SallyRNCNOR

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1. Mandated to Work Surgery With 1 Day Orientation

   SallyRNCNOR replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   As a long time RN and a long time CNOR I will state with equivocation, that a one day orientation to the main OR is not sufficient and I believe that your manager is just doing what she is told, instead of what is right. This will be setting her staf...

2. Observant Jew Cannot Work Saturday Shifts

   SallyRNCNOR replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Dear Nurse Beth: I feel that you dropped the ball on this one. According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any employer who has more than 50 employees must make every possible effort to accommodate that employees religious beliefs. The prospective...

3. Clinical Judgement Call...Not sure if I did the right thing

   SallyRNCNOR replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

   You did the right thing for the patient by calling his physician. If you had done nothing and the patient suffered from an untoward event, you would never forgive yourself. Administrators are often neither physicians, clinicians or nurses. Who are th...

4. What's Burnout?

   SallyRNCNOR replied to MattRN95's topic in General Nursing

   Nurse burnout is not caused only by the increased stress of having too many patients and not enough time to adequately do their jobs. There are other causes as well. Hostility from other staff members, verbal and physical aggression from Physicians w...

5. Would you report this error?

   SallyRNCNOR replied to caffeinatednurse's topic in Safety

   I most certainly would report the errors, also letting the supervisor know that the RN who made the error had falsified a document showing that you gave the medication, which you didn't. Obviously you are not yet using EHR's in your facility, because...

6. Confessions of a Hospital Administrator: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

   SallyRNCNOR replied to ServantLeader's topic in General Nursing

   Obviously this Hospital Administrator is not working for a for profit hospital. In such a facility the staff is treated as a commodity, that can be easily replaced by lesser skilled personnel. The employees don't fee either engaged or valued. They ar...

7. How old is too old to safely practice?

   SallyRNCNOR replied to traumaRUs's topic in NP

   There is no magic age to hang it up, or stop working as long as you remain mentally and physically sharp. I was forced to retire on disability at age 63. I had been an RN since 1971, and an OR RN since 1980, as well as becoming certified CNOR. Unfort...

8. Pyxis error

   SallyRNCNOR replied to decarla's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Decarla, My thoughts and prayers are with you. It sounds like they are giving you the runaround and are planning to let you go. This is not uncommon behavior for a for profit hospital that wants to save money on staffing by letting go of a lo...

9. Refusing to float

   SallyRNCNOR replied to NurseKC123's topic in General Nursing

   You can refuse to float to a floor if you don't have experience on that floor, by saying I don't feel safe in floating. If you say this to a Nursing Manager, make sure that you document somewhere or had a witness to that conversation. This puts the r...

10. Cancer Made Me a Better Nurse

    SallyRNCNOR replied to VioletKaliLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Violet, my thoughts and wishes for a complete recovery. I know you're pain. I was an RN for 26 years when I heard the dreaded words you have an abnormality in your mammograms bilaterally. I was an OR RN working on an Open Heart Team, and therefore to...

11. Being blamed for fall after shift

    SallyRNCNOR replied to notyetnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, there isn't much that you can do at this time. However I urge you when charting, please document not only the patient's status, but also the facts that there were no chair alarms available, and who you notified. Being owned by a huge c...

12. Client vs Patient

    SallyRNCNOR replied to srercg's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree with you. I have been an RN for many years and I detest the term client. A hooker calls her John a client. Well I'm certainly not a hooker. This term is debasing and denigrating for the nurse-patient relationship.

13. Another reason unions suck!

    SallyRNCNOR replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Union

    What you don't seem to realize is that unions are there to protect you. Yes seniority comes first when asking for vacations, but they are on a rotating basis. The person with the most seniority gets the pick of the vacation, but then drops to the bo...

14. Hostile work environment - Violent Doctor

    SallyRNCNOR replied to Summer70's topic in General Nursing

    This seems to be a problem basically in right to work states and in facilities in which these abusive physicians bring in a lot of business. You have several options that you can follow. Make sure that this behavior is witnessed and all the staff is ...

15. #NursesUnited: Can we continue the momentum for necessary change?

    SallyRNCNOR replied to Rose_Queen's topic in General Nursing

    There are many positions in a hospital that require staff to be on call for example OR, PACU, Cath Lab, ICU/CCU, GI Lab, PICU/NICU to name a few. I don't know where you practice nursing, but in many states nurses are paid overtime if they work past t...