pennyaline

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1. Anesthesiologists being replaced by CRNAs???

   pennyaline replied to MONEJA783's topic in CRNA

   Sounds like sour grapes. Shine it on. Meanwhile, I hate you for vacationing in the tropics. Damn you and your pina coladas! (OOOoooooo! Imagine the evil look you're getting!)

2. They are closing my nursing program

   pennyaline replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

   I read somewhere once that nursing programs are great money losers for colleges and universities. This college no doubt totted up the enrollment and financial aid numbers and decided that the loss had gone on long enough. There is nothing romantic ab...

3. Whyyyyy? Rant from a Lab Tech

   pennyaline replied to raianne's topic in General Nursing

   If someone from the lab comes and draws the trough, that person wouldn't necessarily know that Vancomycin was running. It's not up to them to know what meds are up.

4. anthro & nursing

   pennyaline replied to js0314's topic in Student Assist

   could you restate this, please? i can't figure out who said what and what you want us to do in response.

5. When HIPAA can KILL

   pennyaline replied to Zookeeper3's topic in General Nursing

   Disclosure of a patient's confidential information is done on a need to know basis only. If the patient died of a reportable disease, it is up to the hospital to report it to your state's DOH. You can do nothing. You have neither a legal obligation n...

6. Nurses as secretaries

   pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   Many of us have expressed that we understand why. We don't want to be secretaries either, but we are often asked to do what we know how to do and fill the clerk's position. And in some cases, when there is no alternative because there are no clerks o...

7. Nurses as secretaries

   pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   No. I'm saying that for years I, as well as many others here, have worked units without secretaries and done the clerical stuff ourselves. And I'm not saying that we should accept this treatment in any Stockholm Syndrome sense, and indeed it doesn't ...

8. This is a shocker

   pennyaline replied to iNurseUK's topic in General Nursing

   I'll wait until I hear the other side's version of events.

9. Nurses as secretaries

   pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   I fail to see how stating that I have worked more without secretaries than with them has anything to do with allowing myself to be used and encouraging others to be used. I am simply stating facts. I didn't put words into her mouth. She used her ow...

10. Nurses as secretaries

    pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Just answer the question.

11. Nurses as secretaries

    pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand your point. Is being expected to take a turn at secretarial duties on your unit equivalent to being treated in an illegal and immoral fashion? Or are you using "nurses as secretaries" as a metaphor for larger-scale abuse?

12. You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

    pennyaline replied to 360joules's topic in General Nursing

    no it doesn't, actually, when you stop to consider that not all of the members of this forum live in your time zone.

13. Nurses as secretaries

    pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Right, and they hire cheaper yet still experienced nurses whenever they can. Meanwhile, it makes no sense to the business mind to pay two people (nurses who are already on staff, and unit secretaries who are ancillary workers) to do the work that one...

14. Nurses as secretaries

    pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    And vice versa, dear

15. Nurses as secretaries

    pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    No, it's not because it should be like that. It's because it IS like that and under current economic conditions it's going to stay like that for the duration. Reinforcing that this is how things are and that tasks need to be completed regardless of...