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I have been retired for about twelve years, the night mares have finally gone away. But I rememer being a young nurse and dreaming that my manager walked into my bedroom and demanded to know why I was sleeping when evey light was on down the hall. ...

I don't quite agree with part of the point you make. It might be helpful in deflecting a wrongful dismissal suit. However, in the case of a non licensed person giving harmful advice to a patient, I am wondering if you would still be resposible for...

My experience is that the licensed professionals are the ones held responsible for mistakes made by a person in this position. My feeling is someone needs to show her more than the nurse practice act, perhaps something like the door. PS This is not...

You can bet you are not the only one that has made this mistake but make sure you only make it once, I know I did.

Thank you so much for publishing this informative article. It really gets it's teeth into some of the problems that don't get talked about much.

A ltc nursing facility gives 30 days notice that it is closing. Here are some of the demands it is making. Relocate to another facility 120 miles and take a job it is offering there or 1. lose your PTO 2. lose your severence 3. no use applying for ...

Just to let you know I am not looking for legal advice. All I want to know is if other people get the same "this ain't right" gut reaction to this that I got.

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I can tell you have been through a lot. I actually admire you because I think you are a survivor. It sounds like you are doing your best. What else can you do. By the way, my mom is in a home also with dementia and the big A. She has been pleasan...

Every once I post a second hand story that I just got to talk about even while I have a hard time believing it. This one is about a manager that suspected an employee of meeting with a person on work hours for a romantic liaison. The manager want...

This sounds like a lot of ghost stories I have heard in my career. Always something special about the death.

This is an excellent question, I find the responses educational and insightful. Thanks for asking. I know I could just hit the kudos button but that doesn't begin to cover how interesting I find this post.

It was always my experience that 3-11 was the busiest shift. Remember I am not saying that because I never worked any other shift. I worked nights and days as well as evenings. All shifts are busy, all shifts work short staffed. But evening shift...

It just goes to show that in this economy many of the rules everyone swore by in other times just no longer apply. Please excuse this old timer for being slow to "get it". However, I must say that in your case I really respect the way you have take...

Oh goodness I was just going to post in my journal about this. I just came back from traveling out of the country. I totally understand airport security and what they have to do. But I don't really have to leave the country and I doubt if I will b...

My mother's Assisted Living told me at the very beginning that they would allow her to age in place. Right now she is in hospice and they are very co-operative with that. I think if I wanted her moved to another facility because I felt she was over...

NP have been listening to this garbage for a long time.

The locked memory unit where my mom resides has very little problem with this sort of thing. The doors have locks on them that require a code punched in to open them. Most the persons on the unit have such advanced memory problems that they can't c...

The rule for reporting drug diversion that you personally witness is pretty cut and dried. However, what about a situation where you overhear a conversation in which a co-worker tells another co-worker that they think someone is diverting? Or what ...

I have to say that my favorite nursing educator left teaching because she felt the quality of the students was declining. Can I point out that was in 1982? I have heard all these complaints before.

By the way, there is currently an issue going on at a hospital in my area. An audit found a particular group of physicians were repeatedly doing unnecessary cardiac stent insertions. It was a all over the newspapers a few weeks ago. The physicians...

I agree with CCL RN, that is quite a shocking story New1LT tells. It reminds me of an article I read somewhere. It was written by a prominent journalist. It was called, "How a pacemaker destroyed a family". In it she described how a pacemaker had...

I think that is sweet.

Most people are not aware that if you default and go on Social Security it will be deducted from your check.

Signed up first time I visited in 1998. I have the same name but allnurses was called something else back then.