nicole109

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  1. I agree--I think you need to be professional about it...It seems to me that there might be some bad blood between you and this other nurse if you are going this far out of your way to get her fired. Especially when it doesn't really pertain to you. D...
  2. shift differential and qualifying for mortgage

    My mortgage broker used my w-2 and my last 2 months of pay stubs--this included my shift differentials which were huge because I was working weekend option night shift (almost $10 of shift differentials)--that was the pre-approval package that he sen...
  3. I can see both sides here--and I'm certainly one of those people who will read something once and get all bent out of shape and then read it again and go well...wait a minute, maybe it wasn't worth all of that and sheepishly walk away--LOL! I certain...
  4. If there is an inmate on your floor, there should also be a police officer or a correctional officer with that inmate, and they keep the key. The nurse doesn't get the key, because they aren't law enforcement, and have not been trained to use handcuf...
  5. John hopkins hospital and starting salary

    As one of the other posters said, Bayview is VERY different from JHH--as are all the other facilities in the Hopkins systems. I came from Bayview, and when I left there about a year ago, I was making $28 and some change as a full time day shift nurse...
  6. Do I need Insurance?

    In order to determine who is involved in a case or not...both attorneys involved in the case do what is called "discovery", where they attempt to discover the facts--this holds true in all types of law. During this process, they subpoena ALL of said ...
  7. Do I need Insurance?

    Insurance is a heated debate, and yes, you are in part covered by your employer--however, as a previous poster mentioned, you are only covered for the time that you were employed...so if a suit is filed after you leave, and you are involved, you will...
  8. Changing schedule and not telling me

    Do you guys have self-scheduling, so that you can access the schedule online from any computer? That would alleviate the neccessity of having to call someone? And I second everyone else in saying that I would call the person making the schedule or th...
  9. Brightstar home health care.......???

    Ditto to the above, I think I wrote or responded to a post about them before. I met a business person at an office about a PRN job for this company, he had no idea what a nurse did on a normal day--I politely left and never looked back, they called b...
  10. The first time that I teared up in front of a family, I was doing a home hospice rotation, and we walked in as the patient was taking her last few breaths--it was only a matter of minutes. The nurse that I was with had been seeing this patient for a ...
  11. What have you done without a Dr. order?

    I agree--I don't think that this is very smart--I will just say that I think that some of the things that the OP mentioned, you may actually have orders for and not even realize it. In the hospital that I came from, we had standing orders for a patie...
  12. Skin prep on open areas...

    Despite your best efforts to speak with the DON, the facility is going to do what they want...what you need to do, to cover your own behind is to DOCUMENT like crazy...make sure that you document everything that you are assessing, and who (MD and nur...
  13. Calvert Memorial/ Civista or St. Mary's Hospital?

    I grew up in Southern MD, and have been a patient many a times at Civista, formerly PMH way back when! I made the gruesome commute to Baltimore from LaPlata, happily bypassing Civista, Southern MD, all the DC Hospitals, BWMedical, and everything in b...
  14. patients family photographing your badge?

    if you can't photograph a patient without their written consent, they shouldn't be photographing you (or your badge) without your written consent...i would start handing the family the consent forms, then see what they say =)
  15. Fluid restrictions vs Patient rights

    This is interesting--and I've never really thought about it from this angle, I've had patients before drinking out of the toilet, etc. to get to water...it's really sad when you think about it. But when you think about the things that we do, to get t...