Schoolnursetrish39

Well my posting name is Schoolnurse Trish but I don't work in the education sector anymore as budget cuts eliminated my position I moved and I have been working in long term care.. It is a nightmare I have always worked in hospitals prior to this and I have such a problem with the CMAs and the fact they pass meds there is not alot of oversight by the DON she does not want to be called at home about anything. Well I saw with my own eyes I thought this this CMA on staff handed off pills outside our facility door to her husband one night as she was leaving but I wasn't sure and later that night two patients there that are lucid and do not have dementia stated they insisted they were not given their medication and because it was signed out I had to assume the CMA gave it. Of course it was an opioid and a benzodiazepine medication. I spoke of my concerns to the DON and I was never asked about or asked to write a report up and the next week the DON was gone... resigned with no notice... needless to say I walked as I was the only RN in this facility besides the DON and the rest of the staff is a LPN and the balance of staffing is made by staffing agencies... I love being a nurse and I guess I need to go back to hospital work as there I know who gets their meds because I give them. Not all CMAs are bad but alot think they know more than an RN and they go to school 3 weeks in my state... but if you quiz them on medications and uses and side effects they are lost... I know that most nursing homes can't hire enough nurses to have on staff to give out med passes themselves but it would be safer... I worry about my license and as such have to decide to relocate to another state where hopefully oversight is better... I almost think the DON knew something because why would she have quit like that after I brought this matter up.. It was never even acknowledged by her or the adminstrator.. Scary thing is I wasn't asked to do a drug screen when I accepted employment there and that is scary but I live in a small town and there are only so many places to work... Sooner or later I am going to find a job where I can feel good after a day's work and not wonder if my patients are medicated adequately or at all... Wish me luck

Amen to that Medic Nurse.. when I was in nursing school. I had clinical instructors that watched us like hawks and I even had one who thought I wasn't cut out to be a nurse and had me do extra wound care when some of my classmates thougfht it was "gross" and also to come in and do a day in the ER with her personally starting IVS. I was sure she hated me. You know what I thank God she was hard on me and taught me and "picked " on me because when I was a "newbie" I knew a few things.. as a nurse I learn something new every day... and if you don't you are slacking..

YOu said it all in that last sentence. I have started a new position and there are a couple of residents that are prejudiced and some staff who are terrible and reading that gave me some prespective. We all have our bad days... the patients being patients I can stand but when co-workers are the problem thats the worst I think.. All of us hang in there. I really needed to read a post like Triage's. Thank you and yes male nurses are wonderful and I wish there were more of them...

I agree with the prior posters about the run around you get sometimes. It has taken me 3 weeks to get hired at any hospital I have worked at after an interview, I dress professional and then you have to hound HR and the Nurse manager you will have to give you a start date. The worst one was a position I moved to Tulsa for. I was late to orientation that day due to a terrible accident out on the 412 and I was 15 minutes late. I had to come back the next week this was after moving down there and relocating 140 miles from where I was. I had never been treated like that. I often wondered if it had something to do with the bonus I was paid to start there. I had never had someone be so rude. After my contract was finsihed there I had an opportunity to go to another job at another hospital. I saw that woman's name and never went in. She burned me that bad. The hospital though that I worked at down there was great just the HR dept. was horrid. Never had anything that bad happen again. I think she had some control issues,,, hehe

Gonzo, Believe me its has nothing to do with you being a ER RN its family and you need to grieve. I lost my boyfriend to heart failure about 6 months ago.. he was coded and brought back and didn't live out the day and I just totally could not think like a nurse that day.. my mind wouldn't move that direction. As nurses in the hospital our patients we see we aren't emotional attached to and of course we handle it better... You are feeling perfectly normal feelings and I felt bad for a good 2 months because I felt as a nurse I should have been able to handle his death better... Don't feel bad for feeling sad.. its what makes us human.... and I am very sorry for your and your husband's loss...

All the jobs I have had with CNA and techs and etc. I have always worked with hardworking professsional people they did theri jobs very well and under bad circumstances at times.. This new job I have in correctional nursing is that I am an RN but there are more LPNs and they have major attitude. They found out I am an RN and some of them are competive for that reason... My Correctional facility allows LPNs to do IVS and charge .. I don't know if that is legal or not.,.. I protect my license they can theirs... I don't understand why it matters what are title is we are all in healthcare but people are petty.. I hope in my case it gets better. Because I am new to correctional nursing they think I am stupid. I am not... just learning the ropes in a new area,.. its not like hospital work... Hang in there or find somewhere better to work... One day the LPN I work with got behind I offered to help her was turned down and then later she made a big show of wanting me to do some things because she couldn't get to them.. I had asked earlier... As another poster said Teamwork is important.... and to try to respect other peoples feelings you can never go wrong... Good Luck to you...

