casper1

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1. June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   Turns out size really does matter !

2. June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   I'm so Stressed. I thought I could escape Adulthood and return to my inner child.

3. June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   Does this make me look fat ?

4. Win $100! June 2015 Caption Contest

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   The hospital picked it up from the Star Trek sale. It's a transporter it will beam me back to the hospital if their short staffed

5. Feb - Mar 2015 Caption Contest: Win $100!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   We're over capacity again bed cordinators wants us to put patients in the bathrooms

6. Complaining about your employer, loudly, at nurses' station

   casper1 replied to Emergent's topic in Relations

   If I'm working night shift with 30 patients and three nurses, with one tech who has to sit with an elderly patient whose confused and delusional and a patient complains because they had to wait half an hour for water. I feel its fair to say i'M sorr...

7. September 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   Nurse Tin Lizzy just shorted out the MRI machine

8. Other Jobs That a Nurse Can Do?

   casper1 replied to westieluv's topic in Career Support

   I feel your pain. Bedside Nursing is extremely difficult you have to balance multiple demands at one time. You not only need to be clinically excellent you also must be a diplomat a social worker a teacher a computer wiz on and on the list of attribu...

9. Risking life and limb

   casper1 posted a topic in Rock

   Here we are again in upstate NY. Yet another blizzard is upon us. All area schools are closed, business's are closing early and sending their employee's home. A state on emergency has been declared, no unnecessary travel. But for those of us who wor...

10. Anyone know the new grad salary for RGH (Rochester General Hospital)

    casper1 replied to SlyFoxRN's topic in New York

    New Grad salary is $22.50 an hour. Shift differential is $2.00 and hour eve and nights. New grads get a $5.00 hr raise after 1 yr. Hopes that help

11. Freaking out about my PPD!

    casper1 replied to Kuniklo's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago I had a positive reaction to a PPD. A large red bump appeared on my arm. I had not had any exposures so I was alarmed. The employee health nurse asked me if I had been around any horses. I had My daughter had started horseback riding lesson...

12. Retired, now what?

    casper1 replied to sueff's topic in Retired

    The facility I work at has a phone triage unit. Nurses who work on these units facilitate patient transfers from Doctors office or other facilities to the Hospital. They make sure the correct paper work is in order nd that important test have been co...

13. suspension/possible termination

    casper1 replied to SeattleRN25's topic in Safety

    I would look into a transfer to another unit, your managers are looking for mistakes. It doesn't,t matter how much you do right or how much the patients like you, they are only going to fixate on what is wrong. considering the volume of work tha is e...

14. Hourly Rounding

    casper1 replied to Erianne1074's topic in Safety

    Reimbursements to hospitals are being tied to press Ganey score. Hospitals that receive high scores are given bonuses. Hospitals with poor scores are penalized. Some of the verbage in the rounding scripts mirrors questions on press Ganey surveys. " D...

15. Patient Complaint

    casper1 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    I had a similiar experience recently that made me feel frustrated. I never took the course in mind reading in Nursing school so I guess I am at a disadvantage. The Patient and I had a good first four hours of my shift. At bedtime he asked if I could ...