Simplepleasures

Simplepleasures

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  1. Do You Have a Bad Back from Nursing?

    Simplepleasures replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    DDD,DJD spine and knees, Facet disease, spinal stenosis,some nerve damage in left foot.I take lots of naproxen and use Flexeril PRN for MASSIVE leg spasms and painful but less so than leg, back...

  2. Scroll down to read letter to editor about low wages & UPMC

    Simplepleasures replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Non profit, that term is SO decieving, we in healthcare seem to think that because we work for a non profit they will be different than the for profits, different title , same tacics. They probably...

  3. Cheney would "probably be dead by now" if not for his federally funded health care

    Simplepleasures replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    At the point of a gun??I will continue to see a future for our government, anarchy is not a acceptable substitute. We still have the vote, we CAN and should use it to change what we dont like in our...

  4. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    The link now works, I dont know why his blog is accessable one day and not the next, strange.Here is the link to the Disrespectful Nurses Respond blog....

  5. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    Well, maybe I should feel honored , this Kevin Fisher guy actually wrote a whole blog entry in my honor.He is QUITE riled up at me for several reasons, one being that I threatened to write the...

  6. Bite Me!

    Simplepleasures replied to sleepyndopey's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I still have a scar on my forearm from those long dirty fingernails you described, yuck.We tried to cut them but that was almost abusing her by the time we actually got a hold of her

  7. "Thanks For Caring!!!"

    Simplepleasures replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    The management must really be out of touch to think nurses will just embrace this nonsence.How about the catch phrase, "More nurses, Better outcome" or "Better Staffing, Less med Errors",

  8. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    YES!! the link works, anyone want to post a comment on his blog, feel

  9. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    His blog is up again, or my link was no good, try this, you can leave a message directly on his blog. http://blogs.franklinnow.com/this_just_in/archive/2007/12/10/do-not-resuscitate.aspx , I hope this...

  10. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    No on air apology, well Im not surprised.I will still contact the Milwaukee paper and see about

  11. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, it does look as if his post was deleted.I wonder if the email I sent to his boss the state Senator had anything to do with it. I told him and the radio station and his boss the state Senator I...

  12. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    Any more outraged nurses? I wanted to bump this to the

  13. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    THANKYOU SO SO MUCH for your great email to Mr. Botts. The problem here is that this guy is a legislative aide to a state Senator and very well respected here in the greater Milwaukee area. I have...

  14. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    UPDATE here is the blog of this radio personality who said nurses and healthcare workers who honored a do not resuscitate order were members of the "Kavorkian Fan Club", Here is how he tries to excuse...

  15. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    The email I gave is the Program Directors email, not the shock jocks.I will be calling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Use the link I provided, go to "On the Air, then podcasting, then click on the...

  16. any nurses out there with back injuries

    Simplepleasures replied to rehab nurse's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hi, I am disabled due to Spinal Stenosis ,DDD, DJD, the works. I agree about getting a a lawyer for the SS appeal process, some lawyers will start at the beginning at the application stage but most...

  17. Radio Talk Show Host Calls Nurses"Kevorkian Fan Club"!!

    Simplepleasures replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    It may be as you say, but the people listening to this trash talk about OUR professsion actually may take this as gospel.Plus it was SO SO insulting and demeaning to our NOBLE profession, his news...

  18. Is this common ?

    Simplepleasures replied to Fancy Face's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    oi

  19. What's Wrong With This Picture?

    Simplepleasures replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    What I have seen personally in the last nursing home I worked in and was fired from is this-nurses were being PRESSURED to lie, falsify records, and do some things to ensure the facility was free of...

  20. What's Wrong With This Picture?

    Simplepleasures replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yes something is rotton in Denmark or should I say the U.S. nursing home regulating agencies. LTC IS the most stringently regulated, but then the crazy state surveyors get attention deficit syndrome...

  21. Is this common ?

    Simplepleasures replied to Fancy Face's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    i suspect we would get nurses to come back into the field if we had a decent work environment and patient

  22. Too much to know in too little orientation !!

    Simplepleasures replied to gt4everpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Sorry to say ,but this is the norm in LTC.As for them now giving a month of orientation, I would say it happened because some poor new grad may have made a mistake they could've been sued for,or maybe...

  23. Saint Mary's Reno RNs Choose CNA/NNOC In Landslide 64 Percent Vote for 500 RNs

    Simplepleasures replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That is interesting about SEIU, just who is the SEIU representing anyway?As for the CNA/NNOC, wow, a powerful union, at long

  24. Is this common ?

    Simplepleasures replied to Fancy Face's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I agree, its very much based on acuity.LTC needs state or federally mandated nurse/ patient ratios, just like hospitals, think it will ever

  25. Healthcare burden growing

    Simplepleasures replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hmmm... I dont think any president has been as "WRONG" for America as the Bush administration has, in a long long time and hopefully we have collectively learned a hard lesson. As for the Senate and...