cacwell

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1. How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

   cacwell replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

   I guess you should have gone to business, communications, HR, marketing, or PR school.

2. Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

   cacwell replied to RNDave's topic in Professionalism

   Sorry to parrot everyone else, but I've been saying the same thing for years: there is no shortage of RNs just a shortage of people willing to do the job... and the hospitals are happy to keep it that because: 1. there is no true labor market for RNs...

3. An open letter to the #NursesUnite movement

   cacwell replied to disillusionedrn's topic in General Nursing

   I agree... there should be laws mandating staffing levels, which is why we need lobbyists and not Unions. As far as corporations making money hand over fist, I'm not so sure anymore with all the changes in reimbursement.... for instance: hospitals n...

4. An open letter to the #NursesUnite movement

   cacwell replied to disillusionedrn's topic in General Nursing

   Unionization does nothing to solve these issues... I've been down that road and all that a union does is add another level of bureaucracy that looks out for itself and not the individual nurse. Like it or lump it, true change in today's world (at l...

5. Too much stuff behind ID badge!!

   cacwell replied to NurseEric81's topic in Professionalism

   Thank JCAHO. If you think your hospital wants to spend money on all that badge rattle, you are mistaken. Time to get lawyers & bureaucrats (on a funny aside my phone autocorrected to "burro rats") out of the way of those of us on the front-lines...

6. Surrendering RN Scope!

   cacwell replied to jegalink's topic in Professionalism

   You can thank JACHO or TJC or whatever they call themselves this week... Now that "range doses" are illegal, our gtt orders are a joke, clearly written by individuals (read PA and MDs) whom have never actually titrated: "Norepinepherine IV infusion s...

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

   cacwell replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a non-union hospital and seniority plays out the same way: new nurses must wait on a queue for an opening on day shift; the senior nurses get first pick of vacation, educational opportunities, and (in most cases) promotions; and seniority d...

8. OPINION PLEASE-er triage situation-overwhelmed!

   cacwell replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

   understaffing overcrowding grumpy patients that just need a pcp and not the ed no management backup no facility backup nurses in the medical icu refusing pts because "the patient's condition doesn't warrent the last bed" holding inpatients in the er ...

9. Drug seekers "Drug of Choice"

   cacwell replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   As an ER nurse two things bug me about our seekers: 1. The $ we spend doing test after test every time one of our seekers comes in looking for a fix 2. The truely ill people left sitting in the waiting room for hours while all these tests are done