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  1. Robert Wood Johnson Univ Hospital Nurses to Strike

    fedupnurse replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yup, the phone calls and intimidation like that happens. Managers will choose people they feel are more likely to cross or be upset by the news that people have crossed. Tell people if they get...

  2. Robert Wood Johnson Univ Hospital Nurses to Strike

    fedupnurse replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Corzine was more than happy to accept all the unionized votes he got to become Gov!! What a jerk! We found in our strike that the politicians were very wishy washy and wouldn't support one side over...

  3. Robert Wood Johnson Univ Hospital Nurses to Strike

    fedupnurse replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The hospital is going to spin this so that the nurses look like the bad guys. Your Union leadership must call every available media outlet, newspapers, tv stations etc. Being in the NYC metro area...

  4. Robert Wood Johnson Univ Hospital Nurses to Strike

    fedupnurse replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I wish you the best of luck! It is heartbreaking to be on a picket line. We were out a long time. I would definetly get in touch with State Representatives and Senators. Write to every newspaper...

  5. Magnet status/nurses strike

    fedupnurse replied to clcrtrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Englewood in Northen NJ was on strike for at least a month earlier this summer and DID NOT lose their Magnet status. It is NOT an automatic thing. The only hospital I know of that has lost Magnet...

  6. Robert Wood Johnson Univ Hospital Nurses to Strike

    fedupnurse replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sounds like US Nursing Corp strikes (no pun intended) again. Having been on a picket line for a lengthy period of time a few years back, I'd never go to or allow a family member to be in a hospital...

  7. Safe Harbor/ Working Under Protest

    fedupnurse replied to melpn's topic in General Nursing

    New Jersey has the Conscientious Employee Protection Act. Not sure how many times it has been tested in court. If you work in a Unionized facility the union usually provides either assignment...

  8. Practical jokes at work

    fedupnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    What are some of the best practical jokes you have ever pulled off at work? I was in charge one night and we had a prisnor as a patient. The cop watching him until the county took over was a real...

  9. OR patients bypass PACU for ICU

    fedupnurse replied to fedupnurse's topic in PACU

    Thanks for the feedback. One of the units effected doesn't have a dedicated full time intensivist and it seems this practice is being pushed because the anesthesiologists want to sign off and be...

  10. Survey: Has your facility implemented nurse to patient ratios?

    fedupnurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    8:43G-9.7 Critical care staff time and availability (a) Nurse staffing shall be determined by the acuity of illness of the patients on the critical care unit. (b) There shall always be at least one...

  11. Survey: Has your facility implemented nurse to patient ratios?

    fedupnurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    For those of you who do work in units that use acuity, how do you measure the acuity factor? Is it strictly by nuring judgement or is there an "objective" system you

  12. Survey: Has your facility implemented nurse to patient ratios?

    fedupnurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Busy regional referral center combined ICU/CCU. If we are full, it is not uncommon to have several nurses with 3 patients each. Patient acuity is measured once a day and only up to the # of beds we...

  13. 3 nursing unions in NJ negotiating new contracts

    fedupnurse replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    To any RWJ nurses who may read this board, first of all, I wish you the best of luck in your fight. There are some things you must prepare for if you do strike. I know these issues first hand since...

  14. JCAHO visit

    fedupnurse replied to tylerrose's topic in General Nursing

    AMV, you are so right! Short staffing is purposely done by hospitals. They budget not based on number of licensed beds but on a bogus number called average daily census. In my facility we can never...

  15. JCAHO visit

    fedupnurse replied to tylerrose's topic in General Nursing

    If they want their surveys to mean anything they should be unannounced. I think all those organizations are a joke. Magnet, Joint, none of it means anything if you work in a facility that is poorly...

  16. Are there any good hospitals to work at?

    fedupnurse replied to AMV's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know the name, but if you do a search here you may be able to find it, but there is a hospital in Arizona, I believe, that has a waiting list of nurses who want to work there. 1:4 ratio i med...

  17. Chronic Tardiness

    fedupnurse replied to Tweety's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    So true about the late ones chomping at the bit when you come in 15 minutes early...I have yet to have a boss who admonishes staff for being chronically late. SO, when there is a particular person...

  18. that song that bashes nurses

    fedupnurse replied to galenight's topic in General Nursing

  19. A surgeon yelled at me...

    fedupnurse replied to MollyMo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You can use my line: "I did not hold a gun to your head and force you to go to medical school. I did not then hold that gun to your head and force you into (specialty here). If you didn't want to...

  20. Far-out JCAHO questions

    fedupnurse replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    The suits arrange for me to be on vacation when Joint comes. We had a priest who was in on a mock session and he was asked where they put documentation about patients being annointed. He said there...

  21. narcotic theft investigation

    fedupnurse replied to sunny1973's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't worry about it. We aren't supposed to know what they look like!! Imagine how long narc count would take

  22. informed consent

    fedupnurse replied to ageless's topic in General Nursing

    I know in NJ nurses witness consents. We are only witnessing the signature, not that the patient understands what they were

  23. UAP charting assesments in the ICU

    fedupnurse replied to alansmith52's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you can get a friend to write a letter to the editor and suggest people at that hospital, any hospital really, should request to see the nursing license of their care providers. "I forgot it...

  24. UAP charting assesments in the ICU

    fedupnurse replied to alansmith52's topic in General Nursing

    Why doesn't this shock me??????? Those stinking suits will do anything to save a buck or two! Someone from that unit needs to photocopy those notes and the assignment sheet and forward it to the...

  25. Question for House Supervisors

    fedupnurse replied to RoaminHankRN's topic in General Nursing

    Funny, in all my years at my current facility I have never seen even a single supervisor carrying anything other than a coffee