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  1. Nightmare Families and Hospital protocols

    lindarn replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    I am beginning to feel like this needs to be an issue when contract time comes up, or a mass meeting with administration. setting FIRM LIMITS ON VISITATION, INCLUDING THIS NONSENSE OF FAMILIES...

  2. drawing a mix venous blood sample

    lindarn replied to blee1's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    You ARE drawing the sample from the DISTAL port of the Swan, aren't you? And a simultaneous sample from the arterial line so that the docs can calculate the prescense of a shunt? Several years ago,...

  3. Is it ethical for nurses to go on strike?

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

    Is it ethical for nurses to be overworked, made to take care of upwards of 10 patients? Being unable to meet the needs of any of them? Is it ethical for CEOs to make a thousand times what the average...

  4. Update: Why Emotions Matter: Age, Agitation, and Burnout among Registered Nurses

    lindarn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As long as nurses do not bill for their services, like other health care professionals, OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES will continue to be rolled in with the room rate, and complimentary box of kleenex and...

  5. Incompetent nurse

    lindarn replied to JeanthePHN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    There are too many nurses who work on Cardiac Step Down Units, and think that they are ICU Nurses. I worked Cardiac Step Down before I went to work in a regular ICU. I was blown away by how much I did...

  6. How hospitals in DWF pay RNs overtime?

    lindarn replied to John123's topic in Texas Nursing

    Dallas-Forth Worth has Group One, and Arizona doesn't. Complain, and you are blacklisted for life. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  7. Where can I find statistics related to the nursing shortage?

    lindarn replied to NooNieNursie's topic in General Nursing

    Peter Beurhaus, a nurse educator, has done alot of research on the subject of the nursing shortage, and other research pertaining to the effects of short staffing on patient outcomes. If you search...

  8. Dipoma Nurse and Proud!

    lindarn replied to nurse4117's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    ALL NURSING PROGRAMS NEED TO HAVE A SIX MONTH TO ONE YEAR INTERNSHIP AFTER GRADUATION. There would be much less "sticker shock" for new grads, and it would cut down on the "exodus" from the hospital...

  9. Spokane Washington Nursing jobs

    lindarn replied to macol3's topic in General Nursing

    I forgot to add that Deconesss is being bought out by a for profit company from the South because of their financial problems. The nurses will be lucky to keep the union that it took them 40 years to...

  10. Spokane Washington Nursing jobs

    lindarn replied to macol3's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't bother. Deaconess is going under financially big time and just laid off 140 employees, including nurses. I wouldn't come back to work in Spokane for all of the tea in China. Lindarn, RN,...

  11. Looking for history behind how RN's and LPNs developed

    lindarn replied to LPN-n-2005's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Why don't other health care professionals so the same thing? They all require at least a Bachelors Degree in the career field, and then a Masters or a Doctorate as entry into practice. They do not...

  12. Defend RNs Right to Unionize, and Advocate for our Patients

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

    I haved been waiting for 32 years for my "National Nursing Organization" (the ANA) to accomplish ANYTHING for the bedside nurse, other than selling our professional practice to hospitals and nursing...

  13. Defend RNs Right to Unionize, and Advocate for our Patients

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

    And Michael, WHAT EXACTLY did YOU DO to assist the union in their bid to represent the nurses where you work? Or are you one of the ones who think that unions run on autopilot, with no input,...

  14. Welcome to the Forum - General Aussie Chat

    lindarn replied to gwenith's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    I am not Australian, but I have immediate family there. My grandfather emigrated from Sicily to America after WWI to the NYC area (chock full of Italians). His brother tried to emigrate a few years...

  15. puching out 'no break'

    lindarn replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    Why are you subsidizing their poor staffing by allowing them to not pay you for the lunch break you are legally entitled to? Nurses have done this for far too long, and now the hospitals just expect...

  16. OMG...32 pts!

    lindarn replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    You also might want to include a letter to the senior partner of the Law who represents the hospital. Include a note that you made a copy of this letter for yourself in case a patient sues. This way...

  17. Any Ideas For Celebrating Nurses Week?

    lindarn replied to fromtheheartRN's topic in General Nursing

    And this mentality is planted, rewarded, and reinforced, starting in nursing school (see my above post). Martyr marys are rewarded, and the discontent (realists) are targeted, harassed, and bullied...

  18. For Profit Nursing Homes

    lindarn replied to Simplepleasures's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It infuriates me that our elderly are made to make themselves paupers, while this country hands out free health care (and social decurity), to illegal immigrants who have not paid a dime into this...

  19. California docs balk at BC Calif request for medical HX -see if they can drop members

    lindarn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And we wonder why it is our best interests to have Universal Health care that does not include private insurance companies. We will all be alot better off when for profit insurers are no longer part...

  20. Dr Jarvik investigated as drug pitchman

    lindarn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    But reality is, he is not a cardiologist, is not a licensed MD, and Sally Field does not hold herself out to be an expert on osteoporosis, only the user of the medication that she has taken, and how...

  21. Any Ideas For Celebrating Nurses Week?

    lindarn replied to fromtheheartRN's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunatly, there are still too many "martyr marys" out there in the nursing profession, who are willing to settle for, and be satisfied, with the "attaboys", and five-and- dime- store trinkets,...

  22. Dr Jarvik investigated as drug pitchman

    lindarn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Personally, I think that when Dr. Jarvik goes on record in a public forum, extoling the virtues of this medication, he should also go on record as to how much money he is being paid by the drug...

  23. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    lindarn replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Now you know why this lady weighs 300 pounds. She never moves! Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  24. Low pay in Seattle

    lindarn replied to WAstateRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    Without a doubt in my mind, there is wage fixing here in Spokane, and if wages are not rising in Seattle/Olympia, there as well. We need to dumb WSNA as an organizing body and vote in teh NNOC. If...

  25. possible traveling positions in MT?

    lindarn replied to RNPQT's topic in General Nursing

    How about working as an Independant Contracter? Lindarn, RN, BSN,