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  1. Career alternatives to traditional nursing?

    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...

  2. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    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...

  3. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

    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....

  4. Nursing without license

    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...

  5. having a baby due during nursing school..

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to nd deb's topic in General Students

    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...

  6. How to shut up people who gossip !!!!!!

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    In my neck of the woods, the more times the term, "bless her heart" is used, the worse it

  7. Can staffing affect infection control?

    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...

  8. Inciden Report Etiquette

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to AliRae's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  9. Eat Young/Unhappiness - Mostly Med/Surg?

    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...

  10. Eat Young/Unhappiness - Mostly Med/Surg?

    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...

  11. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    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...

  12. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    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...

  13. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    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...

  14. Ever had a Safe Haven baby in the ER?

    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...

  15. They Think I'm Working Christmas??

    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...

  16. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    That's pretty much it

  17. Home Health agencies paying nurses per visit

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to AnnemRN's topic in Home Health

    I was in a rural area with a HUGE coverage area. Some of our patients were 80 miles away (one way) with no other patients anywhere nearby. Scheduling was a nightmare, and because I was salaried, it...

  18. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I don't feel that the "new approach" to pain management in acute care is anything but positive. The risk of creating addiction problems is really low - like some have mentioned, That isn't to say...

  19. What part of pt care gets overlooked most often

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    What are the things about oral care put it so high on the list? I know that when I was doing ICU nursing years ago, having an adequate supply of GOOD oral care supplies was a problem sometimes. What...

  20. They Think I'm Working Christmas??

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's insane to expect someone to work a holiday schedule like that... Poor planning and poor leadership in my opinion

  21. What part of pt care gets overlooked most often

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Great post - you're obviously the kind of nurse that's the Quality Management Department's best buddy! I've done QRM for well over ten years, and I love it when people have ideas like that - bam,...

  22. Signing out AMA

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm sure that LTC is different, but in my experience with hospitals, it's like Jabra posted - the patient is encouraged to come back if he feels that he needs/wants to...

  23. Home Health agencies paying nurses per visit

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to AnnemRN's topic in Home Health

    I very briefly worked in home health as the director of an office. I was salaried - everyone else was pay per visit. Hated

  24. JCAHO and Clogs

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to RoxanRN's topic in General Nursing

    JCAHO says NOTHING about clogs

  25. Management measuring handsanitizer and soap usage

    kitty=^..^=cat replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Soap and water are actually more drying and damaging to your hands than the disinfecting gels/foams. Aside from that, the alcohol products are more effective at killing germs and preventing the...