Nurse Ratched RN

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    Help! - problems with travel contract

    Nurse Ratched replied to ColdFusion's topic in General Nursing

    So what did you find out from your
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    Resignation

    Nurse Ratched replied to robynhood's topic in Nursing Career

    The only issue with being too honest is that you still may need this facility as a reference. Three years is a long time to spend at a place where you have become persona non
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    Help! - problems with travel contract

    Nurse Ratched replied to ColdFusion's topic in General Nursing

    I won't ask you the specifics of the problem encountered the other night, but I will suggest that you are in a much better place than most nurses - you have a contract. Is there anything in that...
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    Help! - problems with travel contract

    Nurse Ratched replied to ColdFusion's topic in General Nursing

    Did you ask the hospital when you were next scheduled to work? Or just whether you were working tonight or
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    Sample Hogs

    Nurse Ratched replied to JnJTyson's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    We wax and wane on our sample availability. I am a firm believer that they should be given to pt's who don't have insurance. Not wanting to file insurance certainly isn't a good reason. Our...
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    Sample Hogs

    Nurse Ratched replied to JnJTyson's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    We wax and wane on our sample availability. I am a firm believer that they should be given to pt's who don't have insurance. Not wanting to file insurance certainly isn't a good reason. Our...
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    Quit my job! Wah .... advice?

    Nurse Ratched replied to ChiaLing's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Just keep going, ChiaLing! Best of luck to you :). (I might add, I've met a number of Asian-Americans whose parents place a great deal of pressure on them to do (whatever) in school. The stress of...
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    Quit my job! Wah .... advice?

    Nurse Ratched replied to ChiaLing's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Just keep going, ChiaLing! Best of luck to you :). (I might add, I've met a number of Asian-Americans whose parents place a great deal of pressure on them to do (whatever) in school. The stress of...
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    Do float nurses in your facility get paid more?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

    Our floats used to be called "in-house agency" and got a slightly higher rate in recognition of their ability to flex to almost any role (they floated everywhere in house.) Now we have no float pool...
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    Do float nurses in your facility get paid more?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

    Our floats used to be called "in-house agency" and got a slightly higher rate in recognition of their ability to flex to almost any role (they floated everywhere in house.) Now we have no float pool...
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    Pharmacists refusing to fill orders for The Pill

    Nurse Ratched replied to KarenAR's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There is a difference between "can't" do something (without accomodations) and "won't" do something. If you won't do something that's a major part of your job (and in my facility, any pharm who...
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    Pharmacists refusing to fill orders for The Pill

    Nurse Ratched replied to KarenAR's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There is a difference between "can't" do something (without accomodations) and "won't" do something. If you won't do something that's a major part of your job (and in my facility, any pharm who...
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    Expectations of agency nurses

    Nurse Ratched replied to mattsmom81's topic in Agency Nurses

    Exactly - the notion of dumping on fellow nurses is probably part of why a facility needs to use so much agency backup in the first place. Again, anyone who is there to lend a hand is not going to get...
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    Expectations of agency nurses

    Nurse Ratched replied to mattsmom81's topic in Agency Nurses

    Exactly - the notion of dumping on fellow nurses is probably part of why a facility needs to use so much agency backup in the first place. Again, anyone who is there to lend a hand is not going to get...
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    Supervisor ignored a DNR status

    Nurse Ratched replied to LPN47331's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Lol - now I'm confused :). So is the issue that there is a mentally compromised elder without legal health care representation? Or is the nurse calling the shots and the patient is just along for...
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    Supervisor ignored a DNR status

    Nurse Ratched replied to LPN47331's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    DNR doesn't mean the pt can't have a pacemaker. If the 94 year old is competent to make such decisions, the pt can do so. If not, and the supervisor has no legal standing (health care rep paperwork)...
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    Addict in Recovery w/ MS Pain

    Nurse Ratched replied to CarVsTree's topic in Pain Management

    Is it generalized pain, or concentrated in one specific
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    Good bye to corrections

    Nurse Ratched replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Correctional

    I've found that the most important skill to have is the ability to deal with patients that no one else wants to, and you already have that . Hoping the hospital works out for you. I understand how...
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    hairstyles on nurses....your opinion

    Nurse Ratched replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    I have med length hair. Not long enough to pull back, too short to be totally practical. Keep trying to grow it but it's a slow process. Clean, out of your face. Generic descriptor that my hospital...
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    re: flu vaccines

    Nurse Ratched replied to panurse101's topic in Infectious Disease

    We have instituted flu shots at our hospital as a "standing order" now, and have no recommendations for temps beyond our routine VS. Giving them in my primary job in an outpatient clinic, we...
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    re: flu vaccines

    Nurse Ratched replied to panurse101's topic in Infectious Disease

    This is going to be a really dumb question, but why would you take the temp at all beyond just routine vitals - concern over an allergic reaction? Since it's attentuated, that should be the only...
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    Expectations of agency nurses

    Nurse Ratched replied to mattsmom81's topic in Agency Nurses

    Mattsmom, I've often thought reading your posts that you are exactly the kind of nurse I would love to work with :). I'm sorry that shortsightedness and pettiness on the part of workers in those...
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    I don't think I was being unreasonable.

    Nurse Ratched replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Certainly it's a much better idea to have unfamiliar staff on TWO units instead of one . What are people thinking? Good job on standing up. :) I also agree wholeheartedly re: the budget
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    Any facilities that stop accepting pts if there is insufficient staff?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you - I've butchered that acronym forever - now I can actually read up more on it
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    Any facilities that stop accepting pts if there is insufficient staff?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    Is it the EMLATA thing? Would it be considered dumping or not treating to divert someone if you have a bed, even though you don't have the staff to man