NO MO YET @ MY HOSPITAL. 14 YEARS AGO, THEY TRIED THAT DURING OUR LAST SHORTAGE. THEY LOST THE ENTIRE NOC SHIFT AND SEVERAL DAY AND EVES. MY UNITS TRY TO BRIBE THE STAFF WITH BONUSES. WORKED WELL FOR A MONTH, THEN EVERYONE WAS BURT OUT. NOW WE J...
there was education, but i found out that i was recieving it after working the previous night. i also work prn, so only use it rarely. the hospital was already using it when i arrived. there are lots of complaints, but no solutions (the head nurse...
i work at two hospitals in central in. both use computer charting. at the smaller, more rural hospital, we use meditech. i like that it is more "all encompasing". all orders, assessments, results, etc. go into the same system. once you learn how...
Erbn, i have to support nrsen's comment that you need to have fun to keep your sanity. we are always doing wild things to keep the job from overwhelming us. as long as we are doing it away from the patients, what is the harm? if your unit is so ...
i think that the average is 4% of nurses are male. i am one of 6 on my unit(3 rn 3 lpn). i have never had any problems with the women i work with, although they think of me as "one of the girls" now. I work in a telemetry unit, and feel that any n...
my hospital has had a customer focus for a while (we have "patient focused medicne" sa our advertising slogun). in my town (indy), there are multiple hospitals to choose from, and the hospitals are now all focusing on the "warm, fuzzy" aspects of b...
my hospital has had a customer focus for a while (we have "patient focused medicne" sa our advertising slogun). in my town (indy), there are multiple hospitals to choose from, and the hospitals are now all focusing on the "warm, fuzzy" aspects of b...
i suppose it depends on what caused the strike in the first place. i have been very fortunate that i have never felt that conditions were so unsafe that i needed to leave. i also tend to put the needs of the patient pretty high, so that might impac...
i suppose it depends on what caused the strike in the first place. i have been very fortunate that i have never felt that conditions were so unsafe that i needed to leave. i also tend to put the needs of the patient pretty high, so that might impac...
i suppose it depends on what caused the strike in the first place. i have been very fortunate that i have never felt that conditions were so unsafe that i needed to leave. i also tend to put the needs of the patient pretty high, so that might impac...
my mother (an LPN)was caught and went through treatment. she was fortunate to have leadership, coworkers, and family who supported her. she continued to work in the same area, first as a nurses' aid, then as an LPN with restrictions after her licen...
my mother (an LPN)was caught and went through treatment. she was fortunate to have leadership, coworkers, and family who supported her. she continued to work in the same area, first as a nurses' aid, then as an LPN with restrictions after her licen...
i work at 2 different hospitals. both have diffeent systems, and one is much more difficult to work with. it just depends on the system. i still prefer to computer chart over paper. good luck!
i work at 2 different hospitals. both have diffeent systems, and one is much more difficult to work with. it just depends on the system. i still prefer to computer chart over paper. good luck!