PACUpleeze

PACUpleeze

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  1. Weight loss for nurses

    I am doing the Eat to Live plan by Dr. Fuhrman. He's got some great ideas. Not so much about calories but about the nutrients. Those that follow him call it the Nutritarian diet. I have lost 10 lbs so...
  2. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    I'm certain that crap doesn't require a sedative and a spit
  3. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    Oh you'll be able to tolerate it...but just for a short period of time before you move to a side of nursing that doesn't have to deal with the crap (IT, Research, etc). That's the difference in a...
  4. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    Why does it have to be a calling? Are mailman called? Are garbage men called? No. Is only nurses that have to wear the martyr hat and be "called " to get yelled athe, disrespected, violated and...
  5. Areas of nursing you would NOT like?

    Don't want no kids, don't want no lady parts...got my own, thanks very much. I never thought about it when in school because I didn't have a clinical in it, but LTC. May be the biggest NO my nursing...
  6. Patient's threatening violence

    I can't believe it's gotten to where this is even a question. It's sad you have to wonder if it's OK to demand not to be
  7. Burned out and hate nursing

    I do agency PACU at a surgery center and the manager there told me "My family would literally have to be on the verge of being homeless before I went back to hospital..and even then, I'd rather sell...
  8. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    Depending on your life situations, part of the country and hours worked..it really is. I mean, in Vegas, I was a new grad, no kids, student loan payments of $260 and making $60k a year with no OT....
  9. Is money everything in this profession?

    Sounds horrible. That's like Cartoon horrible. Your corporation is my worst nightmare. Wouldn't suffer that for a second. I would go back to insurance adjusting if they were my only
  10. Is money everything in this profession?

    I do nothing fraudulent to make my money. I simply use every pull I have to make sure I am paid the most per shift. No doctor gets a lecture when he calls back call team for OR and PACU to do a...
  11. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    Really??? I didn't know that!! Thank you!!!! Fine, whatever makes you feel
  12. I did ER for years, so I can't even tell you all the things people said to me. Most of them were black, like me, so I didn't get a lot of racist stuff, but when I first moved to PACU, I recovered this...
  13. Is money everything in this profession?

    I don't really understand how taking all the opportunities offered to an RN to make more money is "milking it". Only RN's get indignant about those that want to make more money. No doctor, lawyer or...
  14. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    Waaaaaay ahead of you. No legal marriage. Won't be no legal marriage. Like I said, mama didn't raise no fool! LOL. Dad's girlfriends' money does not factor in to FAFSA..I checked;) I love those kids,...
  15. Nurse Resigns by Sending 'I Quit' Cake to Her Employer

    Was she supposed to not mention any of the things that were actually happening there and say that it was like working with rainbows and unicorns? That is not badmouthing, it's telling the...