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  1. Forced Baths and Patients rights

    To Allisonhillary: Do you just start washing pts if they are sleeping, Do you just enter the room and say it's time to clean up Im not talking about dementia pts. this unit is a step down unit TICU/MICU these people may be on the way home and say I'l...
  2. Forced Baths and Patients rights

    Yes I understand the infection control issue. But you do not have the right to bathe a patient who is sleeping, and if you ask 3 times and they refused three times you shouldn't fear losing your job or be told your not doing your job.
  3. Forced Baths and Patients rights

    Missouri. This is a Hospital Not a Nursing Home. I have two pt.s that have complained about this they say they were told they have to take a bath today it's been two days and your dirty. This man was offended. The CNA said she does just go in and tel...
  4. Forced Bath's is this taking away a patients rights?

    This is a Level 1 hospital not a LTC
  5. Forced Baths and Patients rights

    I posted the question regarding Forced baths and a few people read my post and they want to know What is APS and who do we contact concerning this bcause I have 4 people here who want to know who to turn to because they've been written up for not giv...
  6. Forced Bath's is this taking away a patients rights?

    APS whats that stand for?
  7. I am woking this evening and we just had a CNA leave. She's saying she is very upset with how she's told to just go into a patients room and start bathing them while they are sleep and that it is her job to MAKE a patient let her give them a sponge ...
  8. Is this ground for a law suit

    No..The Nurses are very rude on our unit everytime theres a new CNA PCA whatever they will regress to the 3rd grade and give them the silent treatment. I've heard new co-workers ask a question and noone answered and when the person left the room they...
  9. Is this ground for a law suit

    I am really good friends with a co-worker who is a Patient Care Assistant, and black the there are only two on our unit. Anyway she has confided in me in the past that she was being treated badly Nurses not speaking to her, not explaining to her what...
  10. mineral area college Nursing Program

    I was looking into several Nursing school programs and recieved a booklet regarding mineral area college. I am confused because there are a couple of option and one just makes no sense to me. You can eith go the regular Rn route or do the LPN-RN rout...
  11. Diversity CRNA Mentorship Program

    Has anyone belonged to or heard of Diversity CRNA for Minorites wanting to enter the CRNA field? If so how was it for you and would you recommend it for others?
  12. I have wanted to attend CRNA school for a long time my best friends Mother was one before she retired and I always loved the lifestyle she was able to afford for her family as a single mom, she was always talking about her work and she loved it. I ha...
  13. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    I didn't mean to sound if being a NP is easy. What she was pointing out is that she can make a great living and still be with her kids unlike a Physician friend of ours who said she was told by her family by this x-mas she needed to chose family or c...
  14. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    I just wanted to say thank you for all the amazing advice I have a few Nurse friends on our unit we work the MICU and it's t be blunt the ass crack of the whole hospital really we get the cdiff, constant incontent pts. almost every room is a isolatio...
  15. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    I have a friend who just started working as a NP about a year ago and she said she is really disappointed she didn't go to CRNA school because she is making the same money she made as a RN in the hospital. When she did agency work she made even more,...