chorr

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1. It's a Stressed Out Job

   chorr replied to janemulligan's topic in General Nursing

   CBT? Did you not hear there's no time to pee, eat or anything else? You can't have 3 crisis going on, people yelling your name, and a mgr. saying" What did you expect? They all came here to die anyway!" in a Christian LTC. Even wkg noc, no time to g...

2. Nursing is the Biggest Mistake of My Life

   chorr replied to almost_nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Try to do very well on NCLEX first. That helps. Apply at smaller hospitals, maybe rural ones if available. You may have to drive some distance at first. Search for preceptor/mentor programs at lg hospital. You may want to try better nursing homes. Ma...

3. Why did you come to allnurses? What made you stay?

   chorr replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   Probably will never visit site anymore since response to drug thefts was "who are we to judge?" I'll keep looking for a site that maybe deals /c bigger issues than "what I'd like to say back to my patient"!

4. Nurse stealing narcs advice

   chorr replied to Nursenicole1's topic in General Nursing

   Excuse me. I thought more might be discussed on here than how much our feet hurt, or what we wish we could say to our patients. How deep!

5. Nurse stealing narcs advice

   chorr replied to Nursenicole1's topic in General Nursing

   While "high"nurse takes care of old people, stealing meds they pay dearly for, I should ignore it. My DON told us we were crazy. If nurse gets fired from one facility, they're just gonna go to another! Is this how we show"sisterhood" as nurses? Makes...

6. Nurse stealing narcs advice

   chorr replied to Nursenicole1's topic in General Nursing

   I, too, wkd /c day nurse who handed out multiple doses to multiple patients. Whole/partial cards found empty, no pink sheets, and missing log sheets. All in 1 shift. We're told we were crazy. Home got pharm to resend new cards/papers, when we couldn'...

7. Top 10 Reasons We Get Fired! - Frequent Sick Days and Tardiness

   chorr replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   What SICK days? If I'd had sense to call off AT ALL, I might still have a job at some places. Should have used days to look for wk. Was wkg for idiots. Told my CNA's if they didn't cont.to wk mult. doubles (N-D) cos "under fire code", they'd chrg the...

8. New Nurse; To start a New IV or not?

   chorr replied to carebear1980's topic in New Nurse

   Chg. prob just afraid they'd have to restart it! Does facility have cont. ed lab where you could practice? Watch as many other starts as you can, ask ques. You may not get everybody on the 1st stick. Some are harder than others. Anything in AC gets t...

9. First RN job interview help!

   chorr replied to Babynurse1993's topic in Job Hunt

   Been asked all of ques. in comment prev. You have to convince them your "lack of knowledge" won't be burden to yhers. HR doesn't realize you may know new tech's thst the others would like to hear. Don't pretend to know it all. They won't like it, nei...