kayRN21

kayRN21

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  1. Nurse-Patient Ratios

    what we should be asking is what a frail confused elderly woman's life is worth in our society? Is it worth only the revenue her diagnosis can generate from medicare or medicade? The least amount of care so the most amount of money can feed greedy...
  2. nurse back problems

    I do not think it is part of being middle aged. My mom who is 80 had an MRI of her neck and mine is worse than hers. Mine was caused by years of lifting patients in nursing homes and rehab units. I never had men around to lift my patients. I was ...
  3. What is the major reason nurses leave?

    I left nursing because I herniated two disc in my neck. My last two 12 hour shifts in ICU I could not lift my right arm above my shoulder and had to wrap my left ankle and used a brace as i could not bear weight. I had had an MRI the week before. ...
  4. WI Healthcare Worker Retaliation Protection Act

    All I can say is "YOU GO Girl." I have so much respect for those that fight for the patients. When you are exploited so is the patient. I am tired of corporations making money off our backs and all the elderly population is worth is what companies...
  5. nurse back problems

    I also have degenerative disc disease and had disc surgery on my neck. My lower back is fine. I would suggest that on employment obtain disability insurance at work or with an insurance company outside of work. I could not say when I hurt my neck ...
  6. Cutting the umbilical cord with the hospital?

    I have seen this happen before when a unit was trying to do more with less or the unit was going to close down. I worked on a psych unit that closed and before it closed it used travelors and did not hire any new staff. I came to work one day and t...
  7. I started out making 5.00 and hour in 1974 as an RN with an ADN. I completed my BSN in 1996. I continued to work as a bedside staff nurse. I have worked as a staff nurse for 28 years and was making 25 dollars an hour. I no longer want or can do t...
  8. Dirty Hospital Dealing...

    Well budget affects the nurse and the patients. If the nurse can not safely take care of the patients with inexperienced staff and staff unfamiliar with the unit then there will be poor outcomes. The nurse will be the scapegoat and administration w...
  9. Lazy, demanding staff

    I agree with Mattsmom 81 as I am also a seasoned nurse of 28 years. I gave nursing my all as I was a nurse first. Now I saw myself as patient advacate too and talked to others about how to care for patients and was written up as not getting along w...
  10. Lazy, demanding staff

    Maybe the staff has been discouraged by management that does not listen or encourage initiative or the real workers were run off by the poorly motivated. kayRN21