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Not true. There is no comparison to encountering body fluids in psych vs hospital/nursing home work. Once in a while you have to deal with body fluids in psych - rarely BM! In hospital and nursing homes - it is a daily occurrence.

Well, bless you! Sorry, but I do not have time to do custodial work. I would immediately have a CNA come in and clean the pt if I were in a nursing home environment.

Maybe YOU get used to it. I never did and I never could. Nor would I ever want to! If you want to catch people's diarrhea in your hands, you go for it! There are those of us who choose to do other kinds of work.

VERY RARELY does anything like this happen to NPs. But RNs clean up #2 on a regular basis in bedside care.

What kind of Nurse Practitioner are you? I have never heard this from any other Nurse Practitioner. The market is such that NPs are in demand everywhere. It is NOT worse in psych.

It's not a matter of thinking you're "too good" or not. Some people just can't stand cleaning up #2 and there is nothing wrong with that! I am one of those people, too. It has nothing to do with thinking I am "too good" or better than anyone one else...

I agree with your sister. And, as an aside, there are plenty of nursing jobs where even RNs don't have to clean up people's #2. And there is not that much of this in nursing school. Not only are nurse practitioners treated with much more respect t...

Can you extend this date? I just saw this.

I discussed the archaic use of the time clock. Nurses want to be seen as professionals - professionals DO NOT punch a time clock. I did not say anyone need be "exempt." You simply keep track of your own time, as any adult is expected to do. Time cloc...

You hated every minute of being a nurse but you did it for 35 years?? Why?!

Can you extend the time allowed to submit an article? I just saw this on here today>

By posting your letter, you are doing much more than you are probably aware. It is NOT you who is the problem - your letter is simply the truth that many other nurses are in denial about; e.g., Ruby Vee up there who continues to blame you and others ...

Nurse Beth, Sounds like it might be wise for you to read more research on bullying, psychological violence, etc., because your answer clearly shows your lack of knowledge on this topic. Read Gary Namie's work at: workplacebullying.org

I wish you would have gotten an MBA. They need people like you to change things.

This makes no sense what-so-ever.

Females are not submissive by nature. Many are culturally trained to be second fiddle. It is NOT innate. Males are not dominant by nature. It is culturally drummed into them from birth.