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I am currently on assignment in Pittsburgh where one of the large hospitals has just turned down travelers in lieu of their importation of Phillipino nurses. I am VERY opposed to this for a number of reasons. I ask you, would you prefer a foreigner...

I am currently writing this ethics/legal nursing paper and I am stuck. Here is the scenario....I had this patient whose family was extremly unreasonable. The girl was 18, s/p fall after taking ecstasy & rock climbing. Family refused to obey vi...

Thanks guys! Keep it comin'. I have adressed the beneficence, nonmaleficence thingie but I need a ton of other ethical ideas. Honest to God, the guidelines for this paper are ridiculous. I'll be up all night.

Rn 5 yrs Critical Care $38 days/$39 nights as AGENCY nurse (no benefits) last staff job was $18.96 Pittsburgh

We should collectively write to our deadbeat legislators & request a National Nurses Shadow Day where they could follow us around, see what its like and maybe GAIN A LITTLE RESPECT for us. This idea could then be expanded to include your friendl...

I found this chat forum made up of lay peope discussing the nursing shortage after they saw that joke by 60 minutes a few weeks ago. Anyway, they are butchering us over there. When I posted my opinion regarding the crap we deal with & travel nu...

I used to bring in Mr bubble bubble bath with some good smelling lotion from bath & body works for our young trauma (and the stinky grandmas too). Also, those young traumas had their legs & pits shaved by ME. Not to toot my own horn, but I'd...

Our codes were called overhead (stupid though, cause in the ICU we ran our own) but anyway, a visitor in the waiting room came into the ICU, saw what room the code was in tried to walk in saying, "what's going on in here?". Then, after I told her to...

:rotfl: Holy "poo"!! I haven't laughed that hard in awhile. You are so creative!!!!!!!

Dear, sweet Mario......I know the familiar argument "if you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear" in regards to this type of tracking device. However, you are stepping on a slippery slope here. Where do they draw the line? Are...

My my my. Let me count the ways. Low pay, shift, holidays, weekends, and exposure to every infectous disease known to man are only the BENEFITS. Factor in disrespect from MDs and mangement combined with abusive families/patients and you've got the...

Sorry to tell you fedup, but you'll be waiting til the cows come home for management to address this. Now, if youcould somehow disguise this problem as one realting to some family in distress over ice chips or something, then you'd get results!!!!

I could go on & on & on about this, my favorite ***** topic!!! When I first started woking in ICU, I had my first visitors encounter when my patient's ventilator was alarming. I entered the room to find the patient's daughter (with about 15...

Whoa.....Mark LD. I never meant to offend anyone abou the Bull crap nurse. Just a phrase my friends & I coined since our program was full of BS!!! I gained not an extra lick of knowledge by finishing that degree. Don't be so defensive!! I wil...

I am not on any of these drugs nor have I ever been. However, I had a coworker recently who was on two antidepressants & he tried the Atkins diet. Not only did he get off his antidepressants, but he got off his oral hypoglycemis and his Norvasc...

I am a diploma nurse who completed my BSN while working full time. Let me just opine, here. I have gained NOTHING (both financially and academically) by getting my BullShitNurse degree. I do the same job as my coworkers. (I did gain alot by getti...

I am trying not to blame them. Hey, if they want to better themselves & get their slice of the American Dream, good for them. Should make us proud, you know, that our country is so damn good (insert flag waving here). However, I have gotten bu...

Ummm.... I must be totally out of the loop here 'cause my azz is in front of Fox News damn mear 6 hours out of the day & I haven't a clue as to what you all are referring. Shades of Andrea Yates? (who was a nurses, BTW). On a side note, that *...

Colleen....I take it you are familiar with this one horse town?

My friend who is on staff as a PACU Rn at an absolute shit hole was recently told by mangement during a staff meeting that a current trend in healthcare is to lay off RNs. I told her that HELLO there is a nursing shortage & I haven't heard about...

They (the suits) claim it helps patients by allowing staff to be located easier. My thought is What???!? Wouldn't patients benefit more if the money spent on these things went toward excursions into the land of nurse retention?

Do it quite frequently. In most facilities, a pressure >30: consider OR.

CC NRSE....are you frequently calibrating your SVO2 monitors? If not, maybe that's why they are not accurate. As for the ice vs no ice.....haven't used ice since I was a student 5 years ago. Now, either use no ice (if bolus method) or Baxter CCO. ...

where I've worked they throw you in. But don't worry, in a few months you'll feel better. Don't be too hard on yourself before that. Give yourself plenty of time to feel this way. I am a believer that nursing programs don't really prepare you for...

I have many reasons for being against this practice. I too feel the language barrier poses many safety issues if nothing else. In addition, I believe that management exploits these nurses by holding them at a lower wage & threatening them with ...