Pjking227

This person sounds very selfish and self-centered. She is not a friend and is just using you. When she asks you again just tell her sorry, but, no. Leave it at that. I can't believe your boss is allowing you to work for her like that. That puts you into overtime. Where I am you are required to work your minimum hours to keep your benefits. Don't feel guilty and find yourself a real friend

I am close to retirement and it's getting more difficult to do bedside. Unfortunately I have an ADN and at my hospital I cannot go or do anything else without a BSN I am not going into debt at this time of my life so I am stuck. I would love to do in-patient hospice. I guess I will have to retire early and then try to get a job st another hospital

I have had NSO malpractice insurance since I graduated LVN school in 1994and upgraded when I became an RN 1999. Yes my hospital said that Risk Management is our malpractice insurance. But like many have said they will only back you if you follow policy by the letter. I have never needed it and I pray to God I never do, but, it's just like my flood insurance I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

30 minutes unpaid, if I am lucky! Never get a 15 minute break because that will cause my pod partner extra work and put me behind.

I see this posting was from 2012, but, I will be having a phone interview with our VA clinic next week. I have been primarily in a hospital setting for the last 20 years. I just can't take it anymore. I was wondering if anyone enjoys working for the VA?

Amen!

I have worked at many hospitals and have never had to show them what I could lift. During orientations we had a class with PT and were taught body mechanics. And yes, it is very unlikely you would ever lift anything over your head. I have been in nursing 20 years and all I have ever lift were patients in there bed or off the BSC and then others were always available to help. Don't sweat this.

We had a spoiled adult take the room TV right off the wall. We have had TV remotes and our cheap room phones taken. Also a couple of times people have taken off with our portable telemetry monitors. Don't know what they were thinking, unless they have stolen a cardiac monitor!

I thought I was the only one who wants out of bedside nursing! I miss working at a computer all day with just my thoughts for company. I got away from med surg a few years ago and have been happier working step down cardiac, but, the work keeps piling on and the other day I snapped at a physical therapist giving her a nasty remark about wearing an isolation gown when the patient had a negative test, but wasnt cleared yet, totally my fault, and now for the first time in my 19 years I am on probation. Not even a warning, because she put in a compliant that went up to the president of the hospital. I would love to find something that earns me what I make now, but away from people.

According to our new grads our hospital starts them around $20 an hour with everyone earning $2.50 after 3pm and $3.50 day shift weekend plus the $2.50 after 3pm. I am in Greenville.

Oh, we are also opening a brand new children's wing. This will raise our bed number to 1000!

I live in the Greenville area and work at a Trauma level 1 hospital. We are about 1-2hours from the beach. We are also the home of East Carolina University. I don't think the pay is bad and our cost of living isn't horrible considering the economy. We are the largest hospital east of Raleigh in the northeast region of NC. I have been here 7 years now and that is saying a lot for me since this is my longest position I have ever held as a nurse. And I do believe we are running in the black. I hope this helps.

I just learned today that when our computer (from our assessments) show a patient is a falls risk we are to put on the bed alarm. We do if that person is confused and weak and at a real risk of falling. But our system puts a walking, talking, competent person with taking 4 meds a day as a falls risk, just the number, not the type of drug counts. If we do this we will be running into their rooms more to turn off the alarms than doing real patient care. And if e order set calls for SCDs we are to use them, which we do for total care pts, not ambulatory people! This is something that used to be our nursing judgment now we have to get them dc'd and have the patients refuse the SCDs when they are able and willing to get up and walk. Committees may have good intentions, but they are never the people that do the direct care - at least in my facilit. Totally useless unless you have bedside nurses and the administration is willing to listen.

Our entire faculty is in black, but the peds nurses aren't suppose to wear cartoon figures...it's a peds unit for goodness sakes! That is what kids like!

You are human, you will make mistakes. What kind of error can you make with charting? This place sounds like they are practicing nursing from 40 years ago. A mistake is a learning experience. And I have worked at places where you get written up and we all learned to cover our tracks. Now most places use these mistakes as learning experiences to improve passing medications. If they are willing to lose nurses over being human, then you need to find somewhere else to work. Chin up, you will survive this. You can turn in your own "write up" before anyone can find out and then tell the DON how it happened and how to correct it. That is just a suggestion. But, I would be looking for another place to work.