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1. Nurses.... Our Own Worst Enemies??

   soundsLikesirens replied to MaineNurse67's topic in General Nursing

   NEWSFLASH: nurses DON'T "come on here to tell the world how horrible their job is." This website is "allNURSES".COM.........get it? All-nurses? The people who come here to READ and post are supposed...

2. RN for 7 months in tears...failure if I can't cut it?

   soundsLikesirens replied to scootermcnutt's topic in General Nursing

   I work on a med/surg unit and we usually have 10 to 12 patients apiece.....if we are "lucky" enough to start off with 9 then we get admissions. Many, many nights, our CNAs split the floor...31...

3. How Much Longer.......

   soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

   You know, when I got to work, "they" (the ones I'd worked with the other night) were fine....it wasn't about me, evidently. (Imagine that..... ) The one nurse apologized to me...it was just like old...

4. Nursing in London

   soundsLikesirens replied to Melissa's topic in Travel

   Anyone who has used this co. to get a London position; please email me and tell me how it

5. How do you work with a ***** ???

   soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

   The two positions in ICU are supposedly coming open in June, so I'll be hangin' around nearly a year, anyway. Plus I wonder if it would be any different anywhere else. But, at least in ICU I...

6. How do you work with a ***** ???

   soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone. I thought this thread was closed, until I just happened to be passing by, just happened to be in the neighborhood and, well....you know. Actually, "Godzilla" is looking better every day...

7. How Much Longer.......

   soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

   Oh, no, no, no!!!!!!!! I don't want to give it up...no way. I want to STAY...and no, the only reason isn't to make a living. God, I love being a nurse. I guess I just don't understand why there...

8. What do we really think we are worth?

   soundsLikesirens replied to swmn's topic in General Nursing

   I am starting to think most nurses are total morons. All you hear out of my clinical leader's mouth is how lousy nursing admin. is; how we aren't supported; how we're understaffed....on and...

9. How Much Longer.......

   soundsLikesirens posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello people - advice needed. I am an RN and I work on a very busy med-surg/oncology floor where we typically have 10-12 patients apiece. I've been there nearly six months now, working the 7p - 7a...

10. How do you work with a ***** ???

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    A surprise for me: I'd thought I could get along with ANYBODY. I'd thought I liked

11. How do you work with a ***** ???

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Update: well I ended up working last night, anyway. Here's what happened...after I called in, I got to worrying about was discussed in our last unit meeting: self-staffing. I thought: oh, Lord:...

12. How do you work with a ***** ???

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    It's over...oh thank God..over for now, anyway...I went into work last night...one of the RNs said they'd called up staffing and an RN was going to have to be pulled to another floor (not necessarily...

13. How do you work with a ***** ???

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    A cross? I was thinking of a STAKE,

14. How do you work with a ***** ???

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't had my weekend yet....my weekend with Godzilla. It's looming ahead of me, like some giant monolith monster. (That's an old B-horror flick...) But somehow, it seems appropriate

15. How do you work with a ***** ???

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    I pretty much agree with Jane....you can't go running to "mommy" everytime you have a problem with somebody. It's childish and it shows you cannot "deal" with things. After thinking about it I have...