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Don't go outside and repeatedly hit your neighbors car with a baseball bat because you had a disagreement. He may come out with a hammer and beat you over the head with it in retaliation, causing multiple lacs, skull fractures and a nice brain bleed to top it off. Don't call to check on your relative in the hospital when you are drunk as a skunk Just because this particular ICU allows overnight visitors, that doesn't mean you can walk around the unit with no shoes on, go in the staff lounge or use the staff restroom (especially if you just left a c-diff room) I understand that prison sucks, but you landed yourself there. Please don't pop your eyeball out of the socket and put stool in it's place to get out of the slammer and into the hospital. The resulting infection will be quite nasty Don't bring your three year old daughter and other children to a "Christmas party" in a notoriously high crime neighborhood in a shady run down apartment complex that is known for drug deals. If a deal goes bad, someone may decide to unload a semi automatic into your car resulting in the child being shot ( she lived and recovered as far as I know, thank god) Don't let your child ride in the car unrestrained. A 6 year old getting thrown from the car and suffering a pelvic fracture is not cool

I'm still on maternity leave from having mine, six weeks ago. I went to 38 weeks and he was born at 38 weeks 4 days. The pelvic pain was so bad I couldn't even walk. Luckily my manager was nice enough to take me off the schedule!

Your son needs his mother at home more than he needs to go to private school. My sons grades started to fall this year too. Like yours, he doesn't like school . After a conference with the teacher, myself or my husband started to sit down with him after dinner every evening. We discuss what's due this week, what needs to be done tonight and what tests he needs to study for. We make a list and tick things off when we do them. The teacher also gave us great resources for him to study and practice math problems online. We make sure he does this at least three times a week. Fortnight, Minecraft and any other electronic is weekends only. Cut yourself some slack. We tend to take it so personally when our kids are struggling or not flying right! Make sure you and your husband sit down and talk about it to make sure you're on the same page with everything God bless

OP i don't think continuing to job hop is going to help you. You've had 3 jobs in 2 years. You can't get comfortable in your job or role if you're changing every few months. It seems like there is something more going on and getting another job you'll just run into the same problem. Can you specify exactly what you hate about nursing and what is giving you this anxiety? Maybe see that counselor you mentioned before you make any more moves

You made a very poor decision by doing this. I can imagine you would face discipline at work and this is definitely a reportable incident. I would take this and learn from it. Honesty is the best policy. If you accidentally gave the additional 5mg, all you had to do was admit it, call the doc, write it up, and it likely would not have progressed to anything serious. Now you've opened a can of worms. Best of luck and hopefully LESSON LEARNED!

I never write anything down in report. A lot of my coworkers act like it's the craziest thing they have ever seen. My view on it is this, if you're speaking to me, I should be looking at you and listening to you. If you're focused on writing everything down then you're not listening to what I'm saying. And I hate being told to stop or slow down or to repeat myself because a person is trying to write down everything I say and then report takes twice as long as it should. When someone has their head down on the desk pounding down on a piece of paper that's when I feel that I'm not being listened to and my report is falling on deaf ears. I know it's not for everybody. I'm an auditory learner and I've been doing this for a long time, and being in the ICU it's a little easier to remember everything about two patients as opposed to five or six. Your report is definitely not wasted. If the nurse was looking at you and listening, not playing in the phone or zoning off into space then don't worry, she got what you saidí ½í¸Š

I am a BSN-RN with almost 5 years of nursing experience all in critical care. I am ready to moon walk on out of bedside nursing at this point in my life. I really do like what I do, just that my BP is up, I have developed terrible neck/back pain and I am currently pregnant. I would like to be on the same schedule as my husband and the new baby as much as possible. I started taking grad classes (completed the MSN core classes) and I am very interested in becoming a nursing instructor/educator at a college. I enjoyed nursing school so much because of awesome professors and it is something that I get super excited just talking about. Can anyone tell me what a typical job for a nursing instructor is like? What can I expect to make? (I am in Florida and I work in my hospitals float pool so I expect to take a pretty decent pay cut) Anyone keep a PRN job while doing so? Do you love your job or have any regrets? Thanks!

I agree with everyone else. Other than a code or a brand new admission rolling into the door, there really isn't anything that can't wait 30 seconds while I use the restroom! I don't understand when nurses say they have not had time to urinate the whole shift. It only takes a few seconds! As far as missing lunch goes, it isn't an option for me. I can't go 12 hours without food!

Thank you all, this is great advice. I will answer the interview questions honestly tomorrow. If I don't get hired, then at least I know that I did the right thing and my conscience will be clear. I won't have to worry about being caught in a lie

Wow I did not even think of the background check thing. I'll tell the truth. Hopefully the manager will respect that and give me a chance

Thanks for the reply Thats what Im thinking too. I may not mention the new job. Im just not sure what exactly to when asked why I left my old job. Yes I understand that bridges will be burned with this new place but this is my dream job for sure. I'm not sure of any way that they can find out

Hello My family and I moved to the area we live in now about 1 month ago. 2 weeks ago, out of desperation, I took a job in a CCU here in my town. Friday evening, another hospital called me for an interview in their L and D. This is the area I have wanted to work in since nursing school, and I want to be a L and D nurse so so so bad. I have decided to go to the interview. Should I mention my 2 weeks of work at my current hospital? I've always said that honesty is the best policy and I don't want to get caught in a lie...but on the other hand, I don't want my interviewer to say "well if she dumped xyz hospital after 2 weeks, she could do it to me". That's not going to happen. I,m dying to be out of ICU as that is the only area I have ever worked Would honesty be best in this situation? Or should I not mention it and say I've been home with the kids, working on school, seeking other employment, ect... I promise I am not trying to be hurtful to my new employer. That is not my intention at all. I just don't want to look back and regret not taking the opportunity for a job I really wanted

I agree with what someone else said about the anxiety of the unknown being the worst part. Sometimes you just don't know what is going to come rolling off the elevator

You sound like an amazing CN. I WISH I had that kind of help. Our CN literally stays glued to the desk the whole time. If you ask her for help, she will flat out tell you "no I need to stay at the desk". If you get an admit, forget it. She will sit right there at the desk. There have been times when I have been literally drowning and she doesn't even get up to offer one iota of help.I work in ICU so I never enjoy getting an admission. Usually they are crashing, a rapid response, post code, tons of orders, ect..but when my coworkers help me its such a blessing. Even just getting them in bed and hooked up to the monitor is a big help. Because we have a lousy CN we all try to help each other as much as possible. There have been times when so many people have been in the room helping me with setting up my admit that all I had to do was assess and chart. Please keep up the good work! I know your coworkers will be grateful, even if they do whine and moan