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  1. Doing Without a P.O. Med Nurse - HELP!!!!

    soundsLikesirens posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have recently returned to nursing after a 7-year absence. I've been on a busy med-surg/oncology unit for 3 and a half months now, and when I first began, it was great. Of course, I was learning...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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

  7. 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...

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

    soundsLikesirens posted a topic in General Nursing

    I need advice...I work med/surg, and if we miss a scheduled weekend, we have to make it up. Well, guess what. My makeup weekend is working "with" the biggest ***** I've ever seen. I am so dreading...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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

  13. 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:...

  14. 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...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    A cross? I was thinking of a STAKE,

  16. 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

  17. 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...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Stargazer: excellent suggestion!!! I had sortof given up on documenting anything because, as short-staffed as WE are, they aren't going to fire/discipline/come down on anyone...so I thought it...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    I totally disagree. I never said I dislike her - I said she is a hostile ***** . That's different. Also, it has nothing to do with "treating her like shit..." It has to do with GETTING HER OFF MY...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    THANK YOU everyone... ...it is great to get all this feedback and advice. I love to come here and swap "war stories". I guess we are all of the same mind: that we all have problems but, as nurses,...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    P.S. We've ALL got personal problems. Every one of us. BUT BE PROFESSIONAL - DO YOUR JOB - MAKE THE PATIENT THE PRIORITY - OR GET OUT!!! That's how I feel....I don't give a rat's ass about her...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the replies, people. Well, you know, I may be blowing this out of proportion....(yeah, right...) But it's "only" two 12-hour shifts...it's not like I have to work with it on a regular...

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Tim....sounds like good news to me! You're my kinda guy...but then, great minds do think

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

    soundsLikesirens replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    I have already written her up. "If" I witness more behavior like this - you gotta be kidding!!! "When she has calmed down..." THAT IS MY POINT...the woman doesn't calm down....she stays on perpetual...

  25. Catching Hell

    soundsLikesirens replied to [email protected]'s topic in General Nursing

    I agree. I wouldn't put up with this, from another RN. You can write it up...as far as a patient, I would leave the room and tell them when they could speak to me properly, I'd return but not until...