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  1. Please tell me how this is right?!?!

    bloviate replied to L&DRNJenn's topic in General Nursing

    This stuff looks good on paper but down in the trenches it stinks. In the hands of a dysfunctional management team this is a nightmare. Lord knows there are enough of them out there. IMHO most of the...

  2. I'm ANGRY and TERRIFIED!!

    bloviate replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Nursing

    Advice: Make sure get blood drawn immediately to document there is no existing problem with you. That's important. I read the advice everyone gave and it's pretty sound for the most part. Report it to...

  3. Admission to CRNA Program

    bloviate replied to Britt.MSN2b.Drexel'11's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm still studying for that darn GRE. What a headache. Any thoughts on age when applying. I am in my early 40's. I wouldn't like to think that's a negative but I am trying to be realistic

  4. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    bloviate replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Yes and I just singled it out again. This is not okay. Attitudes like this are disrespectful and have no place on the job. "Unfortunately I have seen the "lazy" and one of the worst ones I encountered...

  5. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    bloviate replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I doubt it about that being an honest observation. I think it was a biased & disrespectful observation. I said what I meant to say and I stand by

  6. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    bloviate replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Does it make it right that in any occupation people think that certain members are lazy, stupid etc etc. Because the majority do it, it becomes okay to marginalize, target, or disrespect a group of...

  7. Which agencies are the best?

    bloviate replied to Malt123's topic in Agency Nurses

    And here are some reasons to avoid them. Weak contracts, small choice of facilities, poor pay rates, BAD BAD BAD payroll departments. Of all the companies I have ever worked for this is THE WORST....

  8. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    bloviate replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I am troubled to be working in a field with people who have attitudes like this. This is a misandrist attitude that happens to creep out from under cover every once in a while. Perhaps you...

  9. Anyone from SARASOTA?

    bloviate replied to paula77720's topic in Florida Nursing

    Oh my God. You gotta be kidding me. Does that include the alcoholics that the MCSD and BPD brings in for that lovely Marchmant Act. All the wrestiling and fighting with those guys was not entertaining...

  10. to tell or not to tell?

    bloviate replied to ablynn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That must have been a heady feeling. A lowly student getting an RN "escorted" off the unit and property. Showed her didn't we! Wow, am I impressed! To the orginal poster. Probably a good idea not to...

  11. HELP! Should I give up!?

    bloviate replied to blurrgurrl's topic in General Nursing

    Hire an

  12. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    bloviate replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    Just wanted to toss one thing in real quick. The docs also work "shifts" and it seems at the end of a shift they're trying to get the work cleared up so they don't pass it on to the next physician....

  13. Nurse Mobbing/bullying

    bloviate replied to LuciGirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This might work for me if there wasn't an overall misandrist attitude among nurses. As for me, the only way i'm going to stay is if I don't get into grad school. Can't wait to leave nursing forever....

  14. To tattle tale or not tattle tale... that is the question.

    bloviate replied to bluesky's topic in General Nursing

    My first thought when reading that was, "How does one make friends with the queen bee?" It's simply not rational. How in the world can you make friends with someone who's overriding impulse is to...

  15. horizontal abuse,in-figting among our peers

    bloviate replied to James Garrity's topic in Men in Nursing

    Not "a" study. It's ongoing research into relational aggression and redefining what constitutes aggression. Pretty interesting if you're open minded. I am inferring from what you wrote that you aren't...

  16. horizontal abuse,in-figting among our peers

    bloviate replied to James Garrity's topic in Men in Nursing

    So all men are potentially violent? Anyhow...a short definition of horizontal violence or mobbing. Same thing. - mobbing in working life involves hostile and unethical communication which is directed...

  17. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    bloviate replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    We had a guy come in who was taking antabuse. (disulfuram) He stated that he had been drinking and was now ill and wanted to be seen. The doc examined him, told him that the medication was working,...

  18. Unfriendly RN's during clinicals

    bloviate replied to kyliern2b's topic in General Students

    It's unacceptable to behave in hostile and disrespectful ways like what has been described in this thread. People who behave like this have serious issues and need to work on them. Abuse and...

  19. Can any RNs tell me if this is true

    bloviate replied to geminiskittels's topic in General Nursing

    Ritalin isn't a narcotic; it's a stimulant. And for the people who need it and for who it works for - it has a paradoxical effect in that it calms them down, thereby allowing them to focus. ********...

  20. What do patients say that irks you?

    bloviate replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My favorite thing to say is....... Well, don't be alarmed. When I graduated from nursing school last week the IV starting class was the last one I took and I was the best in the class. :rotfl: I love...

  21. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    bloviate replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I worked in the El Paso area for some time. The hospitals are strapped. The Mexicans dump some pretty horrendous cases in the hospitals and because of our system we can't turn around and dump them...

  22. Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

    bloviate replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    ************* A voice of reason at last! :balloons: I was going to leave this thread alone but felt compelled to comment. I do the job; all aspects of it! What I really find distasteful is some of...

  23. Morphine/ativan cocktail

    bloviate replied to aprilleverett's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I always am leery of giving so much roxanol to a dying patient any opinions? Right. I understand your concern. Regardless of what you do or don't do the patient is going to depart. In my practice I...

  24. Nurses who Hunt and Fish

    bloviate replied to MacERRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    There's not much hunting here in South Florida unless you like to kill feral pigs. As for Turkeys.... I work with many. Fishing, now that's another story. I fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Are there any...

  25. Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

    bloviate replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    The statement was this: "We have too many people becoming nurses for the money." ***************** What money? I have a great friend who makes just as much as I do and all he does is inspect stuff...