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I truly believe that it's a privilege to have a union in your facility. Not only do they fight for our members; you also have some job protection aginst managers whom abuse their authority as managers. I am definitely a union supporter because you never know when you will need them. I have been at my facility almost 23 years never been in trouble and I have always received excellent evaluations. I have a vindictive manager and she is bully. And if she doesn't like you, your job will be in jeopardy. They do fight to get us good contracts. She terminated me unjustly. Our administration will side with the managers. I am truly thankful that my union fought for me and I got my job back, along with my senority and back pay. You never ever know when you will need to be represented. I have always been a union supporter. I have know that manager when she was a RN working on another unit. She has always been a nasty hateful person. She landed her position by default. However, she was caught cheating in a nursing program. She grabbed another nurse. All I can say is if you have a union support them because you never know when you will need them to fight for you

as long as you have a prescription for both you will be fine. All you have to do is produce a print out from your pharmacy. Your ok. But, good luck

What in the world!!!! So let me get this straight if you have to call out because your sick or have an emergency you have to find your own coverage???? Ok I have never heard of this. At my facility; once the schedule is posted and you need a day off then you have to find your own switch. However; most people will call out. But I have never heard of that. But how is that acceptable. So if you can't find anyone what happen? Do you still have to come in???

We are all human and make mistakes. Since you haven't heard from them they may have terminated you. When it comes to narcotics they are strick. I would just send them a letter of resignation before they officially terminate you. Good luck

Here is something I hate also. When Pt's have on diapers who are not incontinenent and the refuse to use the bedside commode. I have a pts family members get mad with me because I couldn't change her mother soon as she soiled her diaper. Now never mind my other pt was crashing on me and I did explain to them my pt was very sick and they told me so what. At that point I just walked out of the room. Oh and did I mention the pt was able to use the commode. I love my job but as nurses I feel like Rodney Dangerfield. No respect

I have been a MA for 16 years and I never once passed myself off as a RN. I think the title of nurse is taken lightly and MA's and CNA's really do think they are. Now that I am a RN, I have truly earned that title. I use to work with a girl who would Id herself as the nurse, this was before I went to nursing school, once I started nursing school, I would constantly put her in check. I think their is a law against calling yourself a nurse and you are not. I really think they need a reality check. Also, I remember one time a cna was complaining about his patient assignment and how he had 16 patients. He had the nerve to say to me, because I had 4 patients and remind you I am the RN that his assignment was harder than mind. However, I had to remind him of his job duties. Your only job is to take vital signs, and make a bed or two and maybe help wash a patient. But my job, it never ends I have to do assessments, call the MD if something is wrong, pass their meds, write notes and deal with family memebers and not to mention the other things in between. Now I am not down grading a CNA or MA, all I am saying stop calling yourself something that you are not. Because I had to go to school, study for test and pray to GOD that I passed, take boards and then becareful not to get my license taken for something dumb.

Thanks for the 2 comments. I forgot to mention, this patient has been on my floor since May 2010 and he is a frequent flyer, so every nurse on my floor has had the pleasure of caring for this patient

I am a new nurse, but not new to the field. Here is my question? Who's responsibility is it? If you give report to a nurse and a situation occurs with a patient who should go? Here is the scenio. Report was given to a nurse on a patient. The PCA came to the conference room and asked me if I still had the patient I told her no and that I had given report to his nurse and we will call her Nurse A and we will call me new nurse. The pca told the nurse A that she should go to his room and nurse A said why and she told nurse A that he had pulled out his peg tube. So nurse A turned to me and said "I didn't get report from you New nurse" Anyway, I told her oh yes you did and she refused to move and go see about the patient. Although, I did go, I felt that because she was given report, she should have gone because she had recieved report on her patient. So, the next morning I approached her and she said the reason, why she didn't go was because she was still in report, however, so was I. She was the nurse coming in and I was the nurse leaving. She also said, I had the patient for 12 hours, so that's why I should go. My feelings are, we should have both gone. She was the primary nurse and I could have been her back up. What is your feelings, please let me know what is your take

Well mos places do have a policy. The policy where I work don't allow facial pierecings, however, it is also up to your manager. In my old dept, my manager would not allow you to have any facial piercings and she tried to make us take out our tongue rings, but the facility agreed that tongue rings are not facial piercings and she could not make me remove it. I just think it was her personal preference. Another facility where I worked did not want tattoo's exposed and they made you cover them up and for the workers who had tattoo's on their necks had to wear a cover up. Can u imagine wearing a turtle neck in 90 degree weather. That was crazy. I would suggest you check with the facility policy or with the manager.

you did not do anything wrong. It was her time to transition into the next life. Sorry to be so short.

It doesn't affect your ability to get into nursing school. I have been licensed to carry for over 10 years and never had a problem. Just make sure you are safe always remember safety 1st

I am starting a new job on the Heart failure unit as a RN and this will be my 1st job. I am a little nervous making this transition. I have been a MA for many years, so I do have some patient contact, but not like a RN. So please give me some advice. All comments are welcomed

I work in a min security prison. As RN's we can write some prescriptions under the medical director. I will give you a couple of examples that I have witness, 1st. I was doing a wound care and I notice 1 of the inmates had a toothache and he did put in a dental sick call slip. He didn't ask for a motrin but because I saw he was in pain, I asked him what was wrong and he told me, so I gave him something for the pain and I was told by another RN, that I shouldn't have given him a motrin. Another example, I had an inmate who returned from the hospital, he had surgery and he had an order for percocet, however we don't have percocets their, all the RN had to do was call the MD, to get an order for something else and she refused. I asked her in private why she didn't, she told me because he is an inmate and don't need it. I am a brand new nurse and I was taught to always treat the pain 1st. Their is no doubt that some of them are BS, but you can't measure what they feel and in my opinion, they should not be treated any different. I just feel they are human 1st and nursing teaches us not to discriminate. Also, we should remember that just because they are in jail, we shouldn't judge anyone. I try to always be mindful, that I could be in their shoes or it could be one of my family members, so I feel we should always be careful how we treat people. Not to mention that 1 day they will get out and they do remember nasty people. I have ran into a few inmates, that I didn't recognize and they spoke to me and told me how nice I treated them or how I said an encouraging word to them. Thank you for your comments

Hello everyone, here is my question. Should a prisoner be treated different? I am a brand new RN, however, I am not new to the medical field. I work in the prison system as a RN. When I was in school, our instructors ALWAYS stressed to treat the pain. Pain is what the person states it is. Anyway, sometimes I feel very sorry for these men. In my opinonion, just because they are in jail, they shouldn't be treated any different than someone on the street. However, I have to admit, they do get better health care than the working public. They have everything, they get care for chronic illnesses like diabetes, htn, hiv and etc.... They also, get dental services, xray's, wound care, vaccines and medications for everything under the sun that you can think of. We also have a psych Doctor on site 24 hours a day. Again I pose the question should the prisoners be treated any different. At my facility, their are some nurses who mistreat these men. For instance if someone come in for a headache, they will tell them to go buy motrin on commissary and put in sick call. I don't no if they have money to buy motrin or not and as RN's we can write some prescriptions under the medical director, so we can write for motrin etc. To make a long story short, the RN's do mistreat them, most of them feel, they are in jail, so they don't deserve good care, however you would give an animal good care. Please let me know what your feelings are regarding this issue.

I already work in a hospital, so my questions are why this particular floor or why do you want to work for this hospital