Metalchild

Hello, At the floor I work at, a lot of people are unwilling to work weekends, me included. I normally work beginning of the weeks and had agreed to work up to half of the Sundays as needed. But due to many who absolutely do not want to work Sunday...

so sounds like my schedule is not as horrible as it seems, working sundays only out of 2 days of weekends...

Looks like most other places require people to work something like every 3rd weekend. By weekend, does it include both Saturday and Sunday? Or just one of these 2?

cool thanks I'll check on policies. Actually there are people (like a nurse or 2 on days and a nurse or 2 on nights) want to work weekends and do work every weekend, because of the weekend differential pay. But yeah most of us don't care for it. ...

I feel ya. I'm 2 years in and am liking bed-side nursing less and less. Yeah I learn a lot, but it's so demanding and emotionally draining. Like today I got beat the crap up by a dementia patient and her care giver insisted we need to do more for ...

I like it! lol. I'm the same way with facebook except I literally don't drink. I actually want people to think I'm a party girl. But at the same time I'm doing ok at work. The only thing I have to be mindful about is not to post anything related t...

Your work place sounds extremely toxic! but aside from the toxic work place, i find nursing in itself stressful especially if you are a responsible and caring person. I feel like crap when I miss a med! So yeah, I compensate and balance my life by ...

Hello! I'm currently a med-surg RN, looking to start NP school in fall of 2015. Since I enjoy patient interaction, I would definitely be going toward the direction of patient care rather than admin or research. I also want to do some sort of speci...

Thanks for your inputs! I've started FNP and after asking and researching around, I feel like I'm on the right path. I'm going to rule out PMHNP for myself because I'm not sure how well I can handle mental health patients. After FNP, people can al...

I'm a fairly new nurse. Worked in a post-acute-rehab for 3 months and went over to med-surg and had been at it for 1.5 years now. I liked my job. I was very content with the pay, work load (VA did not under-staff and work us on skeleton crew like m...

Libbyliberal: yeah the promotion is very political. it's all in the writings. Hollybobs: Thanks. however I don't think the people who had decided not to promote me really care because in VA, we are judged by people who don't know us. people who ac...

checking blood sugars before breakfast is understandable. but checking skin during sleep time? eh. maybe if the patients are immobile and you do it quick when passing meds, it's kind of overkill

Libby, Yeah I think you are right. Might just suck it up till I get my masters... unless some miracle happens and I get in some badass specialty like wound care *light ray shines with angel choir singing*

I don't think passion is absolute necessary. but i feel like you do need good conscience and some empathy.

we did a crapload of patient care/cna-type stuff in nursing school! got hanging IV and programming pump down too! just lack IV insertion opportunities. and i'm thinking... how the heck do these new grads get so lucky?? right into specialty...

since you already do home health, you can probably do case management-- hooking up patients with home health stuff

NP Perdiem: like 10k Dishes: I thought I was doing a good job. :-/ I don't know, assistant manager works with me and said i should have gotten promoted. the whole system is frustrating. yeah ima meditate. thanks

like... 10k

Aye, probably need to chill off. at the same time I feel like i get the short end of the stick in most situations. any suggestions for the fix?

head of bed up, put on pulse ox, slap on mask, crank up oxygen, call respiratory therapist for recommendation

So I just joined a rock band. The band wants to eventually go on tours and what not, after doing a year or 2 of local gigs. If that does happen, I don't think I want to give up on being a nurse because of it. The lead vocalist told me that work plac...

Thanks for all your inputs. Yeah I think switching to per diem if/when the time comes is probably the best bet. I do not consider rocking out as a main gig/full time job. But it's something I'd love to concurrently with nursing.

RNin, I think they often put you in "reviewed" before "referred", but only for a little while. But if you are stuck in the "reviewed" status for more than a couple of weeks then you probably aren't getting referred. But when I don't make it to refe...

Aye, now I have my DON's number so I can text her for schedule, yay! Another problem I also have with the place is that we get cancelled/called-off often. So I'd take a benadryl during the day to make myself sleep for 5 or 6 hrs before I go into wor...

I just need to rant... Where I work, the schedule for the coming week don't come out till Friday. So if I want to know my schedule for the coming week, either I find out when I go into work the end of the week (IF i'm scheduled to work at the end of ...