Kayartea

Kayartea

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  1. Ethics: Does it bother you when people are in nursing to make money?

    Kayartea replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    What on Earth is wrong with wanting to be paid for doing a highly technical job that requires not merely an education, but ongoing learning to maintain skills? There is nothing unethical about that....

  2. heavy lifting

    Kayartea replied to nads786's topic in Men in Nursing

    I did a travel assignment at a hospital in Oklahoma that actually had a no lift policy. The only problem was none of the nurses had quite figured out how to implement it. We decided it was just the...

  3. So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    Kayartea replied to fizz2Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Get a new job, but document and report anyway, not to upper management who are aware of what is going on already (No excuses for them, it is their job to know. If they don't know they are not doing...

  4. lazy mean assistants

    Kayartea replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    I think part of the problem between aides and nurses is simply that nurses can do everything the aides can do, so aides have no imperative to get things done, and they see nurses sitting down to wait...

  5. lazy mean assistants

    Kayartea replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Write up the incident where she followed you to yell at you. Then write her up every time she does anything wrong. Give copies to your NM and copies to HR, making sure you NM is aware that copies...

  6. So you hate your job....?

    Kayartea replied to RN Randy's topic in General Nursing

    One thing about travel, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. If it's just horrible it's still not so hard when you know you've only signed up for 39 shifts. And it gives you a chance to...

  7. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Kayartea replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone keeping up with these stories? They're at www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=e2837ee3-fcb9-44a8-b63a-b9a14094e6f4 Nurses at a major San Antonio hospital are speaking out about...

  8. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Kayartea replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's called a strike. Are you considering organizing one at your hospital? ; ) Seriously though, we all know nursing needs to change to have a future and maybe there are some good ideas in this...

  9. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Kayartea replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, if that's the review, now I have to read the book. No one will agree with everything anyone else says, but it would be nice to have a plan of some sort for improving nursing. Nursing could be...

  10. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Kayartea replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's why I support The Center for Nursing Advocacy. I think they sometimes need to choose their battles, but over all they are doing important work to change the image of nursing. I highly recommend...

  11. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Kayartea replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Here is an article from Advance Practice in Nursing eJournal. It can be found at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/520714 but I quoted the entire article here. The section most pertinent to your...

  12. Throwing in the towel

    Kayartea replied to sister--*'s topic in Nursing Career

    California has legal limits on patient/nurse ratios. That's one of the reasons travelers love working there. Perhaps we should all be lobbying our reps to establish limits in our states. Or even a...

  13. heavy lifting

    Kayartea replied to nads786's topic in Men in Nursing

    Just like everything else, depends on your specialty. ICU pts have to be lifted and turned every 2 hrs and we frequently don't have a tech, or the tech is busy. Even if we do have a tech, it's a 2...

  14. Throwing in the towel

    Kayartea replied to sister--*'s topic in Nursing Career

    Don't worry too much about the resume, lots of places have online applications and don't even look at resumes. You still have to fill out the app. If you're not on high speed you can fill out online...

  15. So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    Kayartea replied to fizz2Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Leave. Leave now. And file a report with JCAHO and the labor board and whatever agency oversees hospitals and pharmacies in your state. You owe it to yourself to save your license and to the...

  16. So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    Kayartea replied to fizz2Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn't matter what hospital policy says, they can't overrule federal law, which states that you must have 30 uninterrupted minutes for lunch, and since you are not being paid for it it is your...

  17. "Customer service" and nursing

    Kayartea replied to LilPeanut's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    thanks. today we can begin a writing campaign to all of our representatives. every other professional group can charge for services, why not nursing? today we can work on changing the "little miss...

  18. "Customer service" and nursing

    Kayartea replied to LilPeanut's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The issue with Press-Ganey is not that "all the cool kids are doing it". The problem is that the insurance companies use Press-Ganey as a weapon when negotiating fees, and even whether they will...

  19. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Kayartea replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    My favorite was the pt who had a rollover ATV accident and needed a splenectomy. His mother didn't speak much English and apparently didn't grasp my explanation of her son's injuries. I came to...

  20. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Kayartea replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yeah, same patient on the first two. And she wasn't pregnant when she called EMS. And she knew

  21. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Kayartea replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    When you are 50 miles from home and have a fight with your boyfriend, do not call EMS and tell them you are having a miscarriage and insist on going to your local hospital to get a ride home. The...

  22. Help! Money! In a pickle!!!

    Kayartea replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    one other place to check is your state board of nursing. due to the nursing shortage they now have federal money to use as nursing school scholarships. they are available for masters programs, too....

  23. Patient complaints

    Kayartea replied to am4182's topic in General Nursing

    Don't even start me on the Press-Ganey survey. How many patients actually know if they had a good NURSE? Most rate us on our skill as waitresses! And sometimes you're too busy saving their life, or...

  24. Tell all about Arkansas!

    Kayartea replied to military spouse's topic in General Nursing

    I grew up in So. CA, with parents from AR. Moved to AR to help Mom after Dad died. Love AR. Live just south of LR. Worked at Baptist (BTW labor dispute was St. Vincent's, not Baptist) on M/S and...

  25. CONTINUED IN WHAT IS THE MAJOR REASON Why are they all leaving?

    Kayartea replied to artistnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Was at a Nursing Symposium last year where one of the speakers said that 90% of critical care nurses end up with some form of PTSD. Must be even worse in the ED. MS has a lot to deal with, too....