lorelei1973

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1. Favorite kind of facility to work in...

   lorelei1973 replied to eveningsky339's topic in CNA/MA

   I work in a state psychiatric hospital and would not want to work anywhere else. I don't do butt-wiping or brief changing, showering, dressing, feeding, etc. The therapeutic difference I make is interacting with the chronically mentally ill, and I ...

2. Oh, The Politics...

   lorelei1973 replied to DeepFriedRN's topic in General Nursing

   It sounds like they're really not used to efficiency or having an employee who does what they would most prefer not to happen, which is to drive them. Good grief, time to have a conversation with the principles. You can do your work and circles aro...

3. Should I leave my current job?

   lorelei1973 replied to CCURN87's topic in General Nursing

   My comment is very basic: Don't leave your current job until you've secured a new one. Don't fall prey to the "Grass is Greener" syndrome. I would suggest that you decide what makes you unhappy about your current hospital. If it's ICU work, then ...

4. Frustrated...What would you do?

   lorelei1973 replied to LPN&momof3's topic in General Nursing

   That's a scam bordering on extortion. Better to be collecting unemployment pounding the pavement and sending out resumes than submitting to such an insult. In the end, you're essentially paying them. I'm floored that anyone (other than maybe someo...

5. how to file an incident report

   lorelei1973 replied to huyenchau's topic in General Nursing

   Incident reports are not optional where I work, and they're done electronically. Because so many of our nurses and staff are semi-literate (at best) when it comes to computers, we lobbied to get a desktop icon that leads the user straight to the for...

6. Frustrated...What would you do?

   lorelei1973 replied to LPN&momof3's topic in General Nursing

   I wouldn't take it. I'd call them back and say that you feel like you were mislead into thinking you would be receiving $17/hr. and that you cannot afford to work at that wage (because, really can you? Doesn't seem so when factoring in childcare and...

7. CNA jobs...is it always like this?

   lorelei1973 replied to deewee's topic in CNA/MA

   Good for you for finding this out. Now what? I would call or write your local state agency responsible for enforcement, but frame this as a question first (are they in violation and how so? May I have your name and title?) so you get the ground ru...

8. CNA jobs...is it always like this?

   lorelei1973 replied to deewee's topic in CNA/MA

   There are no federal laws regarding breaks and meal periods, so you will have to find out what your state law says and/or what your company's employee handbook says. Even if you are entitled to breaks under state law, they do not have to be paid. A...

9. Hospital Changes Attendance Policy

   lorelei1973 replied to mcpkin's topic in General Nursing

   Without getting into too much detail, she had an arrest for DUI which was pretty bad, and had been in the nurse monitoring program on and off for years, so she was on the chopping block until the union intervened and got her back with a Last Chance A...

10. Being a Nurse for a Killer

    lorelei1973 replied to Stickyrunner325's topic in General Nursing

    As horrifying as this crime was, this patient is a human, albeit of the Hannibal Lecter variety (psychiatrist? VERY creepy). If you work with the criminal psych population you have to be very detached from the circumstances that brought them to you....

11. threatened at work

    lorelei1973 replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a psych hospital with the criminally insane and all the patients know our first and last names. Some have internet privileges and can easily look us up, no matter how private we try to keep our identity. People with Axis II diagnoses in ...

12. Hospital Changes Attendance Policy

    lorelei1973 replied to mcpkin's topic in General Nursing

    So true, so true.

13. Hospital Changes Attendance Policy

    lorelei1973 replied to mcpkin's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, get a copy of the old policy and the new policy. Analyze the differences for possible reasons for the change. Not blowing my horn here, but I just got someone out of predismissal for attendance issues. In the past she had big probl...

14. back to Work with a Warning

    lorelei1973 replied to the_alchemist's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know where you live or what the laws are in your state, nor whether you belong to a union. If you're in a "right to work" state, you can be dismissed just like that. If you are represented by a union, you have a collective bargaining agreem...

15. Double Shifts

    lorelei1973 replied to escapebigd's topic in CNA/MA

    I know several RN's at my hospital who do 2 16s and an 8 and LOVE IT and wouldn't trade it for anything. The idea of having 4 days off in their opinion is well worth the long hours on workdays. But ultimately it comes down to what you can handle. ...