NYLiz

If you were looking for a career position for over a year, what would you options be? working so hard to get to where you are and not being able to place your self in the world you worked for is heart breaking. what options is there?

little are bubles wont do any damage just try not to make it a habbit. its always best to not have any.

So there have been many posts on the subject, and I was wondering what your thoughts were on the subject. At my job, there are a few, nurses you have to take with a grain of salt, otherwise you'll go insane. They're really hard on the new nurses that come into the door, and I was one of them. But since I've been there for some time, i start seeing myself get upset when i see things done wrong, or poorly written (we do not have computers at all and yes its 2011 i know). And I write them notes telling them i fixed what they had done and explain the correct way of doing that particular task. But after the 5th or 6th note its like COME ON!!! Thoughts??? Be nice!

I have been working night for over a year now, it took me a good 6 months to get a sleep pattern down and not feel exhausted on my days off. But now but my pattern is soo messed up i can take naps at any time, and be ok, just now i have to get 8 hours in somewhere. What i do is, If i have one night off, that morning i go to sleep when i et home at 8am and than wake up around 1 or 2 stay up do what i gotta do and go to sleep at 3am sleep for 7 hours wake up at ten, and than take a nap at 730 until work. Same thing goes for when i have two night off minus the 730 nap i would just go to bed earlier than 3am and wake up earlier, than take the 730 nap.

LIJ pays 41 per hour for new RNs

I apologize now for any grammar mistake, its a post not a legal document So I think everyone that has posted back to me about earlier post has got me all wrong. First- The events didnt not all happen within a week, and if it did i would kill myself. (That was a joke) All those event had happen with in over a year. Second- I would NEVER disrespect anyone I work with. Just because I have balls in front of a computer screen doesn't mean I can say half of those thing to their face. I am a coward. When I do confront someone about an issue, i do not yell at them, i talk to them as i would anyone of my elders. i respect everyone i work with, nursing is tough you have to be strong to be doing this kind of work. all i ask is to be respected back and i dont get that, and it ****** me off. I do not threaten with write-ups, ive only written four. When i wrote that it was supposed to say the unit director threatened to write her up (thats a grammar problem) Third- I do not demand my staff member to do any sort of task for me or the residents. I ask them. Sometimes they do it and sometimes they ignore the fact i asked them. And than i do it myself. I do help them dont think i dont. theres only 2 aids on the floor of 56 patients everyone has to help. I stop my med pass to help them out. I stop my paperwork to help them. They all take hour and half breaks, they leave the floor when ever they please as long as there is two people on the floor. Forth- I have gotten alot of negative feedback about checking-up on my staff. In this particular facility they do. there has been multiple situations where residents have not been changed, double diapering, using mouth wash instead of peri-guard, and even not using water to wash them. Fifth- I am the residents advocate, and if asking for perfection on their care is too much than sue me for it. There is not one resident in my facility that i dont love and care for. Sixth- I am the charge nurse on the floor i am responsible for every resident there and i take that to heart. They are not just residents they are my extended family. All i was simply trying to say it the post is that there is no respect for the nurses and i get the grunt of it. And I'm tired of it. I am not the only one with this problem.

I apologize now for my grammar im told its horrible. Which it probably is considering im dyslexic. Anyway, Yes, i had gone to the ADOA, and to the DOA the following monday nothing had been done, they didnt even know about it. It was a very very horrible experience I hope I never have to deal with again.

At my facility we still do that, and night shift only uses red pen, evenings use green, and days are black and blue. Theres not one computer in the whole place. Turn-over night, what a nightmare. its coming soon in 9 days.

Well thank you for pointing out my grammar. I am dyslexic it tends to happen whether i proof read or not. im not write nurses not nor am being graded so i dont see the need to cross my tees and dot my eyes. I hardly ask them to do anything and if i ever do i always say please or if they report something to me i say thank you. I never demand anyone to do anything. I have never threatened to write anyone up. And if you really think i would do anything to harm or insult my residents, you my dear are sadly mistaken. I live for my residents. I am their advocate. I do everything I can for their best interests. The issues i had shared are coming from a year of working in this place, these issues dont happen every night. So do i need to check up on them? Yes i do. If you saw an aid, not once not twice but multiple times, cleaning patients with out water, or using mouth wash instead of perigaurd, double diapering what would you do? because at the end of the day their your patients these thing are happen under your care. If you caught your staff doing those thing you wouldnt check up on them ever? And yes i can have respect because all i give them is respect, and i expect that in return.

I dont ever disrespect anyone. i dont understand why everyone thinks so, i was venting. I talk to my cna as my peers co workers. i help them with there asignments, i make sure here doing ok i let them take hour and half breaks(we work nights), they have this idea they can speak to me as they would their children. and race is an issue i have been called casper, wahp, and cracker, and dont like each other jamaicans vs haitians

I appreciate your comment i think eveyone has me wron. I am no where near disrespectful towards my staff by any means. they just have this idea that they can talk to me how ever they want. period end of story. she told me im going to speak to you anymore and all i said was that fine as long as you report to me about the resident thats ok. and she respomded i wont even do that. UNITERUPPTED MED PASS LOLOL what a joke. the tell me about skin tears o/a rashes right before i leave. And the list of things i would tolerate was just a list is not that i do anything about them. those are just the things im my head that bother me about this place. and RACE is an issue, i have been called cracker, casper, wahp. so idk

Thank you for the response, Someone else has told me the same thing choose your battles, but i cant tolerate someone disrespecting me i dont disrespect them i feel that this is a work place and theirs a line of respect that need to be met and its not. I cant choose theirs a certain way i feel things need to be done and thats by the book. I cant tolerate cursing at work, i cant tolerate double diapering, i cant tolerate lateness, rudeness, name-calling, siderails up when their supposed to be down, not reporting skin tears, and by the experienced nurses missing signatures, missing medication, medication errors, not giving medication, improper report, refusing to to rounds with me, missing orders, wrong paper work, and poorly writing nurses notes. i guess i am tooooo anal.

I work in a facility at night. I am the youngest staff member and some people really think because im a young white girl i can be walked all over. This is not the case. I have written up people for insubordination, Abuse, Restraints. ect... I might be a young nurse im italian i dont take bull**** to kindly. I do my job and i do it well but CNA are not listening to me, They talk back, yell at me for questioning their care, like how dare i check up on them. I ve been told i can be your mother dont question me, ive been told dont talk to me anymore ( after i told her not to yell at me again or take that tone with me, because i had to leave a patient for 15 seconds to put their property away) so i responded to her thats perfectly fine as long as you tell me about the residents and their care and she responded NO! all this is happen as im giving report to unit director and that the director jumps in and tell her thats enough one more word ill write you up myself. she stopped talking and walked away. I mean just because i am 22 and a charge nurse on the floor doesnt give them the right to speak to me that way in the facility or on the street. Ive told my supervisor about it and she responded shes just excited thats how we talk somtimes. I just do get it. I need advise

Just so you know I wrote two CNA's up for tying a patient down, those documents got lost, so i called the state of NY and had them fired and my supervisor fired for abuse, NY is a restraint free State its illegal. That happen within my first month of being a new nurse . and now everyone in my facility hates me.