Terrie

Terrie

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  1. Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

    I happen to think male nurses are great. Most of them know there stuff well and do a good job. If most nurses give them a chance they would find the same thing.:)
  2. I am a registry nurse for a specific hospital system and I float between to community hospitals. My hours have not been decreased, there are still hours left after my schedule and I am getting a $4/hr raise at the end of Jan. So I guess I do not see ...
  3. I carried it as a nursing student and I carry it now. The hospital is going to protect it's self at any cost. So I protect my self at all cost. I have not had to use it but with some of the people I work with I am glad I have it.
  4. I work with a nurse that does nothing but sit behind the desk and charts pages of nurses notes. How can you chart care on a patient you only see one time, especially in CCU? She had a post-op pt that was 92yrs old who had pneumonia before surgery and...
  5. She has won, she is free to neglect her patients all she wants too. They said she has been a nurse for a long time so she has to be taking care of her patients. If I knew I could tell the family about it and not get in trouble I would! She can sit be...
  6. I work in CCU in a small community hospital and like everyone else we are short handed. Rumor has it that management is either going to schedule us over our status or mandate 12 hr shifts. I hired in as a p-8 ( Eight days per two weeks) and I work a ...
  7. They won as of Dec 17th I go to registry which is the same as agency but I only work for the community hospitals that are in the system of my choice. Do my own schedule pick my hours and I have a boss that listens. Thanks to everyone.
  8. Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

    I am very proud of being a nurse. That is all I ever wanted to be. I help people, I care for people, I help them physically, mentally, and spirtually. I am ashamed that nurse are push around, walked on, and expected to jump at managements every word....
  9. How do we go about making people listen. Do we all have to become union???????
  10. betts, have you wrote or emailed your government?
  11. The unit meeting came and went. They did not mandate over time, 12hr shifts and they will not schedule us over or status. Too many people said they would walk if they did. It is also under investigation because our mother hospital knew nothing about ...
  12. The Unit meeting came and went. They did not mandate OT or 12 hour shifts and they are not going to schedule us over our status. Too many people said they would walk. They had us put up suggestions. The lazy nurse that neglects her patients is being ...
  13. night owl, Thank you. I do care about patients and I feel that there needs to be some kind of screening for people that want to become nurses. Patient neglect will come back to haunt her I am sure I would just like to be there to see it. I just got a...
  14. deespoohbear, Everyone keeps telling me to document. Where am I supposed to document this stuff. I have every email I have sent to management and higher up. Is this what you are talking about? There is only one other nurse that works with her on a ...
  15. You have a wonderful way of looking at things. I will try your suggestion. By the way if her back side spreads much more than it has she will not fit in the chair. I guess she has been neglecting her patients for a long time.
  16. Nur20, You are a wise person and your suggestions are taken straight to the heart. If they do not do anything after the investigation I am already setting up interviews. I just feel that there are one of these people every where you go:o Where does ...
  17. Nur20, I understand that I need to walk a straight line and keep my facts straight but it really doesn't matter if they want to get ride of me they will. I do not kiss managements back side and she does. (I REALLY HATE PEOPLE LIKE THIS). I have not ...
  18. This is a great deal of the problem she has been there longer than I have and she knows what she can get away with. Also, we are the only two nurses on the unit so its my word against hers. She did not chart that she turned these patients and I don't...
  19. Sundowner, I did not care much for her attitude either and I could not live with myself if I did not speak up for my patients in the case of neglect. I am certainly not going to neglect my family because the management can't staff their unit/hospiti...
  20. Sundowner, The meeting is Nov 7th but my boss found out that it is being investigated today. I think she is mad enough to fire me. She gave me a lot of attitude this morning.
  21. The supervisor thinks she is boss so there for she does nothing. I finally got administration to investigate the complaint. My manager is mad enough to fire me!!! I guess I will wait and see what happens. Honesty and being a patient advocate does no...
  22. Questions about Ambien

    I tried ambien and it worked the opposite on me. I slept one hour in three days. Maybe you should try the standard dose of 5mg. I have seen ambien turn my normal patients into confused patients more often than not. I am afraid to give it to pts that ...
  23. I want to thank each and everyone of you for all of your suggestions. I am sorry this thread got so heated over these issues. We really do need to stick together being that nurses are a different breed from the rest of the world My unit has a meeti...
  24. RNs Intubating???

    We are taught how to do it in ACLS and PALS because we are a small hospital and if we were to have more than one code (which has happened) someone would have to intubate the pt. But if there is someone more qualified in the room I will be the first o...
  25. Spudflake---- Very interesting:) We have a unit meeting on Nov 7 , which is during my vacation but I will go because this is where we tell them if they mandated OT or do 12 hr shifts several of us will walk. We have a new supervisor who knows nothin...