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Or at least in a similar profession. Firefighters, paramedics, cops, all crazy hours, everyone understands that your tired, and no one celebrates things on the actual day because sometimes your shifts just fall on those days.

My husband came up with this one years ago: Frequent User of Critical Resources. We never use the acronym, we just say the whole phrase.

On the topic of words for "dead". I learned early in EMS to say "Dead". Because in the confusing flurry of activity and people's belief that CPR always results in a person sitting up and looking around the room, if we said anything unclear at all, it would be taken wrong.

I use that one. I also use EKG. Because I'm old.

LOLFDGB: Lil old lady fall down go boom. That's a GLF, male patients are LOMFDGB. Hyperlacrimation Status Dramaticus

11 am to 11 pm is awesome! Time in the morning, not home too late. My hospital has a 10-10 that's not bad at all.

After my NCLEX I didn't try the magic pop up thing, I just went to the state BON and licensing website and put in my name. The day after NCLEX my name was listed with a RN number after it.

Wow. You need to meditate, chill out, chillax, settle down, and so much more. Have you always been this anxious? If you've done that well in all your predictive programs and your classes, you've got this. And if, IF, you fail it the first time...so what? You'll be joining many people. It is not the end of the world.

Very helpful and a reminder to watch your back and take care of your back. I would love to see a PT or such post here about recommended exercises for people on their feet all day, pushing, pulling, etc.

It wasn't a work badge, but I did overnight with required signature my electronic apartment key back to the building manager once. They received it, I had the signature that said they did. Try that.

Thank you for the great information. I'm an ER nurse but a family member is impacted by T1D with obesity. This person eats quite healthy and works out regularly but continues to gain weight. This is interesting research and I look forward to more coming forward.

No worries, I used it to get into acute care and wanted to see if it was a fit. It was not and I managed to take another opening elsewhere in the same hospital, one that was an "internal" posting. You can do it for a year or so, or maybe your Med-Surg unit will be one of the sane ones. It doesn't hurt to try.

That was my sink or swim first job. And what a rough swim that was at first. Thank goodness we had a med-tech so I didn't have to do standard daily meds, just tube-feed, injected or inhaled, etc. But I was fighting for air every day to try to keep up. I made it 8 months before I found a different position. My advice to you is after two months, start putting out resumes. Also, stop for just a minute every hour somewhere out of site, close your eyes, take a deep breath and try to relax a moment. Then hit the floor running again. I know what you're going through.

A recent change I found disgusting? (Mind you, I left the "floor" because of these types of changes among other reasons.) We added "hourly rounding", a nifty video showed how happy and helpful we would all be by doing this. In the training they admitted out loud that it was a simple way to raise Press-Ganey scores. No functional or medical reason, just P-G scores. And they said in the video that it would benefit the nurses more than the patients. I'm not sure how that was supposed to work out.

From how I read the article this old-time approach created LPN-type nurses. Could one of these licensed nurses not take supplemental education down the line to become RN, or more? And it would be my personal dream to have a bunch of LPNs working alongside the RNs in every unit. The work with each patient could be assigned accordingly but the complete workload would be broken up into manageable partitions.

I'm loving all the EMT-Ps in here! My only advice to anyone starting Excelsior is to study your BON laws and find the workarounds! (Hello Federal employment!) It can be done.

Hearing the chain of events, I would think it likely that she: A. Didn't want to go to a pych facility. B. Had a little extra stashed in her belongings which she consumed all of because she knew you would take it away. Neither of these things even slightly excuse what happened. In fact, when I think about it more, I think she downed her stash before she left the ED. I mean it's standard for medical clearance to include knowing that the opiate is no longer a threat and no further narcan will be needed. I'm sorry that was your experience. If they are awful they should be reported. I was a Paramedic for almost 25 years before I became an RN, I always considered PMs and RNs as a team and gave them the respect that I expected. I do hear horror stories of course, and this thread outlines one of them.

You want to help us? Hire more staff. Yes, I know RNs are hard to hire. How about all the ancillary staff that makes our days bearable? I want a high ratio of aids (CNA, NAC, Med tech, whatever...) in every unit. For a while now we haven't just been doing our jobs, we are doing their jobs because they don't exist in enough numbers on any floor. I believe my unit manager would hire a lot in a hot second, but that's not how hospitals work. Oh, and who has time for this "serenity garden"?

Do you have a screen shot or some sort of written ANYTHING about this? It would be helpful. But in all reality they are trying to bully you into compliance. Stand firm.

The medical system I hired with and the competing medical system in the area both test for nicotine and have for at least 5 years or more. They don't yet test for hamburger grease or Big Gulp consumption.

I left the MS unit over a year ago because of this. We were still 5:1 with an occasional 6:1. A month or so ago I ran into one of my coworkers from MS in the hallway and she described the unit as LTC with so many dumped patients with multiple psych, drug, and behavior problems. SO VERY GLAD I LEFT!

So you want to take a dewormer. We treated our horses with this and it is an effective anti-parasitic dewormer. Unfortunately people are taking the entire tube. The product is weight-based and comes packaged for a creature with an average weight around 1300 pounds.

But, the pizzas! Eyes roll completely to the back of my skull.

If you have to ask what it would take to get a religious exemption, it leads me to believe that you don't have an actually religion-based belief, you just don't want to have the vaccine for Covid-19. Honestly, that's how I view most religion-based medical "decisions". I said most, not all because I've been in the medical field long enough to see people conveniently cry religion(!) at the strangest things. Yes, I'm skeptical.