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3 12's, scrubs and a ponytail. And I am paid MORE to work at night......a shift I LOVE anyways!!!!! Everyone wins! I am a good nurse, but it wasn't a calling.

I don't think OP is looking for praise, I think she is looking for others she works with to advocate for her patient like SHE does. I know exactly what she is referring to. You are the stand alone in keeping your patient safe and it gets tiring and t...

I love when people berate "humans" for their "deplorable" actions as if they are not human. Newsflash: you are one of us. And yes, a follow up thank you is pretty standard these days and I know, for a fact, has gotten me hired more than once. But hey...

Hospitals still pay RN's in the teens per hour? That is a shame! 1. NV 2. 1 3. Cath lab 4. 34/hr (+5.00 per hour on call and 1.5 time when called in) 5. Differentials based on what time a day or night or weekend we are called in 6. No union

It's funny to hear so many nurses on here advocating for the "patient" against written orders, yet in the real world all you get is *crickets* when it comes down to it. Even from charge nurses.

OP don't listen to most of the nurses on this thread. I will be nice and call them naysayers. You did the right thing and I am sure the doc agreed. Had you just done the draw your charge would not even do and the patient had some negative outcome the...

I envy you very much. I am constantly finding myself shaking my head more and more at the things I am seeing day after day in my job and its scaring me to death (How does one send a patient home post appendectomy with no bowel sounds?). I am going to...

I really don't see how it's anybody else's business why someone got into nursing. If they are capable, can do the job and like the money....then it suits them. Not everybody gets "called" to be a nurse. No one works for free....

Glad you guys chuckled, I Thought you guys might enjoy! Poor parents, condemned if you do, condemned if you don't. There is always a controversy over something. Makes me feel better about my decision to refrain....

Funny story to lighten this up. When I was in high school, one of my good friends had a kid that she chose not to have circumcised. people raised their eyebrows but no big deal. He turned 17 two weeks ago and came home from summer basketball league a...

I don't give my tattoos enough thought to sit around and regret them all day. I was thoughtful with mine, in where they are on me and what they are and I wouldn't change them at all. Except for one that could have been done by a better artist, but it...

Yes. Because EVERYONE follows policies and procedures to a tee! Our ER nurses and EMT's look like a multicolored punk rock show. I think it's kinda cool. When a patient is coding the family doesn't give a crap what the nurse looks like. I can barely...

Las Vegas will hire new grads. Our healthcare and doctors here are so backwards that they can't wait to get new grads and start corrupting them and telling them what to do. It's a substandard medical system, but new grads will clear $58k a year with ...

I use to work in a field where your only options for employment were large corporations. I thought that every time they freaked out about something stupid it was wasted time because "We aren't curing cancer or saving lives or anything". SO i quit tha...

Where I work, the hospitals are hiring ADN's...if they are needed. The first wave of new hire BSN's (like myself) all quit a particular floor in my hospital, and all the new hires after that were ADN's. I am not sure if that was just a coincidence, t...

I rented all of my textbooks and just recorded the lectures and highlighted the notes I took on my laptop in class. Renting my textbooks saved me $710 during nursing school. As we were not allowed to work, that money helped me greatly. We had a lot o...

GrumpyRN, I agree. I was always scoffed at on my floor for "backtalk" to the doctors, when all I did was tell them they need to blame the correct people for certain problems. Dr. So and So would be "Why the hell is the amiodarone not up here yet?" An...

LOL!!! This thread is hysterical! I am crying I am laughing so hard. All of this is so true. Real conversation I had with my manager (I guess you could say that I am not mean, per se, but I have zero tolerance for crap) My Charge: (coming up to me w...

I think the saddest part about hospital nursing is how its bad ALL over the hospital. I don't even work on the floor of a hospital, I work in a whole other area that is supposed to be where those on the floor "aspire" to. We only get our 30 minute lu...

DoGood I would have done exactly what you did, I was brought up the same way. My point is that if the $1500 error had been made and the OP said nothing AND the employer never found out...I would not be sad for her employer. The haphazard personal ass...

I agree. I was nights in ICU step down then got recruited for a 'higher position' in the hospital. They told me i could 'get off the hellish night schedule' (which I never had a problem with at all). I am now Making money hand over fist, tired all th...

I love that most nurses are so loyal to employers that would throw them under the bus in a hot second. I am a generally honest person but if I kept a pen or post it pad from work at my house I am not a thief AND I don't care that I have it. Would I h...

Take it where you want. I am in NV, too and at least 5 people in my class took the test in California to get an earlier date.

County Library...private room. Godsend.

I took it today, too. What a random weird test. I got the "good pop up", but I am not sure how? I don't even know what to tell people to study for it. I mean...I was certain I failed. I don't even get it. How does that test I took show my competence ...