casper1

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1. June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   Turns out size really does matter

2. June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   I'm so Stressed. I thought I could escape Adulthood and return to my inner

3. June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   Does this make me look fat

4. Win $100! June 2015 Caption Contest

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   The hospital picked it up from the Star Trek sale. It's a transporter it will beam me back to the hospital if their short

5. Feb - Mar 2015 Caption Contest: Win $100!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   We're over capacity again bed cordinators wants us to put patients in the

6. Complaining about your employer, loudly, at nurses' station

   casper1 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   If I'm working night shift with 30 patients and three nurses, with one tech who has to sit with an elderly patient whose confused and delusional and a patient complains because they had to wait half...

7. September 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

   casper1 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   Nurse Tin Lizzy just shorted out the MRI

8. Other Jobs That a Nurse Can Do?

   casper1 replied to westieluv's topic in Nursing Career

   I feel your pain. Bedside Nursing is extremely difficult you have to balance multiple demands at one time. You not only need to be clinically excellent you also must be a diplomat a social worker a...

9. Risking life and limb

   casper1 posted a topic in Nurses Rock

   Here we are again in upstate NY. Yet another blizzard is upon us. All area schools are closed, business's are closing early and sending their employee's home. A state on emergency has been declared,...

10. Anyone know the new grad salary for RGH (Rochester General Hospital)

    casper1 replied to SlyFoxRN's topic in New York Nursing

    New Grad salary is $22.50 an hour. Shift differential is $2.00 and hour eve and nights. New grads get a $5.00 hr raise after 1 yr. Hopes that

11. Freaking out about my PPD!

    casper1 replied to Kuniklo's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago I had a positive reaction to a PPD. A large red bump appeared on my arm. I had not had any exposures so I was alarmed. The employee health nurse asked me if I had been around any horses. I...

12. Retired, now what?

    casper1 replied to sueff's topic in Retired Nurses

    The facility I work at has a phone triage unit. Nurses who work on these units facilitate patient transfers from Doctors office or other facilities to the Hospital. They make sure the correct paper...

13. suspension/possible termination

    casper1 replied to SeattleRN25's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I would look into a transfer to another unit, your managers are looking for mistakes. It doesn't,t matter how much you do right or how much the patients like you, they are only going to fixate on what...

14. Hourly Rounding

    casper1 replied to Erianne1074's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Reimbursements to hospitals are being tied to press Ganey score. Hospitals that receive high scores are given bonuses. Hospitals with poor scores are penalized. Some of the verbage in the rounding...

15. Patient Complaint

    casper1 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    I had a similiar experience recently that made me feel frustrated. I never took the course in mind reading in Nursing school so I guess I am at a disadvantage. The Patient and I had a good first four...