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    Please stop! Little things that are just bad practice.

    PMFB-RN replied to JBudd's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I get you. However I attended a presentation by our infection control nurse. She showed evidence that the isolation precautions we take for MRSA, single use gowns and gloves, were much more effective...
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    Physician Extender ???

    PMFB-RN replied to Barnstormin' PMHNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have seen it used many times, but ALWAYS in reference to PAs. If it was applied to NPs I would consider it used inappropiatly and would correct whoever used
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    The Dark Side of Passion

    PMFB-RN replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Emergency

    Fly fishing man. The key to good mental
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    Nursing Behind the Wall

    PMFB-RN replied to mikethemurse's topic in Correctional

    To the OP. Thanks! I enjoyed reading about nursing inside a jail. I often wondered what the job was like. To Spinmass: I don't anything about the BoP except this: They pay very low relitive to...
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    Please stop! Little things that are just bad practice.

    PMFB-RN replied to JBudd's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    We use bath basins and wash cloths. The basins are disposable and single use items. The wash cloths are reused but are washed. Start with new basin, fill with soapy water and wash cloths. Wash cloth...
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    Please stop! Little things that are just bad practice.

    PMFB-RN replied to JBudd's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Probably the most annoying practice I see done often at my current hospital is running IV K as a piggy back through an IV (as opposed to a central line of some sort). Until I started working here...
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    If I hear this one more time, I'm going to lose it!!

    PMFB-RN replied to pixiedu2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Interesting. At my other job the PCA / ETCO2 has worked very well and has resulted in many more PCAs. Previously nurses never advocated for a PCA simply becuase the huge work load it meant for them....
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    Finding Preceptors?

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I have been interested in becoming an FNP for some time now. I recently learned of a new FNP program opening in a city near my home. It is a satellite program of a well respected state university...
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    Chances of getting into CRNA school after failing out of an ADN program?

    PMFB-RN replied to Hedgehog25's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    But why ask that question? I mean you were given some very good advice on getting into NA school from people who know what they were talking about and you dismissed it out of hand. SO why bother to...
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    If I hear this one more time, I'm going to lose it!!

    PMFB-RN replied to pixiedu2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Right, but expert opinion isn't what I was talking about. As I said I was talking about evidence. Evidence obtained by preforming an action, or therapy, then closely and objectively observing the...
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    If I hear this one more time, I'm going to lose it!!

    PMFB-RN replied to pixiedu2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Maybe "because that's the way we have always done it" is a polite way of saying "if you had more experience and had done this thousands of times on a huge variety of patients, then closely monitored...
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I am not sure how you arrive at these conclusions or are leaping to these assumptions. I didn't base anything on any one factor. The reimbursement for a procedure was an example, not a sole...
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    If I hear this one more time, I'm going to lose it!!

    PMFB-RN replied to pixiedu2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    First I am wondering if those of you who work with nurses whose only response is "that's the way we have always done it" live and work in the south or north east? I haven't ever worked in either area...
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Nope, the glut of nurses is very different than the glut of other jobs. The glut of nurses was deliberately created to suppress nurse wages and our power to advocate for our patients. The tool used to...
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It's not double speak. You are failing to comprehend what has been written. I don't know why you don't understand. I will try again. As a person who has lived in various parts of the country I...
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    If I hear this one more time, I'm going to lose it!!

    PMFB-RN replied to pixiedu2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am not sure if I have EVER heard a nurse say that. Maybe but if so I don't remember it. Glad I don't work where you work if you are hearing that all the time. I have often done things a certain...
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You answered your own question. Nurses are not firemen and hospitals don't get their money the same way fire departments do. If the fire departments in Ohio and California were both funded exactly the...
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I have never experienced anything like that, or known anyone who did. I imagine that such an experience would have a huge effect on a person's perception. My ONLY experience with a union is the union...
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    I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am starting to worry about your reading comprehension skills. First you come on here asking about hooking up with a "Heidi" at work, then in the above you are talking about hooking up with a...
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    I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am wondering if you have posted to the wrong discussion, or maybe you haven't read this discussion? I haven't seen anyone make the argument that adultry is OK. If I have missed anyone making that...
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    No you are buying into the excuses to pay nurses less than what they should be paid. I am saying the COL is irrelevent and should NOT be taken into account when determining how much a nurse is paid....
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    CEO's/Hosp.'s making millions off of our work:(

    PMFB-RN replied to sassyspot's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    NO! Absolutly not! Don't drink the Kool-Aid. Guess what? Medicare pays a hospital the same amount to preform a CABG in Kansas and they do in California. If the hospital in California can pay an RN $45...
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    I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh they certainly CAN! It is just my observation than often they don't. Exceptions
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    I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You would have better luck seeking a "Heidi" who is a CNA and for whome you would have a high income. The point is that that "Heidi" Is very unlikely to be interested in a FWB relationship with her...
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    I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Look, I don't expect many women to understand this but I get where he is coming from and why a man would seek a FWB situation with a "Heidi". I belive he is using poor judgement when he seeks that out...