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It becomes a violation when a medical professional, who knows better, violates the patient's privacy rights. If you are sitting in the waiting room with him, not an employee of the facility, you are a fan. However, if you are an employee, it's your day off, you are in the waiting room, you are still an employee, if you post to social media...VIOLATION. You can be fined and fired!!! Even if he was your friend.. you could be fired...unless he posted the pic. Just did my HIPAA module at work and this scenario was one of them..not with Jay-Z 😉

He left AMA before I got here? What a wonderful I'm gonna have!

It's the start of my VACATION!!!

The moon was full and we had No Falls!

No codes on my watch....not 1 atlas, not 1 code brown, not 1 code blue, no code neuro! I'm living RIGHT!!!!

2 people engaged in adult activities, accidentally pressing the call light!!

If you wanted to sleep at 1 am sir, this was not the place to show up complaining of abdominal pain. Wait, what's that, oh you've had the pain for 2 weeks now, it's a 10 out of 10. Oh , okay, right, I need a temperature. Mouth closed, please, Thanks!

A physician at the bedside, ready to perform a procedure. No call, no supplies, no consent, NOT READY sir!

Having been a nurse for 16 years now and having "hated" my job a time or two I will speak to what I have experienced. As a new grad (LPN) I worked with a lot of older more experienced nurses, they taught me a lot. They also complained a lot about the unit we worked on, the facility we worked in, and the leadership of the facility. They had seen a lot changes over the years; some good and some not so good. I think over time this behavior became a part of my behavior. I started noticing that I was saying some of the same things about my job that they were saying, once I became an RN. I quickly decided that unless I changed jobs, I would actually start believing what I was saying, so I did. I love being a nurse, I love caring for patients, but I didn't love hearing how much other people hated their jobs..EVERY DAY! Here is what they really hated..being taken away from patient care by more and more paperwork. Almost every week there was some new initiative started, some new document created, some new life saving paperwork that needed to be done on every patient, every shift, every day that was created by people that don't take care of patients. They have no input from those of us at the bedside taking care of patients and so the frustration builds up. Patient care ratios increase because nurses leave and paperwork doesn't decrease. Frustration increases. It's a vicious cycle unfortunately. I try believe that nurses, young and old, do LOVE what we do for the patients, it's just the politics that we hate.

As a fellow human being, first and foremost, and an African American female, I want to to say that I am disgusted with your current situation and I will pray for you! That being said, You need to go! There is NO JOB IN THIS WORLD THAT IS WORTH YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING! Anyone that would suggest that you stay there a minute longer has never experienced that kind of torment and could never understand what it's like to go home and night and feel like you've been violated. To dread going to a place so much that you want call in but your responsibility to your patients comes first so you don't but ALL DAY LONG, you wish you had!! To look over your shoulder constantly and wonder if someone is going to harm you; how is that normal? It's not and don't continue to make it your "new normal". Your life is worth more than that. You deserve to be safe and happy. Please leave! I'm not sure where you are but there are other Nursing facilities in other places that you could go to. They will understand that you only had 6 months experience. I hope and pray that you find the position that is meant for you. Good luck to you

I was 25!!! I went to school with people 50+!!

As an Instructor, I have a few questions....Were you aware that you had to give meds prior to your arrival? If so, were you given time to research the medications prior to administration? When was the last time that you administered a medication IV? Have you ever done a piggy-back administration? Had you reviewed this prior to your arrival, if you knew you were giving meds? These are things that I would ask one of my own students. It is not only our job to train you but it is also your job to be prepared for each clinical day. I would tell my students to be prepared to administer medication via any route, as we cannot predict the type of patient that you may have or what their mediation may be. I cannot speak to the policy regarding the reduction in your grade re: medication administration. I would say if it's not in the policy, it probably would not stand. I will say that from here on out, if you choose to dispute the warning, you need to be 100% prepared for each and every possibility. Go to the lab and practice, enlist other students to help. Ask for information and clarify the expectation of the clinical instructor before the first day. It would seem to me that her expectations should have been covered in orientation, if everyone else had it done, you may have missed her saying that. Best of luck to you. Do not let this discourage you. We all make mistakes...the patient was NOT harmed!!!

