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  1. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

    whisperingsage replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sadly, I think this is a result of the nurse training system being reduced to college classes instead of on the job experience. I started out as a CNA in a nursing home for 8.5 years in the 1980's....

  2. New Nurse, Med Error = Lost Job

    whisperingsage replied to NewRN9423's topic in General Nursing

    I had been a CNA for 10 years, and an LVN for 15 years, I have worked in rehab and SNF and both are some of the highest patient loads you will have with very needy patients. I have worked a lot of Per...

  3. Need Career Advice

    whisperingsage replied to Szzzz's topic in General Nursing

    Have you looked into being a phone triage nurse? That could give you time to take care of business. If you spread yourself too thin, that could be treacherous to your health. I ended up in the ICU...

  4. Am I too stupid to be a nurse?

    whisperingsage replied to iconicqueen's topic in General Nursing

    Have you tried home health? They are one on one and much better in spending time with your

  5. New Nurse, Med Error = Lost Job

    whisperingsage replied to NewRN9423's topic in General Nursing

    Pushing nurses with understaffing and overburdening is so common, how do we explain? THIS is why the average nurse age is in their 40's, the young ones get disillusioned when they are forced to speed...

  6. New RN Can't Handle the Unit. Is this Normal?

    whisperingsage replied to Snmk19's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like all nursing homes I have been in, only 60 patients or more , no RN on duty making me the Charge nurse (LVN), and none of the other LVN's have recorded their IV cert on their license. SO...

  7. Achieve test prep?

    whisperingsage replied to lmjsierra's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I just signed up with them, and It sounds like they have been rethinking their management- they do have actual classes of 4-6 weeks (one 3 hr class a week), which I don't really need as I am a very...

  8. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    whisperingsage replied to Sykadia's topic in Men in Nursing

    I've worked with a lit if male nurses and usually they are wonderful. They are more compassionate than many men in more traditional macho men jobs. I've only met one who was gay. He was my DON, and...

  9. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

    whisperingsage replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am an LVN and have worked mostly SNF, rehab, psych, jails, prisons and a little acute. I am lucky to have 10 years experience as. CNA and I value that highly. I think it has been very important for...

  10. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    whisperingsage replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    You mean YOU don't count narcs? I have not seen that go away any place I have worked

  11. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    whisperingsage replied to Sykadia's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have worked with a few dozen male nurses. Most are more compassionate than the average macho male, and that's good. I've only met one that was gay, he was my DON and he was surprisingly mean, as...

  12. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    whisperingsage replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    The docs should clean up their own dang mess. Agreed but they think they are God, and gone to boot. However, I have worked with an otherwise dear male nurse that would open his diabetic needles and...

  13. Hard Truth of Nursing

    whisperingsage replied to Mr.Bill RN, BSN's topic in General Nursing

    I quit in 1988 (CNA) as I was moving to go build my house I had worked so hard to pay for doing all the overtime I could in 4 departments; nursing, kitchen, laundry, housekeeping. I thought my mother...

  14. Social Media and Emotional IQ

    whisperingsage replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I was a CNA in the 1980's and developed a lot of my character in the one SNF just through persistence and learning teamwork and learning to love my pts. when I returned to nursing in 2006, I was...

  15. dealing with rude doctors?

    whisperingsage replied to 2016New's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Working NOC's it's a challenge getting the NP to answer the phone or call back. (A

  16. dealing with rude doctors?

    whisperingsage replied to 2016New's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Look up a book called Too Nice For Your Own Good, it's on communication, others are The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense, and When I say No I Feel Guilty. There was a time when nurses had to stand...

  17. Do you still have energy to cook after a 12 hour shift?

    whisperingsage replied to chunkalunk's topic in General Nursing

    I have been working 12 hours shifts for 10 years but only found out in 2014 that all that time I was supposed to get two half hours split (like that's any help or rest!) and I only found out because...

  18. Do you still have energy to cook after a 12 hour shift?

    whisperingsage replied to chunkalunk's topic in General Nursing

    The crockpot is your

  19. What do other hospitals do regard to scheduling staff for weekends?

    whisperingsage replied to Metalchild's topic in General Nursing

    I already work weekends, I am a Pastor's wife and run the music, bake the cookies, tend everyone's needs, clean the building, we have three services on Sundays, 10 am, 11 am and 6 pm, some lingering...

  20. Doctor stole my stethoscope

    whisperingsage replied to ayejay09's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I put a tag with my name on it. And I never loan it

  21. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    whisperingsage replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Lucky me, I was a CNA for 8.5 years in the 80's in a nursing home. In the old days, we got on the job training. They still were allowed to train LPN' snad RN's on the job, but as time went on,...

  22. Medical Assistant - Which path: LVN or RN?

    whisperingsage replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Where can I verify this info on

  23. Home births gone wrong

    whisperingsage replied to MNNICU, RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I have to weird about vitamins again, sorry folks.... My goats taught me this AND Pat Coleby taught me this- potasium deficiency will cause otherwise normally experienced and good moms to need to have...

  24. Carrington College Reno?

    whisperingsage replied to heartbeep's topic in Nevada Nursing

    having been an active and practicing LPN for over 10 years, I expected that I would just have to retake A&P and microbiology. But instead, they strung me along for a year before they admitted NONE...

  25. The Fifth Vital Sign

    whisperingsage replied to bgxyrnf's topic in General Nursing

    Until the medical industry recognizes real optimal nutritional therapy, narcs are all we have. When I had to go to the acute hospital (lost 5 pints of blood from a duodenal stress ulcer) my gut was...