lindahartford

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1. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   lindahartford replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I think you missed my last paragraph. I did quit hospital nursing, went into Home Health and never looked back.

2. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   lindahartford replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   My last job on a hospital was in 1976. After 20 years of experience, including 5 years on a busy Medical/Surgical unit in NYC I moved to FL and took a position as floor nurse on an orthopedic unit after being promised I would have no more than 4 pati...

3. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   lindahartford replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I strongly agree with responsibility uplito administrators and supervisors. Nurses have long lived with work overload and extended days and months of untold stress and it has taken extraordinary effort by nurse unions to get admnistration to decreas...

4. 6 Phrases Every Nurse Manager Must Learn to Say

   lindahartford replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Management

   These are all good points. The only thing I would add is that when I tell a coworker. "Great job," I like to add how I know that. For instance. "Great job. Mrs X says she feels so much better since you changed her dressing." or Great job. Mr. Y looks...

5. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   lindahartford replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Over 40,000 people die every year in this country due to medication errors. That would be 40,000 nurses, doctors and pharmacists on trial for accidental homicide. Now THAT would cause a nursing shortage.

6. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   lindahartford replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   This is a terrible thing to a human being. There's that old joke about doctors burying their mistakes. But a woman made a mistake and the lawyers want to burn her at the stake. After 50 years of nursing, I sometimes worry if I ever made a serious e...

7. Ageism in Nursing

   lindahartford replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I worked in nursing for 53 years and never had a problem with employment. I retired at 72 despite my employer's request to continue at least part-time to "Trouble-shoot" My attitude about my job was always focused on my talent and experience. And I...

8. Psst....Let's Talk About Gossip in the Nurses' Station

   lindahartford replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

   To the Nurse who thinks gossip is great fun as it makes the day go faster. Sounds like you are part of the problem. You are trying to give a destructive behavior a happy face. Perhaps you could find something possitive to be a leader in. Try tackling...

9. Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

   lindahartford replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   This is extreme but it does make a point that the BSN is not sufficient to develop well-rounded nursing practice. Communication, however, may be the most important part of nursing. Not just between the administration and other staff but even more b...

10. Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    lindahartford replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    1:7 ? Wow! I was once hired onto an orthopedic unit with the promise of no more than 4 patients a day. In fact, I never had less than 8 and on weekends as many as 10. Besides that, due to outlandishly poor infection control, 2-3 of these patients ...

11. Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    lindahartford replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    You are so right. We older nurses had the great advantage of extensive bedside experience. These young grads are taught that their BSN is everything. No wonder without support to get bedside experience these new grads are dropping out in droves. Mor...

12. Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    lindahartford replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Old Dude, you can call me Old Lady. After 53 years of nursing experience, 23 at bedside and 30 in HOme Health I agree completely that young nurses are thrown into ICU and situations over their heads with reckless abandon by hospitaladministrators...

13. Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    lindahartford replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree that the loss of nurses is due to lack of support for new nurses and that hospital policies need to give practical bedside nursing experience before pushing them into ICU situations with poor nurse-patient ratios and little teaching a...

14. 2017 allnurses Salary Survey Results Part 1: Demographics and Compensation

    lindahartford replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    It says there are only 18,300+ respondents so you know this is not 100% of the nurses in the country. it looks like a pretty good average. As to lying on this kind of survey, it makes no sense, but factor that in if you feel a need to. I did. For me,...

15. Working Holidays? 5 Ways to Make It Work for You

    lindahartford replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    Very nice attitude of both you and your family. Alternate celebrations can be just as much fun or more. Keep it up. linda