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Amnesty

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  1. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you. I appreciate that. I have not been fired and the risk manager is working with me, and that's all I can ask for. It still leaves me in a rough spot of not knowing what I need to do, because...

  2. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I didn't say that. I said one of the possibilities she threw out while saying I could do whatever I wanted was M-F. She also threw out doing it as 6 hour shifts every single day, 4x 10's, etc. Just a...

  3. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh I know this. I didn't think they'd do a class specially for me. They already have pre-scheduled PALS and ACLS course sign-ups. One is coming up next week, and now I'm not sure if I'll be allowed to...

  4. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I didn't ask her to talk to my new manager. She just said she had, and I trusted that. It was my mistake for thinking she'd handled it. The ER manager should have known I was there that weekend...

  5. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I should also add that my asking about lifting some of the restrictions was not something I did randomly. When this first started, it hurt at a level 5-6 pretty much all the time. It would wake me up...

  6. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Okay, I'll elaborate: When I started the phone surveys, I was trained on a Friday, and knocked out a bunch that day, then came back and did it Saturday and Sunday as well. On those days I figured out...

  7. How do you feel about professors locking the door?

    Amnesty posted a topic in General Students

    Title has the simple version of this: How do you feel about professors who lock the doors to the lecture hall when they begin teaching and will not allow late students to come in? Why I ask (the...

  8. People really need to stop coming into nursing

    Amnesty replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in General Nursing

    This is why I come to AN. This is something I don't experience. I know of one out of the 45 or 50 people in my cohort who is obnoxious like this. She misses clinical days and then whines about the...

  9. How do you feel about professors locking the door?

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in General Students

    That seems like a huge shooting-yourself-in-the-foot thing. Surely it takes time to write on the board like that. Surely that's a lot more distracting to your fellow students than doing something like...

  10. How To Answer The Most Common Nursing Interview Questions

    Amnesty replied to TheCommuter's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Now see, I get apprehensive about this because I don't have a lot of big flaws (that I know of!), and being a perfectionist is definitely the biggest one I have. However, I've heard that interviewers...

  11. Trouble sleeping night before clinical? Advice to remedy?

    Amnesty replied to Summers3's topic in General Students

    I'm a natural insomniac, so while this was true for almost everybody else in my program, I couldn't say that it applied to me. And clinical days are way too draining to start them already feeling like...

  12. Black and Job Hunting

    Amnesty replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'm white and I live in the South (I have in one place or another my entire life) and this is so true. My mother's family is from up north, and it's crazy how much more racism I've seen up there than...

  13. How do you feel about professors locking the door?

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in General Students

    Which clock is used shouldn't matter, only the number of minutes. Whatever the clock may say, ten minutes is still ten minutes unless there's a malfunction with how it keeps time that makes it go...

  14. How do you feel about professors locking the door?

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in General Students

    I, too, assumed it was an age thing. I'm not an 18-20 year old like the rest of my classmates. I don't live at home. I pay every single one of my own bills and have for a long time. I don't think that...

  15. 3 Job offers as last semester student

    Amnesty replied to besaangel's topic in General Students

    Have you shadowed on each of the floors you're considering? That's the first thing I'd do. I would want to see how the unit works, what everything is like, and how the nurses interact with one another...

  16. How do you feel about professors locking the door?

    Amnesty replied to Amnesty's topic in General Students

    Lots of very interesting answers on this one. As far as the initial door-locking at the beginning of class, like I said, I don't mind it although I don't agree with it on principle. Reality trumps my...

  17. Help? I regret this career choice?

    Amnesty replied to katie6126's topic in General Students

    I think most aren't "blowing a gasket" so much as wondering (like I am now) why you haven't responded to the way that many of the people in your thread addressed your concerns. You have written...

  18. Why do some choose to pursue BSN over ASN first?

    Amnesty replied to MedicalPartisan's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'd have liked to go back to get my BSN doing a bridge program for people who already have bachelor's degrees. Unfortunately, that school is 45 minutes away. I couldn't afford the commute. I probably...

  19. Do you have a nursing specialty you know you want to pursue?

    Amnesty replied to goldenanchor's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I think ideally I'd start out as ICU, but as for where I go, who knows? ER doesn't so much appeal to me, but I could do it I think. Palliative/hospice and psych nursing appeal to me, but I know...

  20. Giving report

    Amnesty replied to Caleb_RN225's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm starting to see why my hospital mandates that nurses working a 7 to 7 shift clock in at 15 til and don't leave til 15 after. So your shift is actually 6:45-7:15, no matter whether it's a-p or p-a....

  21. Nurses with tattoos and piercings

    Amnesty replied to emmygirle's topic in General Nursing

    I've never seen a nursing school allow tats or piercings (beyond the normal one set of conservative studs in the earlobe). However, even in my conservative town's county hospital, there are tons of...

  22. How long do you study each day?

    Amnesty replied to VAgirl247's topic in General Students

    I'll generally go over what's going to be taught in class before I go to class. The professors are awesome and give us the specifics of what they want us to know on our syllabus schedule. Sometimes...

  23. Overslept on 1st clinical day...

    Amnesty replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    Yep, same here. If I need to get up at 6:30, my alarms go off at 6, 6:15, and 6:30. Only once has this ever failed me, but there was Nyquil involved, and Nyquil knocks me out hard. It was (of course)...

  24. Starting Nursing school

    Amnesty replied to johsonmichelle's topic in General Students

    The thing to remember is that they're usually just as stressed as you are by the disorganization. Being a professor and teaching nursing classes takes a lot of flexibility and most schools pay the...

  25. Leaving the nursing field after 3 years

    Amnesty replied to Hacker's topic in Canada

    Free chocolate?? Where's mine!? A lovely, quirky little list. Thank you for these reflections