Gooselady BSN, RN

I'm finally cleared to work. It took so long cuz they do PPD rather than a quantatative for TB exposure, and I've been having local reactions to the PPD for ten plus years with negative quants but noooooo, new employees jump through many hoops. Jus...

I've been working PDN since January, and finally 'landed' a day job where I work with just one patient. The night nurse (we both work 12 hour shifts) is a 'lite' version of your 'adversary' lol. I too am not aggro or confrontational, but over the y...

Hey Parakeet :) What I bolded in your quote is one of the major points. We have to ask ourselves what 'par' means. My nursing abilities and experience may be greater than yours (at least the latter), but I am exactly the same kind of human being y...

I was blithely cleaning a spot off of my ped patient's cheek with my own spit and a kleenex the other day. Old habits die hard.

I too think you were set up for failure, through no fault of your own. Caring for peds in home care may sound low key but kids don't mess around when they go 'bad' between one moment and the next! I've been a nurse (in a variety of settings) for 24 ...

Does your facility have a compliance hotline? Reports are anonymous (supposed to be). This vindictive manager will get 'caught' with a file full of your complaints. I hate to rock boats myself, but if you can steel yourself, you might get your coll...

How dare that . . . man even look you in the eye? I hate to imagine what you are going through, and I can't imagine myself being any different. If I were in your shoes, I'd want to get MAD, angry (how dare he??) and that anger, which is perfectly n...

Then it sounds like the problem is just as much (if not more?) the run-amok negativity of the nurse's attitudes on the unit. You know how much WORSE it can be when nearly everyone is making the same negative comments, focusing on the same negative t...

Resign from this case. When it gets down to this (a ******* match, basically) it's time to admit you and this child/family are a bad mix. I've been doing hone care since January (1:1 with peds patient) and if there is tension with the family, where ...

If what you wrote above was the actual case, heck no! I wouldn't be OK with it. Can't imagine anyone who would be. But this is not what is happening, and it's important to stick to the actual details of THIS case to best discuss THIS case. "Murder...

Funny, it's not like I never think about this . . . one of my close friends (like spending many nights with, hanging out several nights a week with) from grade, middle and high school was an accomplice in the murder of her own father back in the earl...

Macawake said: I have to wonder 'what good, indeed' too. No doubt whatsoever this is a disgusting crime and the loss of the murdered girl's life is beyond inexcusable. But do we really want to be a society that draconian, to lock up a sixteen year ...

Yes, expect questions to be more of 'what would you do if . . .' than NCLEX style multiple choice That said, there may be a pre-employment exam that tests your basic grasp of common sense and basic knowledge as a nurse, but in no interview I've eve...

He sounds dreadfully insecure/unconfident in his role. I have a sense he is raking himself over the coals far worse than he's doing it to his staff, and I'd bet something tasty but inexpensive that he doesn't like his job very much! When people FEEL...

These kinds of things are always a two way street. The first thing I'd do is REFUSE to buy into anything that tells you that you are a VICTIM (of racism, of being a new grad, of being NOT her choice to work nights, whatever). Like the others have sa...

Your description of events sounds like more of a problem with people being unhappy with your work habits than being unwilling to be your friend(s). You describe a workplace where you have a not-so-good reputation. Having and making friends ain't gon...

Blocking someone who aggravates me takes all the fun out of being on an internet forum!

I used to work oncology and we made every effort to make the deceased person look clean, keep their mouth from gaping, make them look as if they are peaceful as possible. We didn't have an awful lot of coroner's cases where we left the lines in, and...

I appreciate you asking, I honestly do. I try not to make claims without direct personal experience to back them up. As a student and a new nurse, I experienced some bullying by older more experienced nurses. I walked off a job early on due to bu...

Good point, and I agree completely that the OP's instructor example was not bullying. Is it insulting to those who have genuinely been bullied? Perhaps, but how would a student nurse have Clue Number One unless he or she asked experienced nurses? ...

I find it strange that ANYONE finds it strange to be concerned about bullying in nursing. Nurses are mean to each other in TV shows and movies. People who keep up with news and trends in general will have heard about nursing's 'lateral violence'. ...

Our medical oncology floor had 26 patients. Someone made a spreadsheet that was updated by each nurse by a certain time during the shift (a five minute or less task). The charge nurse or the primary nurse would make sure to enter in the new admits ...

People with sickle cell have been sick and in pain their entire lives. I think some of them get a bit 'institutionalized'. I think some of them 'regress' emotionally, too. They've been in the hospital in terrible pain ever since they can remember, ...

I haven't read any of the other posts, so forgive if I've repeated something. I hated nursing for about the first three or four years. Like you I was kind of 'stuck' with it, though it was my first career. I was a single mother and the kids' dad wa...

What does 'picking on you' mean? Those particulars are very important. Some new nurses are kind of unprepared for the necessity of thick skin, and are kind of shocked at how task oriented nurses are, rather than people oriented (to each other). An...