Perhaps you should seek a type of job that fits your schedule if this is so important to you. I had to accommodate to my kids and our custody schedule; I had to be off certain days to be with them....
Wow... boy am I glad I don't have to work with you. What an unpleasant, arrogant, nasty attitude you have about your fellow nurses... I did agency work for a few years to match my custody schedule...
And that's exactly her point. We shouldn't be responsible making sure that those things are done. The DOC needs to be responsible. My job is to carry out his orders, not to guess what his orders would...
Hello All, I need advice. At my previous employer, it was standard procedure to remove waffle mattresses from under the patient as soon as they arrived and were placed to the alternating pressure ICU...
About two months ago I was in the exact same place. I had the same bitter feelings. I was depressed, exhausted, burnt out and hopeless. I worked for a big private hospital, in a busy ICU. Acuity was...
Don't do it. I'm a nurse of 10 years and I passionately try to talk every want-to-be nurse out of the profession. I'm in the US and ratios are mostly enforced, we do have union help, and it's STILL...
Szbeylik replied to Szbeylik's topic in Critical Care
Ok. Let me clarify a little further. What if you did a full, thorough assessment initially and then you saw no change in behavior or alertness? Would you still go through EVERY single step by the...
Szbeylik replied to nessa_chambers's topic in Nursing Career
I hate to tell you this... But it's mostly true. Most nurses I know hate being nurses. It depends on where you work too, though. Beside nursing is the hardest and most taxing branch. There are lots of...
I'd like to get some feedback on this from seasoned neuro nurses, since I had an issue with this: When you have an alert and awake patient who has a stable, not fresh, smaller intracranial bleed, when...
Szbeylik replied to cassmorin's topic in Critical Care
@roser13: Way to treat and beat down the desire to learn and good intentions. No offense but nurses like you make young nurses miserable. Why don't you just not answer if you don't want to?! This is a...