I agree AsianMike. Thats what it is really all about, the care of our patients. Like the way you put that.

I am mostly type A but am type B too. I always get my work done though as it is unfair to the person following you if you don't. I work nights, however I have alot of paper work to finish as my 3-11 folks don't get to it... so my type A habits kick in. Alot of times though patients need the type B nursing and that is when I really feel like a nurse. After all thats why I became a nurse. I knew Type A types in school they were rigid and by the book and made 100s on tests but when we were new graduate nurses some of them choked because the real nursing world is not by the book .. It takes the book skills and also the Type B aspects both.Really we need both type skills in the nursing world I think...

I have an ADN but at my college it is an Associate of Science in Nursing to be able to transfer. Looking to get my BSN or more. :)

Because he is 40 and you are 22,???? Don't be coy What he is doing is sexual harrassment to some people and if you don't welcome it say so and if you do you better cool it at work because people will notice and it could lead to the loss of both your jobs.Perhaps if you don't like it put a stop to it by taking to your manager that is what they are there for. You are playing with fire. He's probably going through a midlife crisis perhaps and maybe married. Men act like that sometimes because they can and it happens to women and nurses of all ages. I find it personally irritating because it not being respectful of a co-worker and is belittling, IMHO. Be careful...

It was hard but I don't regret going to nursing school at all. I love being a nurse. My ex-husband used to say that and then he was the one who left me for another. Sometimes I feel bad about my marriage failing in some ways, but I am a happier more fulfilled person today. Perhaps you could talk to your husband and maybe you guys could try counseling, not all marriages are meant to be lost. However, if he can't support you in this and you would him in the same way, its less painful in the end to look out for yourself and your child. Please take care and PM me anytime.. :)

You are right on about that... Marie

Well thats sad some patient would say that.. in regards to the little pretend nurse vs. the real nurse.... because I know in Nursing school I hung out with all the LPN bridge students and they taught me so much. I love the LPNs I have worked with and it is true some hospitals are trying to faze them out... not too smart or bright of the facilities I think... Well I think when it comes right down to it I know when I am sick I want a nurse and I don't what Kind she is .... I just want one.... :blushkiss

Well really it was a childhood dream but as dreams go sometimes they are hard to make them come true but I did. I got married at 17 and was a military wife for about 16 years.. moving around here and there I always wanted to go back to school but between new duty stations, three babies and no family help or moral support I wasn't able to until I was in my mid thirties.. I had been in an abusive marriage for over 20 years and one day I decided that I was't going to take it anymore and I was going back to college. My self esteem, well I didn't have any in those days but through my professors and later my nursing professors I found out I was smart and was capable and I decided nothing was going to get in my way and nothing did... My mother became ill with terminal cancer during nursing school, and I took care of her at night and went to school during the day so that she could die at home with the dignity she wanted. My now ex husband decided after Mom passed he wanted a divorce and when he left I was about 4 months away from graduation and I was not quitting no matter what he did . I had no money and later lost my home but I hung in there and graduated with honors. I finally was able to be a nurse yes its stressful but I fought so hard to become one I do believe I will never give it up... I love the idea of nursing because we help people and touch them in perhaps ways we don't know we do... and I am very sure I will die a nurse and they will have to make me surrender my license... :blushkiss Thats my story and sorry so long... It was a struggle but man when you finally win its sweet, so very sweet... :wink2:

I went to their rival Crowder College ADN program ( even though we were a community college not a university) and we took the HESI and all of us passed in my class in 2003 with the exception of one and she had struggled throughout the program, however we took all our class tests NCLEX style by computer. Maybe that was the difference I don't know. Sounds like to me the MSSU nursing school dropped the ball. To me and not to offend anyone, its not the degree granted really its the quality of the educational instruction part and clinicals. I remember at Crowder there were ones that didn't get into our nursing program so they went to MSSU and took another year at Crowder to finish up prereqs. Some were snooty about it too.. Well I am just glad I stayed at Crowder. The HESI doesn't lie I guess, However it was unfair how they gave the junior class more time but I know nursing school is like that when were in 2nd year , 1st year students had things different than us... nursing school was the hardest thing I ever did Thats awful for those girls though after all their hard work.