Riseupandnurse

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  1. Xray tech~ more $$$ than RN???

    Riseupandnurse replied to SoulShine75's topic in Nursing Career

    I started out in health care in the 1970s as an RT and then got my BSN in 1990. After 12 years of nursing practice I earned my MSN and now I teach as well as continue to work in hospital nursing. I...

  2. Survey of Nurses Rights In Abortion

    Riseupandnurse replied to kmchugh's topic in General Nursing

    2. Okay, this one will cause a bit of controversy. People who passed a background check, and interview process could "pay" women for their kids who otherwise might consider abortion. Here's how it...

  3. Survey of Nurses Rights In Abortion

    Riseupandnurse replied to kmchugh's topic in General Nursing

    True story. I had a friend, Rudy, whose parents were physicians, first in Germany during the Second World War, and then afterwards in America. During a long week-end at his house in Iowa, I spent...

  4. Survey of Nurses Rights In Abortion

    Riseupandnurse replied to kmchugh's topic in General Nursing

    Many years ago, when I was a pretty new nurse, I had to care for a young girl who was a Jehovah's Witness. I was on night shift and she was a few hours post-op from having an operation for her...

  5. Would you assist in abortions?

    Riseupandnurse replied to Blackcat99's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I remember being in college in Wisconsin in 1973. The Roe decision was announced over the loudspeaker. All of us stood up and cheered. I did too. Later on I went to x-ray school. In A&P we...

  6. Drowning Nurses Given Cement Overshoes

    Riseupandnurse replied to RN-PA's topic in General Nursing

    We have had computerized charting for several years. I have mostlygotten used to it except for the medication section. It's such a drag to be able to see only 3 meds at a time, and I think dangerous...

  7. Drs. handwriting - Can you read it well?

    Riseupandnurse replied to RN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I've had instances where doctors chewed me out for not being able to read their handwriting on orders. Once I had to get the hospital supervisor involved because he REFUSED to clarify it. I had...

  8. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    Riseupandnurse replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    How can the public ever really value and respect nursing until it learns what nursing actually is and does? And how can this happen when nursing can't distinguish or define itself? I remember being...

  9. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    Riseupandnurse replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    "Customer service", I believe, is pushed by the hospitals' boards members. Most of them are businessmen, and this is what they understand. They do not understand nursing. I am a customer at...

  10. blackmail by hospital

    Riseupandnurse replied to poppyrn's topic in General Nursing

    Right, you can't be charged with abandoning a patient until you have agreed to at least hear report on that patient. After that, if you leave your patient before another nurse accepts care, you have...

  11. Is anyones facility so short staffed that they feel guilty calling in sick?

    Riseupandnurse replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    How do nurses feel about calling in sick? This is partly a generational thing. The older group (of which I am one, actually, being in my 50s) tends to hate calling in sick. We also respond more to...

  12. Holiday staffing

    Riseupandnurse replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    Holiday staffing in the hospital where I work is handled by the holiday rotation list. All full time and part time nurses are either "A" or "B." We have six holidays, and the rotation changes with...

  13. Lunch breaks

    Riseupandnurse replied to moonshadeau's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am a smoking nurse, and I hate that about myself. But what people don't understand is that until we break our addiction we just *can't* go without a smoke break. Not and be any good at what we're...