RN1989

RN1989

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  1. Are LNCs really practicing nursing?

    i received the following email exchange and was asked to post here for other nurses/lncs to see. an ad appeared in nurseweek asking "tired of nursing?" and promoting an lnc course as a way to get away from practicing nursing. as experienced lncs kn...
  2. Doing what's right even if it ends a friendship.

    You will NOT look like a jerk! You are so awesome! It takes a lot of courage to do what you did, particularly when you are not in a large facility where you can duck under the radar. If people think you were wrong and are ugly to you - they obvio...
  3. $39/hr???

    Most facilities don't have a time period for something like that, compared to switching units. But there must be an open slot for you to take on another shift or day, etc. And often times there must be someone to replace you on that shift as well, as...
  4. My First Subpoena

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  5. My First Subpoena

    Any advice YOU feel like giving this poster has nothing to do with MY specific experiences. You are free to give any advice you wish, whether it contradicts someone else or not. I don't desire to get into specifics with you regarding my personal expe...
  6. I want out of this mess

    Obviously nursing IS like this, or there would not be many posts on allnurses telling tales of this very nature. Perhaps you have not experienced it - but it is becoming the norm and no longer the exception. I have yet to see any employer give an em...
  7. Soon to be nursing student seeking advice.

    PCA/PCT is the name hospitals use for an untrained, unlicensed person that does CNA work. Working in a hospital/NH will give you more experience as far as the technical skills of caring for people's ADLs (activities of daily living - feeding, bathing...
  8. I want out of this mess

    You will find this type of situation repeated all over the country every day. You need to be very selective when you choose a job to be sure that you don't get in over your head and feel the need to keep quiting. This is real life, not nursing scho...
  9. Less than forthright recruiter

    I've never heard of any "stipend" doing agency work. I'd want more info on all that, how it works, where does this thing come from? Considering that the last agency I worked for paid $26/hr at a horrible hospital.....I might go to to work for an age...
  10. Considering the Milazzo course Some questions.

    I have obtained some of the materials from other courses. While I found one book for the course to have good information in it and is a good reference book - I don't think that anyone could take that course and be ready to jump right in writing repo...
  11. While I think Jolie has some good ideas, I still don't have a belief myself of how to fix this mess. Various hospitals that I have worked for, always had policies in place that had the bottom line numbers for surgeries, etc. for private pay patients....
  12. Ours is way more than a measly $1K to keep it affordable. Such is the nature of healthcare today.
  13. My First Subpoena

    Yes, anything you take with you could be called into question (depending on what answers you give in questioning, if someone sees you with "something" they think they can use against you) and you could have to produce it - even normal purse contents....
  14. Have you had to do anything morally wrong?

    Here in the US, insurance fraud is a big problem for many nurses. I have been asked to give treatments to pts that did not need them, simply because they were more expensive. I have friends who were told to lie about the care the patients needed in ...
  15. My First Subpoena

    The opposing side will always try to make you look bad. If they didn't - they could get sued for malpractice. Don't take anything with you except ID and anything they tell you to bring. Anything you take with you could be subject to being shown to ...