Category: Hate Nursing
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Back to the MICU, and back to Liverland
So this MICU shift was very difficult after all, and it wasn’t for the reasons that I suspected. I thought it would be the tasks that got me down, i.e. not enough time to get things done. Surprise, surprise, turns out it was the patients. Imagine a patient with End Stage Live Disease. She currently…
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Follow the Money
At the end of my rant about sloppy physician’s orders, I asked the question, “How do you get beyond that kind of apathy?” May, whom I have a great deal of admiration for, said, “i know that clearly looks like apathy, but it could also mean something else. i maybe apathetic about the issue, but…
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Strike Breaker?
Should nurses cover for the housekeeping and food service staff when they go on strike? Our hospital is facing a possible strike by the service workers. In the event of a strike, the hospital is requiring the nursing staff to fill in for the services workers. That means that I am required to sign up…
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Do ICU Nurses Really Have Autonomy?
So today I have an interview at another great hospital in my city, the mental hospital. I’ve spent a lot of time there as a student and was convinced I wanted to do psych nursing. Somewhere along the way I was on monster.com and noticed that Nurse Anesthetists make 100K/year. I also noticed that you…