kailucan

I live in a small town in central KY.... that being said...a 7 year girl was playing in her own yard one afternoon after school. She was kidnapped raped and then murdered. Her body was found in an abandoned van about 50 miles away months later. A small town DOES NOT equal safety. At a Walmart near us an 8 year old boy was raped in the men's restroom while his mom was waiting outside because he didn't want to go in the women's restroom. At a Sunday night church service a mom of a 3 year old girl heard her duaghter crying for help and found a 13 yearold boy raping her daughter in the bathroom OF THE CHURCH. I can go on and on with instances like this.... my sister is a social worker. There is NO saftey in living in a small town. If you suspect abuse you report it. I would rather be a bit over protective or even paranoid than have to live with the WORST things that could happen to my child.

:uhoh21: The pediatric nurses I've been working with for the past year and a half have FINALLY decided to unite and make a stand for the poor staffing our hospital allows. We are a seventeen bed unit that is highly promoted in our area and generally have a ten to fifteen patient turnover through the day with out the assistance of a ward/unit clerk or nurse aid with only 2 LPN/LVNs and 1 RN. Most of our admissions are direct admits and our facility does not allow LPNs to do the assessment even if the RN agrees to sign behind them. I need help from other pediatric nurses in finding the information we need to take to our CEO and CNO. Currently, our department manager counts as a direct patient care nurse...this is a person we rarely , if ever, see on the unit. We are trying to present a much safer staffing matrix that focuses on pediatric units. ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER WILL BE APPRICIATED. THANK YOU.

:uhoh21: The pediatric nurses I've been working with for the past year and a half have FINALLY decided to unite and make a stand for the poor staffing our hospital allows. We are a seventeen bed unit that is highly promoted in our area and generally have a ten to fifteen patient turnover through the day with out the assistance of a ward/unit clerk or nurse aid with only 2 LPN/LVNs and 1 RN. Most of our admissions are direct admits and our facility does not allow LPNs to do the assessment even if the RN agrees to sign behind them. I need help from other pediatric nurses in finding the information we need to take to our CEO and CNO. Currently, our department manager counts as a direct patient care nurse...this is a person we rarely , if ever, see on the unit. We are trying to present a much safer staffing matrix that focuses on pediatric units. ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER WILL BE APPRICIATED. THANK YOU.

this past august i came down with official bona fide "fifth disease" (human parvovirus), i should have built up antibodies as a child but didn't, and missed 5 total 12 hour shifts occuring over 2 weeks time. i was so weak that for the first week i couldn't go any further than from my bed to the bathroom without stopping to rest. the day before i went back to work i was seen driving to the pharmacy, i had just left my dr's office. went i got to work the next day, i was taken to the hr office where my nurse manger attempted to fire me and force me to sign a document stating i had falsified info by "saying you were sick when i saw you out driving". my nurse manager looked at me and said "i saw you driving, it's nothing personal." she did not know that i had 7 different dr's statements covering all 15 days i was sick. even days i wasn't scheduled were covered. i called my dr's office right there from the hr office and fmla papers were started. and as far as my nurse manager...she had to eat crow. i was definately not the first to be done this way. we had another nurse who had a stroke and had tried to come back to work and was having alot of difficulties and the same nurse mananger fired her. our unit clerk's son was in a horrible car accident and was totally in bed for 10 weeks and our nurse manager called her at home and told her "you do know that i can post your position" :angryfire it maybe childish, ok i know it is, but i cannot wait to look at my nurse manager and say "it's nothing personal!"

I need help finding info on Nurses Unions that also accept LPNs as members. I am going back to school next fall for my ADN when my youngest starts school. Until then I need to find protection for my fellow LPNs and myself. I have found numerous organizations for RNs but it's as if LPNs aren't nurses of any kind. Please HELP!!! (if you can):chair:

OK, usually I just sit back , read and keep my mouth shut. BUT.......my sister had an abortion when she was 19 due to parental demand, or so she says, both parents deny this claim to this day, and "it" took place 15 years ago. Three years later she became pregnant again and has had two children. Now she desparately talks about the one child "she lost" and remains depressed and on anti-depressant medications. Now to the question at hand- I would never consider assisting with an abortion. Granted, I too work psych :) , however my views on this topic were formed long before I even had considered being a nurse. Like someone posted earlier in the list..."there are plenty of nurses who are willing to assist....".