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Another option is to report the situation to the state agency that licenses the home care agency. They certainly will want to know about the agency putting the client's health at risk.

Nursing Informatics focuses generally on hospital-based EHR work, mainly assisting staff with how to work with the EHR system the hospital uses. Hence knowing how EPIC, Meditech or Allscripts software works is a big plus. And if you don't want to wor...

Oh please NO! (Quit nursing and do law school). That is NOT the road to riches (and I would know, having done that). There are too many attorneys in the US competing for too few jobs, compared to the ever expanding need for more nurses. But specialti...

On Thanksgiving Day 2018, a young mother was savagely beaten to death by her fiance' in Colorado. The fiance's married, long time girl friend is an RN in Idaho. He attempted to induce her to do the murder herself. She could not do it, but had multipl...

She will be sentenced in January, but still has an unrestricted RN license in Idaho. https://gazette.com/news/patrick-frazee-mistress-krystal-lee-gets-sentencing-date/article_7b208648-1508-11ea-b55b-7781b9e35243.html

I think many nurses are not aware that criminal behavior not related to their work as a nurse can land them in front of their nursing board. When I was in nursing school in Calif (many moons ago), we had to attend the Calif board's disciplinary hear...

Dear Soon To Be Peds Nurse, A dedicated national children's hospital like CHOP is going to have very high acuity patients, especially when compared to less urban community hospitals. CHOP is also going to have many very unique diagnosis patients, lo...

Dear L&D Nurse, Unfortunately a Performance Improvement Plan (a "PIP" in HR jargon) is management speak for "you're not a fit here and you need to go." So gather up your dignity and find yourself another position, probably at another facility as...

Actually BornToCare, I've spent time with Fakir Musafar (http://www.bodyplay.com) who originated the "Primitive Body Art" movement in this country. If you're not familiar with his works, you should check it out. Also, no one said that everyone who...

The rule in the real world is, "Never get a tattoo where a judge will see it." While body art is common for folks in Generation Y, it used to be a sign that you'd been in the Navy, or in jail, or in a gang. So why do employers want you to cover up yo...

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling yesterday in the Savana Redding case yesterday (13 year old girl subjected to strip search for ibuprofen at school, witnessed by the school secretary and the the school nurse, was found to be a violation of...

Agatha, A couple of brief points: 1) Paragraphs are a good thing :nuke: cuz they make your info much easier to read. 2) Not all employers shy away from releasing "fired for cause" info. The largest hospital employer in the US has a posted policy abo...

Dear DMN, First of all, THANK YOU for working with the patients (acute psych) that many of us find difficult or impossible to work with. Secondly, thank you for providing patient care that keeps all your patients safe. Regarding your immature physic...

while the feds can impose marshall law during such a situation, unless you're in the military or national guard, i don't believe they can make you work. the more likely problem that will be encountered will be for those nurses already at work--if t...

No, do not list it, and even if you do not list it, a future employer cannot find it. Only the IRS has compete records of what employers you've worked for, and this info cannot be tapped for an employment check (unless you're applying for a high lev...

Dear LitBit, Having worked in hospital and nursing admin, here's what I can tell you about your situation. 1) Start looking for another job with a different employer NOW. You are being set up to be fired, and when that happens, you will have more d...

You know you're an older nurse if: 1. You remember working with nurses who wore caps. 2. You remember nurses (and doctors) sitting at the nurses station drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes while charting. 3. You remember when charting was don...

Is there anyone out there in the allnurse readership with an interest in getting into stand up comedy? I hope so!! I've been thinking lately that stand up would be a Marvelous Venue for getting the word out about what life in the nursing trenches ...

Tomorrow, May 12th, is the last day of Nurses Week and the birthday of Florence Nightengale. One of my coworkers (I work for a healthcare-related company) asked me what hospitals typically do for the nurses for Nurses Week. I explained that the hosp...

Here's some "Never Do"s for pediatric nurses : 1. NEVER confuse liquid meds dispensed in syringes that go in the IV with those that go in the gastric/NG tube. 2. NEVER assume the pt is "funny looking" or has some syndrome/congential problems until ...

Yes, getting into nuring administration generally requires some previous clinical nursing experience. Through clinical experience you will learn how to prioritize and delegate work, and come face-to-face with the realities of budget constraints, sta...

having a clueless manager does not end this situation. if the patient wakes up and is unhappy that her privacy rights have been willingly violated, she can file a complaint with the feds and the hospital can be fined. the proper action to take is t...

The timeline of the process varies by facility. In some (often larger) places, you'll have been partly or fully vetted before you get an interview. (Vetted = license checked, criminal/abuse check done, past employment checks done). In other, often...

Sorry, Richelle But your opinion is just plain wrong. And we wonder why nurses don't get all the respect they deserve. One doesn't have to be "a trouble maker" in addressing bad behavior by others or by being insulting back to them. All you have ...

Yes, let us be polite good girls and not interject ourseleves uninvited into insulting public conversations. This was not a chat these guys were having down in the doctors' lounge. It was at the nursing station, in front of and in full ear-shot of...