lindarn

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  1. Blue collar treatment with white collar expectations

    lindarn replied to wordstew's topic in General Nursing

    That is where staffing ratios come into play. California took care of the problem by instituting RN nurse patient ratios. You are right- it will not work if the hospitals use the legislation to reduce...

  2. Blue collar treatment with white collar expectations

    lindarn replied to wordstew's topic in General Nursing

    AMEN!!! I have said the same thing concerning nursing education, and I have take lots of heat over it. Now here this! There is not a place in the 21st Century for three levels of nursing education....

  3. "Customer service" and nursing

    lindarn replied to LilPeanut's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why is it then, that the only recipients of the disrespectful treatment, "slave treatment", is the nursing staff? If the rest of the hospital employees were treated as poorly as the nursing staff,...

  4. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    lindarn replied to sarajasmine's topic in General Nursing

    Do you share that importance concerning the physicians in who you trust your life to? Or the lives of your loved ones? That having "MD" after your name is just showing off "letters after your name". I...

  5. Protect your profession...

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

    Maybe where you live Pts, OTs, earn as much, or the same as RNs. But in most of the country, they most certainly do earn more than RNs. Here in low paying, service industry Spokane, PTs and OTs earn...

  6. Is their really a nursing shortage?

    lindarn replied to studentmalenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I beg to differ with you. There is not, and never has been a "nursing shortage". There is only a shortage of nurses who wish to continue to work at bedside nursing. There are 500,000 licensed nurses...

  7. Contacted Oprah Show About Nursing Issues

    lindarn replied to jollyjenny's topic in General Nursing

    I will once again say, our mulitiple levels of entry, with our different levels of "nurse", do nothing but confuse the public, and us, and more than anything, continue to splinter, and prevent us from...

  8. Protect your profession...

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

    How about doing something novel? Just say that you will work for them IF they pay a differential for a BSN. Make it clear that there ARE hospitals who pay a diferential for a BSN, however few, and...

  9. Protect your profession...

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

    And PT, OT, Pharmacy, Dieticians, ALL require a graduate level of education, and ALL MAKE ALOT MORE MONEY THAN NURSING. They are leaving us in their dust. We will continue to be rolled into the room...

  10. Nursing school didn't prepare me for reality

    lindarn replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly the reason that all nurses, regardlesss of the program attended, need to have a mandatory 6- 12 month internship before being let loose by themselves. Nurses need to get over the...

  11. ADN vs. BSN for Entry Level Nursing

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

    But ALL DOCTORS AND OSTEOPATHS GRADUATED FROM A FOUR YEAR UNDERGRAD PROGRAM PROGRAM AND A FOUR YEAR MEDICAL OR OSTEOPATH SCHOOL. That is the difference. Nurses graduate from two year ADN programs, 2-3...

  12. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    lindarn replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    They don't work to "fix" the problems, because they don't want to. Admitting that they need nurses would give nurses power, and control, if we knew that they needed us. All it is, is an affirmation...

  13. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    lindarn replied to lorster's topic in General Nursing

    I also second that motion. Nurses ARE pathetic. Nurses DO just bend over and take it. I have been a nurse for 31 years, and I have seen time after time when nurses were handed more crap than any one...

  14. Ummmm..are they ALLOWED to do that?

    lindarn replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    And what always amazed me is that ICU nurses are on the same pay scale as the floor nurses are. It is ridiculous that I, as an experienced ICU nurse, should be making the same $$ as a floor nurse who...

  15. Give me some advice...hand tremor

    lindarn replied to yatyu's topic in General Nursing

    have you been worked up for multiple sclerosis yet? tremors are a vey common problem with ms. my sister in law started with hand tremors, went undiagnosed for years, as her tremors got worse, and the...

  16. nursing shortage

    lindarn replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    in relation to the shortage of nursing instructors, the biggest reason in the very low pay offered to nursing instructors. the pay is less that what they can make in the hospital. just a note of...

  17. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    lindarn replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    While, I like everyone else, appreciates the work and sacrifies that paramedics make to ensure the safety of us all, tell me, exactly how much did you pay for your Bachelors OF SCIENCE FOUR -YEAR...

  18. slave labor

    lindarn replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    The reason that the public does not hear about the dangerous conditions in most hospitals today, is because not enough nurses are unionzed and/or work in "right to work" (for less), and/or "at will...

  19. Protect your profession...

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

    I will say it again- Nurses' low level of education make us ripe for replacement by lower educated- unlicensed personnel. And yes, nurses have asked for this to occur by not demanding that our nursing...

  20. Nursing as a service industry

    lindarn replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    I still say that leaving and giving up is exactly what hospitals and nursing homes want. A work force that is mobile, no one staying long enough to effect any change, (like voting in a union,...

  21. Nursing as a service industry

    lindarn replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    There are plenty of nurses to satisfy the need for nurses. They just leave within two years of graduation because of job burn out. With "ABC Community College" churning out new grads every six monhs,...

  22. Nursing as a service industry

    lindarn replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    I have said it before and I will say it again. Nurses are shooting themselves in the foot by refusing/fighting increasing the educational leval for entry into practice. We are lumped in with minimally...

  23. Who Must "Take the Fall?"

    lindarn replied to Simplepleasures's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If I am going to get nailed for situations that were out of my control and had no power to change and/or correct, I am going to take down ALL OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD THE POWER TO CHANGE IT AND MAKE...

  24. higher pay for BSN grads?

    lindarn replied to evans_c1's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I would include in a BSN program the concepts of Independant Contracting, and bargainling for higher wages. Nurses should be taught what their skills are worth in the workplace, and that they should...

  25. higher pay for BSN grads?

    lindarn replied to evans_c1's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have said it a thousand times, and I will say it again. The reason that hospitals don't pay BSNs a higher wage, is because if they did, nurses would flock to get their BSNs. They would demand...