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

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

    Yes bad attitude usually means the person is smart and articulate and the manager feels threatened by him or her. Who knows. Maybe someone went to the manager and said you should be the manager....

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

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

    Yes it sounds like a witch hunt to

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

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

    I thinking keeping a written record is an excellent idea. I have been a nurse for 30+ years and have seen this witch hunting repeatedly over the years. A friend of mine kept a record and it saved...

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

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

    So sorry to hear you have worked with such unprofessional nurses. Nurses day/week is just a way for managers to pretend to value nurses. Do you really think that giving us junk food is a way to value...

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

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

    He/she just continued to go to work while ill spreading germs to patients. You have to wonder about what kind of thought process someone would have if they go to work when they are too sick to work,...

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

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

    You are sounding bitter. The guys I referred to did not pay one cent for their studies. They got in under a govt. subsidized program free of charge for them. Footed by the taxpayer. Their RN...

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

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

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

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

    That is what this incompetent, unethical people do. They CYA. They lie when confronted. Why would they be honest? They were unethical in their treatment of the patient in the first place....

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

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

    I would write a letter to his licensing body now, like the one you put on this post. Even if they don't discipline him because it has been so many years, at least they would be

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

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

    I worked with a nurse who told the family their deceased relative was still alive because they were on the ward not the ICU, and in the country she came from, people were sent to ICU to die, nobody...

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

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

    I just watched a documentary Code Black. There were doctors who spoke about how they wanted to help people, etc. and that was their motivation for entering the profession. My friend had 3 doctor...

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

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

    It really amazes me how people revere them so much and yet they can be so dumb and such jerks. My friend got a script for eye drops to put in her ears to loosen wax. The pharmacy didn't have the...

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

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

    Well, I congratulate you on your restraint. I think I would have verbally punched him in the face, by referring to patient dignity, risks to caregivers re: cytotoxicity. I might also have mentioned...

  14. Tattoos in Nursing

    ActualNurse replied to chiandre's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    That is so funny re: Twit of the Year Award. I can't help but think of one of my ex-bosses, but I think she has some serious mental health issues, which is sad, but knowing that didn't help when I...

  15. Tattoos in Nursing

    ActualNurse replied to chiandre's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes bosses do react more than patients. Most bosses I have had have been total twits, half were not even

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

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

    I am wondering if these doctors actually said those things or that was the patients' understanding of it. I know my cousin was not told she had these allergies by medical people. She dances to her...

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

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

    The part about the epi allergy reminds me of someone I know who claims to have all these allergies which are really side effects to meds. She had a rash from Morphine, hallucinations from Dilaudid,...

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

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

    No kidding, especially considering the harshness of TB drugs. Where do they get these people from? I have an elder friend who went to get her flu vaccine. She is 83 on chemo. The doctor gave the...

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

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

    Unfortunately some people & their families are hugely into denial when it comes to dementia. I have a good friend who is in that situation. Very sad. Hard to help someone when they are in...

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

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

    Thank

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

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

    Had a nursing supervisor who did EKGs on people after they died to make sure they were really dead. This was in LTC DNR facility. He said this was the ONLY indication for doing EKGs. He got fired...

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

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

    I worked with an ER doc at a community hospital who did the same thing. The ER docs were expected to respond to emergencies throughout the hospital. He decided he was only going to respond to...

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

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

    Yes 90-ish ladies with multiple medical problems who would be strolling in their wheelchairs, doing wheelies no

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

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

    I went through this with my 89-y-o aunt who had metastatic lung cancer. Palliative care doc refused to give her pain meds the day before she died. I don't know what he was thinking. I used to think...

  25. 37 year old procrastinator - Considering a nursing career

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

    I started my nursing career at age 30. In those days there were fewer options than today. No online courses, no part-time courses. You pretty much had to make sacrifices and go to school full-time....