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First of all, thank you for your response and I am glad that you love your job. I can speak with confidence though that your workplace and your employer are are outliers and not representative of most hospitals across the country (especially corpora...

Here’s another one; UBCs (Unit Based Councils). They exist only to give the false impression of nurses’ shared governance. Because of this, I absolutely refuse to participate at any level. If they propose ideas of any consequence (realistic staffi...

If I understand correctly, you are wanting to keep your permanent job and take a remote contract position? You not really knowing the obligations, schedule, or even much about about the required training of the new job, I see a lot of potential conf...

Davey Do, I agree 110%. Some have suggested that this "Mr, Ms, Mrs, Sir, Ma'am thing is regional. I strongly disagree. I've worked all over the country and when I meet a patient for the first time, I always say, "I'm (insert name) and am a Registe...

Haha! Davey Do, I knew it was just a matter of time before you commented!

....or, "Pt dropped a large deuce!"?

My advice is to follow your heart and make the best career move for you. I think that in the early stages of a major life upheaval such as this, it's helpful to seek others' opinions. That said, I also feel that after making up one's mind, you shou...

Early in the pandemic, rationed and reused N95 masks due to critical shortages. This ¢45 item nearly brought health care workers to their knees for a time and absolutely highlighted the need to bring manufacturing (especially crucial items) back to ...

Congratulations on your upcoming retirement:) Though not retired myself, I have retired, elderly parents and know of quite a few retirees. After working and sacrificing all of your adult life, now is the time for you to nurture and take care of you...

It used to be that nurses were loyal to employers whose benefits and overall conditions were fair and commensurate. Today however, benefits (esp. dental/medical) in many facilities are pathetic, the nurse/patient ratios and staffing are dangerous, a...

Most hospitals that I have worked at require at least three full counts (initial, closing, and final) if an incision is large enough to admit a surgical instrument. The incisions made to deliver most body cavity specimens (segment of colon, lung, ki...

While I fully realize and mourn the enormous degree of loss, devastation, and tragedy that Covid has brought, I do see one positive beginning to emerge for many nurses. When I became an RN in 1992, it was at the height of the nursing shortage a...

Agree with Brandy1017 above. Because my hospital is associated with a state university, hospital employees are therefore state employees and their salaries are posted in a state run database. My hospital's CEO and senior management made obscene sal...

kdkout, BSN RN above gave excellent advice and I agree 110%. Not to burst your bubble, but teaching Med Surg, ICU, ER, and L & D to others when you have no acute care experience yourself, sound overly ambitious. I think you're too concerned wit...

Yes, this is my experience too. Recently we had a traveler on her first assignment who was not even familiar with our EHR (Epic)-really? Some travelers also think that with their minimal experience at a small, rural hospital (not knocking rural ho...

I know you want to help your friend but personally, I would distance myself ASAP! An investigator may assume 'guilt by association' and you could find yourself being disciplined too (I've seen it happen).

This is just it. Except for pockets of unionized hospitals around the country, nurses are really without a voice (ANA, not) or any real currency. Many nurses are single parents and simply can't afford to be without a paycheck for an extended period...

Working at a large, university hospital, I have worked with many travel nurses as well as having been one myself. Most of the travelers I have come across, were conscientious and competent nurses. However, with the mass exodus occurring in many hos...

Wow! Sounds awesome. I've set up many anesthesia transducers, central lines, and Swan Ganz catheters, as well as operated cell savers and IABPs intraoperatively. Most of these responsibilities in the past have been delegated to CVOR RNs or Anesthe...

Davy, the old saying, "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten" comes to mind. The obvious, albeit not so easy remedies then, are to change or be changed. This is either through acceptance/acquiescence, or actively t...

I have been saying this for a long time! Both my parents were nurses and I have been one for almost 30 years. Over the years, not only has the healthcare offered to hospital employees become crap, but so have all the benefits. In my opinion, there...

You sound like an incredible and conscientious nurse first of all! Sadly, as dream'n BSN RN above noted, our country has a badly broken health care system and as long as it continues to be monetized, I honestly don't see the trend reversing. It's l...

This is a common misconception; education=intelligence. I’ve worked closely with surgeons over the years and have known several (one an Ivy League grad) who were so obviously incompetent, I was left wondering if they paid a bribe for their MD. Unfo...

No disrespect intended here but this outsiders’ curiosity of the American RN ‘hierarchy’ structure somehow reminds of me of Hollywood and SciFi’s portrayal of aliens coming to Earth to better understand these perplexing human beings and their unusual...