Glad2behere

Glad2behere

Member

  • Content

    209

  • Visitors

    5,267

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    1

All Content by Glad2behere

  1. MSN/HCAD or just HCAD or MBA?

    Glad2behere posted a topic in Nurse Management

    I am trying what career path to take now that I have reentered nursing, and if there is anyone who can relate experiences that may help me decide. I have my BSN circa 1977, now work CCU after a 20...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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....

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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

  16. 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...

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

    Glad2behere replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think it depends on who is doing the evaluation and who sets the criteria for performance. There is a lot of documented success for companies who use peer evaluations to establish and maintain...

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

    Glad2behere replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Hello ACORN, How does one groom themselves for a leadership position? I think it is exactly what I want to do because it seems to offer easier advancement that I can achieve with the least amount of...

  19. MSN/HCAD or just HCAD or MBA?

    Glad2behere replied to Glad2behere's topic in Nurse Management

    Thanks for the response llg, Your thinking is close to what I have come up with also. I have already decided that I am not interested in sales, however I am very good at market strategy, and getting...

  20. new grad icu orientations 6-8 wks- safe?

    Glad2behere replied to scrubs12's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't seen any hospital that turns you loose after a 6-8 week internship. They let some slack develop in the lines by assigning you lower acuity patients, but you are not going to be expected to...

  21. Questions asked by Nurse Recruiter...what is the norm?

    Glad2behere replied to funnygirl_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Y'all, This normal stuff. Just part of the game. I noticed on several interviews questions that I thought were totally irrelevant, and by the second interview I realized most of it was designed...

  22. RNs demand union action against their own "homegrown" scabs

    Glad2behere replied to -jt's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Teeituptom, While I am not prounion nor antiunion, more of a live and let live I suppose, I think you're being very hard on jt for making a very simple news announcement with some well restrained...

  23. Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    Glad2behere replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    There obviously has to be some caring. No one has suggested that you can be a nurse without it. What has been said is that nursing has no patent on the empathetic qualities found in mankind, but...

  24. Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    Glad2behere replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    Another way to look at this.... Would you trade one softdrink a day to better your profession? Work about an hour per month specifically to fund your professional advocacy? Make one meeting every...

  25. Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    Glad2behere replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    Anybody know what the operating budget of the ANA might be ? Well, let's try this instead. 2,200,000 nurses factored by $200 annually per nurse. That is like $440,000,000. Or FOUR HUNDRED FORTY...