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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...

  16. In a few years all RNs will be required to have a BSN?

    casper1 replied to FutureNurse2B's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    In Rochester NY at my hospital one of the two largest in the area New Graduate Nurses start at $ 22.50. They get a raise to $27.00 after one year. Salary is relatively stagnant after

  17. In a few years all RNs will be required to have a BSN?

    casper1 replied to FutureNurse2B's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have mixed feelings about this. Doctors make more money and are given more respect partially because they have more education. Does this mean Nurses will see a increase in salaries and more say in...

  18. Improving staff meetings

    casper1 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question? When your unit has its staff meetings is it a lecture on staffs short comings, are you treated like children, or is it a give and take of opinions and ideas on how to improve floor...

  19. How do you get thicker skin?

    casper1 replied to Loves2Lurk's topic in Emergency

    This man might had appeared to have no psych issues.I'd bet Based on his hurtful comments he has major ones. Hospitals are full of bullies , Patients, families even co-workers and managers. You are...

  20. "6 months notice is customary"

    casper1 replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to hear you were given such a difficult time by this family. I'm sure they are frustrated maybe they have to repeatedly retrain staff to meet their childs

  21. new grad NY - no hope

    casper1 replied to paul3489's topic in New York Nursing

    Here in Rochester their are jobs for new

  22. Assulted on the job

    casper1 replied to Vedder316's topic in General Nursing

    You have a right to work in a safe enviorment. I would think it would benefit everyone , the patients the staff and administration to investigate the situation and formulate some sort of plan to deal...

  23. Nurse suicide follows infant tragedy

    casper1 replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    So sad a terrible mistake that took 2 lives. I have to say that as nurses we face constant distractions as we try to provide care. How many times have other nurses, techs ,patients familiy members,...

  24. Never enough-vent

    casper1 replied to anotherone's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you. My last shift I was running down the hall to draw a stat blood on a patient. When a visitor came out of another room and asked me to get them a soda. I mentioned to them that their family...

  25. We may need fewer nurses in the hospital...

    casper1 replied to Chin up's topic in General Nursing

    In one segment of this piece there was a discussion on lowering cost of care for medicare patients. They talked about dramatic reduction in the cost of care when hospitals use Nurses as case managers...