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  1. Hello, all. It's been many years since I posted on allnurses.com. I started posting here when I was a first year student. After I earned by ADN, I kept the name. Now it's been 10 years and I'm a first year student again, sort of -- I'm earning my BSN...
  2. Student Needs Interview about Financial Management

    They really like to torture us with this crap. We'd probably learn more just reading an article in a healthcare finance magazine. Heh heh.
  3. Student Needs Interview about Financial Management

    I'm sure you're right. I work the night shift, so I think I'm just going to BS this interview with the overnight nursing supervisor.
  4. The Worst Nursing Job You Ever Had

    Tell us why it was so bad...
  5. It seems probie's can't take a joke or laugh

    I had the opposite experience as a newbie. There was one older Christian nurse I was especially warned about that would talk to the manager if she heard anything that offended her.
  6. Med Error

    What do you mean, "make it past 5"? I've been a nurse for three years now and, on my floor, we don't eavesdrop on other people's telephone conversations and report other people's medication errors. If that makes me a bad nurse, then so be it.
  7. Am I approaching this in the wrong way?

    I used to worry about this kind of stuff, then I realized that if I was ever included in their group I'd be bored out of my skull. Who wants to listen to some idiot talk about the slacks she tried on a Target?
  8. Thank you food from nursing students

    Luna bars!!!!
  9. Med Error

    I'd stay out of it unless this guy makes a lot of errors. He knows he made an error. I'm sure he feels terrible about it. People make mistakes -- even people in the medical profession who know they need to be careful. Why do they make mistakes? Becau...
  10. Is this "normal"?

    I don't know if I am just not cut out to be a nurse or this is par for the course. About one out of every 20 shifts I realize that there is something important that I forgot to do. I just get so busy sometimes things fall through the cracks. I try to...
  11. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    I knew a Jamaican nurse named Comfort.
  12. Nursing Superstitions?

    A lot of the nurses on my unit believe that one of the rooms is bad luck and that if a patient gets assigned there it is more likely they will die.
  13. Is this "normal"?

    I've been practicing for three years. Most of the time I'm on top of this stuff, but some shifts you can just get so tangled up in minutae that you lose sight of the big picture (or am I wrong about this?). I don't know. Maybe what I should do is, af...
  14. Is this "normal"?

    Yeah, but the problem was it was supposed to be done before the end of the shift because of the chemo later...
  15. Help Needed Guys!!!!Plzzz

    What are you talking about? I never stop the IV machine when hanging a piggyback....
  16. What does it mean to be a nurse

    Lately, I've been looking at being a nurse as a little bit like being a garage mechanic.
  17. You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

    Nurse managers are being paid by administration to squeeze the bedside RN until she screams. It's their job to torture the bedside nurse and if they don't do it, they get fired. Managers are so terrified of having to go back to the nightmare that is ...
  18. Nursing Stereotypes and a Dumb Society

    I think the public's idea of what a nurse does is what an aid typically does (bed baths, blankets, etc.).
  19. You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

    Okay, we did notice, because we didn't get as many annoying emails.
  20. You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

    One of our managers was out sick for six months and nobody noticed.
  21. You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

    360joules -- I think I love you.
  22. You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

    Do not consider nurses in management to be real nurses. I consider them the enemy.
  23. just venting!

    I could never work peds. Personally I am getting burned out on family members who are angry and frustrated that their loved ones are sick and who decide to take it out on the very people who are trying to help them.
  24. Hazards, Risks, and Problems w/ Nursing

    Is this for an assignment? Heh heh. Stress, to me, is the biggest deal. You have too much to do, not enough time to do it, much of it has to be done within a certain window of time, and someone's care, and possibly even their life, depends upon you d...
  25. When did you consider yourself a seasoned nurse?

    i am practicing in my third years and feel like I am nowhere near there...