BonnieBorcyk

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1. Would you accept this call out excuse?

   BonnieBorcyk replied to motherof3sons's topic in Geriatric

   First, when someone calls off, it causes a huge problem with staffing, and if it happens often enough, it makes people want to quit. You end up losing good employees when lazy ones call off constantly. Therefore, asking people why they are calling of...

2. Tattoos/Piercings in the workplace?

   BonnieBorcyk replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in Professionalism

   Ivory white tower - nurses should never have tattoos. Real world - people have them and many times people don't even notice. Patients can't tell you have a tattoo at all if it's covered up, obviously. My opinion - The best nurse I've ever met had v...

3. Dealing with "haters"...

   BonnieBorcyk replied to mmcc26's topic in General Students

   Have you ever heard the common phrase about nurses that they "eat their young"? Being a typically all-female career path, we already know that we're competitive and harsh at times, and even when you think you made "friends," many times it's all just ...

4. Health Safety-Mystudygroup101

   BonnieBorcyk replied to rhudo's topic in Excelsior

   I took Health Safety and passed the exam. One thing I noticed while studying and comparing information from SG101 was that SG101 had a LOT of wrong answers in the practice exams. I highlighted a lot of differences between the textbooks and the SG101 ...

5. Dropping Magnet

   BonnieBorcyk replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

   Care is deteriorating, because many of the people in charge of MAGNET status are MSN nurses or higher who came from another program like Business or something, and they got an accelerated degree in nursing. These people don't have the nursing experie...