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  1. What would you do?

    onconurseRT replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have spoken with the manager and many of the comments were actually from the manager. I have also spoke with the employee relations individual and she felt that unless I wanted a "full blown...

  2. Did you care for a psych patient today?

    onconurseRT replied to onconurseRT's topic in General Nursing

    To respond to CNA... I actually do understand a great deal about mental illness, because my heart goes out to these individuals because it is so difficult to understand and to treat. What I was...

  3. What would you do?

    onconurseRT replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't want to make the response long, but someone had asked what it is that is making things bad on my current unit. I have been a nurse for 1 year, 8 months on a unit that I loved and now 4...

  4. Do you feel valued in your current nursing position?

    onconurseRT replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    My patients do state that they want me to be their nurse "the next day" and they request me. At my previous place I was valued even as a new grad, however, I am a newer nurse in a different hospital...

  5. What would you do?

    onconurseRT replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you for your remarks. I know that I put in sooo much at my work because I love being a nurse, but everyday I am there.... everything I have to give just is not good enough and that makes me...

  6. IV Pepcid (Dumb Student Nurse Question)

    onconurseRT replied to BirdFeederLady's topic in General Nursing

    I recall being a student not too long ago.. if there is something you question and have not done it before -- don't do it. Always check the policy and procedure, then ask a "charge nurse" that is...

  7. Does your Hospital offer Critical Incident Debriefing for Nurses

    onconurseRT replied to vuhles08's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a hospital in CA that did have debriefing opportunities on our oncology unit. It was set up by our special social worker for the unit and the management always helped out in this as well....

  8. What would you do?

    onconurseRT replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I can relate to you and your situation. I work on a unit that is EXACTLY as you are saying. I started there in May and now I work only 1 day a week PRN. I did not realize what was happening...

  9. flushing question

    onconurseRT replied to LISAMAR's topic in General Nursing

    I always flush before and after regardless of maintenance IV with generous amounts of saline. I push meds slowly as well-- I have had WAY to many patients complain that "they get nauseated after the...

  10. This article insults nursing as a lower skilled job

    onconurseRT replied to Cheyenne RN,BSHS's topic in General Nursing

    I lived in South San Fran. (where the reporter is coming from) for several years and lets just say that if any one thinks that $49,000.00 a year is a good living there is mistaken. That salary in...

  11. Having Second Thoughts

    onconurseRT replied to land64shark's topic in Nursing Career

    AND... why is it that you want to be a

  12. Crossing the line of Caring

    onconurseRT replied to VintageGAdog's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with ND MOM. I was the patient and I have also been the nurse. Once you have sat in your own filth/urine for a while and had your mouth crack and bleed because it was dry, the idea of...

  13. Working 12 Hr shifts???

    onconurseRT replied to salvati08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think that it depends on where you work and what the work environment is like. I started in May at a hospital that does not make any provisions for their nurses to take lunches or even a small...

  14. Crossing the line of Caring

    onconurseRT replied to VintageGAdog's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire OK--- Now.. the patient did ask for water and there was no medical reason why a sip could not have been given to the patient, right? I would have marched my little tail end back in the...

  15. This article insults nursing as a lower skilled job

    onconurseRT replied to Cheyenne RN,BSHS's topic in General Nursing

    I read the article with an open mind and there are certainly words/phrases that could have been edited so that the message from the article was not overlooked by misunderstandings. I can say that...