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  1. Patients who stay on the phone when you come...

    casper1 replied to anewday's topic in General Nursing

    Patients who summons you to the room to answer questions. When their phone rings they tell you to leave and come back later to finish

  2. Did I do something horribly wrong?

    casper1 replied to Silverbird501's topic in General Nursing

    I agree this was not a huge error. You are learning, your paying for an education you deserve instructors who are supportive, not attacking you for minor errors. I have 20 years experience working as...

  3. Signing a contract for a length of employment commitment?

    casper1 replied to cherubhipster's topic in General Nursing

    Did you recieve a sign on bonus or did the facility pay for your education. I don't understand why they feel they have the right to ask you to remain employed at their facility two years. Does...

  4. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    casper1 replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    Many seem to think the CEO,s job is so much harder than the Nurses, we just wipe butts and push pill. As a nurse I am constantly putting out fires, calming irate patients, families and Doctors. Close...

  5. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    casper1 replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    My patients are not Barnacles, they are valuable very ill patients who's Nurses and need adequate staff and equipment to care for them. CEO's set the mood of the

  6. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    casper1 replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    I said I think it's unfair to cut staff when patient volumes are increasing. I understand that if demand decreases financial resources may not be adequate to meet expenses. I don't feel however that...

  7. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    casper1 replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    I think the reason Nurses recent what Ceo's are paid is because they feel CEO's to not recognize the hard work and dedication Nurses give to their jobs. Nurse's are the backbone of any hospital....

  8. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    casper1 replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    It's interesting that hospital beds are being cut in Canada a country with Univeral Healthare. Do you feel tha patient volume is decreasing, or are beds being cut as a way of rationing healthcare?...

  9. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    casper1 replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    On any given day Nurses juggle multiple crisis's simutaneuosly. Not only are they responsible for the health and well being on there patients, but they must be a constant resource for families. I...

  10. Strong Memorial/Rochester Hospitals

    casper1 replied to pmednurse's topic in New York Nursing

    I work at Rochester General, I think it's a great hospital with a good reputation in the community. On most floors nurses, pa's, np's and physicians see themselves as a team and work together very...

  11. Seeking Info about Informatics

    casper1 replied to HiHoCherry-O's topic in General Nursing

    I wish Nursing schools would offer more courses on infomatics for Nurses. My facility has started to utilize computers in med passes and charting but the systems seem cumbersone and time consuming I'm...

  12. Hourly rounding signoff sheet

    casper1 replied to fungez's topic in General Nursing

    I agree totally. I have a theory do you think this could be a plot to expand nurses patient load. If I'm expected to round on every patient every hour I could have eight patients,any nurse would...

  13. Mandatory cut-off age for being a bedside nurse?

    casper1 replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Many older Nurses are fully able to care for patients at the bedside. Older Nurses are often more sympathetic to the concerns of their patients, having experienced many of the same illness and loss. I...

  14. 88 Hours, tired, what was your highest week? how did you recover?

    casper1 replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    88 Hours Wow! Is this normal where you work? Are they

  15. MN nurses strike is over. Now what?

    casper1 replied to CNL2B's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm curious, I've been following this strike. I know that one of their concerns is staffing, curious what are the nurse to patient ratios on hospital units. I am a nurse in upstate NY, good staffing...

  16. Got accepted to Nursing school...but I want a tattoo :(

    casper1 replied to RedXIII_'s topic in General Nursing

    My Daughter just finished her first year of Nursing school. I've been a nurse 20 years. When I was in school a tatoo was a definate no no. So when she was accepted I was aprehensive, she has several...

  17. What is the upstate NY job market like?

    casper1 replied to JeanettePNP's topic in New York Nursing

    Openings in Rochester, but they are filling fast. My Hospital has been using travelers, but they have been told they will not be needed after September, as they expect all vacancies to be filled by...

  18. Quality Management/ performance improvement ADVICE PLEASE!!!

    casper1 replied to caeRn's topic in General Nursing

    I have had patienys leave AMA. for a wide variety of reasons. They did not have a babysitter, they had unattended pets at home, they were worried about a ill spouse at home. Sometimes they don't have...

  19. Quality Management/ performance improvement ADVICE PLEASE!!!

    casper1 replied to caeRn's topic in General Nursing

    For Years Nurses have seen quality improvement as punitive in Nature. The Nurse was always to blame for whatever went wrong. Insufficient staffing, lack of equipment, difficult families, demanding...

  20. Shift Differentials

    casper1 replied to Nursey103's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulation on your new job. What state do you live in ? I heard that in Califonia time and a half is paid after working 8 hrs in a day, even if you only work one day a week. In New York you must...

  21. The Failure of the Joint Commission

    casper1 replied to abbaking's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If we didn't have to spend so much time documeting everything we do, so the facility can prove to JAHCO that it's been done Nurses would have more time at the bedside and maybe less staff would be...

  22. Rochester General Hospital Phone Interview

    casper1 replied to Danielle27's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've worked at Rochester General several years. I'd recommend that you be flexible with scheduling. Convey that you would be willing to work any shifts and you don't mind working Holidays and...

  23. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse on your Medical/Surgical floor?

    casper1 replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in New York Nursing

    The most I've had were 8 patients nights, medical floor with

  24. Examples of times you have been bullied in nursing profession

    casper1 replied to luvmyyorkie24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you for this Post. It's time to end lateral violence and bulling in the workplace. It's counter productive and a wast of time. If all the time and energy involved in looking for ways to stick it...

  25. Examples of times you have been bullied in nursing profession

    casper1 replied to luvmyyorkie24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The only reaso she was upset was that you made her look bad. As the manager she should have been the one seeing that the wall suction units were