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1. Scared of MD

   guinans replied to tamari07's topic in General Nursing

   I read your post and had to respond before I even read any of the replies, as I was just telling someone today how back in the days when I was a young nurse in the late 1980's, docs could still throw a chart at you if they felt like it and get away w...

2. Why Nurses Book Off Work

   guinans replied to Truth66's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. My first forray out of bedside nursing was as a clinical practice nurse at a major teaching hospital. I floated around the different practices - endocrine, GI, General Med, Heme/Onc for awhile as a temp ...

3. Why Nurses Book Off Work

   guinans replied to Truth66's topic in General Nursing

   PS It would not have made one iota of difference to me WHAT anyone put after my name. My perception of being in hell had nothing to do with whether or not anyone addressed me as R.N.

4. Why Nurses Book Off Work

   guinans replied to Truth66's topic in General Nursing

   When I worked as a hospital nurse, I "booked off" work all the time, only I called it "calling out sick". I've maintained jobs (this was back in the 90's) when I only made it to work about 1/2 the time. I could give a hundred or more reasons I didn...

5. Was I wrong?

   guinans replied to waggykeeper's topic in General Nursing

   We all know as nurses we cannot simply "follow doctor's orders" if we know harm will or may come to a patient if we follow the order. Because you hold a license and are responsible for your own actions, I think you have a right to have it explained ...

6. Relocating to a new state to find a job... How to go about it?

   guinans replied to sunspotmia's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated in the late 1980's. Even then, in a good job market, employers liked to see hands on experience in a hospital, nursing home, ambulance crew as an aide, tech, EMT ect. before hiring. Diploma school nurses got great bedside experience bac...

7. Relocating to a new state to find a job... How to go about it?

   guinans replied to sunspotmia's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic either. I'm just telling you what I know from experience. I graduated nursing school 25 years ago, and it was easy to get a job back then. However, I'd spent my senior year of high school plus my four years of nu...

8. Anyone studied Nursing Informatics?

   guinans replied to guinans's topic in Informatics

   Actually, I've been a practicing RN for 25 years now. I was a nurse's aide for 4 years prior to this while a student nurse, and prior to that an aide for 1 year while still a senior in high school. I think I've got the bedside thing covered. I can't ...

9. Relocating to a new state to find a job... How to go about it?

   guinans replied to sunspotmia's topic in General Nursing

   Jeez. This is tough. I would recommend a travel nurse assignment but it sounds like you don't have any experience yet. The difficulty with moving to a new State is, what if things don't work out at your new place of employment? As they so often d...

10. Anyone studied Nursing Informatics?

    guinans posted a topic in Informatics

    Has anyone studied nursing informatics and/or worked in this specialty? It seems interesting but I'm not sure of all thats involved in this sort of work. Where specifically does a nurse with this type of training work? Is it hard to get a job once...

11. Do nurses really "eat their young?"

    guinans replied to Keko89's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! And their old and everything in between. This can be an obsolutely vicious profession.

12. I just got fired... what the hell happened?

    guinans replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    I hope I didn't come across as discouraging anyone from hiring an attorney. I think an attorney would be an assest in a situation like this. However, if you want to sue anyone, and have an attorney work on a contingency basis (no fee unless you col...

13. I just got fired... what the hell happened?

    guinans replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh! The embarrassment. I know all about it. Look, did you steal from your employer? Did you cheat your employer? Did you lie or misrepresent yourself in any way to your employer? Did you willfully and knowingly and with bad intent harm a patie...

14. I just got fired... what the hell happened?

    guinans replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Nocturne. Hope you're feeling a little better today. I had posted yesterday about how this same thing has happened to me, and more than once in my 25 year career. Its happened 3 times. I can tell you from my own experience that I always quali...

15. I just got fired... what the hell happened?

    guinans replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    This has happened to me, and more than once in my 25 years as a practicing nurse. Its really painful, I know. Usually its because you've ruffled someone's feathers somewhere, usually a person in a position of power. Had you noticed anything unethi...