SunCityInsPhysical BSN, RN

Please accept my apology for not standing up over course of my 45 year nursing career, I fear I failed, but in my defense I was frequently working 60+ hours a week or more. Pardon me while I choke on my cup of Joe......, I'm reading morning emails,...

You remind me of my desire to become OR nurse. Things haven't changed much, I retired after over 35 years in the OR. It is a very demanding job with lots of mandatory on call time to cover emergencies on eveings, nights weeke n ds and holiday...

Corporate mentality is self serving and abusive here, short staffed and more patients in chairs than is safe, it's dangerous and demoralizing. Listening to on hold spiel at corp is a joke but they make it sound great, planning to open more locations ...

Welcome to the real world of Nursing. Magnet and AARP recognized hospitals bought those certificates and are a joke....I've been there. I hot injured when I answered call at 1:30 am to go in on my night off to cover for two nurses who just didn't s...

From a different perspective, that person may have been going through a rough patch and wasn't at their best, or it wasn't a good fit for a variety of reasons. This may be their opportunity for a fresh start and hopefully a great fit and begin t...

No healthcare provider should be subjected to physical, verbal, emotional, financial abuse. Do not brag that you are used to it. Do not accept being treated that way. If your coworkers or boss don't demand that you file a report they are br...

I'm a retired OR nurse after 45years and Legal Nurse Consultant. I'm a hospital Trauma survivor. Here's what I went through and learned. I sustained an injury in 2012 after making mistake of answering phone on my night off 1:30am. I was called ...

Hmmm, waiting for Doctor Biden to lead the way. Won't hold my breath.

Graduated from nursing school in 1978, I am now 70, disabled after being injured by a patient. and worn out from the long hours. Stress and abuse by admin, patients, families and other staff. It's changed alot in some ways but now in others. Technic...

I'm having gruesome Flashbacks. Putting 2 and 2 together I'm having Visions of decubitous ulcers gone really bad. I put myself through nursing school days, working in nursing home 40 hr weekends. Proud to say we had 104 yr old pt on bed rest...

Well said. I just turned 70. Was RN from 1978-2021. Left last position after being tricked for 4th time to care for 8 chemo infusion pts while legally contracted for 3 chairs due to our clinic being exposed to Covid and resulting staff outages. Fron...

This is the same cat and mouse game that has been played since the nursing shortages in the 80s and 90s. ANA has done NOTHING for us ever. No National clinical ladder, no retirement plan like teachers have, we're basically the same as or less than f...

I've been a BSN RN for over 45 years in a variety of settings and roles. (20+ years OR, level one trauma+outpt. Case manager, then became certified oncology nurse to give chemo infusions when Dad and dear friend faught cancer. Clinic was grossly und...

Corporate and local mgmt only sees us as a number on a page. A piece of interchangeable equipment to be moved around like pieces on a chess board. Their end goal is profit/ dividends to the stock/stake holders and a feather in their war bonnet as the...

Clear concise summary of situation. I retired after 42yrs of active nursing when I lost confidence in my employers. One infusion nurse cannot safely monitor 10 patients receiving toxic medications. After three months of showing up reliably for duty a...

Thanks for clarifying.

Where was the state board of nursing from the beginning of this fiasco? It has always been my understanding that schools must be accredited. State board dropped the ball day one.

Google Abortion statistics and do a deep dive going back yearly to 1965. How about a national challenge to reduce the numbers this coming year. Folks do a New Years resolution to not drink or smoke or other. This is more important. ...

Hmmmmm...... I think we are so wrapped up in the daily drama that we're missing the real problem. Absolutely, we as educated Healthcare providers must respond in a timely and life supporting manner to treat life-threatening conditions. His...

No where did anyone mention the unrealistic, overbearing and abusive attitudes and practices of Hospital systems and administrators, chief nurses, unit directors or charge nurses and state board/ANA posturing and unions. Having studied and prac...

Thanks to all of you who took the time and effort to comment. I'm grateful and have taken your thoughts, and experiences onto consideration. In 35+years of Trauma/OR I've been called in many times and had to participate in a VARIETY of so-calle...

It's 2022 and Planned Parenthood has been in Business since the 1950s along with Reproduction education in the school system. How sad that in 60+ years the number of 'needed' abortions annually keeps going UP. How many of those are really due to li...

I've been in nursing, including my first exposure to "Planned Parenthood" during nursing school, since 1975. Where in all the rhetoric and posturing is the discussion about women taking control of their lives and bodies by being responsible for prev...

I completed my Nursing degree in 78. As a responsible, mature adult who went to school in the OLD DAYS. I'd like to remind everyone that we've had 50 plus years of opportunity to teach young women about birth control measures, I received first-gener...

I came out of retirement at 67 to help out at Chemo Clinic where my friend was being treated. They were terribly short-staffed. I know I've been exposed to Covid 19 more than 4 times by patients, families, ancillary staff, and the general public. I ...