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  1. Advice Request for Starting an ABSN Program

    mtnNurse. replied to nursecyndii's topic in General Students

    Hi again, I'm surfin' this awesome forum of posts from heroes and just read this thread about one nurse's perspective on her career choice that I also recommend to you to read (click for link). Again,...

  2. Advice Request for Starting an ABSN Program

    mtnNurse. replied to nursecyndii's topic in General Students

    It's hard to kick the desire to want to make straight A's for some people, but it's helpful to avoid burnout to know that "C's make degrees". Your grades won't have any bearing on getting your nursing...

  3. Fired from 1st nursing job

    mtnNurse. replied to WildflowerFairy's topic in Nursing Career

    Sorry this happened to you. I don't understand why they fired you. But anyhow, I recommend doing a daily job search of nursing jobs in the area you want to work and applying to all that interest you....

  4. A year and a half into ICU nursing and still not feeling like I'm getting it

    mtnNurse. replied to salexandra's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my gosh, has someone really accused older, experienced nurses of being jealous of the young'ns good looks?! Absurd if so! ? I feel for this new nurse who is sensitive and wants what she said...

  5. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I've also agreed many times I don't know but am giving the nurse the benefit of the doubt. I've asked people to give her the benefit of the doubt and use their imaginations to think of what conditions...

  6. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm glad you pointed out that some people who voted to criminally charge this nurse actually don't even want her to be charged guilty and go to prison. I feel better knowing that because it...

  7. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I know, as I've said many times, I know. Intent is not the issue with her criminal charges which is why she wasn't charged with murder. She was charged with reckless homicide which requires...

  8. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I thought she had 2 years experience at time of incident? And sorry, but I'm not convinced that having a helper-nurse run around to different departments indicates all is well, staff isn't overloaded...

  9. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    OH MY GOSH THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His second video has been my whole point all along. Reading this responses...

  10. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The reason it is it is important to look at each step is because that is how we learn safe administration. Step by step, check by check. It's not at all like a car wreck where everything happens in an...

  11. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, I admit I don't know but rather I'm giving that nurse the benefit of the doubt. I think it's highly likely that the environment was unsafe and there was a staffing issue because of many...

  12. How to be a Perfect Nurse

    mtnNurse. replied to mtnNurse.'s topic in General Nursing

    Some tips related to my third question: * Pass laws requiring health facilities to make "good worker" compatible with "good nurse", e.g. where cutting corners isn't required to satisfy demands of the...

  13. How to be a Perfect Nurse

    mtnNurse. replied to mtnNurse.'s topic in General Nursing

    A tip related to my first question, which I've found in this forum recently: Be good and ready to quit or be fired if bosses demand you take an unsafe assignment (how to always know what might...

  14. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I described where to draw the line in other posts, including if it were a truck driver...let me know if you want me to copy &

  15. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No, we’ve heard stories of people missing one step in the process. We haven’t heard one story of someone missing EIGHT PLUS steps/warning signs or anyone not properly assessing a patient. That is...

  16. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Heck yes, I totally agree with that. And I think also that if even one hospital's powers-that-be reads this and decides to not push nurses into working in unsafe environments, with unsafe work loads,...

  17. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Trust me, I know every single missed step she made that's been reported; those missed steps have been given many times among all the related threads, including the one with bolded numbers. I get it....

  18. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Which is exactly what a trial will find. We can all sit here and debate whether or not she should be charged; the fact is that the DA has decided there's enough to take that measure. What a trial will...

  19. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I thought she wasn't exclusively helping on ICU floor since she was headed to ED after. So I thought she was a hospital-wide resource-nurse like we had where I worked rather than just for ICU. That's...

  20. I Hope This is Not the Latest Trend

    mtnNurse. replied to PhyllisMSN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. I feel I was one of those ill-prepared graduates though I graduated at the top of my class. I think maybe we should go back to teaching / learning to be a nurse on the job in a facility, well...

  21. How to retain nurses?

    mtnNurse. replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, painfully obvious! Especially being given too many patients and expected to do the

  22. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    So you feel the hospital should test every staff person to make sure they understand basic nursing concepts? Like the 5 rights. Like monitoring patients for adverse reactions when giving IV push meds?...

  23. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I never skip the rights of medication administration. Never, not even when I have a patient on the OR table who is struggling to come off bypass. I work with potent medications- I know that one little...

  24. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe then the poll should have asked "should be charged", "should not be charged", "should be charged & found guilty", "should be charged & found innocent". I would have guessed most people...

  25. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with you. But I also don't think we should criminalize those nurses who are attempting to be good workers. We live in a society where our lives depend on money and where the quality of our...