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  1. Any Ideas For Celebrating Nurses Week?

    lindarn replied to fromtheheartRN's topic in General Nursing

    National Nurse Week is also know as an "Attaboy". Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  2. Hedis 2008

    lindarn replied to delta32's topic in General Nursing

    What company are you working for? I made the mistake of working for, "Outcomes, Incorporated", from Kentuck, and they still owe me ove $300.00. It was alot of work for not alot of money, and I would...

  3. Help! The ER "Bully" got me!

    lindarn replied to Party-of-Five-NY's topic in Emergency

    Because it validated her self worth, self importance, and her "power" in the ER because she has been there for so long and gotten away with her behaviour. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  4. Regarding the Future of Legal Nursing as viewed in Spokane, Washington

    lindarn posted a topic in Legal

    Legal Nurses be forewarned- here in Spokane (not the highest paid region of the country), an temp agency called "Provisional Staffing", just had an ad in Sunday's paper for a law firm, who was looking...

  5. Low pay in Seattle

    lindarn replied to WAstateRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    Just out of idle curiosity, what would the going rate for an Independant Contractor in Seattle be? Just curious. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  6. Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?

    lindarn replied to *TK8's topic in General Nursing

    It will never change because there is a steady supply of new grads to bail them out. There is no shortage because "ABC Community College", churns our new grads every six months. When there is no...

  7. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    lindarn replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The biggest obstacle to this is that most nurses are not unionzed, and would be most likely immediately terminated. Nurses have hamstrung themselves for years by not organizing and receiving the...

  8. Low pay in Seattle

    lindarn replied to WAstateRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    All a contract nurse makes in Seattle is $35 an hour? Are your kidding? And have to pay you own taxes? You can make more that that as staff. Even $49 an hour is not that great, if you are an...

  9. Is Joint Commission more hindrance than help?

    lindarn replied to oldiebutgoodie's topic in General Nursing

    This is sort of an update on the Joint Commission. Last week I received a newsletter from the Joint Commission, with an offer of a subscription, if I liked it. It was OK, but nothing that I would be...

  10. Should rad techs make as much as RN's?

    lindarn replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

    But lets not forget- in the military, RNs are OFFICERS, LPN/LVNs, X-Ray Techs (of all flavors and speciatlies), RTs, lab personnel, are all ENLISTED. Do you see the difference? By virtue of the fact...

  11. Verbal abuse from a Nursing Aide

    lindarn replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Keep moving up the chain of command (and document everything, with copies for yourself), and eventually, you will find some one to deal with the situation properly. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,...

  12. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    lindarn replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    So much for the "nursing shortage". It is really an oversupply of nurses do to the short amount of time it takes to become a nurses. Lengthen the programs to a BSN, and make them wait for the next...

  13. Families from Hell

    lindarn replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    why wasn't a balloon pump patient a 1:1 asignment? it is innappropritate and unsafe to have another patient when one of the patients is on the balloon pump. lindarn, rn, bsn, ccrn spokane,

  14. How bad is the nursing shortage in WA?

    lindarn replied to Life_Wanderer's topic in Washington Nursing

    There is no nursing shortage in Eastern Washington, Spokane, Three schools of nursing and another one right over the border in Idaho. This reflects how nurses are treated here, and compensated....

  15. Not getting paid when I call off...

    lindarn replied to RocknRollYogaRn's topic in General Nursing

    God Bless the State of Nevada and its "at will", anti union atmosphere! I guess that they are doing you a favor to give you a job, and actually pay you too! The next thing you know, you will have to...

  16. Devastated after 17 years

    lindarn replied to marcirnc's topic in Ob/Gyn

    By law, you have to "jump through the hoops", and exhaust your administrative options, before you are able to be represented by an attorney. You will not find an attorney to take your case until you...

  17. Low pay in Seattle

    lindarn replied to WAstateRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    If we can get enough interest from other nurses, we can call them and request that they send someone to discuss trying to vote out WSNA. There is a time limit when you can vote out a union. It has to...

  18. Low pay in Seattle

    lindarn replied to WAstateRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    I couldn't agree more. I moved here from California, and I was appalled at how weak the nurses are here. If you think Seattle is bad, come over to Spokane. One of the biggest problems here in Spokane...

  19. USAF Flight nurse school and survival school??

    lindarn replied to Natef26's topic in Government, Military

    After Flight School, you also have to do 2 weeks of Ground Training. Its like a "hands on" for flight nursing. I believe that we practiced opening emergency hatches, and egressing out of them, things...

  20. USAF Flight nurse school and survival school??

    lindarn replied to Natef26's topic in Government, Military

    I went through the Flight School and Survival training with the AF Reserves to become a Flight Nurse. It was fun and hard work. The Survival School is only a three day watered down "Survival School"...

  21. HOw To Start YOur Own Business

    lindarn replied to nightingale's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Washington State RN, where do you live? I would also like to work as an IC, but the hospitals here are not interested. PM me, when you have a chance. Thanks! Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  22. Nurses GET OUT AND VOTE

    lindarn replied to vivicaq's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    And my in laws are still fuming over that little "ruse" to get elected in NYS. The only people she represents in NYS are the minorities on welfare, illegal immigrants, who she speaks of as, "there are...

  23. Is Joint Commission more hindrance than help?

    lindarn replied to oldiebutgoodie's topic in General Nursing

    As we say in Brooklyn, they are about as useful as tits on a bull. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  24. Law school

    lindarn replied to LaxNP's topic in Legal

    The name of the test that has to be taken to apply to law school, is the LSAT, not LCAT. Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN Spokane,

  25. "You put me and my unborn child's life at risk"

    lindarn replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I actually did see a baby who was born deformed because his mother had chicken pox when she was pregnant. He was a boarder in the peds ward because his parents abandon him when he was born. That...