3ringnursing BSN

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 Discipline: ATD) having signed my life away to the ...

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 code, a late admit, or just being behind in charting) ...

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 my immediate family, and I avoid even small crowds...

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 of the closet to maul the general populous. Not sur...

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 great nurse though.

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 laugh. One day he came down stairs to the ICU and told...

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 Technicolor vibrancy. Afterward people wonder how they mi...

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, and it has caused a lot of resentment amongst the...

Another shift done in the life of a nurse (what do mean I'm on RIGHT NOW for mandatory over time???).

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 clarity.

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 her daily work tasks, hated that I was young, and pret...

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 everyone who may objectively look at the particulars? M...

That nearly every nursing job I've had has been a circus.

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, you are not being a unreasonable, this is designed t...

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 weeks from my due date when I sat for my state boards ...

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 no. No ride? We'll send a cab. No childcare? We have...

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 (even if the patient wants to go). Say what??? * * *...

Very cute vids!

8675309 ... Jenny

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 reimbursement our organization is able to finagle at the end o...

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 things can quickly spin out of control where sudde...

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 important on job, but then again placing one's life in j...

Congratulations for your huge achievement!

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 patients (that was the way our unit did it). We had a ...

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 remember those). I think everyone will have that coming, ...