dzadzey MSN, RN

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    Let's keep grandma/grandpa alive until after the holidays

    dzadzey posted a topic in General Nursing

    This time of year, we get them. Patients so gravely ill that they must be placed on life support. Ventilator, pressors, art lines, central lines, Swans, trans venous pacing, CVVH. And when all of...
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    Happy Nurse's Week! You ROCK (literally a rock given to RN's for Nurse's Week)!

    dzadzey replied to CABGpatch_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Welp...Nurses Week is, mercifully over. Nurses everywhere got cheap trinkets, mediocre food and cheap sentiment from hospital administration. Hospital administrators got lots of opportunities to...
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    Who should decide?

    dzadzey replied to PPediRN's topic in Nursing News

    Nor is my argument about "spending government money". It's about quality versus quantity. It's about the toll futility of care takes on us as nurses...on the patient's families. Being realistic about...
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    Who should decide?

    dzadzey replied to PPediRN's topic in Nursing News

    Medical futility and reality trump hope and prayer. Just because we can maintain the function of a human body until the patient's skin blisters and they have weeping wounds on every extremity doesn't...
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    Is nursing theory actually used by working nurses?

    dzadzey replied to BCRNA's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Nursing theory is a guide...not writ in stone absolutes...a guide, to nursing practice. Nursing practice is wholly contextual, and nursing theory, nursing experience, life experience, and a whole host...
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    Nurses' Week - Upended.

    dzadzey replied to evilolive07's topic in General Nursing

    National Nurses Week - The one week of the year hospital administrators pretend to care about the well-being of nursing
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    Any Buddhist Nurses?

    dzadzey replied to CriticalJ's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I took refuge in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism back in the 90's and, like you, the philosophy of Buddhism speaks more strongly to me than the metaphysics of Buddhism, although it is still...
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    Where is our "Safe Haven"

    dzadzey posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have passed this sign countless times, and I finally just couldn't stand it anymore. It reminds me of a sign I saw posted in a yard in Norfolk, Virginia when I was stationed there years ago. It read...
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    dzadzey replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Had one family the other day crowded in a room after the patient passed, the room smelled like a wet ashtray even after is was
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    dzadzey replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    "Sputum... of any kind. Especially have an aversion to trachs... ya know, when they cough and a glob will fly across the room. I just can't even. But along this same topic, does anyone find that...
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    dzadzey replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Patients and families with an overweening sense of entitlement, treating nurses and our support staff as if we were wait staff at a Waffle
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    Why are so many nurses against unions?

    dzadzey replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    National Nurses United (National Nurses United) is a good place to start. They can provide you with the training and resources...online and out of sight of management...you need to begin organizing....
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    Education of Nurses in the United States

    dzadzey replied to irenedelapaz's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    While inroads are being made in increasing the number of BSN prepared nurses at the bedside, the number will still fall far short of the recommendations in the 2010 IOM report on The Future of...
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    Do we need a union? Management is taking advantage of us.

    dzadzey replied to Windynurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    "I believe that sooner or later nurses and all other workers in hospitals will organize themselves in unions to protect themselves against the injustices of low pay, overwork, overtime without pay,...
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    Black listing

    dzadzey replied to RN4JUSTICE's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A nurse who I worked with on our unit for several years accepted a position as clinical nurse manager. I said, " I would congratulate you, but admin will throw you under the bus at the drop of a hat"....
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    Tired, Burned Out, and Broke...

    dzadzey replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    We attended our grand-niece's "white-coat" ceremony at OU School of Osteopathic Medicine several years back. It was a wonderful event, with all of these young people being welcomed into the medical...
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    Do we need a union? Management is taking advantage of us.

    dzadzey replied to Windynurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The simple fact of the matter is that, when it comes to setting policy that affects our ability to provide safe, quality and cost effective care, nurses MUST have a seat at the table with hospital and...
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    Support for ADN's required to secure their BSN lacking

    dzadzey posted a topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Across Ohio, and the nation, the drive is on to require a BSN to secure...or continue...employment in acute and critical care settings. While the research data shows improved outcomes in these...
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    Support for ADN's required to secure their BSN lacking

    dzadzey replied to dzadzey's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I find it surprising that so many think the issue is about nurses getting a handout from employers to pay for their education. What it is about is employers mandating a level of education of nursing...
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    BSN requirement for new grads in acute care

    dzadzey posted a topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    The decision on the part of my employer, and many other healthcare providers, to begin requiring BSN degrees for new hires to the acute care setting does not affect me. It does however, affect more...
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    Implications of Obamacare... what's your opinion?

    dzadzey replied to Nurse_AV's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The biggest impact to healthcare organizations is going to come from HCAHPS. With reimbursements being driven, ever more by subjective "patient satisfaction scores", hospitals and healthcare...
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    Question for Nurses with BSN and MSN

    dzadzey replied to MattRN81's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I finished my BSN on line in 11 months. Not that it mattered to my employer. Unlike other industries which average from $2000 to $4000 a year increase in salary for transitioning from Associates...
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    Associate's degree v. Bachelor's degree starting wages.

    dzadzey posted a topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There are many other professions where there exists a noticeable difference between the wages of those with an Associate Degree and a Bachelor's Degree This difference ranges from $2000 to $4000 per...
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    Associate's degree v. Bachelor's degree starting wages.

    dzadzey replied to dzadzey's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Lots of good posts. But let me clarify...I finished my ADN in 1999 at the age of 39. I completed my BSN this year, so I've seen both sides of the equation. and BSN's do bring a different skill set to...
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    Associate's degree v. Bachelor's degree starting wages.

    dzadzey replied to dzadzey's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    If you need to ask, you don't