None of you will like what I have to say. But let me kick the hard truth to you. Honestly about 50% of people I talk to are in nursing school or are taking pre-reqs for nursing school. This is a major red flag for several reasons. If you have not noticed, nursing wages/benefits have been on the down trend.
Pension?? goodbye.
Crud 401k 403b plans hello. Raise? LOL "sorry hospital is working out financial issues, maybe next year".
Nevermind if you work for a community/SNF agency. Yet insurance companies, medicare derived/gov agencies, and anyone else from the top 1% will continue to blast the RN as "shortage" in order to drive drones of students into nursing schools pulling each others hair out on the way to land a seat. Proof of this is, let's see (ABSN ***** ADN, BSN, diploma, LPN/LVN bridge to RN programs, RN to BSN) Why do these different routes exist? To flood the RN market as fast as possible to drive the wage, need, and profession into the ground.
Let's look at our oh so loyal CNA's. If you can find one that isn't in nursing school to be a nurse, ask them how much they make?
Look at LPN's 20-30 years ago and look at them today??
Surely the ANA and other organizations treated them with respect. The RN is next, so make sure to support your local nursing agency so they can do nothing for you. So they can be paid off by organizations so powerful that no one can say no and "not have the power to stop a bill". So they can continue to cry nursing shortage when this is not true.
RNs today are treated like children and are required to demonstrate fundamental task and other skills in inservices which were designed for nothing else but cut throat. To place blame of UTI's and poor patient satisfaction on the nurse.
If you are an RN today, your only safety net is to become an APRN if you want to live comfortably but in several decades the APRN will be under attack just like the LPN had been an RNs currently are. "OH the aging population is going to need nurses" You really think so?
Nursing homes are shutting down and now elderly people live at home with "24 hour care takers" that get paid **** wages and do things only an RN should be doing. You don't think so? Wake up.
None of this is to say that I hate nursing. I love helping people who are mentally ill, suffering from dementia, sick, or on their death beds. It is when we do great things for them that my love for nursing shines. There aren't other people standing around to reward you for your great deeds.
When the family comes in the next day complaining about everything, they never had a chance to see how well their dying loved one was cared for. Your good deeds will never be rewarded, but in a safe place in your heart.
I am just here to open the eyes of people who are intelligent and looking for a new career. I think you may find better job security else where. Invest your time in classes and money else where. Nursing is honestly under great attack right now and the future is black.
ladyfree and elkpark, you are not the type of nurse i would want around me or my family , just keep eating your fellow nurses kicking them when their down.
You have made a decision as to the kind of care these two nurses would be able to give based on their opinion of a news story? Should we base our opinion of YOUR quality of care on your rantings and ravings on this thread? Then again....maybe that's not a bad idea....
Nurses like myself.....who don't know her, don't know the situation, know NONE of the facts other than what is reported, who witnessed nothing to "stick up" for?
How is it you don't realize you come across to us as a ranting lunatic in these posts full of conspiracy theories, exclamations, capitalizations and accusations?
The allegations against Ms Trujillo are public record. She allegedly "educated" a patient with an upcoming liver transplant by going into the room at 2am-ish while the patient was groggy from narcotics and told them that, among other things, being a transplant receiver entails "being hounded and hounded by the transplant people" and that they should consider hospice.
Now, whether or not this is true, I do not know. That's what the trial seeks to discover. But for you to say that the allegations are trivial and that even if they're true, they're "nothing", is disturbing. Particularly considering you're a 35-year experienced RN. If these allegations are true, they constitute a gross breach of ethics, and license revocation would be justified.
The details of this case are very well known to me. The Working Nurse article has its unique foundations related by an author that specifically was posted in that fashion and if the wording is analyzed it might reveal the author to be that of a Board member. That is the opinion of many. The facts in this case are not unique for misleading presentation of witnesses. The patient had not been scheduled for transplant surgery, and had zero knowledge of it except being informed by the physician that that was the plan. The late hour of the teaching was and is not a violation. The patient responded appropriately and was later agreeable to not wanting surgery. Its a nothing case and forced upon the Board by the adm and physician. The Board should've thrown it out.
"interesting reading? if you like fiction. it all in the BON AZ minds , they write what is on the web, and believe me they know how to dramatize and lie. the 'findings ' not proven and other nurses like yourself , did not stick up for her, although they were "witnesses" they turned their back and went with the boss, if you cannot READ BETWEEN the lines!! nancy barto is just another croonie of the BON AZ
I did not say that, we are not talking about EVERY case. The writer wrote, in THIS case " license revocation would be justified". I disagree
Coming from someone who "works in hospice" this is exceptionally strange response.
We would have known that had you quoted the post you were responding to. The meaning of your posts is lost almost completely when you fail to quote what you are responding to.
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You have made a decision as to the kind of care these two nurses would be able to give based on their opinion of a news story? Should we base our opinion of YOUR quality of care on your rantings and ravings on this thread? Then again....maybe that's not a bad idea....