chrispicritah

well everyone after 22 years i am leaving the nursing profession. i have spent almost half of my life taking care of other people, and it is now time to step aside and let someone else step in. i was very young when i started out, and i often say th...

if you drive drunk, you need to be shamed. after 22 years of nursing, i remember the worst thing i saw when i floated to the trauma unit was a multiple freeway accident caused by a drunk driver...he was drunk as cooter brown and ran into a woman who ...

chile doan worry, dem just jealous! travel and do yuh 'ting... "why should i worry, why should i care, (s'ting, s'ting) cause i've got "street savoir faire"! go for it! cc soon to be retired june 30, 2006:balloons:

50 is the new 35!!!! cc soon to retire on june 30, 2006:balloons: young!

CK goes up with a heart attack liver enzymes go up because of the drugs, some people are diabetics and don't know it, because it "hides". chondritis is an inflammation in the ribs, they call it costochondritis. good luck cc soon to retire june 30 200...

M/S get a buddy who knows more, i was one of the youngest and there were a lot of LVN's in the program, so they helped me out. in psych we went to the VA, we all stuck together and helped each other. i had one buddy that i studied with. she was alrea...

well, you don't know if she was already like that, although i could understand you feel bad. it isn't anybody's fault. don't blame yourself for what you can't control. you are brand new and can't be expected to "know" these things. after 22 years i c...

it's OK...don't get bitter, it's not healthy. it makes ulcers and who knows what else? don't wait until that happens because when it does, they will just find somebody else to hire in your place, drink coffee in your name if you die, and forget about...

yes! and we don't thank ourselves and appreciate others enough. i don't believe that you have to become bitter to leave any profession, that is not healthy. but, management likes to sit and look busy, in their ivory towers. i mentioned this fact abou...

i would always make rounds and go to each person, and say "hello mr/mrs. so-and-so, i'm miss crispi and i am your nurse this evening. do you have any pain?" unless i was on the jail ward in which case i would not tell those inmates my name. i would ...

do you want to be a nurse because it is in your heart, or because of some other reason (i.e. not wanting another meaningless low paying job) that is not a good enough reason for going to school to be a nurse. it is hard work, and it gets harder every...

well, your response is actually more of what i expected to find. and no, i am not venting. i am speaking the truth. speaking what i believe does not make me bitter, it makes me honest. if nursing students are discouraged from nursing because of what ...

OK...but those are two different types of courses that require a different type of skillsets. it sounds like maybe you feel that one is more important or valuable than another? there are some people who are whizzes at chemistry but those same people ...

it is not about getting an "A" it is about what you know, and how good you are at it. just because someone knows what is in a book or on a test, does not mean that they will be a good nurse. i did well in school, i worked hard for 22 years and burnt...

go to the doctor and make sure nothing is wrong with your feet like fallen arches or heel spurs :uhoh21: then try the other's suggestions. nursing shoes always bothered me. dansko clogs and some other kind i bought earlier this year were nice. but i ...

that sounds very antiquated, apparently that hospital is not up to standard on pain control. when i had several fibroids removed, the anesthesiologist asked me in the pre-op area, what i wanted, demerol, morphine, or dilaudid. i was not in a "elite"...

i don't know about that, the only real way to learn about starting IV's is by doing them. when i first started out working, we used to have IV nurses, who only started IV's. i learned from them. they told me if you can't see a vein then feel for wher...

i have not read all of the posts but i would say the most important thing is, remember that you can only do one thing at a time. if you have d/c orders at 0830 and meds to pass and paperwork, then only one of them can be done first. i would do the me...

thank you for you post, yes, i love to write. maybe i will write a book one day. who knows? as i said, i have seen a lot, maybe too much at a very young age. it is not for everyone, just like marriage, children, or any of the other life choices we ma...

as someone else already asked, why would you want to do that? when you go someplace and need some type of service they will charge you more money because they think you have it. and, nurses are easy prey for criminals. people like to get nurses. i wo...

this is how they treat nurses:deadhorse just know that going in. it will save you a lot of disappointment in the end. good luck, from crispicritah :loveya:

i went to work, 3-11, it was my day off and i didn't check. they sent me to the oncology ward and at 4 they floated me to medicine. i asked them if they realized it was my day off, they said "we are glad you came"...i worked the whole shift, don't re...

well, after 22 years i am truly burnt-out. i actually burned out after the third year but i kept going because i had to. i worked hard, put up all all of the stuff and last year spent three days in telemetry but i was not working. so, i would say tha...

:trout: well, after a year you would probably know what you want, or don't. the saying that angry nurses eat their young is true sometimes, the other part of that is: angry nurses get sick and burnt-out after 22 years and have to leave the profession...

i hurt my back for the first time in 19 years on saturday. here's my question: i am per diem. i called out for 1 shift already and wonder if this goes on for a week or 2, is there anyway i can get paid at all? i don't have sick time, but bc this happ...