MichelletheRN

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 from a 50 cc bottle of saline, which had a green la...

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

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 these folks cannot. I guess i understand managers who...

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 truth. For one, frequently the ones filling out surv...

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 the hips. I don't notice it as much with pants, bu...

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 are a few who irritate me, but for the most part, i ...

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 year plus benefits, so roughly $90k-ish? My hourly ...

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 to annoy me. But yes, my coworkers and i joke aroun...

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 "ill". If you were sick to your stomach as you mentio...

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 not short, about every 3rd or 4th weekend. So i l...

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 whatever. And this is usually when it is an elderly fem...

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 fortune by comparison. Idk, i am not really that up...

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 amount of sick time each pay period, and these are hous...

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 understanding than a typical patient. You can be more direct...

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 understand what a load of crap it is, but the admin...

Run, run, run! Hold your head high, too. Their loss. I think maybe this preceptor doesn't have enough to do, she has all this time to write in her tattle tale book. If they seen you do something wrong, right when it happened would be the appropriate ...

Just be honest, and show how you have learned from this experience and changed to become a better person. Where I worked back before we moved, I worked with this lady who was a CNA at the little hospital with me. She went to nursing school, but had ...

Oh my goodness, honey.....you are FINE....NOT A THING WRONG WITH YOU!!!! It is just normal to be slow at things at first. I don't think you are probably as slow as you think you are. You are not stupid. You just passed your boards....they need to gi...

No doubt!!! I'm floored at the $16 thing!!!! I can't imagine someone offering that and not getting laughed at!! I got that as a new grad in 1995...in Nebraska. And I am certain our cost of living is a fraction of what it is in Boston. A dollar goes ...

I don't like to be verbally abused, berated, disrespected, or having someone play mind games with me. I returned to work in a small rural hospital after a year as an RNAC or MDS nurse. I had worked for many years as a nurse at a small rural hospital...

I am in rural Nebraska at a small hospital. My base pay is $31.75/hr and on weekends $34.75/hr. I also receive pretty good benefits. My takehome pay would be approximately $70-75,000 per year plus benefits. I believe they are paying me pretty well, ...

Been at my new job as RNAC/MDS nurse for not quite 6 weeks now. Still feeling QUITE out of my element. I have been an RN for 17 years, the vast majority of my experience being as a floor nurse in a small acute care hospital. My prior LTC experience w...

Unbelievably, i stuck it out for a year, more out of stubbornness than anything, really. Because I wanted to spite them, and prove some kind of a point. It's been pretty rough, but I've made some fabulous friends, and I have learned a lot of informa...

And yes, what is even up with this catty, obnoxious behavior? And why in the world is it tolerated, and even encouraged? I have never gone to work in my life acting like it was a fashion show. I usually wear scrubs, my hair up in a ponytail because I...

I am absolutely speechless that you were able to complete 400 late assessments in that length of time! You truly must be VERY skilled to be able to have done this, and my hat is off to you. I find that just incredible. Really....they should be hiri...