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Today is July 30, 2021. Editor's Picks... 👺 Shifty Management Actions; I Quit!; Wear Your Own Respirators?; Answer Phone On Day Off?; Told Not Doing Enough; and Help With Job Offers!

Shifty Actions: What have you seen from management?

👺 Sneaky Administration

by DesiDani

What is the most sneakiest antics you encountered from administration trying to entrap a unit or coworker?
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Are you allowed to wear your own respirator?

Do hospitals allow nurses to wear their own respirators of choice?

by Kara638

Can nurses purchase any respirator and wear it at work at any hospital, or are there certain respirators that you cannot wear at work?
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Do you pick up phone on day off?

Do you ever pick up your phone on your day off when work calls you?

by DK123

I feel the need to pick up my phone because I want to have peace of mind that they are not doing an investigation on me. Most of the time they call because they want me to work, but one time a staff called me and asked me where I last put eye drops of a patient just to find it under the med cart drawer.
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Doing my best but told I'm not doing enough.

First Time Parents Asked For A Different Nurse

by pinkdoves, BSN

I've been working for 1 1/2 years and I still can't seem to get time management down. I'm always running in circles. I guess I'm not the only one because a couple nurses told me they couldn't even eat lunch. I'm just scared that I never will get better at this because I feel like a new grad. Does this ever get better or am I just a bad nurse?
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I quit!

Quitting first RN job

by wideyedfreedom, ADN, LPN, RN

The anxiety is driving me through the roof. I don’t know whether to stick it out longer or to jump ship. I just hope whatever I do, I really love and can stay for years. Any advice would be helpful.. Thanks.
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Which job offer should I accept?

Please help! Which job offer should I take???

by cmyr711

I am a new graduate RN and want to get myself in critical care but I cannot find an ICU resident opening right now. However, I got two offers from 2 hospitals, should I choose the Cardiac PCU RN resident in our state's second largest hospital that is 2 hours driving from home or a regular med-surg staff RN in a local small community hospital that is 10 mins driving from home? 
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