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I work at an ambulatory surgery center that is owned by a big hospital system. They have decided to move away from staff volunteering to stay late to assigning staff as "late person" on our staff schedule. My question is around the fact that we are being told what days we will be expected to stay late vs staff volunteering to stay late. This is happening in Pennsylvania and there is ACT 102, but I'm not sure if that applies in this situation. I'm even questioning if this would be considered mandatory overtime?

It's driving me a little crazy because I've been picking up PRN shifts here and there and I could have a lot more opportunities with a compact license, but PA seems to be in no rush to get this done.

I don’t understand why the OP is applying for a night position when they cannot physically WORK night shift? What am I missing? 100% bait and switch.

I guess it shows your age, that you were alive when aol was at it's height-or at the very start of the "internet.” This article is pretty disappointing all around.

To be clearer, I’m asking if there are any University of Penn nurses who work at the University City location in Philadelphia, PA.

Hi, are there any Penn Medicine operating room nurses here? If so May I send you a message via inbox? thank you.

I think it means you have to report to work. It’s happened to me maybe once my entire career. I’ve worked sick plenty but didn’t try to call out.

We lost 1/2 of our staff for a variety of reasons and #1 was being told we could go ahead and go if an opportunity came up by administration so 1/2 of my unit went. We have been treated like trash for over a year and it’s been hard. I’m doing what I need to do to get out in the next few years. Also, the reasons why nurses are leaving is complicated. I’m in a FB group that is advocating for nurses and first off we need safe staffing laws. Here’s a post I made in a neighborhood app: Nationwide Nurse staffing law-we need your help! Please review this bill H.R.3165, introduced in Congress that will mandate how many patients a nurse will care for during their worked shift. Please be aware with 2020, some nurses have left bedside nursing with many more planning on leaving due to unsafe staffing and feeling overwhelmed by trying to adequately care for too many assigned patients. Review the bill here: https://bit.ly/3ykRtMX Write your congressional member here to ask them to support H.R.3165: https://bit.ly/3lmG6ke More info here: https://bit.ly/3flchfS

One of my co worker told me, at the height of the pandemic: “You need to do what is right for YOU and YOUR FAMILY; look out for yourself.” That being said, Covid upped the ante; everyone is entitled to make their own choices. I will never shame those who do not throw themselves on the sacrificial alter.

Don’t waste your time or energy stewing over this situation. It’s only going to distract you and undermine your unit. You need to mind your own house and not what other people are doing. You don’t know what anyone’s personal situation is so you cannot caste judgment on them. As far as management, you’re not a manager and while we always have thoughts about what they are doing “wrong” it’s not in your wheelhouse. Whatever transpired between nurses taking leave and management is their business. You seem a lot like me; someone who goes to work, does their job and avoids personal entanglements with co workers. Trust me, I used to be like you, watching what everyone isn’t doing and everything I was doing, and keeping score. It took me a long time and lots of hard lessons to let that s*** go; life is too short. Do your job, help your teammates and don’t judge them; it’s ultimately going to bit you in the a**.

Thanks for your comments. I can write and write well. I do not want a program that sucks the life out of me with papers due constantly. I need a more balanced curriculum of 50% research papers. Capella did not work for me as I’ve written above which is why I’ve asked for information/personal experience with Galen or Aspen. Also, this is for a BSN program not a bridge program; I have zero intention of getting a masters. Again, thanks but I’m not looking for a discussion about what my weaknesses or strengths are, nor opinions on my academic pursuits just others experience with these RN to BSN completion programs.

Hello, I’m hoping someone can help me. I’ve been trying to complete an RN-BSN program for over 10 years, but I can’t seem to follow through. This will be my third attempt. I started a state school completion program, but I was unable to successfully pass the required math classes. Then I started Capella, but it’s 100% papers and discussion threads. I just lost my interest, plus my time was challenged. It’s extremely difficult when you have zero support at home from your spouse. Now, I’m looking at Galen College of nursing OR Aspen University. Can anyone here tell me the following: Are these programs 100% paper writing? If it’s not, what other types of assignments are there? Is there a practicum or capstone? What is your overall opinion of either of these programs?

I love this article. Having attended nursing school back in the 90s there were several guys in my small evening/weekend program. I grew up in an environment that it was, somehow, drilled into my subconscious that girls are nurses and men are doctors. My parents grew up during WW2; what can I say? Anyway, I’m the youngest of 9 and it’s so interesting to me that my siblings cling to antiquated views on gender in general. To them if a guy is a nurse he MUST be gay. You can’t convince them otherwise. When my brother was hospitalized with a set back from cancer he had a gay male nurse and a non gay male nurse. He said derogatory things about both of them; not in front of them but behind their back and to us. The non gay nurse seemed to bug my brother the most because why would a dude choose a women’s career? Please understand that all of my siblings (7 out of 9) are uneducated beyond high school. I will say, at my brother’s funeral my sibling stood up and made sure to speak about my brother’s comments about his male nurses, it was told to make everyone laugh, I sure didn’t. Also, being the youngest afforded me the special spot that even though I an a nurse, I know absolutely nothing.

I’m very concerned about the fact that you’re blowing off ibuprofen and Tylenol. Please do some research. Ibuprofen and Tylenol, taken together, has been proven to offer as much pain relief as narcotics and since we have a bond fid opioid crisis, we need to find other pain relief; I work in periop and no one gets opioids as a standard discharge script anymore. What is key is keeping up on giving the medication to provide a level of pain relief. If you were giving these and your patient was “writhing” in pain as you’re describing, the hospitalist should have been call to evaluate your patient’s concerning symptoms.

I very much appreciate and respect your post. As a manager I’m sure you’re doing what you can. Unfortunately, I think you know, helping/supporting and actually performing the duties of a nurse are two different things. The responsibility always stops at the nurse charged with that patient’s care. I don’t think it’s the actual idea of nursing that’s the issue, it’s the job conditions. The push and pull, the constant pressure from those above nurses to put as much on nursing staff as possible, dismiss concerns of staff and make them feel they should shut up and do their jobs; it is, in fact, a very oppressive environment. I wouldn’t being lying if I told you I have been informed multiple times over the years by my manger that if I don’t like something, there’s the door; for one of you I have 2 people applying. Recently, before covid, my unit was being asked to do something that we were very uncomfortable with, as well as not oriented to, and my manager was having meeting after meeting with us, really exerting pressure and when someone asked if we, the staff, could be fired for not complying, my manager stated “I don’t know, maybe I’ll get fired.” Then went on to state that her yearly bonus was already in jeopardy if she couldn’t get us to comply. (Ask me if I care.) So, while I love helping people, and I think many of us carry this in our hearts, we are mostly kind hearted and giving which allows us to be manipulated, threatened and bullied on the regular by so many different disciplines and management in hospitals. It’s actually a sad state of affairs. Personally, stories of wanting to get in a car accident on the way to work, crying before a shift, just hating going to work, I think these are signs of a toxic environment that nurses are unable to enact changes to. I don’t fit the role very well, I’m quite an abrupt person who my manager describes as a straight shooter, I say things to co workers without thinking and it’s more fact stating and not malicious, yet, these co workers take things personally, so they are quite delicate people who easily become taken advantage of; this is why there is such an oppressive environment, the type of people attracted to nursing are good hearted people. It’s like going to parochial school.