bhacken

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1. Nursing Unions-what is the good,bad, ugly?

   bhacken replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

   I work in the Akron, OH area and the largest union hospital usually sets the pay and benifit scale. When they negotiate a new contract with higher pay and benefits the other hospitals in the area come up with something comparable to keep from losing...

2. Nursing Unions-what is the good,bad, ugly?

   bhacken replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

   The real reason for going by seniority is so that the managers can't pick from their buddy list or just go with the biggest suckup, ignoring better qualified people with more time and experience. That causes hard feelings too. If the hospital and ...

3. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

   bhacken replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Humor

   This happened to one of my fellow female students in clinicals. She was doing peri care on a 400+ lb male patient in his 20's. He was standing up while she washed his bottom half and after she finished she had to apply a powder to his creases and pe...