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  1. What am I missing here?

    lindarn replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    I have said it before, and I will say it again- the PTB are trying their best to figure out ways to eliminate nurses. Our low levels of education only encourages this practice. PTs, OTs, SLPs,...

  2. Outraged by no more privacy

    lindarn replied to inquiringaide's topic in General Nursing

    In what seems like a hundred years ago, when I took my licensing exam (the old paper and pencil one that lasted three days), ALL NURSES ARRIVING TO TAKE THE TEST, HAD TO HAVE IDENTIFICATION, we were...

  3. Legal Nurse Consultant: Is this what it is made out to be?

    lindarn replied to DNS on the go's topic in Legal

    Unfortunately, the Legal Nurse Consulting field has become saturated with LNCs, due to the heavy marketing by the, "Amway of Legal Nurse Consulting" program. And all the other programs that have...

  4. The nursing shortage that won't die

    lindarn replied to nurse2033's topic in General Nursing

    My edeucated guess, is that if Florida IS suffering from a nursing shortage, it is from their own doing- lousy pay, lousier benefits, lousy working conditions, "right to work, (for less), mentality,...

  5. Spokane Hospital RN jobs

    lindarn replied to stylishgurl's topic in Washington Nursing

    ALWAYS UNION!! Good Luck to you.

  6. Spokane Hospital RN jobs

    lindarn replied to stylishgurl's topic in Washington Nursing

    There are NO jobs in Spokane, and NO good hospitals in Spokane. Spokane is a VERY nurse-unfriendly area. There is NO, and never has been, a nursing shortage here in Spokane, North Idaho, or Eastern...

  7. Can an R.N. just be PLOPPED into ICU to work???!??

    lindarn replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    I would also like to add, that the vent is the least of your problems if you also have to titrate drips. An insulin drip is not the only drip you will have to titrate. I mean, pressors, like Dopamine,...

  8. ? about VMI

    lindarn replied to cbarila's topic in Legal

    You should not have to take out a loan to attend a program, that is a, "for profit", self designed, with all answers to "certification test questions' ,spoon fed to you. What is wrong with this...

  9. Nurses at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla., Joins NNU

    lindarn replied to nicurn001's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You must not read the threads, here on allnurses, from frantic Florida nurses, concernig unsafe staffing, poor pay, no job security, ex, "fired at will". Etc. Florida nurses informing anyone who...

  10. What to do with co-worker that is drinking

    lindarn replied to robby5313's topic in General Nursing

    If management does not want to deal witht/refuses to deal with it, then it is time to move UP the food chain. Make sure that you include Risk Management in you list. You might also want to include the...

  11. Nurses at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla., Joins NNU

    lindarn replied to nicurn001's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Its about time!! JMHO and my NY $0.02. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Somewhere in the

  12. Just started with agency now banned from regular hire

    lindarn replied to newtress's topic in Agency Nurses

    The cure for this abuse is to dump the agencies, obtain a business license, obtain malpractice insurance, and go at it as an Independant Contractor. When the agencies can no longer find "indentured...

  13. moving to washington

    lindarn replied to bnarmywife's topic in Washington Nursing

    I believe that it is either a US citizen, or a legal resident. You are the spouse of active duty military. I would call the base legal office and ask them. They probably deal with these issues all the...

  14. moving to washington

    lindarn replied to bnarmywife's topic in Washington Nursing

    Have you applied to Madigan Army Medical Center? I am an AF reservist, and did my annual tour at Madigan. I was totally impressed with Madigan. It is brand new, totally state of the art, beautiful...

  15. No wonder we are getting nursing students who are only in it for $

    lindarn replied to JDougRN's topic in General Nursing

    And as I have stated many times on this listserve, the entry into practice needs to be increased to a BSN. Present ADNs and Diplomas, grandfathered in. Our low levels of education make us seem to be...

  16. No wonder we are getting nursing students who are only in it for $

    lindarn replied to JDougRN's topic in General Nursing

    All the more reason to increase the entry into practice to a BSN. Too many individuals are going in to nursing, because it is seen as a job you can make a decent salary at, and only go to school for...

  17. Jobless in Seattle

    lindarn replied to roxbox's topic in Washington Nursing

    I believe that the main problem, is that you graduated, obtained all of these advanced degrees/certificates, but have no clinical experience. How does one become a "Clinical Nurse Leader", but has NO...

  18. unionize now

    lindarn replied to NeysaGirl1's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I hate to rain on your parade, but trying to get an entire hospital to come together without a unifying body who knows what they are doing, is a step to the inemployment line, and blacklisting. If...

  19. single mothers: best area of nursing to go into re: hours and salary?

    lindarn replied to rnintwo's topic in General Nursing

    Perhap home health. The hours are reasonable, and the pay is probably more than in a doctor's office. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Somewhere in the

  20. disappearing nurses notes!

    lindarn replied to ltcnightrn's topic in General Nursing

    Keep them in your house, where else would you put them? Just don't tell anyone that you have them. It is your secret, if you should need them in the future. You know that the hospital would throw you...

  21. disappearing nurses notes!

    lindarn replied to ltcnightrn's topic in General Nursing

    I completely agree with poster #8- make copies of nurses notes in situations like this. If they disappear, you have no proof that you wrote notes on your patients. I would also make copies of incident...

  22. What if every nurse walked out for one day?

    lindarn replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    For those of you who are old enough to remember, in March of 1970, the US Post Office, went on strike throughout the country- all 50 states. The Postal workers, at the time, were very pooly paid, and...

  23. CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

    lindarn replied to Kuryakyn's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I have believed for a long time, that if nurses were to shift their employment status from employee, to Independant Contractor, like doctors and PT has, it would solve many of the inequities. When one...

  24. Can an RN be fired for being immunocompromised?

    lindarn replied to lexy3227's topic in General Nursing

    Virginia is a VERY anti union, former slave state. Since they cannot legally own, slaves, they do the next best thing- they hire them, and enact the very same "rules", that they did when they had...

  25. Nursing Unions-what is the good,bad, ugly?

    lindarn replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

    Stupid is as stupid does- from the movie, Forrest Gump. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Somewhere in the