goody1shoe

This certainly has been an interesting thread which has gone in many different directions. It has been a lively spirited debate and a good one at that. I've kept quiet until now. It couldn't have been easy for Dutch to tell us those things that she did. Those things made my skin crawl and crawl really bad. I'm younger than SharonHRN and at my age I understand that the Holocaust was a tragedy that was not in our lifetime and one we cannot ever truely understand. We horror over 9-11-01 and rightfully so. I didn't realize that 6 million Jews were murdered. We don't ever talk about that. It didn't happen on our homeland but it did happen to our fellow American's relatives. 6 million people were murdered. How can anything that's ever happened to a race of people ever compare to that? I'm sorry I didn't mean to hijack the thread but I felt obliged to let Dutch know that I feel her pain even though I could never understand it. Her family lived it. She knows.

Well said melpn. I will be honest and admit that although I have never turned down an assignment or have I ever mistreated a patient, I have had patients, particularly those who are drug addicts that I have a hard time treating like I do my other patients. I have very little tolerance for them but they never know it. They get their drugs on schedule just as requested without any lip from me. I just can't help the way I feel and I am honest about it to all of you. We all have certain types we have a hard time tolerating. The key is to deal with it within yourself. Be more mature. If a nurse came to me and honestly and respectfully asked me to change her assignment because she had a problem with the patient I would comply and not report it unless it became a habit. I agree this nurse should have been sent home. I don't agree with demanding she get fired or calling the BON, not that that's not the right thing to do it's just not your job to do that. Leave it to the powers that be.

Thanks for your post. As graduate nurses we have to handle this NCLEX issue maturely. You Rock! I'll remember this info when I take my NCLEX.

Thanks I'll bookmark it for later use, it looks good.

Briana, RN. Cool ! Congratulations !

I understand exactly what she meant and I agree the vast majority of patients, whether or not they have a formal education, have common sense.

I was hired as a new grad into OB and after 6 months was pulled to the med/surg, I could not function. I wish I had gone to med/surg straight out of school. I think it should be a requirement. I don't like med/surg but the experience would be invaluable.

Whoa, you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, eh? If you go back and read, as I've already said, DutchgirlRN did clarify her position and did say it had nothing to do with the venting just the "title" of the thread. You people have hard heads, gee whiz......

I appreciate your input. I have alot of education but don't want to be in management. I have been approached numerous times and suspected it would be just as you say. Bottom line = $$$. I will have my MSN in June and being a NP I'll still be involved with patients. Yes the worker bee is where I will be also. I hope things go smoothly for you and soon you'll be flexing again!

RN34TX and Amy D.....you seem to be ganging up,eh? I have to agree with Dutchgirl RN and don't think that RN34TX was taking any of this light hearted and Amy D's posts are just as angry. Dutchgirl RN had clarified her point. No she's not fed up with those taking the NCLEX and needing to vent, just with the title of the NCLEX threads. You just have to keep poking the embers. Sounds like immaturity to me. I am a young nurse but I enjoy reading about how nursing and the NCLEX used to be. We can learn alot from older nurses. One day we will be older nurses as well. It might serve you well to remember this. Thanks DutchgirlRN, I don't post much but I do read alot and your posts and experience and have been a souce of inspiration to me.

I think smokers breath is inappropriate for any type of patient. If I were in a hospital bed I sure wouldn't appreciate it.

Whew, thanks for the clarification! Now I feel dumb.

Are you saying you wouldn't go to an NA? Or wouldn't go to Nurses Anonymous (if there is one) You should clarify this. Nurse practitioners are highly trained health professionals who practice autonomously in a great variety of settings, from major teaching hospitals to rural clinics, from military bases to quick clinics. The typical NP has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in nursing--which means at least six years of college education--and many NPs have doctoral level education. A vast body of research shows that NP care is as good as that provided by physicians. NPs specialize in many different health fields, including family practice, pediatrics, intensive care, emergency care, oncology, cardiology, mental health, surgery, and many others. NPs (like all nurses) take a holistic approach to care, and thus they are especially skilled at cost-effective preventative care, management of chronic disease, and health maintenance. Because many NPs focus on underserved poor and rural communities, they are a vital health resource for millions of people who would otherwise receive little or no health care at all. The suggestion that NPs are "quacks" seems like an uninformed but potentially dangerous schoolyard taunt. The danger is that those lacking maturity and wit may adopt the term and try to bring it into common usage. Shhh. BTW this duck has been de-quacked and removed from the market. I don't think it's so much that it is a NP and a duck it's that it's called a "Quack", why not Duck Practitioner? I'm sure Mattel didn't mean any harm by it, they're in it for the money and wouldn't risk it knowingly. I would be thrilled to have another nurse doll, but not with the name Quack.

What a challenge for the ethics committee. I smell something very rotten! and this is sooooooo sad.

How horrible, I would love to know what comes out of this in terms of what really happened. What happened to her signing a surgical permit I wonder. Very perplexing! Thanks for sharing.