lindarn

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  1. After A Year of Nursing...I Still Feel Like I'm Dieing

    lindarn replied to actress8503's topic in General Nursing

    This is all the more reason that nurses need to get over feeling that it is mandatory for new grad to be able to hit the ground running the day after graduation. No other profession with as much...

  2. Should medication aides exist?

    lindarn replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    They will continue to use cheap labor because WE ALLOW THEM TO!! Nurses have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to the deprofessionalizing our profession. First it was nursing homes lobbying for a...

  3. Flight Nurse Training

    lindarn replied to Watanabe_Joey's topic in General Nursing

    The Army does not have Flight Nurses. Only the Air Force does. The best way to become a Flight Nurse in the Air Force is to join the Reserves. The AF Reserves do the bulk of the Aerovac flying. It is...

  4. Should medication aides exist?

    lindarn replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Have you tried the newspaper, or the TV stations? I wouldn't be surprised if they would be interested in talking to you. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  5. Should medication aides exist?

    lindarn replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It would force the nursing homes as ALFs to pay enough to encourage nurses to come back to work. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  6. Should medication aides exist?

    lindarn replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Until and unless the "customer" complains about the amateur care they are receiving, nothing will change. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  7. Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    lindarn replied to szccdw's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    But it is not like that in areas where there are BSN programs. It is a must to have at least a BSN for a management position. I remember the hospital where I graduated from and worked after...

  8. Nursing Shortage Update: A Conversation With Peter Buerhaus

    lindarn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That is one of the biggest reasons that nurses need to differentiate themselves from their lesser educated "counterparts" by increaasing our entry level education. The public equates worth with...

  9. BSN to Paralegal

    lindarn replied to sleeplessnseattle's topic in General Nursing

    What are you trying to accomplish with a degree in Paralegal studies? I went through the Legal Nurse Certificate program because I am a Legal Nurse Consultant. I loved learning about the law and that...

  10. studying for LSAT

    lindarn replied to harmana's topic in General Nursing

    I took the LSATS when I was trying to get into Law School. I did not get in, much to my regret. Anyway, I was going to make another attempt at Law School last year and I bought, "LSATS for Dummies". I...

  11. I was slapped by a doctor!

    lindarn replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree. When he now moves on, will the next place he goes to, know his past? Probably not. There is no paper trail to let anyone know what this guy is like, and what he is capable of doing. I...

  12. New Nurse Horror Stories

    lindarn replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    PLEASE teach your students the law concerning things like this. The lack of preparation for the real world of nursing employment leads to workplace abuses, such as this. Nurses have no idea what their...

  13. New Nurse Horror Stories

    lindarn replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Why do you punch out to finish your work? You need to make Management "feel the pain ($$$)", of short staffing by making then pay you overtime so you CAN finish your work. It does no one any good if...

  14. H1-B visas

    lindarn replied to suzanne4's topic in International Nursing

    Because this practice is driving way down the pay if IT people here in the US. This us causing an over supply of U.S. IT people and their pay is caving. THIS is what the connection is to nursing. You...

  15. Not allowed to say "I was busy w/ another pt"

    lindarn replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    This is managements way of shifting the blame and responsibility of short staffing to the nursng staff. I would never allow myself to take the fall for their **** poor staffing decisions. I say go...

  16. Deaconness Spokane RN's Oust Union

    lindarn posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Well folks, here is the topper of it all. The nurses at Deaconness Medical Center here in Spokane, JUST VOTED OUT SEIU. Why did they do that? Because the union made a beef about short staffing to the...

  17. Cannot stand this MD

    lindarn replied to DebRN06's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the complement but, no I am not in bedside nursing anymore. I would love to be a lobbyist for nurses. Point me in the right direction. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  18. Cannot stand this MD

    lindarn replied to DebRN06's topic in General Nursing

    If you reported him to Medicare, YOU WOULD BE ENTITLED TO PART OF WHAT THEY GOT BACK FROM HIM FOR THE FRAUDELENT OVERCHARGES!! That is Federal Law. Look it up, and clean up. Tech where I used to work...

  19. How Many Nurses are Glad They Have a Union

    lindarn replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like Washington State. Our state nurses association is, as we say in Brooklyn, about as useful as tits on a bull! They have done nothing to improve pay, benefits, and working conditions, and...

  20. I was slapped by a doctor!

    lindarn replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    I would also send a copy of the incident report along with a copy of the police report, to the State Board of Medicine. That will fix his sorry @$$!!. Get the unit secretary to write up what she saw...

  21. NOR-CAL vs. SO-CAL

    lindarn replied to RNLola035's topic in California Nursing

    Northern California nurses unionized YEARS AGO with CNA. It is a much more liberal community than Southern California. Southern California is much more conservative and Republican and VERY anti union....

  22. nitroprusside drip NTP

    lindarn replied to jst81161's topic in General Nursing

    I have always abbreviated Nipride as SNP- Sodium Nitroprusside. I have never seen it abbreviated ad NTP. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  23. Cheyenne nurses?

    lindarn replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in General Nursing

    What hospital is CRMC? Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  24. Should medication aides exist?

    lindarn replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Wouldn't you rather have an RN or LPN, who is licensed? If nurses refused to work with unlicensed Medication Aides, Nursing homes would have no choice but to hire more nurses. I never understood why...

  25. MD practice and harrasment issues; long and vent,

    lindarn replied to DaMale Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I was told by the State Board of Medicine along time ago, that they wished that more nurses would "start a paper trail on diffucult physicians". If this is ignored for years, as it usually is, when...