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1. Do you work under the fear of being fired due to age?

   janetjanetbobanet replied to JerseyBSN's topic in General Nursing

   I so agree with you. This kind of thing was not happening when I worked in the federal health care system for the VA and department of defense. And the patients got good care. I am all for the government taking over healthcare, myself, based on my...

2. Do you work under the fear of being fired due to age?

   janetjanetbobanet replied to JerseyBSN's topic in General Nursing

   It happened to me in 2009, I quit my job just in time after seeing the handwriting on the wall and at least didn't have a firing on my record. A good record for all my years of nursing, a good evaluation just months before, and when budget problems ...

3. Wrongful termination? Age discrimination?

   janetjanetbobanet replied to TomCCRN1991's topic in General Nursing

   After watching three of us in my unit in our late 50's fall prey to this kind of discrimination, I am wondering just how prevalent this trend is. I left my job when paperwork started to accumulate against me for bogus reasons after many years of hav...

4. Bedside Report...

   janetjanetbobanet replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   When this first started at my hospital, we were giving each other the basics of face to face report at the desk and then going into the room to introduce the oncoming nurse to the patient and discuss any issues the patient wanted to discuss, look at ...

5. ***** Am I doing something wrong?

   janetjanetbobanet replied to wabashcannon's topic in General Nursing

   You definitely are not doing anything wrong. There are a lot of hiring freezes going on right now, and those of us who have been out of school for eons are getting called off some of our shifts and dreading the possibility of layoffs. You just had ...

6. Low census = shift cancellation.....help!

   janetjanetbobanet replied to TX_nurse_08's topic in General Nursing

   The mall job doesn't sound too bad, but it might be hard to get one these days with the high unemployment levels.

7. Posterior View

   janetjanetbobanet replied to middypiegirl's topic in General Nursing

   Can I give this one TWO fives??? :chuckle

8. Colorado Licensing

   janetjanetbobanet replied to bburgess's topic in General Nursing

   I think it took them a few weeks to do mine, they go on a first come first serve basis and some months are busier than others due to graduations from nursing school, I think. You can look on the online web site to see if yours has been approved or n...

9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   janetjanetbobanet replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   A coworker of mine who had a near death experience in her younger days could sometimes see people leaving their bodies. She even spoke to one that she found leaning over himself looking at his dead body and told him "Yes, that's you. You need to go...

10. restructuring the hospital into the Hilton

    janetjanetbobanet replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Why would anyone ever want to be dismissed from such an environment? Thinking I need to visit your neck of the woods and develop some kind of illness that won't keep me from enjoying the room service and the wifi.

11. Anyone work for the VA?

    janetjanetbobanet replied to marilynmom's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for the VA for quite a few years until I moved to a city that didn't have one. The five weeks of vacation for RNs is nice and I miss that. The retirement benefits are pretty decent. You need to check out the specific VA that you are inter...

12. Drinks in the nurses station...

    janetjanetbobanet replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    as a night shifter, i have worked where you could eat at the nurses station for the sake of safe staffing, and have never gotten sick because i washed my hands before i ate anything and i didn't put food in places that seemed risky for contamination....

13. Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    janetjanetbobanet replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    Bullying is alive and well in some hospitals, I have seen it happen. I have experienced one on one bullying myself and found that standing up to the bully is the best way to deal with it. But group bullying, or mobbing, is another thing altogether,...

14. My hospital going to provide scrubs and wash them!!!

    janetjanetbobanet replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    So will you get your own scrubs back or do you have to dig through a stack of them in the linen room to find your size? I had a job like that once and we all ended up hoarding our size scrubs in our lockers to make sure we had some when we got to wo...

15. Thoughts/Experiences working in a V.A. hospital?

    janetjanetbobanet replied to teenycar's topic in General Nursing

    You would be happy, too, if you were getting paid what they are. It is the top paying VA in the country. Two of my co-workers from my VA in Kansas transferred there to take advantage of that, and transferring VA workers are what is keeping others f...