Today in a meeting, my nurse manager said that d/t medicare compensation changes, the private hospitals in our area (Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals) are laying off LPNs from the bedside, that all bedside nurses would be RNs. I'm an RN in the ...
Salesman217 replied to NursingBro's topic in LPN/LVN
Dialysis??? Who knows... Why don't you call your education department. Or better yet, go back to that manager and say "excuse me, I didn't understand wth you were talking about when you asked me about the diaphresis(???) class. Could you spell it so ...
Salesman217 replied to Salesman217's topic in Career Support
I did not get a marketing position job. I spoke with a few nurses who knew something about it who emphasized the pressure that is put upon you for keeping the census up. I ended up working in psych for a year then I got a daytime job in primary care ...
Like everyone says, it depends. I went into an ICU right out of school. But I was old (40) so not much scared me, and my personality is really laid back. Also, the hospital I worked at was really low acuity. It was about a year before I had a patient...
I jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire with a move from the ICU to Home Care. The ICU was cool. I worked with really, really good people and the money was OK except management gets on the "we gotta reduce overtime" kick. The problem was the...
So I went to renew online at the Ohio BON site. I click the link get a window asking me for a username and password. ??? Where do I get that from? There's no option to register. Was it in the renewal letter that I got several months back? Help! Sales...
Salesman217 replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health
Hey y'all, New to HH. I've been a nurse for about 18 months. Just left the ICU to go into HH. Hopefully the daytime hours and perpetual busy-ness of HH will work better for me than 7P to 7A in God's waiting room.
Why do people think males are sexual predators? Did you ever watch "To Catch a Predator"? Not a lot of females getting caught now are there? Am I saying that males can't do L&D effectively? No. But when a women is feeling distressed and vulnerab...
Sure deal. PM me at your leisure. I work in an elephant graveyard ICU at a regional CCF hospital. MICU I suppose but we see post-op stuff as well. Nothing fancy. We see post endoarterectomies, thoracotomies with chest tubes, that sort of thing. But ...
You need to understand that what works for you motivationally is not what works for everyone. Nursing is a job I can do and enjoy because I like being around people. There are some negatives to be sure, but some of the things that are constantly comp...
I was just joking of course. But the "fulfill you contract" comment seemed a bit... I don't know... paternalistic? Anyway, what do you care if I fulfill my contract or walk away and pay them off? (I don't mean it the way it sounds in print. I'm not ...
Salesman217 replied to JoeTheNurse's topic in General Nursing
There's a doctor shortage, too (hence the use of Doc "extenders" like NPs according to a MICU nurse manager at CCF). Is it because of salary? Sure. And salaries will go up as the shortage grows. Or cheap labor will flood in from other countries like...
Salesman217 replied to JoeTheNurse's topic in General Nursing
This from the Cleveland Plain Dealer (LINK) Q. How much do auto workers make, and do strikers lose their pay? A. The average UAW member makes $1,155 per week. Yes, strikers lose their paychecks, but they receive $200 per week from the union's strike ...