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Also, if I'm not mistaken, a pharmacist has to check off each and every drug filled by a pharm tech prior to it being "dispensed".

This! The OP may want to clarify if needing tips on how to handle reasonable customer service recovery or what healthcare workers have been experiencing more and more, which is perfectly oriented patients and family members from all walks of life verbally and physically assaulting health care providers. My biggest tips, NEVER wear anything around your neck that doesn't easily break away and always try and position yourself where you can easily exit the room or area. And for the record, just being an ******* that feels entitled and has no reasonable boundaries, does not equate to that person having a mental heath issue. It gives people with true mental health struggles a bad wrap!

I live and work in the good ol state of Illinoid too. At my facility two nurses can pronounce per hospital protocol. We have to call the doc, coroner, gift of hope, etc too. The attending signs the death certificate. Since I work at a teaching hospital, I think the protocol was developed because often residents didn't always act therapeutically to the family at the bedside. (Not intentionally, they just hadn't developed that skill set yet) Some would just come in and listen to the patient and then walk out of the room. Never saying anything to the family at the bedside leaving them to just wonder...

Look into steroid injections. I have only needed two in five years (C6-7). They have saved my career as I was told that if I had an ACDF and continued to work the floor that I would just herniate in a different area simply because of the way my spine is naturally curved. I also could not afford to be off work...

I know many are saying go to management or HR but in my similar experience (as a new nurse), I was not believed or even entertained by my manager and since she did not keep my struggles in confidence, I was just treated even worse by the peers making my first year of nursing even harder. So what I learned to do was address the stupidity as soon as appropriate, like say as we were walking out of a patient's room after bedside report, and calmly say something to the effect "comments like 'Blah Blah Blah' really make us both appear incompetent" and then either continue on with the next report or moving on to the next nurse and leaving the topic at that. I think that it not only caught the aggressor off guard (which in some weird way helped them to develop some respect for me) but also embarrassed themselves once they realized that yeah, they look just as stupid or even more so, trying to paint others as incompetent. The biggest take away though is to learn from how you have been treated and to never let yourself fall down that rabbit hole. As a nurse, you will one day be a leader and a teacher to your peers. Learn from others what mistakes to avoid! Good luck!

Many employers are like this. They don't want to pay up front and they end up paying more in the long run. Sigh.

Accept the job that hires you and pays your bills...and with any luck it will turn out to be your dream job.

Klone, my area has a glut of new grads to choose from and we've been offering sign-on bonuses for years (not when I graduated years ago though but...sigh). We have an issue that everyone wants to initially work at our hospital and get that golden year of experience and then leave after we've paid to train them. Our hospital is looked at as the place to work at in our area but these new hires are leaving and moving as fast as we can train them. This is why I am frustrated by the lack/shortage of seasoned nurses. I don't think many new grads want to stay at the hospital bedside anymore...but they damn sure want to use our resources to get a year under their belt either way. I am being told that we have no longer been giving "good" recommendations for those leaving before the first two years and/or breaking their sign-on contracts. Still hasn't phased many of them from leaving. Again a top 50 hospital, competitive wages, and truly a good place to work with a ton of cool bells and whistles. Oh well.

You may want to go back and reread the comment...it was "liked" so much because of the sarcastic twist that the OP added about being able to sue for being a male and being "discriminated" against... At least I think this is the post you're referring to except the post you're referring wasn't quoted...you may have underlying "unworthy" reading comprehension that doesn't allow you to "see the difference"... Disclaimer: I personally only know how to quote only one discussion post at a time :-)!

I bet you just unintentionally hit a nerve like when people say to us nightshifters that the patients just sleep all night. Oh man that has not ever been the truth for me! She might have just thought that you thought that working with one patient at a time would be easier and less-overwhelming, like you said, or she may just get easily offended no matter what someone says. Gotta love interviews and first impressions huh...

Yep, my hospital offers all of those and more like trauma nurse certification, etc. It's a perk of working for them.

I've been in the float pool for years and have been doing charge for years which is an expectation for many of us in the float pool. Not enough experienced nurses on the floors most of the time. I get a full patient load most of the time, maybe also show up and have an orientee, it's my norm. I personally like the challenges for the most part as it keeps it interesting and challenging plus it does come with a decent differential. Better than working with a charge that either doesn't know what they're doing or are too lazy to do what they're supposed to be doing!

This link may clear up some of the confusion... Nursing School Accreditation || RegisteredNursing.org Hope you find an accepting school especially in this volatile "nursing shortage"...smh...

My boss told me this as she has both certifications... She said the PCCN was actually harder for her because you have to take the test in the mindset of a nurse with the knowledge of a step down nurse without using your knowledge of a ICU nurse, if that makes sense. She said that yes it was very beneficial to study for them separately to help keep in each mindset. I would loosely compare it to trying to take both the certifications for medical-surgical (CMSRN) and neuroscience nursing (CNRN) but with only using the resources from one focus area to study for both. Good luck on both!

As long as you get it in writing, I would wait and work a non-nursing job until you start. Continue to read up on concepts to help prepare you for when you do start but getting a job as a nurse somewhere else will require that somewhere else to sink money into training you which isn't fair to them and you don't want to possibly pick up bad habits from them either. It may not seem like it now but getting a residency for peds icu at a level I trauma hospital would really "tee" you up for a peds burn unit IMHO. Congratulations!!!