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That chick wasn't worth your effort and time if she couldn't support you through something as hard to do as get through your nursing program. Do your best to keep yourself together get through your program and get a great job earning good money and having usually 4 days off a week and then find a girl who can appreciate you and everything you offer.

I would love to donate my uterus. I have no use for it why shouldn't someone who would want to use it have it.

This is what they want us to do. Those that don't get called into offices to discuss their customer service, because their patient complained that the nurse stated they couldn't have their dilaudid, that they set their alarm for, when their blood pressure was 80/30 and they are receiving an IV bolus.

Having learned from experience I would not have given him the cup of coffee. Had a patient like this and once he got the coffee he decided it wasn't good enough and threw the whole cup at us. Boiling hot coffee as a projectile NO THANKS.

From personal experience with sleeping aides/techs/sitters having a long talk with them doesn't work. I've tried everything offering the a break so they can get the blood flowing and "wakeup" which has been repeatedly turned down by multiple aides. I did not feel one bit bad when I turned in the one sitter who was sub-contracted to us from an outside company . We had had her before and I remembered she liked to sleep on the job. I just waited--offered her breaks and such as care and time allowed --she fell asleep--I called the shift supervisor and let her come to the floor and wake her up and demand she turn in the badge that allowe her to work/come in the building and she was fired from ever coming back to our facility

I unfortunately have experienced work place violence multiple times. I have been punched, kicked , scratched, spit at, purposely peed on, tele packs whipped at my head, strangled once with my stethoscope and once with a call light cord. Not one time did management ever even ask if I might need medical attention, on the contrary they treated it as if there was something wrong with me that these nut case patients attacked me. Never was anyone else at fault even when it wasn't my patient and the only reason I was anywhere near the patient was to save my co-workers from violence. There is definitely a culture of acceptance of violence toward healthcare workers, and unfortunately management helps to propagate it by discouraging even internal incident reports let alone attempting to press charges. Thankfully I no longer work at that acute care hospital. I haven't experienced any violence at the new hospital I work at but in discussions with management personal here they say if anything happens give them a call an report it immediately.

So I was taking care of an older male who was a large man who was bedridden, incontinent, with Alzheimer. It was my third day with him and the previous two days he adored me so I'm not expecting anything out of the ordinary. I go in to see him and find he has tied his oxygen tubing to the side rail so I go in and start to untie it and suddenly the patient is strangling me with my own stethoscope. I eventually get out of it but I'm obviously upset and this patient definitely needs to be restrained and medicated so I call the doctor to get orders. I explain everything and what I feel that I need and I get the response of, " Well why do you need to go near the patient". Needless to say I sat there for a second dumb-founded wondering if I had really heard what I thought I heard or if I had some slight brain damage from lack of oxygen. After a moment I stuttered out because he is my patient and I have to provide care to him. To which I received the response of "Oh Okay" and orders for restraints and medications I had asked for.

I've been at this for almost 9 years and I have a slightly different problem. If I am really concentrating on what someone is saying or thinking hard on what I can do to fix a problem people misread the look on my face to be mad. I am always having to try to remind myself to think about what "face" I am making. I also have had to learn to not appear rushed no matter how many patients I have--that one I stop outside of the patient's room take a deep breath and try to calm myself before entering the room and then I try to pretend that even if I have seven patients and all of them need something that I don't have any other patient's than that one patient.

Run don't walk away from this job. They obviously don't care about safety the patients or yours. They don't care about your license either. to not even have an aide with that many patients is ridiculous. You need at least an aide to keep an eye on the other patients when you inevitably get stuck in a room with a patient. Med Surg is great for learning your basics but it is nearly impossible to learn to do it the right way or the experienced way if you don't have anyone there to even bounce theories of what is happening with your patients off of , preferably someone with experience who can help you to recognize the subtle changes that develop during pulmonary edema for example. I truly believe that if you were in a more supportive environment that you would be a lot happier.

The schools around here not only recommend it they require it for entry into the clinical portion of classes.

If your in visiting someone do you put the call light on wanting the nurse to bring you a coke and oh what do you have for snacks, no i know the patient is NPO this is for me. I think this is what the OP means about the about feeding the visitors. You know there is this thing called a cafeteria for that, or the numerous fast food restaurants near-by or here's a novel thought eat before you come see the patient. I can relate to this have had call light put on for exactly these kinds of "requests". I have actually had a visitor come find me in a room where I was doing chest compressions and scream at me that they had asked me for a water fooorrrrreeeeevvveeerrr ago and why hadn't I brought it. So yeah if your like those kind of visitors you are bothering me. If you are nice and just want a simple water and you don't think i can miraculously transport from the room and back with that snack or water in 2.5 seconds than no your not bothering me and I'd be more than happy to help you.

I think that there has been a slight change to the way the eating of nurses has been happening. While there have been older nurses that eat their young their are younger nurses who think they are gonna cull the herd and go after the older (seen as weaker) herd mates. I have always loved teaching the younger nurses and have always been told that they enjoyed being taught by me and that they learned a lot. I've dealt with a few of this next generation of nurses recently who have tried to cull me from the herd pretty much from the minute that I spoke to them.