Geslina BSN, RN

The day shift nurse, who had left for the day, called the patient's MD from home and got verbal orders for PRN narcotics for a patient on a sub acute floor. I'm supposing she didn't have time to do this during her shift. This nurse then calls the n...

I feel your pain. I've been a nurse for 5 years, and I still have nights where I lock myself in the bathroom and cry. I have never been good under stress, and I find nursing to be the most stressful job I've ever had. It's not so much the general ...

I work with the elderly, and currently have 3 former nurses in my care, and there have been several in the past. I find that it can go either way, but mostly they are nice...and very understanding of how busy we are!

Sharpies. Highlighters. Hand cream. A little notepad. A good quality tote bag or backpack. Lots and lots and LOTS of pens. You wil find that you spend a lot of time looking for lost pens. I bought those little pocket protector thingees, but fin...

I failed the last semester in my program...and I wasn't alone. We started out with almost 200 in our class and just under 60 made it to the end. I was devastated to fail, being so close to the end. But our program was crazy - the last 2 semesters...

Wow. I haven't taken a lunch break in 3 years. I barely take my 15's either, because I like to get out of there at the end of my shift. i tried to get paid for them in the beginning, and was just told that I HAD to take lunch breaks. Puts you in ...

Sounds like where I work, we will take ANYONE. Even rapists and murderers. No one cares, as long as the beds are full. I've seen patients whose medical hx clearly states problems with addiction, but the MD, no questions asked, will write scripts f...

Haha, have to say I agree. Given a second chance, I'd have chosen another career. It's not that being a nurse is so bad, it's the daily staffing shortages, the constantly growing state documentation requirements, the lack of time to give patients a...

Ha! Our current manager always wants to be the good guy. Someone was just fired, and the next day the nurse called me and told me that management told her she was out of there because I had reported something she did, which is an outright lie. And...

I hate finding med errors, because we are legally obligated to report them. I've had to report a few, and I've made a few myself. If it's something I can fix without reporting it, I try to....but if there is nothing you can do about it, you have no...

My supervisor was doing an evaluation on a new nurse, ands the new nurse told her that she looked up to me and hoped to be the kind of nurse I was someday. And beleive me, I'm hardly Super Nurse. I was really touched by it, though, and it made me st...

Ahhh, that's me every single night. Sad that almost every problem that makes nursing overwhelming could be solved with just a little extra staff.

Wait...I'm confused...why with 16 years of sobriety are u even IN a monitoring program?.

The joint commission coming is serious stuff. Everyone is under enormous pressure, including CNAs. There will be enough to worry about for the facility without having "beginners" around. It's hard enough under survey scrutiny for seasoned staff, an...

Haha. Honey, you will be soon be so far up the creek in mind numbing unbelievably overwhelming amounts of information to memorize that you will look longingly back on your days of boredom and nursing for dummies fundamentals. Enjoy the calm before ...

I put "pt sleeping comfortably, call bell in reach"

In my experience, NPs can be difficult, but that is because where I work, the NPs are miserable. They work long long hours, are on call all the time, get all the crap jobs the doctors don't want to do. So they take it out on us. I am really carefu...

I work 3-11. I started on that shift, and though I've had many chances to switch to days, I just prefer the peace and quiet of the night shifts. I'd work 3rd shift if I thought I'd be able to sleep during the day, but it's just too noisy where I liv...

I work in a nursing home, I'm an RN. I work as both a floor nurse and a supervisor. I have more patient contact than I want sometimes. Our DON and ADON, our unit managers, they all have lots of patient contact. I think it's up to you, how much yo...

I was/am an artist - a painter. While I wish I could still devote my time 100% to my art, unfortunately, I need to make a living. Selling my paintings was feast or famine, and I had no benefits. I got tired of living that way. I'm not happier bei...

One that doesn't require any patient care....like research, lab work, medical writing. I am seriously considering some of those!!

I work in a nursing home, and believe me, the family members are more trouble than the patients. It's a whole other ball game, I think a lot of them are just trying to alleviate their own guilt at not caring for their parents themselves....so they c...

Haha! So true. But I do occasionally get genuine compliments. We have this sad little Jamaican lady, with an accent so thick that very few of us understand her, and most will not take the time to listen to her. I do. A few weeks ago I was caring f...

Yeah, there is a big difference between a CNA and an LPN. And I've known many LPNs that were GREAT nurses, that I would trust over plenty of RNs. In my state now, the big thing is to not just be an RN, but to have the BSN too....and It doesn't mean...

One big reason - too much work and not enough help to do it. I didn't think nursing would be easy but it's certainly more work than I expected. I made more money with much less work in sales and bar tending. I work an 8 hour shift, needing to cram...