Mirth

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1. Nurse to patient law

   Mirth replied to Mirth's topic in Illinois

   This comes up again in Janurary. I know I will be in Springfield, asking John Sullivan about it.

2. Nurse to patient law

   Mirth replied to Mirth's topic in Illinois

   I know that IMC patients would be 1:3. That sure beats the 1:6 and 1:7 that I have now. Even 1:7 general patients beats the 1:10 and 1:11 they get.

3. Any truth to the phasing out of LPNs?

   Mirth replied to sara29's topic in Illinois

   I work in Springfield. St.John's is shifting all LPNs off some floors, and is not hiring anymore. Having worked in Iowa, I do know that many hospitals in Iowa do not hire LPNs anymore.

4. Nurse to patient law

   Mirth posted a topic in Illinois

   They are going to be introducing legislation to mandate nurse to patient ratios come January. Write your congressman folks. Now is our chance. Let's see what we can get done for 2007!

5. Need some advice on Australia

   Mirth replied to rnurse49's topic in Travel

   Well, I do hope someone has some information. The only way I could get to Australia would be to work there.

6. RN as Inpatient, horrible and looong rant

   Mirth replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

   I never tell anyone I am a nurse. Ever. If I am a patient, I want to be treated like a patient. My mother tells EVERYONE that she is a nurse, that I am a nurse. :roll: And that left ME to do her bath and bed change and make sure she walked and et...

7. CMS-Correctional Medical Services?

   Mirth replied to ex1140's topic in Correctional

   I worked for CMS. They kept taking away benefits, left and right. I worked almost NO weekends when I started. Ended up working every other weekend. The over time sucked, cos folks would call in sick. They finally gave us a pay raise, cos they cou...

8. Start as Corrections R.N. Tomorrow

   Mirth replied to RN IN KY's topic in Correctional

   Never take anything from an inmate, never give anything to an inmate. You are not there to make friends. Not with inmates, not with officers. Keep your personal life PERSONAL. You always had a GREAT day off. Even if you didn't. Be honest with the in...

9. How do you deal with Mothers of inmates

   Mirth replied to nurseT's topic in Correctional

   At the Penn where I worked, we didn't talk to any family about health care, period. The prison had people who talked to family. If we found ourselves in the visiting room, handing out meds or whatever, then we might get into a conversation with fam...

10. Why are others nurses rude to agency nurses?

    Mirth replied to doodles's topic in Agency

    What do you mean by DNU? My first travel job, I had to float out my first day on my own. I floated at least once a week, sometimes twice. I might work 4 hours this unit and 4 hours that one. I might start with 9 patients. The ONLY one to start w...