oldcurlyrn49

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1. Generation gap and attitudes towards work - hurting patients?

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to pebbles's topic in Safety

   I think it is wrong to catagorize people. My current manager who is in her thirties is always talking about "Generation X". According to her, gen-xers do not feel they need to "pay their dues" ie; work holidays, night shifts.They are all about insta...

2. Questions about staffing a small peds unit

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to oldcurlyrn49's topic in Pediatric

   I appreciate your response. My co-workers and I agree with everything you wrote! There was a situation years ago, where a child died in Peds, one nurse working on nights no one else. It took more than a few min. to get a response from the code team....

3. Questions about staffing a small peds unit

   oldcurlyrn49 posted a topic in Pediatric

   We are currently at odds with management as to how best"staff" our 14 bed pediatric unit.Our patient's ages range anywhere from neonate to 18yrs.Our acuity varies from day to day. On any given day we may be caring for a sickle cell pt. with an "acut...

4. Peds Rules: U Must Know This!

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to StevenRN's topic in Pediatric

   hilarious!!! thanks for making me laugh!it's been a hard week,lots of rsv and rototvirus! you helped to remind me why i love peds so much---thankyou!

5. Do you wear makeup?

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to FutureNurse2005's topic in General Students

   At almost 49, not only do I wear makeup(minimal) I pluck and spackle! The most important thing to remember is to appear well groomed, makeup or not! I shows you take pride in what you do.Unfortunately you are judged by your appearance. If you look m...

6. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   The funniest thing I heard was just yesterday. A mom of a 2week old baby that was admitted for RSV, stated the baby had RSVP!

7. Disturb you to see a tongue pierced?

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to mario_ragucci's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a pediatric unit, one of our nurses continues to wear her tongue ring, even though it is against the hospital dress code. She has been warned by our manager who also threatened to put her in corrective action if she didn't take the darn thi...

8. Mc Donalds pays more for CNA with 8 yrs exp

   oldcurlyrn49 replied to Rnltc's topic in Geriatric

   Hello, First allow me to introduce myself, I am new to the forum. I am an RN currently working on a 12 bed peds unit. We have a 16 year old high school student working on our unit as a CNA. Apparently there is some new program in place to recruit st...