Caroline123

Caroline123

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  1. Why I'm leaving nursing

    Caroline123 replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    I agree about keeping your license! Just do the CEUs and keep it active for a rainy day! Then go out and find yourself something that will nourish not deplete you! You are 28! Go for

  2. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    The reply and quote button!! Thank

  3. Why I'm leaving nursing

    Caroline123 replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you loud and clear! You are 28 years old! Yes go find your passion! You deserve

  4. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I see

  5. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    In reply to Nursestorm,

  6. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is the most true and correct response that I have seen on this subject!! Thank

  7. Unfair Shift Rotation

    Caroline123 replied to KHVILLE's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I have to agree with this!! The special snow flake part is funny! I have never heard that

  8. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yippee

  9. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    Also many people do not have adequate support systems or coping skills as adults and who knows what they endured growing up. Often times people are ridiculed or perceived as weak when they show any...

  10. suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    Caroline123 replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    The truth is that all people have a breaking point! No one knows what theirs is but the right amount of events with the right time and right frame of mind it can happen to

  11. Leaving Nursing for Another Career

    Caroline123 replied to cocoa_puff's topic in General Nursing

    I would love to be a professional cat

  12. is it too much to ask that everyone working on the floor speak the same language?

    Caroline123 replied to Caroline123's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! That's funny! I hear it so often that it does not bother me too much anymore! I have realized that I am there for one thing only and that is to take care of my patients! It used to bother me...

  13. is it too much to ask that everyone working on the floor speak the same language?

    Caroline123 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is it me? is it so much to ask that everyone working on the floor speak the same language? I feel as if I am in a foreign country. It seems very rude for coworkers to speak in a language all night...

  14. Calling report to the floor.

    Caroline123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I know thank you, I hit the wrong

  15. Calling report to the floor.

    Caroline123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I agree with this, just don't send the ones right about to pass within the hour it's just not

  16. Calling report to the floor.

    Caroline123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    How would you like your family member to die in the

  17. Calling report to the floor.

    Caroline123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    For the most part I agree! What bugs me is when we get a ICU downgrade who is ONLY being downgraded because they are ready to pass! The put the patient in the room and within a couple of hours the...

  18. Show I saw the other day

    Caroline123 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all, just a comment on a show I saw the other day called Snapped. I was shocked at how many of these cases involved nurses? And these cases are real!

  19. Show I saw the other day

    Caroline123 replied to Caroline123's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I agree about book smart and street smart and sometimes doing things we would not ordinarily do for love, but that is full on psychosis. It boggles my mind to think that people in this...

  20. Corrections nursing

    Caroline123 posted a topic in Correctional

    I am applying for a Rn position at the county sheriffs department. Does anyone have any insight on what it's like to work in corrections? I currently work nights in a hospital and am 53 years old. It...

  21. Need opinions please

    Caroline123 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone, Here's the story, one night I was crazy busy and I some how charted I gave a medication when in fact I did not. I really thought I did. I gave report in the morning to the oncoming...

  22. Need opinions please

    Caroline123 replied to Caroline123's topic in General Nursing

    I guess that would be true if a person habitually does that! Except that I have a 92 percent accuracy in scanning according to the hospital. And have no track record period over 10

  23. Need opinions please

    Caroline123 replied to Caroline123's topic in General Nursing

    Yes we do have barcode scanning but I must have just hit administer without scanning. I must have because I never even took the medication out of the Pyxis. What I have learned is that when it is...

  24. Need opinions please

    Caroline123 replied to Caroline123's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you everyone for the responses!!! i really do feel bad about the mistake and the thing is if I did something that harmed the patient such as give the wrong med or too much I would have stayed...

  25. Need opinions please

    Caroline123 replied to Caroline123's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I did not find out about the error till I was in my car going home and the nurse called me and said the medication was not taken out of the Pyxis. I was surprised and told her that she then has to...