kitty=^..^=cat replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in General Nursing
If you're near Nashville, I know of a great job in the quality management department of a hospital that's "big and good"... They need someone to do OB chart reviews, provide inservice education to...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing
I think a lot of the problems with "customer service" programs are administrative "knee jerk"-reactions, like the escort program described above. I posted somewhere on another thread that upper...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing
One of the worst things that ever happened in my supervision of employees was when one of my very best RNs -- long term employee, great guy -- got hurt at work and had to have a urine screen....
kitty=^..^=cat replied to TouchstoneRN's topic in General Nursing
'Fake' nurse to appeal huge fine By Associated Press January 3, 2007 CHATTANOOGA-A woman fined $717,000 by Tennessee's nursing board for falsely claiming to be a registered nurse and nurse...
I've had two close friends become pregnant during nursing school... One dropped out because she was having so many problems with nausea and sciatic nerve pain, and one made the decision to wait until...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to Cheyenne RN,BSHS's topic in General Nursing
FireWolf, my only suggestion as one of those much-maligned administrative types is this - don't use your new position to try and push any specific agenda other than preventing infections. From...
Incident reports aren't meant to be punitive -- an IV infiltrated. It happens. You aren't saying anything about the nurse, you're just reporting something that needs to be passed along to the...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to RachieH's topic in General Nursing
Back in the days when I was interviewing people for nursing positions, I always asked where a new grad wanted to be in five years. If it was ICU or ED and things seemed "right", I went ahead and...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to RachieH's topic in General Nursing
I'm certainly no nursing newbie, but I firmly believe that if a new grad wants to go directly into a specialty unit, that's where they should go. Sure, additional orientation and training may be...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing
Garden Dove, Are they "cooking" in your house or just using there? If they've been preparing the meth there, you could have big problems with cleanup. Meth production creates some nasty by-products...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing
Communities all over the place are struggling with meth -- from what I've seen locally, rural and poverty-stricken areas have a much bigger problem than some. The state of Tennessee has developed an...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing
I posted a response to a similar thread almost a year ago -- and it goes something like this... A number of research studies (I don't know specifically which ones - I have the info somewhere from a...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to ItsyBitsySpider's topic in Emergency
If the mom doesn't want to answer any questions, she isn't obligated. The only time a mom has surrendered a baby in a facility where I've worked, one of the OB/GYNs intervened and facilitated a...
kitty=^..^=cat replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing
I worked for a rural hospital one time that had to do that during Christmas because of a terrible flu that was making the rounds, not just of the hospital staff - Lord, it was awful. Those people that...