MichelletheRN

MichelletheRN has 20 years experience and specializes in Med/surg.

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1. Mistakes Are Inevitable: No One Is Perfect.

   MichelletheRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   They should never make someone afraid to admit a mistake. All that will do is force people to lie out of fear. I can remember when we used to have to draw up our own saline flushes. We would draw it...

2. How do you sign your credentials?

   MichelletheRN replied to heather717's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   I just put RN on things. What is funny is when i sign a check and accidentally put

3. Patient Satisfaction Surveys

   MichelletheRN replied to MichelletheRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I believe (and i could be wrong, but i don't think so) that nurses and doctors are not allowed to unionize in our state. This may include more health care workers, but i am almost certain at least...

4. Nursing imagination or reality?

   MichelletheRN replied to potatoz's topic in General Nursing

   It is interesting with alot of variety. Sometimes things get on my nerves, but for the most part we have a lot of fun. I enjoy the nurses and doctors i work with. I enjoy most of my patients, there...

5. 2017 Nurse Salary

   MichelletheRN replied to Darkstar1485's topic in General Nursing

   RN with 20 years experience. Live in a small, midwestern town (nebraska). Rural environment, depressed economy (average income for a family or household is $40k, or even less). I eatn about $75k a...

6. How to annoy irritating Drs.

   MichelletheRN replied to Avid reader's topic in Nursing Humor

   If it's someone I am friends with, that's one thing, i will joke around with other people when we are chatting or whatnot. I don't deliberately try to annoy anyone, though, and i hope they don't try...

7. Calling in for no sleep

   MichelletheRN replied to Nurse131382's topic in General Nursing

   Swing shifts are crappy. Thank God we don't do them on any kind of regular basis. I would not call in "tired", at least not saying that. If you are so tired you don't feel well, you could call in...

8. 8 vs 12 hour shift?

   MichelletheRN replied to RN-Doula's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I vastly prefer 12 hour shifts, and this is one, but not the only, reason that i am hesitant to leave bedside nursing and enter management even after many years. We do self scheduling, and when we are...

9. Why the double standard.

   MichelletheRN replied to RN2364's topic in Men in Nursing

   I work with some very good nurses who happen to be men. Usually what i have observed is, that it is the PATIENT who wants the nurse to be female, not that the male nurse has any issue with doing...

10. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    MichelletheRN replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    I remember twenty years ago when i first graduated college and was an RN, getting 15 or 16 dollars an hour, and thinking i was living large! I was used to making minimum wage, so that seemed like a...

11. Sick policy vs. reality

    MichelletheRN replied to rquinn0111's topic in General Nursing

    We don't really have a set policy in place, to my knowledge. We don't seem to have any issues with excess absenteeism, though. The way ours is set up, you earn a set amount of vacation and a set...

12. How do you feel about having other nurses as patients?

    MichelletheRN replied to purplegal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It does not really bother me one way or the other to have a patient who is a nurse, physician, aide, therapist, etc. If anything, they are easier to take care of and far less demanding/more...

13. Patient Satisfaction Surveys

    MichelletheRN replied to MichelletheRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I guess the part of it i find most offensive is the lack of even a pretense of respect, the "guilty until proven innocent" thing. I don't understand why the actual floor nurses, PAs, and doctors can...

14. Scrubs Seem Cut Different The Past Couple of Years

    MichelletheRN posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I really like some of the new material which is stretchy a bit or has some sheen to it. I think, though, that they are cut ALOT different. Tops are shorter in length, tighter in the chest, as well as...

15. Patient Satisfaction Surveys

    MichelletheRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Do you think it is ever going to get better? Or will it just get more and more picky and petty? I have long believed surveys are useful, but must be taken with a grain of salt instead of as gospel...