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  1. Seven Hells: Vent

    ActualNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yeah, I understand what you are applying for. i get it. You obviously did not comprehend the analogy I was making. It is not whether it is a management position. It is ANOTHER POSITION and the...

  2. Seven Hells: Vent

    ActualNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with you Ruby. No one is pointing fingers at the OP. Just trying to help her out with the question she asked. I guess she did not get the response she wanted. So here it is. Yeah, go...

  3. Seven Hells: Vent

    ActualNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It is quite relevant Please read slowly and carefully and perhaps you will be able to figure it out. Let me try to help you. It is about applying for another position when you have little...

  4. Seven Hells: Vent

    ActualNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I wouldn't after 7 months. I know you are so enthusiastic to move in the direction you want to go but they may think you are a bit too big for your boots and think you have a lot of nerve. That is...

  5. Seven Hells: Vent

    ActualNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I respectfully disagree. It is always cheaper to hire a new grad who makes a lot less money than an experienced RN. The organization always benefits from this

  6. Seven Hells: Vent

    ActualNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You are being strung along. At the end of 2 years, you will be given yet another excuse. Don't waste your time. Sounds like your current manager may have played a role in either giving you a bad...

  7. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Yes it is so true. What goes around comes around. So all we have to do is wait and, as you said, be grateful we got out of the snake pit before it destroyed us. Keep smiling and keep

  8. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    The other thing is that you were honest and accountable and showed integrity in reporting your error. I think the lesson learned here is that it does not pay to be honest, accountable, ethical. This...

  9. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I have seen this happen over and over to so many people. Yet others make significant errors and there are no consequences. I just don't understand why this is happening to good nurses. All I can...

  10. Older nurses still want to work!

    ActualNurse replied to labmom's topic in Nursing Career

    Excellent Dan. Wish you all the best. What would the world do without us geriatric

  11. Older nurses still want to work!

    ActualNurse replied to labmom's topic in Nursing Career

    A supper hero? Is that one who cooks really good

  12. Older nurses still want to work!

    ActualNurse replied to labmom's topic in Nursing Career

    Forties is young. I know of 3 nurses who worked full time into their mid

  13. Nurse considering law school

    ActualNurse replied to kristie778's topic in General Nursing

    I did it. I now have a J.D. in medical law. It was worth it. Go for it. All the best to

  14. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    It is not that staff are not interested in positive change or learning. They are not interested when the techniques used by management consist of badgering, bullying, and blindsiding them. And,...

  15. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Five days of gourmet lunches. Wow. Where do you work? You have read what I posted before so you know there are no gourmet lunches where I work. We only got cheap popcorn on one day. And, like you,...

  16. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I didn't say you were in it for the money. I said these guys I know were. It is all they talk about. They were nurses first. Went into nursing for the money then found out they could get more by...

  17. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My GP is away a lot, on endless holidays. I know doctors who work 3 day weeks so it is not true that doctors are always there, working hard. Maybe when they first start out, but once they get...

  18. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes I have found 99% of doctors I have worked with over the years to be great. I always treated them with respect and was treated the same way in return. I have had some scary experiences as a...

  19. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I get it. You felt ripped off by nurses' week. It is a lesson learned for you to decline from contributing in the future. As to what do I expect from nurses' week. Nothing. I think the whole thing...

  20. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, the popcorn was a pretty big treat, real gourmet treat. Well, maybe in the world of the management, popcorn is a gourmet treat. Not in my world. We just thought it was a big joke. I wouldn't...

  21. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Where I live 99% of nurses are unionized and the union provides free legal services and they are concerned about nurse abuse so will gladly support a nurse who is being abused by management,...

  22. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes well it was pretty hilarious. We were laughing when we were offered this junk. So when the CNA turned MD commented on how much money he/she spent on a gourmet lunch for the nurses, I could not...

  23. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think the intent of the thread was humor, so maybe it should have called most humorous or funniest things doctors did rather than dumbest with its pejorative connotation. Yes I can recall a nurse...

  24. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    That is good, because these managers are on such power trips. This prevents them from treating good staff unfairly. I was fortunate I had a prospective employer who was honest enough to tell me what...

  25. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    When I was a manager I was told that you had to give people good references unless you had everything documented and discussed with the employee at the time of the documentation. That is why I was...