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I so agree with you. This kind of thing was not happening when I worked in the federal health care system for the VA and department of defense. And the patients got good care. I am all for the government taking over healthcare, myself, based on my...

It happened to me in 2009, I quit my job just in time after seeing the handwriting on the wall and at least didn't have a firing on my record. A good record for all my years of nursing, a good evaluation just months before, and when budget problems ...

After watching three of us in my unit in our late 50's fall prey to this kind of discrimination, I am wondering just how prevalent this trend is. I left my job when paperwork started to accumulate against me for bogus reasons after many years of hav...

When this first started at my hospital, we were giving each other the basics of face to face report at the desk and then going into the room to introduce the oncoming nurse to the patient and discuss any issues the patient wanted to discuss, look at ...

You definitely are not doing anything wrong. There are a lot of hiring freezes going on right now, and those of us who have been out of school for eons are getting called off some of our shifts and dreading the possibility of layoffs. You just had ...

The mall job doesn't sound too bad, but it might be hard to get one these days with the high unemployment levels.

Can I give this one TWO fives??? :chuckle

I think it took them a few weeks to do mine, they go on a first come first serve basis and some months are busier than others due to graduations from nursing school, I think. You can look on the online web site to see if yours has been approved or n...

A coworker of mine who had a near death experience in her younger days could sometimes see people leaving their bodies. She even spoke to one that she found leaning over himself looking at his dead body and told him "Yes, that's you. You need to go...

Why would anyone ever want to be dismissed from such an environment? Thinking I need to visit your neck of the woods and develop some kind of illness that won't keep me from enjoying the room service and the wifi.

I worked for the VA for quite a few years until I moved to a city that didn't have one. The five weeks of vacation for RNs is nice and I miss that. The retirement benefits are pretty decent. You need to check out the specific VA that you are inter...

as a night shifter, i have worked where you could eat at the nurses station for the sake of safe staffing, and have never gotten sick because i washed my hands before i ate anything and i didn't put food in places that seemed risky for contamination....

Bullying is alive and well in some hospitals, I have seen it happen. I have experienced one on one bullying myself and found that standing up to the bully is the best way to deal with it. But group bullying, or mobbing, is another thing altogether,...

So will you get your own scrubs back or do you have to dig through a stack of them in the linen room to find your size? I had a job like that once and we all ended up hoarding our size scrubs in our lockers to make sure we had some when we got to wo...

You would be happy, too, if you were getting paid what they are. It is the top paying VA in the country. Two of my co-workers from my VA in Kansas transferred there to take advantage of that, and transferring VA workers are what is keeping others f...

I agree there will always be incompetents, but there has to be a way to deal with that, union or not. I like the idea of being protected from harrassment or firing from management for unfair reasons. And I think new employees being routinely lied t...

ROFL!!!!!

Doctor, is there nothing I can take, to relieve this bellyache? Put the lime in the coconut, drink 'em both up, put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning.........

There will always be people who will work for a lower wage rather than have to sell a house and move. It takes a while for supply and demand to work.

Somewhere on this forum http://www.city-data.com/forum/colorado/ I have read some posts that would be helpful. Don't know exactly where, though, but there was an RN who was recently hired in Durango who was discussing the upcoming move. Hope you ca...

My son was hired as well at Memorial North on the med-surg-telemetry unit and starts nights in July. He was also told the ratio is around 4 patients but he might sometimes have to take 5. He told me this with a big grin because he is used to taking...

Very good book. All of you should read it, but be aware that it may make you angry. It had that affect on me. There are a lot of stories about abuse of one kind or another against nurses.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I would have RUN to a very good lawyer before I would put up with being threatened with termination and not being allowed to submit a drug screen! I know there are some horror stories out there about nurses bein...

Not trying to change the subject of this thread, but seeing this on reglan makes me want to add my two cents worth. I got undiluted reglan given directly into a free-flowing IV on my way to a lap chole. By the time I reached the OR door I was shaki...

Me, too. Eating egg mcMuffin here. Mark of a truly experienced nurse.