sawbuck

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1. Patient/Family Rage

   sawbuck posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Hi, anyone out there experiencing, witnessing, or hearing about the mental, verbal, and even physical rage directed at nurses and nursing staff by patients and familes. We see more and more of it...

2. Pt/Family RAGE

   sawbuck replied to sawbuck's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Hi, thanks for the wonderful experience input. I am working with my administrators, house psychologist, and others to pursue a new and needed team for support, council, and react to us in the...

3. Pt/Family RAGE

   sawbuck replied to sawbuck's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Hi, thanks for the wonderful experience input. I am working with my administrators, house psychologist, and others to pursue a new and needed team for support, council, and react to us in the...

4. Pt/Family RAGE

   sawbuck replied to sawbuck's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Hi, thanks for the wonderful experience input. I am working with my administrators, house psychologist, and others to pursue a new and needed team for support, council, and react to us in the...

5. Pt/Family RAGE

   sawbuck replied to sawbuck's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Hi, thanks for the wonderful experience input. I am working with my administrators, house psychologist, and others to pursue a new and needed team for support, council, and react to us in the...

6. Pt/Family RAGE

   sawbuck posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Any of you experience verbal, mental, and or physical abuse from the patients or family you take care of? The frequency of this has noticibly arisen in the past 5 or so years. We see immeadiate...

7. Family "Rage" toward nurses

   sawbuck posted a topic in General Nursing

   Any thoghts on the way nurses/staff are abused verbally, mentally, and even physically by the patients' family or even the patients? Does your institution have a crisis team for on the spot support...

8. Switching careers to nursing. who has done it?

   sawbuck replied to Noodles's topic in Male Nursing Students

   I have been an RN for 11 yrs now and earned my degree BSN at the age of 45. I was medic in the Vietnam era. Before I worked many facets in the construction industry. Nusing is good when we can...