nichefinder

Hello all... It's been little over 3 months since I started this medsurg job... very busy floor with 6 max load, no phlebotomy team, very slow system, horrendous meditech charting, very ghetto clientele, your regular run-around-crazy-head-cut-off MS ...

I know lots of people hate to their guts what they do. I am definitely one of them and I can say that when I walk into my medsurg job, I can just tell all the joy, happiness and energy just being sucked out of my body. I don't understand the happines...

hugs... I feel for you as I see abuses in daily situations but people expect nurses "just to take it." Physical or verbal abuse has not happened to me (surprisingly) but if it does, I am ready to debunk and confront the person (as long as it's not my...

I take every advices with grains of salt, and I thank all those who encourage me. To answer some posts previously, I applied to FNP program already, awaiting the answer. Even if I don't get in, I know for sure I will get my FNP in the future as highe...

my clientele range in race of all origins. again, klone, look at how you make assumption. you're reinforcing your own reinforcement. sigh... no one talked about race when i use the term ghetto. it was used in describing very uncanny behaviors and why...

@NanikRNl isten, i do appreciate people who come in to listen to my rant and give me advices, but i am a very stand-firm type of character, and if something is on my mind, I WILL SAY IT in the least offensive way possible. I give seniority respect to...

@ruby: thanks for the advice. i actually applied to couple spots but i'm not a kid, so quitting before a secured job is a bad idea,so i'm trooping on for 3 more months unless i find a job of course. but if you have no idea what i meant about the "ghe...

from wat i understand in my facility, pcts can draw labs... other than that, same cleaning butts haha good luck

@kalevra: thanks for the support, and I guess I wrongly used the term ghetto patients as that could interject some misunderstanding... but please refer to what kalevra has termed the "ghetto clientele"... I do not have any job lined up, but so far h...

i am currently seeking hospital jobs (partially unfortunately) because of the dollars... some of you have listed out-of-hospital jobs like public health, prevention, etc. I wouldn't mind doing them except the pay is considerably low and plus seeing s...

CWONgal is exactly right. The ability to do something different in nursing is a great plus. But the biggest sadness I feel in nursing (and healthcare in general in USA) is that all the glitter and happy things you expect in nursing school is impossib...

versatility... if you don't like what you do, you can do something totally different :)

@RNperdiem: It's my second medsurg job and I guarantee it on my death bed it will be the last one also; just got to fill in 6 months as courtesy and to do internal transfer. I am used to the job and can adapt pretty quick (used 2 weeks orientation in...

@Houtx: my exact thoughts. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy interacting with people outside the job and won't mind lending a hand as a good samaritan, but it's somehow different in hospital setting with patients... It's not that I don't like people, I lov...

RNperdiem and notdoneyet right on the dot.

@crunchRN: thanks! I actually took care of retired RN whose daughter worked as a research nurse for quite a while and said she definitely loved doing it; I understand that the paper work involved with research nursing takes you to a whole different d...

I understand it's very rare to really really love what you do everyday... but it's possible to enjoy and love what you do some days. In my case, I HATE my job and tell others not to be a nurse. sigh..

I am live in Texas too and I jokingly flirt with coworkers all the time... other RNs call pts sweetie, hon, etc all the time, no one bats an eye. people are too up tight...

well, to be little fair now, I think I must have just seen bad side of things... it's easier to see bad things happen a lot more often than good things especially working in this field. damn all that bedside is turning me bitter, i must run away haha...

Such is this culture... I am glad I wasn't brought up here. I will NEVER let my parents even step on the parking lot of nursing homes. It's really sad, this country.

okay, seems from many of you that socioeconomic status does not affect habit of drug seeking... I am surprised to hear that the drug seeking habits are of equivalent prevalence in both kinds of hospitals that serve high and low socioeconomic status. ...

being a 24 yr old, I make almost about $56,000/ year (BEFORE tax, of course thank you Bamawelfare), so I think compared to many people in our age group, I think I am doing just about OKAY. Now, compared to what we do, liability, tremendous things to ...

read my other post, it's in page 5 of this thread

Okay, I did react to the original post quite emotionally; imagine if you really dislike where you are, and you see other people little by little finding their places, yet I am still stuck in a miserable job where I do not want to be, then someone acc...