Simplepleasures

Simplepleasures

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  1. I have strep =0(

    Simplepleasures replied to Valerie Salva's topic in General Nursing

    You cant. Just stay home and take care of yourself, let your employer worry about your replacement, that's not your responsibility.Have a hot toddy and go to bed.:heartbeat After the ten hours in the...

  2. Help! LTC laws and ratios

    Simplepleasures replied to erica_pn's topic in Ohio Nursing

    http://www.nccnhr.org/uploads/HarringtonStatestaffingtableRevisedJan2008.pdf You can look up Ohio in this nation wide staffing table for

  3. therapy for me,I guess?

    Simplepleasures replied to proud2b1's topic in General Nursing

    We all have had or may have days like this, all I can say is keep the faith , don't let the %^$#@!** get you

  4. Husband with Kidney Cancer

    Simplepleasures replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my gosh, so sorry to hear this, were here for

  5. How do you deal?

    Simplepleasures replied to batman05's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa, thats a hard one. We need to have certain amount of emotional attachment, thats called compassion, but we also need to draw a line and be effectual as nurses. As for getting others to treat the...

  6. So Mad I Could Just SCREAM.......

    Simplepleasures replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    yes, it was a nursing home reform advocate that told me he was told this by someone in our own

  7. Some people will do anything for money.

    Simplepleasures replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yes, I will be watching. Thanks for the

  8. Causes Of The Nursing Shortage

    Simplepleasures replied to mifligirl's topic in General Nursing

    once again, you try to twist my meaning and denegrate me personally.the problem we have had as nurses is one in which we do nothing more than discuss the whys of the nursing shortage, i think we all...

  9. Causes Of The Nursing Shortage

    Simplepleasures replied to mifligirl's topic in General Nursing

    We can discuss why we nurses have taken this kind of abuse till the cows come home, lets look forward and do what is most logical, GET A UNION, a good strong powerful one. Then with the help of a...

  10. Health care for America

    Simplepleasures replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is EXACTLY the type of comprehensive health care plan that America needs,so lets hear what the nay sayers have to say about this, I'm sure there will be

  11. R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    Simplepleasures posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Ask anyone in your workplace what treatment they most want at work. They will likely top their list with the desire to be treated with dignity and respect. Popular songs tout the need for respect....

  12. feds in nursign home

    Simplepleasures replied to mm44's topic in General Nursing

    I remember several years ago in my community ,a TV news report showing FBI agents (had jackets on with the letters FBI on the back) wheeling out of a notoriously bad nursing home dollies with boxes of...

  13. Disrespectful Employees

    Simplepleasures replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    What you think of me personally does not mean anything in the scope of this thread. Yes, LETS be more supportive .Perhaps you should take your own

  14. Disrespectful Employees

    Simplepleasures replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I do not think there are rules under the TOS that prohibit anyone from posting on any forum. I have seen DONs post on the LPN forum when applicable, or the student nurse forum or any of the many other...

  15. Are we adequately treating pain?

    Simplepleasures replied to ag01medic's topic in Emergency

    I also am one with chronic back pain, which can become acute at a drop of the hat, incredibly mind boggling screaming kind of pain that puts the whole leg into a continuous spasm that sometimes will...

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Simplepleasures replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I worked nights for over 26 years and we did have a room in which the undertakers had just removed a body, the call light continued to go off in that room several times till AM. We were spooked, the...

  17. Horizontal violence is ruining my unit

    Simplepleasures replied to funmom's topic in General Nursing

    i shudder to think. maybe nurses should give more thought to unionization, what is a union anyway, a group of like minded people who band together for the good of the group.no more divide and

  18. So Mad I Could Just SCREAM.......

    Simplepleasures replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    it's not just the old that are devalued, but they were the first to be devalued en mass, hence all the nursing home "abuse", which is perpetuated by under staffing due to corporate greed. one nursing...

  19. "You are getting very good care"

    Simplepleasures replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The DON that fired me actually DID say that to me, I retorted, "you just fired me, you don't pay me to pretend to respect you

  20. So Mad I Could Just SCREAM.......

    Simplepleasures replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    So sad,disturbing and frightening. This seems to be getting to be a repeated theme, even here on Allnurses, the devaluation of human life, especially if society deems that life unworthy because of...

  21. Grief and concentration

    Simplepleasures replied to seasoned hopeful's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Oh my gosh, SO SORRY. Its no wonder that you are having a hard time concentrating. It is a tribute to your daughter and your own strength that you didn't drop out for awhile. My best wishes to you and...

  22. Having the "Right to Fall"

    Simplepleasures replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wisconsin regs on restraints: http://www.hpm.umn.edu/NHRegsPlus/state_regulation_attachments/wisconsin_regulation_attachments/wisconsin_subchapter_3_residents_rights_and_protections.pdf (k) Abuse and...

  23. How is a health issue made into law?

    Simplepleasures replied to buddiage's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Your state must have mandates in place,that ensure safe staffing ratios. This doesnt even begin to happen until nurses unite and have someone who is willing to write up a proposal and take it to the...

  24. Having the "Right to Fall"

    Simplepleasures replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We had an incident several years ago here in WI, in which a patient got her neck caught in a half rail the one at the top of the bed( no bottom rail) and she suffocated. Big law suit, after that no...

  25. Having the "Right to Fall"

    Simplepleasures replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have heard that term from state too, seems like an oxymoron. But then again its coming from so called