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  1. Do Day Nurses Really Feel that Night Nurses Do Nothing All Night?

    mamabear replied to Brita01's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked nights for about 90% per cent of my nursing career, exclusively in adult psych. At my previous job, we checked the MARs, checked orders, made sure everybody was up and dressed for...

  2. What can I do with my BSN that Assoc. RN's can't?

    mamabear replied to doodlebug914's topic in General Nursing

    My Clinical Manager (in olden times they were called "head nurses") is an ASN who clawed his way to the top by stepping all over the person who hired him. (He also made it abundantly clear to the...

  3. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    mamabear replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Communication is a major issue. Apparently the required language screening tests are not adequate because they clearly pass some whose accents are so thick as to be unintelligible;This is particularly...

  4. 12-Step Coercion

    mamabear replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    where, when, and under what

  5. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

    mamabear replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    (I've had a few days to think about this): To be rigorously honest, I admit I went into nursing for the money and the job security. When I first started college, back in 1964, I was a music ed major,...

  6. 12-Step Coercion

    mamabear replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Dear me The preamble that is read at the beginning of all AA meetings in the NW Indiana area states: "AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organizations, or institutions; does not...

  7. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

    mamabear replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    QUOTE=lizz]I agree. I agree with both of

  8. 12-Step Coercion

    mamabear replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    i, too, have been a member for 18 years. if anyone interested would read the beginning of the 5th chapter of "alcoholics anonymous", aka the big book, they would learn that "... these are the steps we...

  9. Personnal lives or reckless?

    mamabear replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

    Oops! I meant I sure hope wannabee has finally found a hobby/got a life :chuckle I'm still kind of new at this computer

  10. Personnal lives or reckless?

    mamabear replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

    I sure hope

  11. Personnal lives or reckless?

    mamabear replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

    Having almost died 3 times (never mind how), I tend to throw caution to the winds. For example, I don't wear my seatbelt when I'm driving. In Indiana, pick-up trucks are exempt. When I ride on the...

  12. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    mamabear replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    My sentiments exactly! Are we all too P.C. to discuss cultural differences (by foreign, I mean non-North

  13. I wish I'd have known....B4 nursing school

    mamabear replied to ARmickie's topic in General Nursing

    Or the nights on the perpetually understaffed psych unit where we ARE the punching

  14. Does your employer recognize "Nurse's Day"?

    mamabear replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

    Amen! For most of my RN career, I've worked nights, for all the usual reasons, and we don't get bupkes! Unless we're supposed to feel goog about the $1.00 shift diffeerential and $0.50 charge pay!...

  15. feelings about double rooms

    mamabear replied to starryx2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    that's what i meant in my earlier post, where i made reference to borderlines on psych units: they are the

  16. feelings about double rooms

    mamabear replied to starryx2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I've been wondering about the HIPPA thing for a long time. How DO they get around it? It's not so bad on a psych unit, where most of the patients are up, dressed, and ambulatory (except for the...

  17. I wish I'd have known....B4 nursing school

    mamabear replied to ARmickie's topic in General Nursing

    Goes double for

  18. I wish I'd have known....B4 nursing school

    mamabear replied to ARmickie's topic in General Nursing

    Amen, and right

  19. Does your employer recognize "Nurse's Day"?

    mamabear replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a satellite facility, about 25 miles from the main campus. This year, the Grand Poobahs of patient care services brought a bunch of salads, roast beef, chicken-done-something-to, rolls,...

  20. Speaking Spanish Helpful?

    mamabear replied to Energizer Bunny's topic in General Nursing

    I agree 1000%! I live in northwest Indiana and, yes, we have a lot of Spanish-speaking residents. However, we also have an equal number of people who speak Serbian, Polish, and other Slavic languages....

  21. Speaking Spanish Helpful?

    mamabear replied to Energizer Bunny's topic in General Nursing

    jnette: It's ITALIAN,

  22. Federalize Nursing Licenses! Who's with me?

    mamabear replied to mobileLPN's topic in General Nursing

    What is a "compact" state? I live in Indiana, and sometimes it takes a while for information to float down to

  23. Federalize Nursing Licenses! Who's with me?

    mamabear replied to mobileLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Why? That can run in to some major bucks. ALL healthcare professionals should have a federal

  24. the term "animal nurse"

    mamabear replied to Clarvina Streisand's topic in General Nursing

    I'm tired of it too: this whole "who's better" ADN/diploma/BSN debate has been done to death. I've been an RN since 1982, and it was old news back then :angryfire As I've said a zillion times: you...

  25. the term "animal nurse"

    mamabear replied to Clarvina Streisand's topic in General Nursing

    I checked out the link at the beginning of this thread: boy, are they EVER hateful :angryfire And where do they get the idea that LPNs go to school for one year?