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Subject: Re: License reinstatement

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Date Posted: Thu, Dec 27 2012, 8:51:17
In reply to: aprilbyaday2000 's message, "Re: License reinstatement" on Wed, Dec 05 2012, 12:10:47

April,

Sorry I missed this come in from you! CONGRATULATIONS!!! I haven't had much chance to check in here since the end of October. Holiday Hoopla and all. So happy to read your news! Any prospects yet? I know from my three years of trial and error that this time of year tends to be slow with job bites.

I'd just like to say that from my personal experience, not all nursing jobs have proved to be created equal. Since my horrible spiral downward which really peaked 3 1/2 years ago, I racked up so much chaos and personal agony that I didn't think I could live another day. I literally awoke most days not even wanting to breathe; I hated what had occurred in my life.

I look back from the beginning of that shit storm and then fast forward to the present, and I realize without a doubt that I would not appreciate where I am today.

I took a job at a nursing home the summer of 2010. I landed that job before I decided to "self-report" my 3 DUI's to the Nurse assistance Program here in Indiana. The nursing home was a disaster. I felt like there was a nurse cop around every corner. So many threats of turning a nurse over to the BON for nonsense. I became paranoid that if I didn't "self-report", that someone I worked with would trace my tracks, try and find dirt on me and then I'd really be in a heap of hurt. Anyway, I did get fired from that job, then I began working at the hospital on a med/surg floor; hated it; my co-workers were for the most part, over-worked and crabby; I have a hard time playing new person; or just let's say "nursey games". I had no tolerance for diva bitches who couldn't be bothered with assisting me in things that should've been "knee-jerk" Where's the best spot to find an I/V pole when there aren't any on the floor? Would you PLZzzz help me pull Mr. 500# person up in bed? We had 3 cna's who were supposedly assigned to rooms 123; but nobody has seen them since report 4 hours ago! Just so much bullshit there. So yeah, when I began giving as good as I got, I was fired from there too.. lol..THEN.. I decided that I wanted to become a dialysis nurse! Started checking out Davita and Fresenius, the two major hitters in dialysis. Secured an interview with a davita "acute" manager. There were two spots on the team, and the manager told me he had set up 12 interviews.. gulp! Two weeks later, he told me I had secured one of the spots.. wahoo! My third employment nightmare soon began! The man who hired me liked to play with his "team-mates" He had them confused with the term "playmates" lol.. This truly was no problem for me, he wasn't pushy, and I have no problem letting ANYONE know that I either want to play, or I don't. No matter what the game is. Comes from being made real tough through the shit storms of life. Not bitter, please don't think I am. I'm a sweetheart of a nurse with a great skill set, AND I have developed **asshole** radar that is so sensitive it rivals satellite capabilities.. lol This hiring manager quit 3 months into my employment which left me to answer to his manager. This guy was a dead ringer for satan. He is a liar, a con-man, a thief, an active drug-addict (almost positive of the active part) I know he's an addict, as he was in the same program I am, and I know people who witnessed his crap. Anyway, This company was so unstable, at least the realm of it that I worked. From the beginning of my employment with them, I'd have 3 days working, then 10 days off, work 2, then 5 off. Just completely erratic scheduling. OR, they would put you on "stand-by" on a scheduled day, then call you to offer work on your day off! My life was consumed with this crazy davita. The cake topper with "satan" was when I had to go to an inner city hospital, no big deal, we serviced 13 hospitals in all, and half were inner city. This particular day this woman and I were to set up for 2 patients in the acute room. We got slammed, kept adding on. Now we have 4 patients coming. This nurse I'm with is telling me to set up the machines and to take the first patient and get her running. I'm not comfortable with her orders, as she wasn't allowing me to look the patients info up on the computer. I was going in blind. didn't know if this person took any meds; what was her dx's, why was she there? Told her I wanted to get my patient's "snapshot", overview of her hx. She's being a real control freak and reminds me that she's precepting me today and just do what she says.. Rhaaar.. I'm really pissed, I think she's an idiot! I tell her to look up the info and tell me then! Everything is really going fast, well, the first patient on put on the machine starts bottoming out immediately. I kid you not.. she's dropping from a start b/p of around 105 to 90, then to 80 and this is happening fast.. I give her some saline and she's still dropping.. I crank the O2, tilt the chair and keep on the monitor.. this psycho nurse is screaming at me.. WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? Put her head back up! calls the manager.. I call him on the other line.. it's crazy.. I'm trying to get this woman's b/p back, and she's making a spectacle of the situation.. cursing.. screaming.. Fresenius had several chairs in the room too.. family memebers were there.. it was a circus! The patients b/p comes up, and I bring her head up to where she's in a reclining position. bring the 02 down to parameters and have a cna bring me a portable computer to park right in front of this patient. Now she's stable, about an hour into the tx, this psycho goes to my patient and says to her, I bet if I lift your head up you can breath better! WTF?? I freak out.. what are you doing?? She's stable. dipshit brings her head up, and the woman crashes again! I run to her and start to give her saline again. psycho begins screaming at me again.. "don't touch that fucking saline" I"m thinking.. she won't let me tilt her, she screams when I go for the saline.. this is nuts!! I hear her on the phone with my boss saying "she won't listen to me, get her out of here!" anyway, I leave, tell her before I go that everything will be documented, and she says to me, "I'm shaking in my boots" Dumb bitch! I did write a report, we have a meeting, (btw, I was asked to punch out and leave as she was the senior nurse. Was true, I couldn't of handled those 4 ppl. alone, I was still in training. Anyhow, 5 days off and then I go in there for a meeting with him and his assistant. Where's psycho? said her name, "oh, I'm going to talk with her separately" he says. Anyhow, he shoves the monitoring notes at me causing a paper cut to the side of my hand with the force he pushed them. I shoved them back stating that's not the way to ask me! I then reminded him that I was asked to leave! Duh! I was soon fired.. Should have written the CEO, sir mickey mouse or whatever the screwy cartoon character name the major/CEO goes by. I did talk to two ppl. over him and had it arranged so that I was not labeled "not-rehirable".

THEN... two months later, I landed a job with Fresenius, their competitor. I'm in a clinic. Have been there for3 months, AND I LOVE, LOVE it! I haven't worked with this many normal people all in one place for at least 6 years.. lol..

I know this has been loooong to read, I hope someone can glean something from my experience :-) Guess nursing jobs, or jobs in general, but MOSTLY nursing jobs are like people, sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your **gem**

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Re: License reinstatement	aprilbyaday2000	Fri, Dec 28 2012, 8:41:15