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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 complaints that are generated from this are ancil...

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 workers comp and follow up with serial blood draw...

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 here.

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 happened to be male."

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 it.

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 people? The surprising thing to me is that workers a...

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. Never again.

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 need to go to counseling and figure out what it is...

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 and really left me tired and sore after a shift. ...

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 raise a stink. If you think sterile technique is t...

This is probably the number one problem with working down here. I live in Southwest Florida. Moved here in 97 and bought a nice house for 87k. Same house today is going for 250K. Unbelievable!!!!!! The attitudes of these hospitals are pretty shocking...

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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. There are multiple factors invovled in why patients...

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. It's a good job with a lot of abusive lousy people...

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 abuse his/her coworkers and create friction among the ...

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 open minded so I suppose any further discussion w...

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 in a systematic manner by one or more individuals,...

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, don't drink, go home. I was tempted to say, "Here's...

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 disrespect are problems in the nursing field and should nev...

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. ******** So does xanax or ativan for some people. So do anti...

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 the looks I get. I can deliver the line with a de...

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 back across the border. I've seen more then a few "fr...

************* 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 my esteemed colleagues who get bent out of shape be...

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 think it's a more humane and comfortable way for som...