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oramar

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  1. Dear Lord: Please give me patience....

    oramar replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes 4 patients like this will keep you busy. As busy as you were with a little experience you can handle it. My beef was that I frequently found myself with 8 just like that, when it started to hit...

  2. "Shotty Neck"

    oramar replied to PrairieRose's topic in General Nursing

    Hoping I am not going to off topic here. I don't know what happens to other people but this keeps happening to me. I google something and get links, I click on links and get more links. If someone...

  3. Nurses Union Plans Ad Campaign Against Nevada Republican

    oramar replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Good, I am glad someone is trying to counter the

  4. Smart Nurse vs. Dumb Pharmacy, Round One. DING! | Life of a Nurse

    oramar replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Just keep these stories coming friends. I just sigh and realize how lovely it is to be

  5. Paper license?

    oramar posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Just filled out my renewal online for Pa. Now is that it or do I still get a paper license in the mail? A lot of states have done away with paper license but I don't know if Pa has or

  6. Frustrated with having to work

    oramar replied to SalishRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think a lot of it has to do with your schedule. Three shifts and eleven off is just tooo weird. You never get into any groove except the one that likes to be home. I have worked one day with...

  7. At my boiling point...you are NOT a Nurse...of ANY kind!!!!

    oramar replied to nursehunnie's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This must be getting worse as we are hearing about this more than ever. I personally have never witnessed it but I am wondering if the docs lean on the MAs in their office to identify themselves as...

  8. LTC is making me hate nursing!!!

    oramar replied to Angeljho's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Didn't you say that some of the other units are not as bad. Is there any possibility of a transfer to one of

  9. shared goverance? who uses it?

    oramar replied to lmwnnicurn's topic in General Nursing

    My head nurse used to sit in on our meeting and suppress any signs of independence of her nurses. One meeting, she totally seized control of it and used to her own purposes. I think she got word...

  10. What to do when there's no one to turn to?

    oramar replied to ivorybunny's topic in General Nursing

    I never had a desire to be part of the "inner circle". The circle was usually occupied by these "God Awful Creatures". I know it hurt me professionally that I would never preform the groveling that...

  11. Why do doctors office pay nurses pennies to work for them?

    oramar replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    There is not one single RN or LPN working at any of my doctors offices with the exception of gyne. My GP, pulmonary, GI docs as well as my husbands allergist use all Medical Assistants. My gyne...

  12. Nurses, have you been been spit on, pushed, scratched and verbally or assaulted?

    oramar replied to Brian's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Only one time, in all those years I worked was I ever deliberately hurt by a patient that was in full possession of their mental faculties. My manager was very insistent that I ambulate a very...

  13. Yeah, that's right, it's my fault.

    oramar posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last evening I was informed by a patient that the high cost of health care can be blamed on nurses and their high compensation and benefit cost. This is a afluent, well educated person in his late...

  14. doing ourselves a disservice

    oramar replied to Altra's topic in General Nursing

    I have been guilty of this myself. It is not that I totally skip things but that I skim so fast that I miss things. Point well taken, I will take more time in the future. Matter of fact I have...

  15. Experienced Nurses: Economic/Job Market Trends over the course of your Careers?

    oramar replied to SDBella82's topic in General Nursing

    I am just going by memory, but the way I remember it was each of those periods you named were associated with a tight job market for nurses.(Been a nurse since '67) The current tight job market is...

  16. My RANT on the state of Nursing in my neck of the woods

    oramar replied to anRNinICU's topic in General Nursing

    Could this all be about money? You say there are unfilled positions but could it be that unfilled positions mean more jingle in the pockets of management? Could it also be that the poor treatment of...

  17. Things that should be banned in acute care.

    oramar replied to november17's topic in General Nursing

    They have banned some things. Take for instance I can remember when tobacco products were sold in gift shops. As for the soda machines, I could see them getting pulled some day. They have already...

  18. FREEDOM! I Quit my med-surge job!

    oramar replied to zofran's topic in General Nursing

    being a nurse and beating your head against a wall have a lot in common, it feels so good when you

  19. Staffing Ratios Condemn Patients To Inferior Care

    oramar replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Graham is director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. Hertzka, a former president of California Medical Association." Ha, "Health Care Studies at the Pacific...

  20. how is health insurance for nurses?

    oramar replied to j119's topic in General Nursing

    Health insurance for nurses runs the gamut from excellent to none at all. By the time you get out of school who knows what the rule will

  21. What constitutes falsifying documentation?

    oramar replied to physioex's topic in General Nursing

    I think the fact that they couldn't kick her when she was down was a reflection of the fact that they were basically very nice people. I never said she was my arch enemy. I remember spending half...

  22. Can you live a luxury lifestyle as a nurse?

    oramar replied to trustabdy's topic in General Nursing

    I am glad you are saying it and not me. At times I and others have tried warning students about how difficult paying off those loans will be but they just don't want to hear

  23. What constitutes falsifying documentation?

    oramar replied to physioex's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your measured response, I just wonder about these people that are so harsh. Have they really never done anything foolish? It is hard for me to believe they haven't. I worked with a...

  24. What constitutes falsifying documentation?

    oramar replied to physioex's topic in General Nursing

    Now there are people here that have posted that pre-charting ANYTHING is grounds for dismisal at any instituton. Here is an account of an institutions REQUIRING it. Guess what, I have run into this...

  25. Residential hospices - open door policies?

    oramar replied to HealthShepherd's topic in General Nursing

    At a Mt. Lebanon hospice, a carefully designed garden and therapy dog bring solace to