PACUpleeze

PACUpleeze

Member

  • Content

    30

  • Visitors

    1,062

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    2

All Content by PACUpleeze

  1. Weight loss for nurses

    PACUpleeze replied to tortillaRN17's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to workingot's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm certain that crap doesn't require a sedative and a spit

  3. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    PACUpleeze replied to workingot's topic in Nursing Career

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to workingot's topic in Nursing Career

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to Nursetobe25's topic in General Nursing

    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

    PACUpleeze replied to josephadn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    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

    PACUpleeze replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    Really??? I didn't know that!! Thank you!!!! Fine, whatever makes you feel

  12. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    PACUpleeze replied to nikkole318's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    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

    PACUpleeze replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  16. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    It's always the people with the luxuries that say they don't need them. Man, what I wouldn't have done in my life to have a 2nd home! I've been student broke and I've done well. I'll take the latter....

  17. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly what I did. I like purses. I am not going to eat rice and beans to pay for it, I work an agency shift. I think of everything as "how many agency shifts will it take to get it?"...

  18. Is money everything in this profession?

    PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Nice to have this option, but you are the exception, not the rule. Nursing is my second career as well, but I am no fool. It was a calculated decision that could use old and new skills and move all my...

  19. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    PACUpleeze replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    Minnesota is BEAUTIFUL and ya know...Prince (R.I.P my little dove!) but I just can't with the winters. I just can't anymore. Luckily, my Midwestern husband is over them, too, and can't wait to west...

  20. 4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    PACUpleeze replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I took care of an NP today that I can't even discuss. I wish I could give you guys details, but I am still suffering from PTSD. I mean, I can't believe another nursing professional was OK acting like...

  21. PACU - what do you love, what do you hate?

    PACUpleeze replied to MaiBee's topic in PACU

    Pros: 1.) Love the people I work with and the pretty much set schedule. I know what I am working a year from now. 2.) Patients are asleep. ASLEEP!!!!! Hot diggity darn! Coming from ER, I thought I...

  22. Hospital that bans family members

    PACUpleeze replied to paramedic-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When my father had his open heart surgery, I had just moved to a new city and couldn't be there, so I asked my mom to have the surgeon explain the procedure to me on speakerphone. After she explained...

  23. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    PACUpleeze replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    There are plenty of places where nurses get paid what they are worth, AND it's not expensive to live there. in Las Vegas, as a new grad, I was on a ICU stepdown, on nights, making $32.10 +$5.00 shift...

  24. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    PACUpleeze replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    A girl came in to my ER last year saying "her weave was too tight". They actually come over to me, since I am black and asked if it was normal! It was too funny to even get offended, the resident was...

  25. Should I leave this racist town?

    PACUpleeze replied to ChutneyFries's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As a fellow RN of color I can tell you that you have probably seen all you need to see to make your decision. I am not one of trying to change attitudes that have been around before I was ever a...