Good luck to those of you going into a peri-op 101 course. I loved mine, it came very easy to me. The nurses weren't always nice or helpful but the ones that were made my experience better. I have been an O.R. nurse now for 10 years, that's hard to believe! No matter what path you choose in Nursing, there are going to be speed bumps, challenges, unruly physicians, and "mean girls". In my personal opinion, new graduates should not go directly into a peri-op 101 course. Why you ask, once you get in the operating room, that's all you know. The skills you learned in nursing school aren't utilized as much. You may put in 100 Foley catheters in a year but you will lose other valuable skills. Many O.R. nurses lose the ability to perform an assessment. Many no longer know the medication names or classes and why their patient is taking them. Some are so focused on computer documentation that they forget everything else. I came to the operating room after 6 years of med-surg nursing. That helped me tremendously. I know what those patients experienced post-op, this made me a better OR nurse. In polling my colleagues that worked in other places and those that only did OR nursing, I found that the "team" part of nursing is more prevalent in those with floor experience. They have no problem asking for help. That's the culture of floor nursing. The peri-op nurse is is used to 1 patient at a time. 1 room, 1 CRNA, 1 MD, 1 assistant or PA. It's a great scenario, she or he is in charge of their room, the focus is only the case they are working on. Over time they get into a routine and for some, if someone puts an orientee with them, their entire day is ruined. I am not discouraging new grads but think about it, long and hard. I went from med-surg, to O.R., to teaching. I still do O.R. Nursing part-time but the clinical skills I used, in med-surg, help me in the clinical setting with my students. If I had gone from school to the O.R., I probably would not have gotten this job. I would have had no hands on patient care except for in school, which we all know is limited. Think about your future, if the O.R. is where you want to be for a long time, go for it. If you are unsure, those positions will always be available. Make yourself more marketable and try other areas 1st. You will be glad that you did.

WOW...you really sound as if you have been wronged by your instructors. Did you fail nursing school? You really do live up to your tag name. Let me just say..as a former nursing student (LPN, ADN, and BSN) and a current PN instructor, we DO NOT LIVE TO MAKE STUDENTS MISERABLE. It's actually quite the opposite. Our job as an instructor is to ensure that every graduate leaving our school has had the BEST training they could possibly receive AND that they are COMPETENT to care for patients. What you don't see as a student are the errors that your fellow classmates are making in the clinical setting; this is not your role. You base your perception of us on the fact that you have befriended this individual (these individuals) when the reality is that you have no idea what they are really capable of. If just being nice was all it took to be a nurse, there would be a lot more nice, incompetent nurses in the world. I am not saying there aren't instructors who probably do act or feel the way you portray them in your rant but don't make this generalization about all of us. I believe we actually entered this field because we have something to give. We want to give back something that was given to us by an instructor. We want to help produce strong, confident, caring, and again COMPETENT nurses that will take care of us when we need to be cared for. To answer the original question, students fail because of various reasons. In my experience, I have discovered that many think they are nursing material but when it's time to use critical thinking, they cannot. They believe it's just taking vital signs and documentation-WRONG! Others are convinced by family and friends that they should be a nurse because they will always have a job; then they discover they don't really like nursing and what it entails. Others may have what it takes but they aren't mentally prepared to dedicate enough time to studying and just cannot manage the course load. Everyone's story is different. We absolutely critique ourselves and try to determine what we can change about our teaching.

I think we can all agree that this was a staffing issue. We can all also agree that we would stay because we truly would not abandon our patients. The real issue is safety. Is she safe to continue working? Where does the facilities responsibility to the patient begin when there is a staffing shortage? Are you expected to stay every day after a 12 hour shift? What about other obligations after your shift ends-like getting children to school, family member to dialysis, etc. I would never just leave but I would have a serious talk with my manager about the implications of the low staffing numbers. What is happening to the no call no show nurse? What happens when I leave and find another job because I do not feel like a valued employee? What happens next time? I hope they truly appreciated the fact that you and another nurse stayed to help! The nurse manager should have been called in to take those patients!