Owney

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  1. How are you spending your retirement?

    My boss got tired of my complaints about the corners I had to cut trying to give nursing care that I could live with. She retired me (AKA found somebody to lie about me, fire me, contest my 6 months unemployment, and challenge my license). After th...
  2. New grad RN with questions on IVP meds

    Heaverboo, When I was in nursing school, way back in the 1980's, we were required to write 3X5 index cards for every drug each of our patients were given. It listed generic &/or trade name(s), indications, dosage, side effects, precautions and n...
  3. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Babs, From my first day in the ER of a major trauma center, I knew I was putting myself at risk for PTSD. In 1981 I don't think it even had a name yet, and I had no idea how much I was paying until I was retired from nursing. One day my boss decide...
  4. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Dear readytolive, zoeboboey gave you a good answer. My therapist thought I might be ready to work after a year, so she gave me a referral to the "rehab counselor." After speaking with her nurse-to-nurse we decided that I was not, but she gave me go...
  5. Leaving for awhile...ambivalance...help

    Dear 123sunnid, It sounds as though you should explore your career issues with a disinterested third-party such as your mentor, therapist or pastor. I know next to nothing about floral design, but I do know that one should always pursue (within prac...
  6. No more internet access

    My Dear Colleagues, I have seen computers move into hospitals throughout my career. Before the internet (yes, there really was such a time) we had some PCs that were supposedly dedicated to printing out patient discharge instructions. The first tim...
  7. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    My Dear Colleagues, In 1976 I obtained a bachelor of arts degree from San Diego State University, with emphases in developmental, personality, abnormal, and industrial psychology. When I studied psychology at State, manic-depressive disorder was cha...
  8. How are you spending your retirement?

    Like some of you I retired early (57) and live on disability (SSD). Unlike most of you my boss woke up one morning and decided she no longer loved me so she suspended me and gave the chief of hospital security several months to develop a pack of lie...
  9. Has Anyone Read the Echo Heron Books?

    I read "Critical Care" and "Tending Lives." Heron's career is very much like mine. She worked for 17 years and I worked for 22, mostly ER. In "Tending Lives" each chapter is the story of nurses working in different specialties. The most telling c...
  10. Who are the Uninsured?

    Dixiedi, Are you prepared to withold your care to fellow humans and watch them die because they cannot afford to pay it? Why should the greatest country, with the greatest medical care in history have such an inequitable and rediculous system to p...
  11. Is this any way to retain nurses?

    Administrators do not view nurses as anything but expenses. In order to illustrate my point let me tell you a little story. My Friend Bob, an RN, MBA and accountant, told me about his Brother Kevin, a CPA in administration in a large hospital. Kevi...
  12. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    mkue, How can you say FINALLY if you read the date, 27 February? How can you say that Kerry "sings with a different choir every day" if you look at Junior's flip-flops, especially his flip-flop on Homeland Security? 'Steadfast' Bush's amazing flip-f...
  13. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    "Fighting a Comprehensive War on Terrorism" Remarks by Senator John Kerry at the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations February 27, 2004--University of California at Los Angeles--As Prepared for Delivery It's an honor to be here toda...
  14. Great book entitled "NURSE"

    Yeah, I read, "Nurse", by Peggy Anderson, RN when I was a senior nursing student. For a heart-rending story of a Viet Nam Nurse's experience read, "Home Before Morning." I forget the author's name. But by all means, read all three of the books by Ec...
  15. I'm so frustrated and sad...

    Sadie04, I hope you archived your message to yourself. If you have not, go back to your post and down load it into your word processor. Whenever your patients care is compromised, you should write a memo to administration, if only to cover your behi...