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As a long time RN and a long time CNOR I will state with equivocation, that a one day orientation to the main OR is not sufficient and I believe that your manager is just doing what she is told, instead of what is right. This will be setting her staf...

Dear Nurse Beth: I feel that you dropped the ball on this one. According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any employer who has more than 50 employees must make every possible effort to accommodate that employees religious beliefs. The prospective...

You did the right thing for the patient by calling his physician. If you had done nothing and the patient suffered from an untoward event, you would never forgive yourself. Administrators are often neither physicians, clinicians or nurses. Who are th...

Nurse burnout is not caused only by the increased stress of having too many patients and not enough time to adequately do their jobs. There are other causes as well. Hostility from other staff members, verbal and physical aggression from Physicians w...

I most certainly would report the errors, also letting the supervisor know that the RN who made the error had falsified a document showing that you gave the medication, which you didn't. Obviously you are not yet using EHR's in your facility, because...

Obviously this Hospital Administrator is not working for a for profit hospital. In such a facility the staff is treated as a commodity, that can be easily replaced by lesser skilled personnel. The employees don't fee either engaged or valued. They ar...

There is no magic age to hang it up, or stop working as long as you remain mentally and physically sharp. I was forced to retire on disability at age 63. I had been an RN since 1971, and an OR RN since 1980, as well as becoming certified CNOR. Unfort...

Dear Decarla, My thoughts and prayers are with you. It sounds like they are giving you the runaround and are planning to let you go. This is not uncommon behavior for a for profit hospital that wants to save money on staffing by letting go of a lo...

You can refuse to float to a floor if you don't have experience on that floor, by saying I don't feel safe in floating. If you say this to a Nursing Manager, make sure that you document somewhere or had a witness to that conversation. This puts the r...

Violet, my thoughts and wishes for a complete recovery. I know you're pain. I was an RN for 26 years when I heard the dreaded words you have an abnormality in your mammograms bilaterally. I was an OR RN working on an Open Heart Team, and therefore to...

Unfortunately, there isn't much that you can do at this time. However I urge you when charting, please document not only the patient's status, but also the facts that there were no chair alarms available, and who you notified. Being owned by a huge c...

I totally agree with you. I have been an RN for many years and I detest the term client. A hooker calls her John a client. Well I'm certainly not a hooker. This term is debasing and denigrating for the nurse-patient relationship.

What you don't seem to realize is that unions are there to protect you. Yes seniority comes first when asking for vacations, but they are on a rotating basis. The person with the most seniority gets the pick of the vacation, but then drops to the bo...

This seems to be a problem basically in right to work states and in facilities in which these abusive physicians bring in a lot of business. You have several options that you can follow. Make sure that this behavior is witnessed and all the staff is ...

There are many positions in a hospital that require staff to be on call for example OR, PACU, Cath Lab, ICU/CCU, GI Lab, PICU/NICU to name a few. I don't know where you practice nursing, but in many states nurses are paid overtime if they work past t...

National Nurses United is an organization of nurse, and for nurses. The reason that nurses are burning out is basically the for profit hospitals owned by huge corporation. Nurses are just a commodity to them. All they care about is their bottom line....

Since your facility has not done anything to discipline this nurse, perhaps you should take it up a notch and report her to the DON of your facility, and if again nothing is done, report this RN to your state's Board of Nursing. Before you do this, m...

Absolutely not. You did nothing wrong, and your charge nurse/manager not supporting you without learning the facts is a coward. I hope that you wrote the Physician up for not only unprofessional behavior, but for creating a hostile workplace.

I was appalled at the nurse who wrote in an article that Nursing should not be glorified. Excuse me, but this person seems to burned out. Nurses are underpaid, underrespectd by both hospital administration and doctors. Yes doctors have more of an edu...

I would monitor the patient while awaiting the lab results. The patient already has 4 + pitting edema, heaven knows when she last took her Lasix. and I would hook her up to a monitor so that her HR, BP Svo2 and ekg tracing could be monitored. I would...

This is for the RN in the article Time to take that Final Step to the Locker Room. I too like you am an older RN who planned to work full time until I reached retirement age (1 more year), and then work part time to supplement my income. I too hav...

Dear TNN: My thoughts and wishes are with you. What a terrible way to treat a long term dedicated employee. You didn't mention if your facility was represented by a union. If so you cannot be fired without probable cause. You have no other write-u...

Dear Now Playing EDRN: I'm sorry that you feel that you have been forced to join the Union. Obviously, you haven;t seen the merit or the worth of being protected by a Union. I have not been a Union member very long, however it has helped me and my...