Warpster

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1. Stereotyped...and not sure what I should do

   Warpster replied to gorjos's topic in Men in Nursing

   Some jobs are just not a good fit. A transfer to another unit within that hospital might fix the whole situation or the whole place might be toxic enough to you that you'll have to leave and resign...

2. How long did you stay at your 1st job?

   Warpster replied to 01dayatatime's topic in Nursing Career

   I managed to hang in there for two years in a VA hospital but only because my rheumatologist wrote a note to my charge nurse that rotating shifts were making me much sicker and that I needed a...

3. Retired, now what?

   Warpster replied to sueff's topic in Retired Nurses

   As my name suggests, I'm a weaver. I also spin, dye, knit, crochet, sew and do just about anything with a handful of fluff that can be done. And now that I'm not exhausted from working 12 hour night...

4. I can't stop dreaming about the NICU!~

   Warpster replied to babyCNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Nursemares are something nobody talks about at nursing school but I think we all have them: the one when it's almost the end of your shift and you've been dealing with this and that and realize you...

5. Retired, now what?

   Warpster replied to sueff's topic in Retired Nurses

   Some of the best advice I ever got from an instructor in nursing school was always to have something outside of nursing that captured your interest enough to occupy your time when you were no longer...

6. Community College? You must be stupid.

   Warpster replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

   Lily Ledbetter ring a bell? It's still going on,

7. Community College? You must be stupid.

   Warpster replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

   My parents tried to pull this garbage on me but I explained to them that the job was the same in both cases and it was much smarter to go through a 2 year program and come out debt free than to...

8. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

   Warpster replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

   In theory, competing diagnoses that focused on practice rather than disease were to help us compete head to head with other professionals. It just didn't work out that way, in part because of the...

9. I hate what's happening to nursing...

   Warpster replied to nyteshade's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   You can tell what sort of nerve you hit by the number of kudos at the bottom of your post! The truth is that turning health care over to MBAs was almost as big a catastrophe as turning it into a...

10. I give in to drug seeking patients

    Warpster replied to Raidernurse's topic in General Nursing

    People in serious pain who are not in control of their own medication via pump often display classic drug seeking behavior. I had a tomcat after surgery who also did, meowing at me and meowing at the...

11. Should smokers be admitted into the nursing program?

    Warpster replied to Elly Aker's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've watched too many fine nurses struggle with trying to quit and fail to think nursing programs should limit their student pool that way. While it would be nice if we were all prim and perfect...

12. Ever had a nursing instructor hate you?

    Warpster replied to bustthewave's topic in General Students

    Yeah, one, a study in raging personality conflict. It was during pediatrics, a discipline I already knew I would not count as the high part of my nursing education. I knew enough to let her huff and...

13. MGH is offering new grad ICU internship for $11.44 an hour?

    Warpster replied to DisneybearRN's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    I remember MGH from a long time ago. They go through periods of this rubbish, thinking nurses can live on air and warm fuzzies. Or that if we're not all married and childless and married to...

14. Can I lose my license for being nude on internet?

    Warpster replied to climbs's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I think most people can differentiate between art and advertising photos and "Girls Gone Wild" rubbish and would only question someone about the latter since it usually involves alcohol and/or drugs....

15. The Great Emergency Prank War

    Warpster replied to murphyle's topic in Nursing Humor

    Face it, hospital humor is vile. Just the various uses of KY alone would put a civilian off his feed for months. Finding a coworker on nights who has nodded off meant taping him or her into the...