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  1. Wow a bag of pretzels, your right admin, this is a good place to work

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Most people in our hospital would have loved for a donation or a gift to be made to the homeless. Once again, the point here wasn't the gift. It was the idea that the admin thinks that we are...

  2. Are accelerated programs fair?

    time4meRN replied to caro3334's topic in General Nursing

    Many of the accelerated programs remind me so much of the old "Diploma" program. It's intense and difficult. The student nurses I know that are going to them seem to be stressed, have a good...

  3. Do any of you have MA's in your ER ?

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I agree with things you said here. I was just woundering what thoughts others had on the subject. Sounds like we are underusing our staff. In Ohio MA's can become "certified" to do IV sticks....

  4. Has being a nurse made you examine your own spirituality?

    time4meRN replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad to hear your thinking about this before you start. As nurses we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves. I think anything you can do to give yourself some peace about the difficult...

  5. Wow a bag of pretzels, your right admin, this is a good place to work

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    The problem is that we work in a health care industry that put new carpet, expensive furnature, lighting , wood floors , high cost trips for exects to istitute such things as Pres-Gainy,(?sp), rules...

  6. Wow a bag of pretzels, your right admin, this is a good place to work

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll trade them for a day, I'll let them go to triage get yelled at, threatened then , then play wrestlemainia in the ER with some drunk, then do a couple codes , do morque care, you know the typical...

  7. Medical Assisting

    time4meRN replied to ddianneepooh's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    The Pharm Tech can do this because of the Pharmacy Boards rules. Not the BON's rules. As does a CNA, they work under the license of the

  8. Is Joint Commission more hindrance than help?

    time4meRN replied to oldiebutgoodie's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, I think they are helping to sky rocket medical care cost. I think they take us away from where were need to be to take care of what ever little thing they think is important this year. For...

  9. Any Magnet facility nurses here?

    time4meRN replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a system that is just that. I see absolutely no benifit. It all looks good on paper, in the news (advertised as one of the best in yadda, yadda yadda ). When it comes to the trenches, it's...

  10. The Cap.......

    time4meRN replied to Justhere's topic in General Nursing

    Yeh, I remember caps. I went to school in the 70's. I remember we had a guty who would be considered a "hippy". He had the big "afro" hair style. He did the rebel thing and wanted a cap too. He...

  11. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

    time4meRN replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

    yes we do, my daughter is a teacher and they have randoms as

  12. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    time4meRN replied to lorster's topic in General Nursing

    It's a matter of preception. Yes , we as nurses have a difficult job. But abuse may be takining it a little too far. Nursing has never been easy, it never will be. When I was a nurse aid in the...

  13. Took care of pt who tested positve for c-diff

    time4meRN replied to anfe's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to the world of nursing. Just be sure you're following universal precautions. I work in the ER, I tell people that they may as well plan on being sick with some kind of virous for at least a...

  14. What is "Press Gainey"?

    time4meRN replied to ScooterNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree with everyone here. Thanks to Press Gainey, I as a RN have gianed mcuh needed insight to caring for pt's. I've learned that, no one can have enough "Dilada", and that we nurses are fat,...

  15. Med/Surg nurse to ED - what to expect?

    time4meRN replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    Each are has it's share of woe's. I was just dicussing with ICU nurses I used to work with before I transf. to ER, that It's different when you see both sides. ER nurses say the ICU never want's to...

  16. Good old Flo was a smart cookie

    time4meRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    My daughter gave me the coolest book for Xmas. It's called "Notes on Nursing", notes from Florence Nightengale. It's quite amazing how she had the nursing process down pat, as well as infection...

  17. Flu after Immunization????

    time4meRN replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    Yeh, I work in an ER, I don't even bother with the flue vac. , ther are so many strains, it's not worth it to me. Besides, I like my immune system to do the work on it's

  18. Got my 1st butt chewing today - humiliating!

    time4meRN replied to RN2Bn2006's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry, you'll soon be more skilled at it. Just a couple months ago I took a to from a cardiac throacic sur. for amnoedorone. I asked him how he wanted it dosed,(cause you never know with him)....

  19. Nurses salary vrs teacher's salary

    time4meRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    it's not about who does what. i wouldn't want try to teach a 4th grader how to paly music, or much less try to keep control of a class room of 28 first graders. i do nursing because it is what i like....

  20. Change of shift admissions

    time4meRN replied to kittymom's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked many years in the ICU and ER. There are two sides to everyting. Though I have to say ICU nurses get in a rutt with the paper work thing. The charge RN should be taking admits and...

  21. Who's gonna admit it that they went into Nursing b/c of the salary?

    time4meRN replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm, it took me 20 years to get topped out at what my daughters boy friend makes in his first year after graduation with a 4 year degree in computer engenieering. My daughter started at 32 thou. a...

  22. Impaired Nurses

    time4meRN replied to SR@csi's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It's not the confirmed recovery alcholics-addicts we need to worry about,(if they are in recovery) it's the alcoholics/addict that hasn't been discovered yet that we have to worry about. They are the...

  23. Nurses salary vrs teacher's salary

    time4meRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter started her first teaching job this september. She makes 32 thous a year. Her cap is well...... above that. If you divide how many hours she works with the pay, it's not bad at all. She...

  24. Stethoscope as Graduation Gift?

    time4meRN replied to Proud Big Sis's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I think it's a wounderful idea. My friend is getting married and her boy friend is going to propose to her by engraving "will you marry me on the stethascope". I thought that was a wounderful way to...

  25. Environment of the room during a code

    time4meRN replied to RN2Bn2006's topic in General Nursing

    After many years of critical care nursing I have become somewhat cold during situations like this. It's not that I don't care about the pt , and the family, it's just become a way of coping. When I...