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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 would be a waste of time. But you make a good point!...

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 BACK, so I can do my job - safely. ALSO; I ain't wo...

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, we leave them at home and make patient care the pr...

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 problems - there's no excuse for behavior like that ...

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 basis (ick! just the thought of that makes my ski...

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

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 simmer...and no I'm not sorry about what I said t...

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 then....the people on my unit, most of them, don't...

Does anyone know what the law is concerning a nurses' recourse to A. avoid being assaulted by a combative patient and B. one's recourse if assaulted? I work on a med/surg floor and we typically have 10-11 patients apiece. Lately, we have been gettin...

Shannon: I didn't direct any anger toward you - I said that this BB IS FOR VENTING. Yes I agree...we mustn't vent on our patients...or each other. We must have a safe, nonjudgmental place we can come and vent our frustrations. It's important. If...

You don't know what you're talking about. I don't treat anyone like shit, but I notice you don't seem to have a problem doing it. This BB is for nurses and that's the way I hope it will stay.

I totally agree. I love nursing. And no one is going to make me feel guilty for venting...that's very little, for what we put up with. Everywhere we are bombarded with the "guilt" mentality - even here! See what I mean...this is our board to vent...

As soon as I got to work last night, I was told that the other 2 RNs that were scheduled called in......they pulled an RN off the psyche unit. He told me that the psyche unit will soon be a locked unit - that they were changing it to a locked unit s...

....dealing with them, I meant

I don't know why the family didn't want her to get the IM Haldol - unless it was because they were expecting her to get a sleeping pill???? (don't see the difference, myself...) But obviously, their concern isn't for the staff. Her daughter told m...

I don't do that...I've never even thought to do that because I never leave a heparin flush lying in the room. The only time I use the same heparin flush before-and-after is when I do an IV push, because you are in there then; you aren't leaving the f...

Well the house supervisor did help in the sense that he got the stuff together for the CVP line insertion, etc...but I didn't feel that, after the night I'd had, that his "comments" were appropriate...if he had something to tell me; he could've waite...

You wouldn't believe what happened to me the other night...from 7p to 11p, I split the floor with another RN...two of us for 26 patients (4 CNAs). Then some personnel in at 11pm so I thought things would improve...WRONG. I got an admission at 2am.....

I cannot relate to what you are going through - all of my preceptors, all of them, ALWAYS said, "Everyone has their own way of doing things...this is my way...yours may be different." For someone to tell you to do things THEIR way, without a legitim...

During my job orientation this week, one of the staff remarked that CA is the only state that isn't a "right to work" state for nurses....why not? Do they have a nursing union?

I couldnt agree more! I work 7p to 7a and I run, run ALL NIGHT LONG...less staff, too. The call light rings all night long...frequently, we find out they are sleeping in the daytime/up at night. And we get to reap the "benefits" (?). It's no part...

I was talking to another RN last night...she said her unit director made the ridiculous claim that the more patients each nurse had, the better care they received!!!.......HELLO.........

Reasons to be a nurse - you want reasons? Hey, go to my thread about "doing without a PO med nurse" and read the post by nursejanedough.....that should answer your question for eternity.

NURSEJANEDOUGH: girl you are AWESOME!!! That little old lady in the nursing home, with the bun...that's what blows me away about nursing...what a privilege to be in the positions we are in - to come into someone's life when they are so vunerable - ...

SPLITTING THE FLOOR....Lord have mercy! Well, last night we had an LPN who was "floating" - what THAT meant was that they were LITERALLY LEAPING at the chance to have a PO med nurse again (hallejuah!)!!! I entertained the slightly idiotic thought ...