pebbles BSN, RN

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    For those of you that are a nurse and those of you who call yourself a nurse!!

    pebbles replied to StaceRacer1's topic in General Nursing

    And don't we all wish the patients, families and public CARED that some of us are Nurses, and some are qualified assistants. But they don't, do they. It takes me less time to ensure that the UAP has...
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    "Big city" hospitals vs smaller community-based facilities?

    pebbles posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone noticed if there is a difference in working conditions between big city hospitals, teaching hospitals and smaller community-based hospitals? Rural areas? What about quality of care and...
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    "Big city" hospitals vs smaller community-based facilities?

    pebbles replied to pebbles's topic in General Nursing

    :) Thats what I was looking for. Not "better", but just different. I'm interested in what the differences are, and if it's an local thing, or if people all over the continent notice the same...
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    lack of support among nurses?!

    pebbles replied to victoreia's topic in General Nursing

    tracib, if it doesn't start with us, who does it start with? Who teaches the newbies how to conduct themselves in this profession? I didn't mean to lay blame, but just point out that sometimes new...
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    lack of support among nurses?!

    pebbles replied to victoreia's topic in General Nursing

    Just a comment - I saw a documentary on differing work attitudes among young people today vs the older generations. One point that was made is that today, people don't live to work, they work to live....
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    Nurse accused of manslaughter in patient's death

    pebbles replied to fiestynurse's topic in General Nursing

    OR in something else that will help too.... Maybe making excuses or coming up with explanations or condemming a total strager isn't so productive. How do we turn this around to benefit our own...
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    culture of surgical ICU

    pebbles replied to klimasr's topic in MICU, SICU

    could it be a hospital-specific difference? The medicine wards in my hospital have a very "academic" feel - the nurses are thinkers, but don't actually touch patients. (They "manage patient care"...)...
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    jt and non-nursing tasks

    pebbles replied to Joybug's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps if you did not do these tasks, the management would have to hire somebody to do it - a night aide of some type. Pressuring the management is never easy, but taking the easy way out and just...
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    Cell phone use in hospitals

    pebbles replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    One of the managers at my hospital told me the hospital did a study a few years back, and cellular phones did actually interfere with the older model Baxter IV pumps we use. Personally, as far as...