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  1. Don't People Have Bills To Pay?

    nichefinder replied to Ruby Vee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    @been there done that: amen to that, as years go by, even health care is ALL about money and business... I only wish that US retained the values of past at least in

  2. Don't People Have Bills To Pay?

    nichefinder replied to Ruby Vee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I quit my first job after 6 months to take another god forsaken medsurg job in a bigger city, the only reason was to move into big city for better job. Let me ask you OP, have you even hated your job?...

  3. Regret

    nichefinder replied to cpatobsn's topic in General Nursing

    Don't CPAs make good living? Why would you get into nursing? Just curious, because if I was a CPA, I would NOT move to

  4. New RN; I want to quit my job already.

    nichefinder replied to irishlynn5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    sorry I can't read all your post, simply too long. But I do get the point that you hate your job enough to cause depression. I am in your shoes right now; I dread my work and I can say with all my...

  5. Sleepy Nightshift nurse

    nichefinder replied to jackpp's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, have been night nurse since start of this career... and battling with sleep is an ugly business, so I usually do 3 nights in a row and return to normal lifestyle on other days off. Night shift...

  6. Are men not as neat as women nurses?

    nichefinder replied to LVN_Soon2Be's topic in Men in Nursing

    i sometimes leave a little mess in patient's rooms because I am not going to bend over to pick up every little dust off the ground to toss it into trash... but i guess that's not male-female thing....

  7. 1 Job Offer but got to 2nd Round Interview for dream job

    nichefinder replied to TooProudToMention's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Just because you verbally accepted, it doesn't mean anything until you sign a paper, and the employer also experience cases where they may offer and receive verbal acceptance from candidate, and...

  8. wanting to move on! what are pros and cons of OR?

    nichefinder posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello, dear colleagues! Greetings and happy holidays if you live in US. I am medsurg RN working the floors and never thought that this was for me. I am trying to find my place where I can say...

  9. wanting to move on! what are pros and cons of OR?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Operating Room

    @leftmy I mean, the worst thing, the WORST thing about medsurg is... that most of times, the job makes me feel like I am doing completely useless things. While you or other nurse have to intervene to...

  10. wanting to move on! what are pros and cons of OR?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Operating Room

    wow... no one? I guess I will ask ppl at my hospital.

  11. Code brown

    nichefinder replied to Caleb_RN225's topic in General Nursing

    sent them back to ER...

  12. Just had my first day as a student nurse, advice needed....

    nichefinder replied to danmyers22's topic in General Students

    wait a minute here, I know I might be flamed for this, but I have to make a point about this. It looks like the norm of any nurse is "embrace poop, pee, vomit, and everything&anything negative...

  13. Upcoming Interview!!! HELPPP!

    nichefinder replied to AKAnurse1's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    think twice before you start medsurg... you might end up hating your job and nursing all together. that's the #1 advice I give to nursing students if they ask me for any advice coming into workforce....

  14. Adult nurses- please weigh in on bedside rounding!

    nichefinder replied to enzati's topic in General Nursing

    I am strictly a night nurse, so I rarely.. actually never saw a real rounding. Most of pt requests are done via phone by me asking the doc for something, and guarantee you I am not calling a doc at...

  15. ughhh... Hail all the floor nurses

    nichefinder posted a topic in General Nursing

    As a floor nurse myself (7 months new), I sometimes look at the seasoned nurses (10+) who have only done floor and just wonder how insane are these people... Yesterday at my CDU, I had a report from...

  16. ughhh... Hail all the floor nurses

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in General Nursing

    8 to 10???

  17. Keep having to meet with my boss :(

    nichefinder replied to RN617's topic in General Nursing

    they call you into the office for not posting up strips or not changing a dressing for a day?? sounds like you have a micro-managing, punitive manager. I have a nice manager and will not call stupid...

  18. Priorities of Care for Spinal Cord Injury

    nichefinder replied to Nursingis4me12's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i like to answer this so more experienced RN can dispute if I am wrong: I would say after you have assessed airway patency and if breathing is fine, flatten the pt and immobilize to reduce further...

  19. Nurse satisfaction: Nurse-physician relationship impact

    nichefinder replied to RN-JB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    interesting topic!!! well, most of drs at my hospital are quite friendly and nice since we are teaching hospital, and they tend to be residents, so they feel more "human-like" :) just kidding lol....

  20. ughhh... Hail all the floor nurses

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in General Nursing

    haha well, i can definitely take a clinic job as an RN. I remember I used to say in nursing school "I will never get in a job where I will 'lose' all the nursing", but now, my priority in searching a...

  21. ughhh... Hail all the floor nurses

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in General Nursing

    @prnqday: isn't mother/baby kind of a specialty? or at least that's what I thought that was, in fact I thought anything L&D, OB/GYN related was a specialty... anyways, when I listen to people say...

  22. Does nursing really suck that badly?

    nichefinder replied to Irish_Mist's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    To present my humble opinion, I think that nursing schools make you believe that as a nurse, you are going to be very focused into science, autonomy.... well that was a bull's dung. Throw autonomy out...

  23. ughhh... Hail all the floor nurses

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in General Nursing

    I laughed pretty hard at Houtx reply, ah I did hear about some mad surgeons, but to fling a live scalpel that could inflict such a damage, I laughed hard! Back to the post, I think sharing ideas is...

  24. Patient of our Clinic has no one and nothing for Christmas

    nichefinder replied to BlueLightRN's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    sending her name to local charity might seem to interact with HIPAA or something of privacy wouldn't it? I am not sure of it, but inviting her to family dinner or just inviting her to lunch/dinner to...

  25. Surgical NPs, how did you become?

    nichefinder posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hello dear Nurse Practitioners, I come in humbleness to seek for some career advices and inputs from those who already have achieved greatly in life. I am a RN, BSN, and I considered for sometime what...