PennyWise

PennyWise

Pulmonary, Transplant, Travel RN

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  1. Lazy nurse or what

    PennyWise replied to Theguest2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My experience with nursing has been that it is very polar. It seems to me that you are either having a great day in which everything is easily managed and you are on top of things without breaking a...

  2. Do You judge and treat patients differently depending on who they are ?

    PennyWise replied to star.crush's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    FMF Corpsman, I prefer: Don't judge anyone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you tell them what you think.............you have a one mile head start on getting away from

  3. Do You judge and treat patients differently depending on who they are ?

    PennyWise replied to star.crush's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I remember in an English Comp. class, a phenomenon of "Bringing yourself to the reading" was discussed often. Basically, the point was, there is no such thing as absolute non-bias reading. No matter...

  4. Saying 'NO' to overtime

    PennyWise replied to suzbeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did a lot of OT when I was a new nurse. At first, I did it because I wanted to be the "perfect nurse" and it gave me a sense of belonging to the team. Then I did it save for a house...........pay...

  5. Do you think Dental Hygienists make more than Nurses? (RN)

    PennyWise replied to keithm1012's topic in General Nursing

    I knew a girl in school, she was in my micro-biology class, who was planning on going to school to be a hygenist. She had plans of starting a family and all that though too. She liked the hours she...

  6. Is blocking an employee's transfer common practice or just a paranoid myth?

    PennyWise replied to PennyWise's topic in Nurse Management

    I work for a very large hospital system, with hospitals all over the place. I'd still like to give ER nursing a try. With that said, once school is done for me in December, I plan on moving more...

  7. CNAs no longer doing vitals on our floor

    PennyWise replied to new_grad_RN's topic in General Nursing

    "Now at night, they will only be taking patients to the bathroom and changing patients........" Your aids do twice as much as ours if they do that much. Our aids have been playing the same game for...

  8. How do ya'll wear your hair? can you have bangs?

    PennyWise replied to Reckless96's topic in General Nursing

    I wear my hair close and tight. When I was a youth we called this style a "buzz cut". I can not have bangs. That has more to do with male pattern baldness than with hospital policies though....

  9. Penalized for too many interests

    PennyWise replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in General Nursing

    How many times were you told that it was specifically your work history that caused you not to be hired? Once, or many times (showing a trend). Just wondering. Whenever I see a post by someone...

  10. Be Careful When Posting

    PennyWise replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    I agree. I've talked to RL coworkers about this actually and made the same point..............except the fact that I can name a number of other career paths in which it is much more so that way. We...

  11. Be Careful When Posting

    PennyWise replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    Yeah, I decided to go with a real picture of myself despite the fact that I'm well known. I figure......meh........I've scared enough people to not have to worry about it. All kidding aside though,...

  12. What kind of little "Thanks" does your hospital give, or are they too cheap?

    PennyWise replied to pattyslattery's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I once worked for a hospital that was heavy into giving out the "gifts". Every month, the Director of Nursing had a dinner at a not very cheap place and everyone with at least one year of time with...

  13. Really sad :(

    PennyWise replied to NOLAmommy3's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I can relate. I went into Med/Surge by choice. I was listening to the advice given to me by an instructor who believed everyone should have at least one year of M/S. Going straight to ICU/OR/ER/L+D...

  14. Misogyny in Nursing

    PennyWise replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've seen the same thing, but in a different field. A cousin of mine was entering a new field (basically, she was administration, an office manager) and was telling me about how she handled different...

  15. OMG, wash your hands!

    PennyWise replied to anotherone's topic in General Nursing

    Mmmm.......that part I don't know about. I didn't hear that they did. They were all over us about the handwashing

  16. OMG, wash your hands!

    PennyWise replied to anotherone's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital got slammed by JCAHO for hand washing deficiencies. Problem is, they did very few walk throughs and when they did, they stayed in the managers office for the majority of their stay. So...

  17. My email filter is a genius!

    PennyWise posted a topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine used me as a reference not too long ago. The hospital she applied to outsources the duties of checking references. I happen to know these companies often use emails to do so....

  18. My email filter is a genius!

    PennyWise replied to PennyWise's topic in General Nursing

    Lol. Ask the guy being held captive in Africa who wants to give you 10M to hold onto until his

  19. New Nurse/Old Attitude

    PennyWise replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  20. Studying long hours

    PennyWise replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    For me, the topic of good study habbits always returns to the same thing: discipline. Not cramming, avoiding procrastination, getting sleep/eating well before classes/study periods and avoiding the...

  21. Budget cuts..... State nurses earn minimum wage?

    PennyWise replied to gcupid's topic in General Nursing

    Ha ha ha If wages at my hospital were cut to minimum wage, I'd stick around just long enough to see if the "nurse with a calling" types really were as called to the profession as they claim to be. We...

  22. Is It Just Me?

    PennyWise replied to Mijourney's topic in General Nursing

    I was a little shocked when I found out, in my RN to BSN courses, there were many new grads (some had not even passed boards yet) who had not found their first job. I felt so bad for them, I asked...

  23. My classmates dropping like flies???

    PennyWise replied to mttzakr87's topic in General Students

    My class started with around 76 people. At the orientation ceremony, the Director of the program said: "Look to your left, and now look to your right. If you plan on being one of the people still...

  24. Witnessed abuse, nothing being done?

    PennyWise replied to Country_Girl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You might be dealing with the same thing I was up against a while ago. A sitter was being verbally aggressive with an MR patient to the point where I had her replaced with another sitter. The...

  25. Left a job because of bad situation...what to say on application?

    PennyWise replied to busybeethatisme's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I have to respectfully disagree that telling the truth is the best thing here. Regardless of whether you had a good reason to leave or not, all sorts of red flags will pop up in the heads of...