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  1. Career alternatives to traditional nursing?

    If you're near Nashville, I know of a great job in the quality management department of a hospital that's "big and good"... They need someone to do OB chart reviews, provide inservice education to the staff in Women's Services and liason with the O...
  2. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    I think a lot of the problems with "customer service" programs are administrative "knee jerk"-reactions, like the escort program described above. I posted somewhere on another thread that upper managers, those that drive the insanity inherent in some...
  3. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

    One of the worst things that ever happened in my supervision of employees was when one of my very best RNs -- long term employee, great guy -- got hurt at work and had to have a urine screen. Positive for THC. He's just gotten back from vacation on...
  4. Nursing without license

    'Fake' nurse to appeal huge fine By Associated Press January 3, 2007 CHATTANOOGA-A woman fined $717,000 by Tennessee's nursing board for falsely claiming to be a registered nurse and nurse practitioner said Wednesday she is a victim of "falsehoods...
  5. having a baby due during nursing school..

    I've had two close friends become pregnant during nursing school... One dropped out because she was having so many problems with nausea and sciatic nerve pain, and one made the decision to wait until later to start a family. The latter was in a very...
  6. How to shut up people who gossip !!!!!!

    In my neck of the woods, the more times the term, "bless her heart" is used, the worse it is...:icon_roll
  7. Can staffing affect infection control?

    FireWolf, my only suggestion as one of those much-maligned administrative types is this - don't use your new position to try and push any specific agenda other than preventing infections. From personal experience I can say say that those personal ca...
  8. Inciden Report Etiquette

    Incident reports aren't meant to be punitive -- an IV infiltrated. It happens. You aren't saying anything about the nurse, you're just reporting something that needs to be passed along to the manager, quality and risk management. What if, say, with...
  9. Eat Young/Unhappiness - Mostly Med/Surg?

    Back in the days when I was interviewing people for nursing positions, I always asked where a new grad wanted to be in five years. If it was ICU or ED and things seemed "right", I went ahead and encouraged them to start there. Same deal with those ...
  10. Eat Young/Unhappiness - Mostly Med/Surg?

    I'm certainly no nursing newbie, but I firmly believe that if a new grad wants to go directly into a specialty unit, that's where they should go. Sure, additional orientation and training may be required to establish clinical competence before the "...
  11. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    Garden Dove, Are they "cooking" in your house or just using there? If they've been preparing the meth there, you could have big problems with cleanup. Meth production creates some nasty by-products and can leave a lingering residue behind. I saw a...
  12. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    Communities all over the place are struggling with meth -- from what I've seen locally, rural and poverty-stricken areas have a much bigger problem than some. The state of Tennessee has developed an initiative, and there's lots of information at thi...
  13. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    I posted a response to a similar thread almost a year ago -- and it goes something like this... A number of research studies (I don't know specifically which ones - I have the info somewhere from a customer service workshop) have found that most "pat...
  14. Ever had a Safe Haven baby in the ER?

    If the mom doesn't want to answer any questions, she isn't obligated. The only time a mom has surrendered a baby in a facility where I've worked, one of the OB/GYNs intervened and facilitated a private adoption for one of our employees that had been...
  15. They Think I'm Working Christmas??

    I worked for a rural hospital one time that had to do that during Christmas because of a terrible flu that was making the rounds, not just of the hospital staff - Lord, it was awful. Those people that were well and were scheduled to be off during the...