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this is my first post so i,m hoping for a positive reply. we recently hired several nurses who have come from long term care and have very limited code experiance, which was a major problem when we had our first code and i was the only old nurse ther...

what states have whistleblower protection, i know i should know this but i really don,t thanks

the best nurses i know take care of their patients as if they were members of their own family, one of our docs told me if you treat a patient they way you want to be treated you can never go wrong good advice then good advice now

i had the best time at the convention, so much to learn so little time. i met the nicest nurses from all over the world, and came back with a sense of professional pride , and my spirit has been renewed, if any of you can go in 2 years to minnestoa, ...

my husband would be happy to go without me if i just saave my evening for him, he was sorry he didnt go to philly after i told him all he could have done without me.

i too will make minnesota in 2004 already saving my pennies, next time though i'm planning on bringing my husband for my roomate!

every time you post i learn so much, looking forward to great leadership with our newly elected people.,

will add my prayers and thoughts to all those others how blessed you both are to have such friends

you dont need to know everything just remember to admit what you dont know, the only dumb question is the one you n\ever ask, i know there were and still are times i must look like i dont know anything but i am not afraid to ask, you'll be great

i did not get this booklet but would be interested in seeing one.

great site, great ideas thanks much.

wouldnt it be nice if we could all learn to support each other both professionally and personally. in the last few weeks i have seen my co workers support each other during personal crisis, i only wish more people would do this sometimes all it takes...

my hospital is getting ready to switch to merit based salary increases. while i believe that the nurses who do the work should be rewarded i also am afraid some backstabbing will occur, one person trying to make self look better to get salary increas...

i am so loving this post , i love how empower and shared governamce are a reality only in the minds of the higher ups

this is a great book i had posted it earlier as a must read. woo

while i would agree that some people are nasty to new comers i would like to think that most of us are more professional then that, i have taken my share of grief from docs and somedays i let it slide because i think they are p[robably having a bad d...

what i would like to know is why is that when a nurse leaves the bedside to become a nurse manager within 6 monthes they seem to forget what bedside nursing is like? remember when you complained that given the acuity of pts we need another nurse? rem...

actually i have a good manager, she does try to listen and effect positive change however i have been in nursing 28 years and have had more managers who dont listen they talk about shared goverenance and in their minds i am sure they thinkwe operate ...

from silence to voice by bernice buresh and suzanne gordon should be required reading for all students and all nurses should read this it is a great book. from silence to voice by bernice buresh and suzanne gordon should be read by all nurses and fut...

doing a nursing ed project on simple instructions for coumadin and heparin, trying to simply for new nurses and help to build critical thinking skills any ideas how we can make this a fun project/ we were thinking of red flags and putting why they wo...

recently, within the last 6 monthes have started preceptor program, was wondering how preceptorships are done in other facilities? any reward for preceptor? follow up you do with preceptor and preceptee? how do you schedule and how do you choose your...

recently started team nursing which means that both nurses on the team see all the patients on that team. rn is reponsible for 12-14 pts. how does this work in other facitlites. prior to this we would see the other patients sometime during the shift ...

no debate here, an rn is an rn, i don,t care if you are diploma, AD or BSN, everybody starts out the same. we all know the real education begins after you graduate. if you want to climb the clinical ladder you need a degree, but in a time of nursing ...

retention of older nurses seems to be the big issue, we are getting older at at time when the acuity of our patients is getting higher, unfortunaltely nurse managers are not looking at acuity only at numbers, this many patinets get this many nurses,...

i have seen this happen also, but i do believe the attitude of the person orienting makes a big difference. many of the new nurses are coming in with theattitude they know it all, also the transition from 2 patients when you are a student to 5-6 as y...