Susan9608

I just have to point out ... this is something of a compulsion to me ... that people *are* animals ... and that human rights and non human rights are not necessarily mutually exclusive. That is to say, caring about the causes of non human animals do...

It's kind of nice to read about other people's errors and realize you aren't the only one who's done something careless or just plain stupid from time to time. :) I took care of a congenital heart patient once who pretty much chronically received blo...

I just have to comment on this, even though it may be beyond the scope of this forum. You absolutely *can* help bring about an end to factory farming, if you truly care enough to put some effort into it. Boycotting companies that participate in fac...

I"m a vegan, because I'm an animal rights activist. Being a vegan makes a very strong statement as an animal rights activist because you are boycotting a system that exploits animals for human gain. "Cage-free" and "Cruelty-free" sound great - very ...

My facility has much the same attendance policy as the original poster's. I received a verbal warning about a month ago for calling in sick 3 times in one calender year. I called in once for a migraine headache. I called in once with rota virus. I ...

Thanks for explaining - again - how your facility functions. I was having a hard time understanding how break times could be predetermined and how multiple people could take a break at the same time. I've never worked in that type of environment; I...

I'm curious about this (and it really has nothing to do with the original subject) but how does your facility manage if all the members of a particular profession take their break at the exact same time? My unit couldn't survive if all of a particul...

Does your contract specifically state that everyone is entitled to buy a full hot meal or just that everyone is entitled to purchase food? If the wording is more towards the latter, I think you'll probably have a hard time prevailing, no matter how "...

I like having nursing students. It's fun for me to have someone to talk to (the way my ICU is set up makes us all rather isolated), and I generally love to talk about nursing, so it's great to have a captive audience. Often times, though, I find t...

I have psoriatic arthritis. I do notice that I get sick more frequently than my co-workers, and that I tend to stay sick longer. But I just take the time off of work - and don't feel guilty about it - to get better. I'm also fanatic about isolatio...

How about assessing equal and reactive pupils at 0730, but at 0800 finding pupils that are unequal and unresponsive? (child later declared brain dead that day and organs donated.) MD calling for your baby's head to be packed in ice to preserve blood...

Today, as I was snoozing away, my work called at 7:02 to ask, "Where are you?" And I was puzzled, because today is my day off, and I was up until 3 am last night, celebrating that fact. It turns out *someone* (read: NOT me) signed me up for an extra...

They found someone to cover my patient assignment, so that's good. But everyone is really mad. I guess I'm going to have to speak with my manager when I go in next time. This blows.

Thanks. I still feel bad, though. I guess this is going to tarnish my ... well ... whatever with the management, though.

Linda - I agree with you. I just thought that was a very sexist point of view made in a previous post that the way nursing is thought of will change once the profession is 1/3 to 1/2 men. Why should the profession garner any more respect simply bec...

Why? Why should the gender make up of a profession change the way a profession is thought of, especially if nothing else about that profession changes? Perhaps if nurses could get behind the idea of a single, unified entry point, then we could desi...

In regards to the original post ... I wonder how much control someone has over their behavior towards others when they are in the middle of being detox'd. Perhaps it's unreasonable to expect people to be on their best behavior when going through det...

That's the licensing portion - not the educational portion. And even that is not totally standardized, because there is the NCLEX-RN and the NCLEX-LVN. So, while you might not have patients asking you questions about your background, I have patient...

I don't think anyone - or hardly anyone, because perhaps there have been a few - is arguing that ADN nurses are not qualified bedside nurses. I think the idea of having a BSN as the entry point into nursing is to standardize the entry point into nurs...

As an animal rights activist, I find this situation disturbing in many ways. In homes where there is violence, non human animals are usually the first to suffer because the abuser generally abuses the non human family first, as a way to threaten and ...

It's not about taking the high road. It's not even about not being empathetic to your situation. I think everyone who is a nurse, or works in the health field, has worked with unprofessional colleagues, at some point in time. It's about professiona...

Probably your patients.I'm sure you didn't mean that statement the way it came across, but you should re-read it. If people didn't care what nurses knew, then I doubt nursing schools would exist in the first place; instead, nurses would probably be t...

I have to agree with the above post. In fact, I'm kind of surprised that so many people seem to think that you did the right thing. I think you created this situation for yourself; you allowed her to manipulate you and it made you angry. She asked ...

We get nothing to precept/orient. RTs, however, get an extra $2.50/hour for orienting anyone, even high school students who come in to shadow them for a single shift. Doesn't seem fair.

I didn't say RTs were techs. I said "RTs also only manage RT stuff." Totally separate from the "techs" I was discussing earlier in the paragraph.