nursing quite quickly, in part, because of the customer service mentality that I believe actually harms patients in the long run. I have not looked back or regretted leaving for one second. I do understand that being sick and ...
  11. Finally done with the worst two years of my life

    I don't sacrifice myself to make other people's lives better. I go to work, do what I was hired to do and collect a paycheck twice a month. It is not a selfless profession for me. That being said, if you find it to be so for you and you love it, well...
  12. New Grad Orientation Contracts

    Thank goodness I never signed one of these contracts. They are an absolute outrage, IMO. I have no sympathy for hospitals with high turnover rates who resort to trying to force new grads to stay when they don't want to, sometimes for very good reason...
  13. I miss The Commuter!

    Loved her posts and hope all is well with her and that she will come back here one day and post again.
  14. So you're an RN - you must be earning big!

    I am employed by the state in a public health job. So I would just laugh heartily if anyone ever told me that. That being said, when compared to the salary of my non-nursing co-workers, I make a decent living.
  15. I'm so lost :(

    My honest advice: Concentrate on your first year as a med-surg nurse and think about what you will do next later on. The first year of nursing can be very challenging. In addition, as you work you might get more ideas about what you do and do not lik...
  16. I've actually experienced the opposite more. That is, people think that because I am the nurse, I know everything and when the crap hits the fan I am the one they look to for help. They look up to me and think I can slay dragons. It's really quite un...
  17. Did you take a risk?

    I took a risk in the first year of my career. Less than a year as a hospital bedside nurse and I knew it was not for me. Everyone told me to stay, that it would get better and that I would have a hard time getting further employment if I left before ...
  18. Labor as a spring board to acute care?

    Yeah, I don't get it. What do you consider L&D because I have always considered it acute care. Can't imagine how it wouldn't be considered as such...
  19. Help! Thinking about changing field and from 12's to 8's

    I changed from 12s to 8s. I have no weekends, night or holidays, though. I do like it. I thought it would be a hard adjustment but it wasn't.
  20. This forum does not seem to have a lot of traffic, so I'm curious as to whether this topic will receive any replies. I'm simply interested in sparking conversation among public health/community health nurses. I'd love to know how things are going in ...
  21. Public Health Nurses, how are things going?

    Sometimes when I pass through the immunizations waiting area at our health department I hear some of the conversations people are having about vaccines and it can make me sad and frustrated. I've heard people say that they think it's better to let t...
  22. Public Health Nurses, how are things going?

    I like what you wrote here about paying off in future generations to come. I agree with you that this is something I think is so important and we need to keep in mind. A lot of what people go through is generational. It just keeps going from parent t...
  23. Castlebanch drug testing facility

    This year. I should add, however, that I had to empty my pockets and lock up all of my belongings. I could not flush the toilet or wash my hands before submitting the sample.
  24. Castlebanch drug testing facility

    In my case, it was not supervised. That is to say, I was told I had 4 minutes in the bathroom to pee in a cup. I was alone in the bathroom. Not sure if that is what you are asking.
  25. There's not too much posting on this forum and I'd like to see if we can get a new positive thread going on why you love being a correctional nurse. I'm sure there are topics like this in the past, but I'm hoping some people will come in and build th...