floramary RN

floramary has 46 years experience as a RN and specializes in Rural Health/ Emergency Room.

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1. My DON is harrassing me, can I save my job?

   floramary replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I'm a retired nurse, grad of 78'. With you being a "new"nurse, essentially, and you are at the 1 yr mark, you may not be hitting the benchmarks for your eval. It's hard to play catch up when you're new to a job and a new nurse both, we have all be...

2. What do you say when calling out sick as a nurse?

   floramary replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in Career Support

   1st be descriptive and specific, not a time for modesty. Projectile vomiting, explosive diarrhea, ect. Colors might help. 2nd dr note always helps. Why as nurses we have to jump through these hoops is ridiculous but there it is.

3. Why Do Nurses Quit?

   floramary replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses need the right to say no without the fear of retribution. You've worked your shift, you need to rechg to be the best you can be.

4. Why Do Nurses Quit?

   floramary replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   My opinion only. I believe we have set the nurses up for failure. There was one sentence that referred to nurses who have worked 30 years vs new grads quitting so soon. I will guarentee they were trained totally differently. From the moment new nurs...

5. Bullied psych nurse commits suicide

   floramary replied to Rocknurse's topic in Headlines

   We need to remember the insecurity of not fitting into a group of nurses, nightshift, plus if she was emotional herself. Bulling happens all the time in our profession, don't sweep it under the rug. What is sad is no one came forward to get her the i...

6. Suicide by chronic pain sufferers after opioids reduced

   floramary replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I have to admit I'm scared for my old pts and myself. I'm a 65 yr old retired nurse with injuries = chronic pain/ Tramadol & neuropathy. I had pts that were on a cocktail of opioids at home with only partial relief and now here I am. lf they redu...

7. I feel like nursing school didn't prepare me for work

   floramary replied to Gem1984's topic in LPN/LVN

   Times have changed and at times I feel that nurses need an internship similar to Dr's.I am a "old" nurse,3 yr RN from a hospital based program. We were trained to hit the hospital floors running.I agree with some of the comments that you learn to to ...