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Shes a passive aggressive bully. I dealt with one and I left. Please research bullying in nursing, there are so many articles on it. I would look for a different unit to work on, I left the first one I was on and I am soooo happy I did because all of...

P.S. What nurses get paid is far from fair for the work and the bs we put up with.

Do the lab then. If it is hard for you to relay empathy, it is going to be very , VERY difficult to feel empathy for pts that are literally driving you crazy and you will lose your patience. Many pts are non-compliant, drug seekers,and just plain rud...

It's a pretty wide known fact that nurses work holidays and weekends, maybe you shouldve considered that before you went into the profession...hospitals dont care about you celebrating whatever they need to be staffed. Sorry if thats rude, blunt, wha...

Actually, it is the nurse to patient ratio rather than the experience and knowledge of the nurses that affects pt safety more.

psh yeah right

I am a Med/Surg nurse , so when I receive report from ICU nurses there is a difference in the style in which they give report, for example, they hit on each system and what their assessment was starting with neuro, cardiac etc. and they always tell m...

I think it is hostile of the on-coming nurse to keep you in a room to assess a pt beyond checking their safety, IV, and ID because it is saying, "I dont trust you", it is saying " oh, you're not leaving just yet, I have to find some more work for you...

Well, when the ED calls us at 5 with report on a new pt and the pt doesnt hit our floor until 6:45, it sure seems like they held onto them as long as they could. And it does happen all the time. I would ask that the nurse please do a quick safety che...

There's bullies too. I think nurses are more abused by their patients than by anyone else and it is not right either. I am verbally abused every shift. I have been physically assaulted a few times. I dont know if it's my floor or what, but I am start...

I document on fall risk scores as required, when pts leave the floor and when they return, because you never know what can happen when they are not on the floor, and sometimes the dr hasnt allowed them to leave but they choose to do so anyways, ie wh...

I think that since you work PRN and you do not have to deal with this pt on a daily basis, you should really reserve judgment and not call your coworkers lazy. I would look into whether or not this over-sedation is new or not, since you just noticed ...

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One time I was doing a female catheter validation in front of an instructor and I was very nervous, she rudely pointed out that my face was flushed and said " it's getting redder by the second!" I think some people are just purposely evil. I am a shy...

I would say output of 23 ml in an hour would be priority over hepatic issue if this is a deviation from baseline. When output is this low perfusion is compromised and this leads to shock and death. If they are chronic renal failure than not priority....

The money is not that good. Most people live beyond their means no matter how much money they make. Nursing is not a guaranteed job anywhere you want to live. Nursing school was challenging, but the day to day tasks that we are ordered to do makes me...

I took a human development class online a few yrs ago and I was also accused of plagiarizing a short paper. I was shocked because I had always been a straight A student and would never jeopardize my future edu/career with that especially after I alre...

New recommendations from CDC that my hospital just implemented are that family members/visitors do not need to gown up in contact rooms, just wash hands in and out. This is because these bugs are out in the community. Staff needs to gown up because t...

"but this is a first offense and there is no pattern of malicious behavior at any facility I have ever been to in almost 3 years of clinical experience, administering many units of insulin within that time frame" -OP You say this was your first of...

To preceptee:" Don't worry,you'll grow a thick skin in no time."

You can also shadow a nurse for a half shift or shift, call HR at a local hospital.

libran1984, are you a LPN or MA? I'm going to be blunt and offensive in my comment, sorry. I went to school with a lot of idiots taking prereq math, chemistry, and anatomy and phys who were repeating these classes for failing, some were repeating th...

1/3 of people are "shy". It is a natural part of human nature, so to say it is negative is wrong. In different cultures besides ours it is not looked down upon at all. I am shy but I have confidence when speaking to pts because I feel that I know wha...

It is important to know baselines when dealing with pts with so many comorbidities. With CKD, pts will have baseline H/H around 8/24 , blood transfusion protocol at my hospital is to transfuse at 7/21 and under. Pts with chronically low H/H have bodi...

It is also ok on my floor to hang a bag of 500 ml or 250 ml NS with abx, we use it to back prime the line and set it for KVO with VTBI 20ml which will flush the line when it is done so no air enters the line when it is finished, it will also give you...