karenchad

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1. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey

   I'm sorry to say NO I wouldn't- I think nursing students should get the real hands on clinical experience that I and many others got 30 years ago in a diploma program. I know that not a popular conviction nowadays I just don't see how you can tea...

2. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey

   Did any of you nursing students/new grads complain about this to your state nursing association or board of nursing? What did the school teach in exchange for all that tuition money they collected?

3. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey

   This is unforgivable for a nursing school

4. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey

   I think nursing education should go back to diploma hospital based nursing programs, where a student nurse can get a realistic idea of what nursing is all about, the good, the bad the ugly, the reality- the patients, the bedside, the proceedures, the...

5. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

   To PICUPNP- I don't mean to scare you- but my former union Pres. ( an ER nurse) from 1980-2002 moved to TEXAS. Merry Christmas from Philly!!

6. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

   A union DOES have the right to view personnel files, if the union has reason to believe that diciplines, terminations, layoffs etc. are suspicious in nature ( complaints from their unionized staff nurses) they most certainly do have the right to vie...

7. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

   To PICUPNP- With an advanced degree I would think one would have learned to express one's opinnions with more eloquence and restraint. I think all on this forum are entitled to their opinnions- which are largely based from one's own experiences- som...

8. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

   I must not only be misinformed but visually hallucinating also- all the Nurse Practioners ( male and female) I have come in contact with in 4 different hospitals 2 hospitals in the same healthsystem- have all worn white labcoats and street clothes-...

9. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

   Pediatrics doesn't seem to be having a problem with lack of hiring, or short staffing issues- the papers here in Philly are full of open positions for peds bedside nurses and PNP's( pediatric Nurse Practioners). It's us nurses with the hospitialized...

10. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    The majority of nurses have listened to the frightening scare tactics of the management. The majority of the nurses in our country are not familiar with a union or how a union works. Management has put these horror stories out there. Nurses have ...

11. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    My old union nursing contracts all had the opening statement-'Management reserves the right to run it's busines as it deems necessary' The union agrees to that , HOWEVER, the union and management sits down at a bargaining table and hashes out, bargai...

12. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    To woodenpug- I'm taking your comment to my post as sarcasm. I assure you I was not trying to be funny. I am only commenting on some people think unions make things better, some people think unions make things worse- Bottom line: when there is a uni...

13. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    It's very difficult to say anything nice about a non-union institution-with the current happenings in the nursing job market. Big bucks for CEO's salaries, perks and bene's, nurses out of jobs. Nurses terminated 'at will' 'not a good fit' aka. person...

14. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    The union I was a member of started out back in the early 1980's- it was a radical idea back then. Our officers and shopstewards grew into their positions- with training and workshops, they learned the rules of the labor and were on the dirty tactic...

15. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    Short staffing should ALWAYS be documented, along with a phone call to the Department of Health. My state has a 1 800 number to call - when I worked in a nurse unionized hospital- that number was called ALL the time. we staff nurses had 'short sta...