Kittylin

Kittylin has 32 years experience and specializes in NICU.

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1. My phone keeps going off at work...

   Kittylin replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   We are discouraged from having our phones on us but most people put them on silent and address calls or messages when in the break room. Many people also use them for a calculator and their calendar so they do get pulled out for legitimate use. I hav...

2. Student Nurse Nightmare-Help!

   Kittylin replied to RNFiona's topic in General Nursing

   Contact his instructor with your concerns. If the instructor hears how difficult things have been maybe he will be told he is at risk of not graduating. That might get him to change his attitude a bit. After I have had RN residents who apply for posi...

3. Pt Load & New Grad Burnout

   Kittylin replied to naptimeRN's topic in New Nurse

   I worked 9 years in a busy m/s unit and was ready to quit nursing entirely. That was 20 years ago when I only had 5 patients (no aides or LVNs) on days. I was going to school again for accounting. Then one last effort to save the nursing career, I we...

4. Are Prescheduled 4 hour shifts Legal in California?

   Kittylin posted a topic in California

   Hi All, I really need some feed back on this issue. Recently our manager and HR have claimed it is against the labor code for a 12 hour nurse to get the last 4 hours of a shift covered by another nurse. They claim it is against the Alternative Workwe...