pieWACKet

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1. New to Florida; Seeking advice

   pieWACKet posted a topic in Florida

   I am an RN who returned to Neonatal ICU two years ago after 15 years apart from it and in Home Care. My husband and I are now in Lake Worth, but we are not tied to the West Palm Beach Region and we are looking all over Florida. I guess I'm lucky in t...

2. Nursing Care Delivery Models??

   pieWACKet replied to rck213's topic in Safety

   I apologize , and tried to edit this response. It is likely more than you wanted. I can not delete it, and so must leave it as I gave it. I recognize that your effort here is to seek nursing models. This diverges somewhat. Your first post indicate...

3. tension between EMT and LTC nurses?

   pieWACKet replied to smk1's topic in General Nursing

   I was a public health nurse for many years. The worst abuse I received was from an EMT. While many appreciated my thoroughness [ i gave FAR more info than was demanded and far more than they get from family members] this one is the EMT I will remembe...

4. tension between EMT and LTC nurses?

   pieWACKet replied to smk1's topic in General Nursing

   I was a public health nurse for many years. The worst abuse I received was from an EMT. While many appreciated my thoroughness [ i gave FAR more info than was demanded and far more than they get from family members] this one is the EMT I will remembe...

5. Nursing Theory

   pieWACKet replied to ResearchRN's topic in General Nursing

   It may well be that the response that you read was in reply to my "all hospital nurses" post. In it, I asked for a response to a question for a study I am doing, {and i'd very much like your own response to it!-I posted last night} and asked for the ...

6. Nursing Theory

   pieWACKet replied to ResearchRN's topic in General Nursing

   It may well be that the response that you read was in reply to my "all hospital nurses" post. In it, I asked for a response to a question for a study I am doing, {and i'd very much like your own response to it!-I posted last night} and asked for the ...

7. Can you believe this?

   pieWACKet replied to LolaRN's topic in General Nursing

   the "House" should be reported for putting other patients at risk. Certainly in California, where patient ratios have recently been mandated, the removal of a staff member for such a request would never have been accomodated, placing the hospital at...

8. Should it be illegal for nurses to unionize in non-profits

   pieWACKet replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

   I have thought all day about your dilemna on how to present why it is that nurses in the not for profit sector should not be allowed to unionize, despite all your intuition [and my own] that this endeavor runs against core sentiment and stronger arg...

9. How Much Are You Worth Per Hour?

   pieWACKet replied to gerry79's topic in General Nursing

   well, since we are in a crisis nursing shortage part of a longstanding nursing shortage evident since post WW II, it is clear that nurses are not paid in terms of market demand. If market demand were met, there would not be a shortage. As for me, in ...

10. Should it be illegal for nurses to unionize in non-profits

    pieWACKet replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely not. Before I anser your question, this paragraph. I do not think the term non profits is accurate in what you describe...its is Not for Profit that is the term that fits here. All hospitals work for profit, in order to remain viable. As y...

11. Extra pay for certification or degrees?

    pieWACKet replied to Baby Catcher's topic in General Nursing

    After I wrote my post I happened on this site. Go to Salary and Benefits at this page, and click on link...information you requested will be there. The NY Hospitals have "rounds of negotiation" and what happens in other hospitals happens in the other...

12. Extra pay for certification or degrees?

    pieWACKet replied to Baby Catcher's topic in General Nursing

    In NY city, differentials for cert, BSN, etc have been in the contracts since at least the early 80s. New York has a longer history of contracts than other regions in the US, and each contract, as you know, builds on the one previous. It may be helpf...

13. admirability of nursing: Your opinion please

    pieWACKet posted a topic in General Nursing

    Since 1999 the "Gallup Poll for Honesty and Ethics" has included nursing [it previously did not] in the list of professions ranked for perception of those qualities. In 1999 , the first year for nursing's inclusion, nurses ranked top of the list. In ...

14. Admirability of Nursing; The Gallup Poll and nursing response

    pieWACKet posted a topic in General Nursing

    Since 1999 the "Gallup Poll for Honesty and Ethics" has included nursing [it previously did not] in the list of professions ranked for perception of those qualities. In 1999 , the first year for nursing's inclusion, nurses ranked top of the list. I...

15. Why Bother?

    pieWACKet replied to CseMgr1's topic in General Nursing

    Never set your own standard for an eval higher than that which will be given you "Safe enough to work, needs work in a few areas". You'll be constantly disappointed. Nursing evals NEVER will say exceptional, but they will never say "Bad" [so why did...