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  1. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    This was almost three years ago: "Nurses in Flagstaff and Mesa vote "no" to union representation Arizona Nurse, Jul 2003 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...07/ai_n9261470 I've Googled and can't...

  2. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    pickledpepperRN replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    I have been told by travelers that they will only work where the staffing is safe. They work for less pay here rather than in states where they are responsible for too many patients, don't get a...

  3. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    pickledpepperRN replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    I've never been on strike but have supported fellow nurses on their picket lines. More nurses are on the line in uniform than were scheduled to work. The management is given cell numbers of "picket...

  4. A good day for the slaves of Texas

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    Learned about Juneteenth in Oklahoma, public school fifth grade history. I think it is a shame that we didn't learn about Oklahoma's son Woody Guthrie in school. Sorry Texans, I strayed from the...

  5. "What Do You Want Me To Do About It?"

    pickledpepperRN replied to welnet66's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not witty at all. I just say, "I called you because your patient needs a doctor." Sometimes if I think I know it may be, "To start how about some O2, ABGs, a chest X ray, and you come save your...

  6. NLRB set to trim union's organizing

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    …At the request of hospital and nursing home industry employers, the NLRB, which is now stacked with anti-union board members appointed by the Bush Administration, are posed to make a ruling that...

  7. Abandoning babies at Hospitals LEGAL?!?!

    pickledpepperRN replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I think our California law was inspired by the Oklahoma one. Mush better than a dumpster or trash can. A baby was brought to our hospital by a girl who looked like she was dressed for a prom. No...

  8. Have You Ever Refused To Accept Report on a Patient?

    pickledpepperRN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    The anesthesiologist was concerned the narcotic he had given her during labot would become effective so refused to order the PCA unless she was monitored. This lady had many health problems...

  9. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Not yet. Maybe very soon. Maybe

  10. Have You Ever Refused To Accept Report on a Patient?

    pickledpepperRN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I refused to be assigned to a patient in postpartum recovery. She needed a PCA pump for severe pain but an epidural had been given with no effect. With the supervisor and L&D RN we decided I would...

  11. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I hear people from the so called "right" and "left" in the media who probably deserve such insults. Especially talk radio and cable TV "news" and "stars" in entertainment who regularly insult others....

  12. teamwork and job satisfaction

    pickledpepperRN replied to mak2's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with all the above posts. We are fortunate to be a great team. That is why many of us have worked together for decades. We welcome new hires too. We work together whether we are housekeeping,...

  13. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    The main benefit is the contract. My manager agrees that it is easier to have the rules in writing. We have the nursing process and staffing ratios in the contract too. We get a discount on the...

  14. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Maximum dues could go up IF the nurses at Kaiser, UC, and CHW average sinifican pay increases. MY dues only go up when my pay goes

  15. scope of practice issues for CNA'S/LVN'S

    pickledpepperRN replied to squeakykitty's topic in General Nursing

    Decades ago when I was a new CNA the LVN charge nurse asked me to irrigate a Foley catheter. She called me "stupid" when I told her "No, I don't know how so I think a licensed nurse needs to do it.'....

  16. scope of practice issues for CNA'S/LVN'S

    pickledpepperRN replied to squeakykitty's topic in General Nursing

    Here is the California law for acute care. I don't know the regulations for a group home. http://www.rn.ca.gov/practice/pdf/npr-b-29.pdf I won't do anything unless my competence has been validated....

  17. Experience counts! Novice to Expert

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    How have your skills matured with experience? I remember a telemetry patient who suddenly became confused and combative. The new grad orientee who had worked as a nursing assistant for years first...

  18. Critique of Study: More BSNs equal better pt outcomes

    pickledpepperRN replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for your opinions. Timothy did an excellent critique. When I read the original study in JAMA it rang true. The second study disturbed me. The logical conclusions of the first were absent...

  19. How much did you start as a nurse and when.

    pickledpepperRN replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    1965 $1.65 an hour as a CNA 40 cents above minimum wage 1966 $2.15 and hour as an LVN in a SNF Quit the first week, unethical. 1976 I cleared $256.00 every two weeks as an experienced LVN 1986 From...

  20. 9 N.J hosipitals to be struck June 2

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry to get off the New Jersey topic. There IS a union election coming up in Arizona this month.

  21. 9 N.J hosipitals to be struck June 2

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thank you for the update! ...Englewood Hospital, another facility staffed by HPAE members, locked out its nurses yesterday, but after pressure from elected officials the hospital agreed to end the...

  22. U.C.and Calif.Nurses Assn. at impasse

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    UC chief raked as new pay deals are revealed Latest audit shows scores more were made in secret http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/18/MNG1IITN8S1.DTL ...Fourteen senior...

  23. 9 N.J hosipitals to be struck June 2

    pickledpepperRN replied to mark hamel's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    660 nurses not allowed to work? Replacement nurses instead? What

  24. In conscious sedation, does the patient lose touch with reality?

    pickledpepperRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. In 2004 I had a lumpectomy under Marcaine (local) and conscious sedation. I remember the CRNA starting to inject the medication into the IV. The next think I knew I was talking - in the middle of...

  25. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    pickledpepperRN replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

    My grandmother was from Scotland but when we recruited a young nurse from there I had to ask her to repeat herself a lot. Now no problem. I wonder is her accent is more "Yankee" with time or am I just...