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normarae

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  1. I am going back to the OR after 1 yr in correctional nursing. Your msg took me back to the OR immediately. Thanks a lot!!
  2. How would you explain it?

    Correctional nursing is what I call "The Last Frontier in Nursing". Why? Because every experience with patient's, physicians, surgeons and hospital managers that you have had will come to play in providing optimum care to these inmates. It can be a...
  3. Does Your Unit Director Do This?

    This is exactly what I was referring to in another msg regarding teachers vs nursing retirement. I think the notebook with dates time and situations is an excellent idea for all nurses because management does not really give a rats a$$ about acuity ...
  4. She doesn't have a clue!

    I have been thinking we should write to Pres Bush and try to get him educated on the OTHER largest unappreciated profession in the USA ...nursing. Like one msg stated...we couldn't feed a large dog on our retirement income. Why is it that nurses c...
  5. I am glad to see that several nurses pointed out the difference. I have in OR for 20 years and most managers in the last 8 years have refused (hospital policy?) to let the badge indicate the level of education the nurse has, let alone the certificat...
  6. I am glad to see that several nurses pointed out the difference. I have in OR for 20 years and most managers in the last 8 years have refused (hospital policy?) to let the badge indicate the level of education the nurse has, let alone the certificat...
  7. Do managers in any of your clinics tell you their is only ONE way to tape an IV site? that you can only decannulate the arterial or venous in certain order? do they tell you that pcts can draw heparin? that a sign of your performance is putting "x"...
  8. So long Nursing

    I am 59 and work in the fine No rights for employees state of Florida. I was fired from a hospital OR because the manager felt "uncomfortable" working with me - ( had more credentials and experience than her) I went to agency med surg Tele - they w...
  9. Recruitment and retention

    buffy you need to go to another country -the hospitals here have not even found out how to hire a fair/efficient manager which is the reason we don't have retention in the U.S. ------------------
  10. nursing shortage???????

    I am from Florida and the hospitals have been playing the job open game with no job available for the past 5 years just to give HR interview practice. If they DO hire you they try their best to get rid of you before your benefits/bonus is given. wi...
  11. Fabulous Idea!!!!

    Well well Bunky - are you sure we aren't related? I agree that we have to get our cause public and what a great idea to march. to the other nurse re telling pts how it is -it is my belief that when a patient/family member complains about "the usual l...
  12. burnout in the OR

    i have been a perioperative nurse for 18 years cnor, onc, rnfa, with open heart experience, major ortho and vascular first assistant/circ/scrub experience and love what i do. started out as an ER nurse and went to the OR. Moved back to small town fl...
  13. UNSAFE healthcare

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  14. what are your thoughts r/t unions?

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  15. what are your thoughts r/t unions?

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