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  1. From Golden Child to Worst Employee: What The?????

    tencat posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all. I've been doing hospice for 3 years, and I love it. I used to like my current job as well, but lately I hate getting up in the morning to face the day. I used to be praised and even was...

  2. From Golden Child to Worst Employee: What The?????

    tencat replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for your great replies. You guys rock! I have decided to leave the job and take a different job not in hospice, which is really tearing me apart, but I need a break to recharge and...

  3. Can nurses legally "refuse" to take a new admit?

    tencat replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

    Um....really. Do you work on the floor? Somehow I doubt it. If you cannot safely and competently care for a patient, you have no business taking him/her just because you're afraid that referrals...

  4. Is this common practice or was I in the wrong??

    tencat replied to Sassylil14u's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a place you couldn't pay me enough to work in, bad economy or not. I'm not really seeing anything you did wrong, and having to give a presentation to your peers, if that wasn't expected...

  5. Nursing vs. Teaching for Major

    tencat replied to MsSaveThePlanet's topic in Nursing Career

    Teaching does not pay as well as nursing, hands down. However, you get way fewer breaks with nursing. I did not spend my summers working when I was a teacher, but I didn't have two kids then, either...

  6. personal tragedy

    tencat replied to bjaeram's topic in General Nursing

    So sorry for you and your family......I agree with Leslie: Get another

  7. How long in bed for post C/S mothers?

    tencat replied to MeditationPeace's topic in Ob/Gyn

    When I had my c/s I was SOOO ready to walk when I could feel my legs again as I know that walking was good for me to start on the road to recovery. I think it was somewhere around 8 hours later that...

  8. IV's for Hospice

    tencat replied to Turtle in scrubs's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Been one for three years and haven't put one in yet. I do take a lot of blood,

  9. Those that prefer to work with men

    tencat replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    The worst experience I had with a nurse where the nurse cursed me out in front of the others was with a male. However, on the whole I prefer to have a workplace with a balance of males and females....

  10. ProCPR

    tencat replied to DaFreak71's topic in General Nursing

    My employer accepted it, but I know if you're in a hospital setting, they probably won't accept

  11. I feel TERRIBLE!

    tencat replied to SNjamie's topic in General Nursing

    Have to agree with the previous posters. There is very little you can do by yourself, and it's hard to know if a scene is safe enough for you to help without becoming a second victim in the process....

  12. nursing or pre-med.

    tencat replied to lhayee's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If I were that young and able to wing it, I would go the route of pre-med. It will be a lot harder, but in the end you will have a good, solid career that will certainly support you and your two...

  13. Would adding a Bachelors in Accounting be worth anything to an RN's career?

    tencat replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    I have found that my other degree is pretty much useless as far as advancing in nursing. It is frustrating at times as I feel I would be able to do jobs such as unit educator, etc. but because I...

  14. What do you hate most/love most about your job? List one of each.

    tencat replied to AtACrossRoads's topic in General Nursing

    Hospice nurse here.....love: Helping people to experience a 'good' death and be where they want to be when they die Hate: Greedy hospice corporations who value the bottom line over good patient care...

  15. Was so impressed with my patient yesterday and not so impressed with the family

    tencat replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sheesh! I hear that a lot from other health professionals.....very sad. Even docs and nurses haven't got a clue sometimes. The lady shouldn't be forced into it, but she needs some education to make...

  16. Any Tips on Obtaining Schedule 2 when MD. don't want to be bothered

    tencat replied to Zen123's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would make a stink with the DON and medical director, unless of course the obnoxious doc IS the medical director....then you're in

  17. akward situations in the home

    tencat replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Private Duty

    Apparently a lot of people on nights with private duty nursing do sleep. I don't think it's a good idea, but I imagine it's a lot harder to stay awake in a quiet, dark house, especially if the...

  18. this hit too close to home...

    tencat replied to leslie :-D's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for sharing, Leslie. As my hubby said to me this week, "What's right isn't always what's easy." I'm sorry that you had to go through that, but it's nice to know that there are others out...

  19. Funny things that pts say

    tencat replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had to share this one. I was visiting with a patient who is a lol 88 years old. She had a well-worn bible sitting in her lap and had been reading. She's deaf and has a touch of dementia. So I...

  20. Veteran Affairs Nursing

    tencat replied to Shuggypie's topic in General Nursing

    Should one call the recruiters and check on the status of things? Or does that just tick them off? Some jobs (such as education jobs) the more you check, the better you look. Is it that way with VA...

  21. On Compassion.

    tencat replied to Virgo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Very nice and VERY helpful. I'm going to see if my boss will let me do an inservice on the subject using the tools from the

  22. IV forms of Zofran and Decadron given PO???

    tencat replied to GleeGum's topic in Emergency

    At first I was like: "What the heck? WHY?" Then you all straightened me out! That makes so much sense if you can't get a line or don't wan to torture a kiddo. Very cool. I was edumacated

  23. DEATH TO THE ALARM!

    tencat replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I love it when annoying pieces of machinery get the snot beat out of them....Yay to the guy with the

  24. Do you agree that Nurses are on the Worst Driver List?

    tencat replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    My husband would agree with that assessment.....at least for me! He's probably right, but I live in my own cozy world of denial that everyone else is a horrible driver, and not

  25. Is everything really the nurses fault?

    tencat replied to jerrylundergard's topic in General Nursing

    I would have been pretty snarky and said something like, "Wow, I didn't know your fingers were broken so badly that you couldn't write any orders or dial a phone to call the attending yourself...."...