mushyrn BSN, RN

I would put my foot down as a parent and tell my kids how it is. I would stick up for my fellow nurses. Haha. If I ever have a kid, I hope I get to see them act like this. It wouldn't happen again.

Personally, I check the medication packets for each pill, mostly as I pull them from the Pyxis and always as I'm scanning them at the bedside. If you have 50 pills to pull, checking every packet both at the Pyxis and in the room can be time daunting...

I would definitely need to know what the complaint was. Also, your boss is not a nurse? They don't understand it, anyway, then. I'd find a new job. Your job sounds like it sucks and I personally feel only nurses should manage other nurses. I'd f...

God forbid a nurse plays music like a physician, surgeon, plumber, pharmacist, fast food worker, etc... would. Angels don't play music, right? Back to a state of reality, I have no issue with nurses who listen to music, as long as they do their jo...

So sad

First of all, the moment my manager started yelling at me, I would've hung up on the *****.

First of all, there are plenty of nurses who never touch a patient. To equate nursing with cleaning incontinence and inserting feeding tubes is an insult, really. Nurses are more than task managers. We have knowledge and skills to do our jobs. We ...

Oh dear, this question makes me so sad, and makes me question finishing my current ACNP program (brick and mortar, no less!). This is like asking "what's the easiest med/law/engineering school I can get into?" Instead of asking that, most people w...

I won't comment on how unfortunate it is that graduate nursing programs would accept a GPA In graduate school, less than a B is failing, just so you know.

I feel this is more related to you "over-charting". I am always finished charting by 6:30 before shift change. I also try to chart as I go, which is generally feasible. If it's a particularly busy day, I will do the patient care and if it's pertin...

Wow, your workplaces suck - it's amazing you let them do that to you. If I have PTO I'm taking off whatever day I want to for vacation. Haha. Find someone. Bye.

Easy fix: don't stay late. "Here's what I've done, here's what is left... bye"

Milk isn't necessary for good health at all - it's amazing what the dairy industry has cemented into peoples' minds about milk and dairy.

ranaesx4, if you are confused by an admissions question, you may want to reconsider a career as a nurse practitioner/healthcare provider. Seriously.

I mean, that's great for you, but as said before, the amount of money you make doesn't show how good of a clinician you are. These online, for profit schools are degrading to the profession, as they would be to any profession. I wish people would s...

While I can appreciate your lack of grammar skills, I will have to disagree with your opinion that new graduates are "spoiled" these days. Why wouldn't you want new graduates to have a lengthy, well rounded orientation? They are ... new. Especia...

No. No. She has zero rights to abuse you. The person who was hit by her should be filing charges against her with the police. And you should never take a patient downstairs to smoke, leaving your other patients on the floor covered by other nurses...

Agreed 100 percent. It is literally near painful to read. If you do not want to be educated, don't be a nurse. Plenty of healthcare options don't require a degree.

Also, let me just point out - hopefully getting a Bachelors degree will improve the writing of many of the nurses I see. Nurses SUCK at writing, even if English is their primary language. Some of the medical records I read that nurses wrote... I ju...

I think that's my point, unless I'm missing yours. Associates degree does not often equal a professional level of education/work. If nurses do not wish to be considered professionals - fine, let the building of our body of knowledge die, go back to...

Nurses who degrade advanced education are the joke, in my honest opinion. That being said, I also find it pointless for hospitals to REQUIRE a BSN to work - however, all nurses should want to continue their educations. A thing learned is never a wa...

This has always been a fear of mine. Haha. As long as you called and gave your report, you should be fine. ER calls report via phone all of the time, why can't we?

Yeah, you considering the step-down unit as a demotion is setting this off on the wrong foot, in so many ways. ICU is not the top of the nursing ladder. It is just another area for nurses to train and work in. I work on an ICU step-down unit and i...

Really, I probably would've just given him the coffee, as long as he remained nice to me. But since you took the long road (which I'm totally for, too), once he started pushing his table at me and cursing at me like that, he would not have seen my ...

An adult would _____?