Glad2behere

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1. How many of you married doctors?

   Glad2behere replied to JHUnurse's topic in General Nursing

   What is really icky to me is to see all the divorcees trying to score a doc on our unit. I work at a teaching facility so it is similar to the original poster's. Faces change often. Docs, male or...

2. IV Push Lopressor on a Med-Surg Unit??

   Glad2behere replied to LuvMedSurgNsg's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Our policy is not a strict NPO policy. All meds given PO remain PO with a sip of H2O preop. I work CCU, and rarely have I given Metoprolol IV. I gave it twice last week PO as the anesthesiologist...

3. Drawing Blood From PICC Lines

   Glad2behere replied to rileygrl11's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Gosh, I never knew there was so much difference here. We use PICC lines all the time for draws, in fact, our protocol states that if a patient has to be stuck more than four times for the anticipated...

4. MSN/HCAD or just HCAD or MBA?

   Glad2behere replied to Glad2behere's topic in Nurse Management

   Hi Wgbem, If you are in the HCA, you are ahead of me, so how far along are you in the program and what are your aspirations when you finish? I have found no posters here that have the MBA/HCA...

5. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

   Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

   llg, Thank you for the response. And the compliment. I suppose I will have to enter graduate school and sign up with you all. I will be glad to and feel alive again combing over financials and...

6. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

   Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

   llg and ACNORN, Therein lies the itch. Admittedly, pharmacists make more for the reasons you all stated. On the nursing side of the equation, nursing and nursing leadership are considered the same...

7. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

   Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

   ACNORN, Thank you for input, I have decided to initiate action and commence preparation for the GRE, I have to score about 1100 on the two parts that are accepted by the graduate school, surely I can...

8. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

   Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

   Hey I applaud all of you posting here. I have learned a lot, this has been an interesting discussion. There must be some type of mechanism that can be activated to encourage nurses to enter...

9. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

   Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

   Wow ACNORN, I agree, that is sad and stupid to not let you work extra. Geez, who is it going to hurt? That is just plumb dumb. A golden opportunity for them to create cohesion and leadership and it...

10. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Oh ACNORN, Sorry to hear about the resignation of one of your better troops. That is one of the windows I am looking through that doesn't seem to change: total unawareness by upper levels of...

11. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    llg, Remember in earlier posts I had stated that I was good in managerial accounting, well, numbers don't lie. That is the issue I am having trouble with most, and apparently there are many others....

12. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Well hello llg! Good to see you joined in. Everthing I am hearing that is coming back to me is not real encouraging. I know you are a also involved in the ironies of this particular situation and...

13. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    ACNORN, Thanks for the response. I have been in leadership positions before, but in a totally unrelated industry. I have recently reentered nursing, went through the RN refresher thing, and am now...

14. RNs and Pay-for-Performance: The Right Prescription?

    Glad2behere replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ocankhe and jt, Yielded. Probably true. We have a long, long way to go. I neglected the "cattie" factor

15. RNs and Pay-for-Performance: The Right Prescription?

    Glad2behere replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    jt, The operative word here is peer. And you also make another assumption that is not necessarily true. That an evaluation is bad and nothing good comes from it. Nurses know who the good nurses are...