crazy oldnurse

I just have one word of advice most states require terminated nurses names be sent to their board of nursing. The state can (and will!!!) require an investigation. I know of this because it happened to me. I hired a lawyer because you can be "done" before you know it. Good Luck and God Bless.

Sometimes I have put pt's on their stomachs. It is not always a way of doing this but I do understand your frustration. I have been in predicaments and I always call the "Alpha-Dog" on the unit be it supervisor, old timer, or just the person who can give you good advise. I do not know how your facility might choose to interpret your action but CYA ...most important thing as well as pt care. If this pt needed this treatment and was able to sign themselves in ...I would hope things would go in favor of his care. GOD BLESS!

I am so sorry to say yes a new job with minimal training as supplied in school really makes one dizzy with self doubt. I believe that school competition is to put pressure on newbies to show them that this profession is "not fooling around". You do not have your sea-legs at first and you are at the mercy of older nurses with lots of past practice. It will take a while until you can rely on your own actions and your own rationale. It gets better as you can trust yourself. Namaste.

I am with you. Some nurses are taught critical thinking and some do not have the mindset to do that.It is not wrong to do either in my opinion. I would have to be in this situation to absolutely make a decision. A lot of if's needless to say. Is it not ludicious to have to have this amount of angst over this? I believe it is because we have so many levels of education doing essentially the absolute samething?