TsunamiKim

TsunamiKim

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  1. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I Agree with TNNURSE: We must abide by one of the core principles of Nursing training and do as Nurses are consistently taught to do: Document everything! Hang on to every scrap...

  2. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    tnnurse and so many other dedicated patient advocates, there are certain employees who are more likely to become the target of a campaign for removal: you are in one of...

  3. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    initially i tried to avoid the possibility of legal action and postponed this option as a last resort. this was mostly due to my belief that hospitals in general are sacrosanct if you wholeheartedly...

  4. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    good thoughts, good advice that i too would give to others, but i did most of the above and still it all failed. i started to fight back through my union. it took them 8months to...

  5. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry about the double post I thought I had edited out post #12 as it contained missing chunks of text and didn't make sense in places because of this. Post #13 seems OK. I found a way to take out...

  6. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    thank you for following up by responding to my question as i often feel like one lonely voice in the wilderness. i believe when, if, and how often medical staff require relief should be predicated by...

  7. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am still having problems with my posts to this site. Why are all my posts being blocked by

  8. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am having trouble posting as the site keeps inserting icons? Will try later, Tsunami

  9. Re: Blowing The Whistle On Deliberate Understaffing & Toxic Managerial Practices

    TsunamiKim replied to TsunamiKim's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    hi tnnurse, i have a tendency for my blood sugar to become quite low when i skip a meal, but everything is fine as long as i am sensible about what i eat and when. i would not describe it...

  10. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    so ... while these provisions may very well protect the rn that you had a problem with, it also probably would have provided you some protection in your situation. this is the problem...

  11. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    tnnurse: is there hope? check this out: [color=#990000]more texas hospitals earn nurse friendly designation...

  12. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    sorry folks i was posting a reply to an earlier part of the thread where tnnurse was talking about catching management out in a lie and it would come back to bit them in the bum. since that post there...

  13. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hey, I know how you feel; I really hope it works for you, but I am very cynical. I do not doubt you for an instant, but I am all too familiar with their highly deceptive strategies. In the...

  14. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree with regard to the statement about retaliation being for the purpose of humiliation. It is not just that the humiliation is painful to you as you experience being marched out in disgrace; it...

  15. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In answer to your question TNNURSE I think it would be helpful to clarify this Arbitration issue as I hope I may persuade those confronted by a similar option to be more cautious than I was....

  16. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    TNNURSE, Stupid fool me, I tried to work things out through the system first. Chain of command to the Managers who fired me, then actually believed their HR dept would uncover the truth,...

  17. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry about all the typos, so tired,

  18. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    TNNURSE, Right, I knew that would happen. They always try to focus on you to avoid the real negligence. When I first had problems getting dumped on and left in rooms until I nearly...

  19. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    tnturse, sorry you had to experience that. i just endured another blow yesterday in my ongoing battle against my former hospital. i want to share it with you here to warn you of...

  20. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    hang in there tnnurse, i am sorry you had to experience the scam hearing; it has to be experienced to be believed. take your righteous indignation and run with it. "success is your...

  21. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    this is how it goes: they, in this case risk management, call a meeting; you show up with the intention of discussing your serious concerns over a patient safety issue. first of all they will...

  22. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I was incredulous when my Hospital got away with cheating, lying and fraud, but they did. Those Government agencies, accreditation organizations and advocacy groups all fell for those shallow lies,...

  23. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    we are governed by our consciences. our level of concern or alarm is typically generated by knowledge and experience as this is the most reliable indicator of the potential for significant harm....

  24. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hi TNNURSE, Arden2 has perhaps alerted you to a potential pitfall. At your Hearing, bearing in mind that we should be highly suspicious of such a "Hearing," the way I see it...

  25. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    TsunamiKim replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    tnnurse, there are certain employees who are more likely to become the target of a campaign for removal: you are in one of those two groups: tenure nurses. the second group...