3ringnursing BSN

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    Maybe HR Won’t Notice My Accusation, ha, ha?

    3ringnursing replied to dmstanl1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    When I was 27 years old, and several months into being a new grad I enrolled in the CANDO school of hard knocks (Chemically Addicted Nurses Diversion Option, although now it is called Alternative To...
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    Ask Me If I'm Safe At Home

    3ringnursing replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I had also married a narcissist, and he gradually controlled every aspect of my life. As a new grad if I came home late from work due to the myriad of things that can happen in bedside nursing (a...
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    How do you handle touchy/feely coworkers?

    3ringnursing replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I have an autoimmune disease and I am pharmacologically immunosuppressed to help keep my symptoms under control, so I have an unbreakable no touching rule. I don't shake hands, I don't hug outside of...
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    Reasons nurses get fired

    3ringnursing replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing

    Boy do I know a few that fit neatly into all of those categories and never got what they deserved back in the day. Glad to know many are now being held accountable for letting their ego monsters out...
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    Reasons nurses get fired

    3ringnursing replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing

    It WAS pretty funny. As I tend to be rather childish in my humor too I made a mental note of what constitutes a toe nearing the line, and actually running past the line. He was a really nice guy and a...
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    Reasons nurses get fired

    3ringnursing replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing

    Excessive pranks. I knew a really nice, funny guy who was an RN on the cardiac floor of a small, sinking hospital I worked at about 20 years ago - he was always doing outrageous things just for a...
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    Nurse Accused of Taking Naked Photos of Nursing Home Patients

    3ringnursing replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Some people are very disturbed privately and are adept in hiding it for a length of time - it just flies under the radar it until their weird comes exploding out of the closet in full spectrum...
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    I hate fake call outs.

    3ringnursing replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a gentleman who calls in often with "a touch of something" . Hmmm ... that sounds legitimate. The rest of us don't look forward to be pounded into the dirt the numerous times this happens,...
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    February 2019 Caption Contest: Win $100!

    3ringnursing replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Another shift done in the life of a nurse (what do mean I'm on RIGHT NOW for mandatory over
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    Attention nurse bullies... and victims!!

    3ringnursing replied to Xtina, BSN, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No worries Ruby Vee, I take no offense. You are very cool and I enjoy reading your thoughts. And I can see how I could have worded that better for
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    Attention nurse bullies... and victims!!

    3ringnursing replied to Xtina, BSN, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I never said I was "young and pretty", but I will readily admit I had been young (then) and very clinically inexperienced. What I actually said: "She hated that I had the ability to assign...
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    Attention nurse bullies... and victims!!

    3ringnursing replied to Xtina, BSN, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I believe many of us may have experienced feeling uncomfortable, or in some way emotionally threatened in various degrees in the work place at one time or another. Does it qualify as bullying to...
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    What does your username mean?

    3ringnursing replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    That nearly every nursing job I've had has been a
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    Needing Advice --- Work Environment?? Possible Switching Specialties??

    3ringnursing replied to carls23's topic in General Nursing

    OMG. Girl, welcome to nursing - under appreciated and at times psychologically abusive ("Thank you sir, may I have another?" - if you have no idea what this means watch the movie Animal House). No,...
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    Nursing Student Pregnant

    3ringnursing replied to JustMe567's topic in General Nursing

    I was approaching 30 during nursing school and had no children yet, so I timed my pregnancy to be able to deliver after graduation. My EGA was approximately 7 months when I graduated, and I was 2...
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    I’m burnt out

    3ringnursing replied to EDNURSE20's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for the largest medical center in town when I was a new grad. They had a staffing office that called everyday I was off and I swear they must have had algorithms of what to say if you said...
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    Need to vent and process this

    3ringnursing replied to jess11RN's topic in School

    it was not until 2014 (when I began working my present job in telephone triage) that I learned EMS had the autonomy to chose NOT to transport a patient to the ER for whom assistance had been called...
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    Are We Too PC?

    3ringnursing replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Very cute
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    Remember pagers?

    3ringnursing replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    8675309 ...
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    Holiday Bonus

    3ringnursing replied to sunnyskies9's topic in General Nursing

    Our organization gives bonuses (provided you are in good standing, do all your annual continuing education, and can juggle flaming torches with your feet) depending upon some algorithm of...
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    Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    3ringnursing replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    What a frightening way to die. I've been in plenty of unsafe work situations where the pressure to "just do it" was a very real expectation, along with insanely unrealistic workloads. In that setting...
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    Would you call in sick?

    3ringnursing replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not sleeping and driving the distance you have to go is a recipe for disaster (that is even before you actually arrive at work, then have to make the commute home again). Being reliable is so...
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    Failed AANP Twice And Finally Passed

    3ringnursing replied to bunnyrn401's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Congratulations for your huge
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    Urgent question

    3ringnursing replied to Name9335's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure if this old information (I am old) a state by state thing, or not ... this happened to me about 20 years ago when I the unlucky recipient of being the charge nurse who also had 2 ICU...
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    Uds 1 day before completion!

    3ringnursing replied to OveritLPN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I had to do the same and wait for a snail mail letter before most people had internet, and cell phones were for the very rich (back when physicians used palm pilots - I bet you're too young to...