Chiggysmom

Chiggysmom has 13 years experience and specializes in Oncology.

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1. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

   Chiggysmom replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing

   1. PA 2. 16 3. Oncology/Med surg 4. Hourly $30.21 5. No differential for evenings or weekends, $1.00/Night shift 6. No Union, nor do ever see one coming

2. Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more!

   Chiggysmom replied to Blue Roses's topic in General Nursing

   Although it's unusual to leave without giving a two week notice, I believe in this particular situation, it doesn't sound like you were going to be able to work there for even one more day or night, let alone two weeks. From your description of your...

3. Best Nursing Shoes/Sneakers

   Chiggysmom replied to gladtobeOB's topic in Uniform/Gear

   Where did you buy the soft footbed Birkenstock in white?

4. Why is staff turnover considered bad?

   Chiggysmom replied to SHGR's topic in General Nursing

   Poor work environment but not necessarily the other staff. We too have had a lot of nurses leave in the last few months (greater than 5) and it wasn't because of the "other staff", it was because of poor working conditions, scheduling, short staffin...

5. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

   Chiggysmom replied to kaliRN's topic in Safety

   We recently switched to blocked assignments, so now there are days (I work 12 hr days and nights) when you can lose almost your entire assignment and start getting ER admissions and have/process as many as 8-11 patients in an extreme case. Before th...

6. Nurses: Oppression Can Stop With You

   Chiggysmom replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   This is ridiculous, nit picking on Commuter's excellent article/topic! Give her a break! Obviously, she didn't intentionally mean to offend anyone. I think it's absurd that certain people had to find any offense in what she wrote!

7. Nurses: Oppression Can Stop With You

   Chiggysmom replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   We have lost 4 nurses from our unit in the last 2 1/2 months because of the poor conditions in which we are forced to work. All of them were newer nurses, 3 of them worked less than a year. One thing about the younger nurses that I have observed, t...

8. Nurses: Oppression Can Stop With You

   Chiggysmom replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   Could this be the reason why management looks the other way and turns a blind eye to the antics that go on around their units? While we're busy being nasty to each other, we're not rallying all of our energies and working together collectively to he...

9. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

   Chiggysmom replied to kaliRN's topic in Safety

   Could only dream about and wish for ratios like this!

10. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

    Chiggysmom replied to kaliRN's topic in Safety

    All I can say is Wow. I work in oncology in Pittsburgh and when working nights, we can have as many as 8 patients a piece (the least is 6) with no aid, and we also have to do our own blood draws from central lines, ports and Piccs, plus we function ...

11. The education requirement for nursing is changing

    Chiggysmom replied to DichloroacetateAl's topic in General Nursing

    You are so-o right about this! I have a BSN and I wouldn't entertain working there with a ratio of 49:1 for even a split second but not for the reasons you're thinking (that I think I'm too good for that?). It is because this just doesn't sound saf...

12. The education requirement for nursing is changing

    Chiggysmom replied to DichloroacetateAl's topic in General Nursing

    49:1!!! There's no way you could ever convince me this is even remotely safe? I don't mean to be disrespectful at all, but I don't see you as looking exceptional because you are willing to work in these conditions? This facility is majorly taking ...

13. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

    Chiggysmom replied to kaliRN's topic in Safety

    Well isn't that just convenient for LTC facillities! It "looks" like they re staffing way better than they actually are. Nurses shouldn't work like that. If they couldn't find anyone foolish enough t work like that, then they would have to staff b...

14. The education requirement for nursing is changing

    Chiggysmom replied to DichloroacetateAl's topic in General Nursing

    While they have expectations of us that are professional, we are treated anything but professional! Instead we are treated like kinder gartners, they have stripped us of our autonomy, left us out of every decision that they make that directly affect...

15. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

    Chiggysmom replied to kaliRN's topic in Safety

    I am so with you on this! The "corporation" changed their staffing grid about a year ago and we do the same thing when the census is low, it doesn't make a lick of sense that when the census goes down, we have MORE patients to care for? We haven't ...