mushyrn BSN, RN

It sounds like you joined an online NP program, which in my opinion, is unfortunate. These proliferating online NP programs are degrading to the profession at the moment, no matter what people say. No textbooks? No professor availability? That ma...

I could see how a previous EMT would be "rough" with patients. Many of the patients they see are at death's door and gentleness isn't needed? As a NP, you are a healthcare provider and a professional. Patients expect you to be concise but pleasant...

Anything is hard if you're not good at it, and anything can be fairly easy if you excel at it. Take some micro classes and see how that goes.

I don't see why it would be illegal - only degrading to the NP profession.

Because they let themselves be. They try to be martyrs. They try to be heroes. They TRY to lay themselves down like doormats for patients/admin/MDs/etc to walk all over them. Stick up for yourself wherever you go. Let people know that you know ...

You report her for HIPAA violation for looking at charts she doesn't belong in. Duh.

I went into nursing to help people and to pay for my life expenses that I accrue. I did not go into nursing to die for people, or to risk my life for people. That is called a first responder/military/etc, and I am none of those nor do I get their ben...

Leave your job. Get out if you feel that you need to. These nurses saying "but the patients need to be taken care of..." - so do you and your family, and that should be your #1 priority. Nurses often seem all to eager to make martyrs out of themsel...

I thought one of the rules for posting was using proper English... has this gone out the back door? Anyway, you should ask for more Epic training.

You got a Bachelors degree with English writing like that? Let's talk about that for a minute. But heck no. IV drug user doesn't need all of that crap. Poor MD work, they should consult pain management.

Learn from it, if you don't get the job. In the future, learn to care when you send emails.

I kindly let my management know that it is beyond my ability to satisfy these whacky people, and they need to speak with them, themselves. Childish.

This PC hospital scripting is ridiculous. Of course I have other patients. Of course I'll get you the water you are acting like you may die without if it isn't presented to you in 5 seconds. However, if there is an urgent issue in another room, I ...

I would never do this. It is completely disrespectful to both patients and nurses. Tell those managers to go ______.

Oh lawd - I would not make those meetings if I worked the night before and the night of. Or either of those. Nope. Management can get over that very quickly, or I would present them with evidence of how dangerous that is for night shift nurses.

When I worked nights, I didn't mind a nurse dozing off every now and then, as long as it didn't interfere with their job duties. Usually, by midnight, things were a lot slower and a bit of dozing was safe to do. If you're sleeping so much that you ...

Oh dear. You're that person. The crazy one writing everything down. We would not mesh. Lol. As a nurse, for my family, I could never be that person. I don't want to add additional stress on top of the caregivers. Make sure they are treated safe...

Not to be rude, but firstly you should learn to formulate an entire sentence. That probably has droves to do with your inability to pass these courses. You have to put forth the effort and time - it seems like you do neither of these things. Some...

I'm sure this attitude on the units does WONDERS for morale. I'd be on indeed.com in a second, bye! And who who are you to determine how often your employees get sick? Life happens.

I understand. I've never actually even tried it. But I highly doubt the BONs would be so progressive to forego that rule if recreational weed were to become legal.

I long for the days nurses are rational enough to realize recreational weed use (off the clock) is no reason to be fired or punished by some tyrannical BON, same as it is now with the much more dangerous drug alcohol. You should get a lawyer ASAP w...

You have to learn to not care so much. For real. The hospitals do not care about you, so don't care about them. Care about your patients and your license. If you feel the assignment is unsafe, speak up. But, bursting into tears? That's a bit dr...

I was accepted to UTA'a ACNP on campus program for next spring! Is anyone else in the same boat? Let's keep up with each other if there's any of us on here. :)

I wish somebody would tell me to feel this way about my employer. I'll smile at you if I have reason to. Haha.

Yeah, you also lost me with the "nurses without kids" comment. Boo-hoo. I have no kids but I rarely work extra or switch shifts with people. We self-schedule and I make mine work for me. I would NEVER agree to rotating to a night shift, and defini...