Nurse4lifewithparrots

Nurse4lifewithparrots has 4 years experience.

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1. Please advise me.

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   So there are pros and cons to the union. I am actually a part of a team that floats to other hospitals in our system, which are non union. My "home" hospital is union though. The nurses are pretty happy at the non union hospitals. I didn't do this on...

2. Please advise me.

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a nurse. Not a tech. I had been a tech when the union was voted against in the past, I wanted to see why not do it again with new nurses at the hospital now. Clearly, I know it's a bad idea, I was asking for advice since they threatened my job.

3. Please advise me.

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   A vote was put in the past as I said. Nurses have a right to vote for or against a union don't they? At least I thought they did.

4. Please advise me.

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   It is private, not for profit

5. Please advise me.

   Nurse4lifewithparrots posted a topic in General Nursing

   When I was a tech in the hospital I work at currently, the nurses were voting to keep the union or not. They voted to keep it. Now years later I looked into how to do that vote. I would need 30% of all nurses to sign to put a vote against the union. ...

6. Would it look bad to take a new job for 3-4 months?

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the replies. Tbh I wouldn't tell the employer my intentions to leave so soon but I definitely know it's frowned on and can understand more why. When I was a new nurse another new nurse had quit after about 4 months saying she couldn't take...

7. working as a nursing assistant with RN license

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Sweetme2's topic in General Nursing

   I'm surprised no one answered this yet but I have always heard that those with active RN licenses working under their scope are still held liable under that license in the court of law. So for example if a patient you were assigned to got hurt and th...

8. Team Nursing

   Nurse4lifewithparrots posted a topic in General Nursing

   Has your unit done this? Mine is going to try it out and as I understand, it'll be 2 nurses paired up and assigned to 16 of the patients. One will pass meds, the other will do the assessments and chart. I don't see this as a good thing. My unit is a ...

9. Would it look bad to take a new job for 3-4 months?

   Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah it's a nursing position in a peds psych facility. I don't want to join one of those travel nursing agencies, heard horror stories from my friend who did it, and I don't want to try it out for myself yet. Before I moved though, I thought I'd try ...

10. Confused new nurse seeking advice ... please help?

    Nurse4lifewithparrots replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Well as a nurse I learned you have to be open to adapting quickly and being flexible. I like order and routine and that's not (usually) how a day will be for a nurse! So part of me would say, stay where you are and be open to this change so you learn...

11. Would it look bad to take a new job for 3-4 months?

    Nurse4lifewithparrots posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm moving out of state around September and currently work FT in a hospital in adult Med surg. I wanted to try a mon-fri job to see if I liked it also it's in children's mental health. Would that look bad on my resume though? I'm looking for anythin...

12. Verbal order mistake

    Nurse4lifewithparrots posted a topic in General Nursing

    I came on here to ask a tele question, but I thought I would share this also since it was a mistake I made and maybe someone can learn from it? (and so I can talk about it) A bit ago I had a patient who the cardiologist ordered to be on a hepari...

13. Tips for tele?!

    Nurse4lifewithparrots posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I've been a medsurg nurse for 3 years now. It's been hard because sometimes I have 8 patients, and almost always have 7 patients. I haven't wanted to pursue anything else and just try my best each work day and enjoy my days off. However, my ...