woody62

woody62 RN

icu, er, transplant, case management, ps

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  1. Jehovah Witness RNs

    woody62 replied to aimeeinorbit's topic in General Nursing

    Not necessarily so. If an order goes against the religious beliefs of a nurse, she/he cannot be forced to engage in the order, regardless of who has written it. As long as the employer is aware of...

  2. What would you do?

    woody62 replied to livingroomcomputer's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry but once you filed a Workers Comp claim and it was accepted, your forfeited your right to file a lawsuit against the doctors. But even if you didn't, what do you think would be the bases...

  3. Jehovah Witness RNs

    woody62 replied to aimeeinorbit's topic in General Nursing

    When I was an Assistant Administrator, at Downstate Brooklyn, it was not considered an illegal act, on the part of a physician, to refuse to accept a JW ob patient, as long as she was not in active...

  4. Being denied employment because of a credit check :(

    woody62 replied to Dunno?'s topic in General Nursing

    There is a group of hospitals, in Houston, Texas I believe, that run a credit check on any potential employee. They feel if one cannot manage the money properly, they cannot manage their work...

  5. We all hate overtime!!!!

    woody62 replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    The first four months I worked here, in sunny Florida, I rarely got off on time. I usually worked one to one and half hours of vovertime every shift. Made the DON madder the h*** but she had to pay...

  6. What would you call "Practicing Medicine"

    woody62 replied to RADONC-RN's topic in General Nursing

    If you are not an N.P., passing, drawing, giving, cutting, sticking anything into anyone.

  7. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    And my answer is that my Part D provider paid the pharmacy. No where, on any of my bills, from the LTC facility, am I charged nor did the facility list a charge from the pharmacy for any of my...

  8. Friday's Today Show: Shape up or Pay up

    woody62 replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    The one time I was part of an organization that had any right to have any say about my weight, was when I was a flight nurse, with the Air National Guard. I chose to go into this group, with the...

  9. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    I would love to post a copy of my bill from the LTC facility I was in. As well as copies of my Medicare Part D payouts. To answer your question, my Part D was billed by the pharmacy that provided all...

  10. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Yeb, I am sure that the facility I was in got their drugs from an area pharmacy. I had a medication changed and when I requested it, I was told they had to send someone to the pharmacy they use, to...

  11. uniforms

    woody62 replied to greensister's topic in General Nursing

    As an old, disabled R.N., I would love to see nurses return to white uniforms and caps. But I realize this option is long gone and never to appear again. As a patient, dressing nurses, aides,...

  12. refusing to take report

    woody62 replied to crb613's topic in General Nursing

    I refused a peds assignment once. The supervisor attempted to pressure me into going, telling me I would not have to give any medications to the kids. I still refused and told her, since I was a...

  13. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Guess I was lucky all a round. I was a surfer girl back in the early 60s. Use to surf off La Jolla(?) Coves. And I never got my brains scrambled, although I did wipe out when I first started...

  14. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a LTC for wound management and rehab. My drug orders were written by a physician who was responsible for me during my stay. The LTC center got them from a local pharmacy. The pharmacy...

  15. Why do patients like these go to a doctor?

    woody62 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry but I think you are putting yourself and your next baby at an unnecessary risk. I do not know Terxas law but here in Florida, free standing birthing centers have to have an OB available...

  16. Is this a privacy violation?

    woody62 replied to linzz's topic in General Nursing

    I am a bit confused. Do you live in Canada and work in the U.S.? To be honest, I have a problem with HIPPA or HIPAA. It is my understanding it came into being to protect patients from having their...

  17. Calling yourself a "nurse"

    woody62 replied to Jamie2887's topic in General Nursing

    Can I go a long. I really have a bone to pick with chiropractors I was just trying to be polite. I really have very little patience with people who pretend to be nurses, who really are not. Have a...

  18. Why do patients like these go to a doctor?

    woody62 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of people seek a situation where they feel they have some control but have access to treatment if they feel it is needed. And given the availability of information on the net and on cable TV, a...

  19. working Florida hospitals

    woody62 replied to Doris Myers's topic in Florida Nursing

    hi, i live in charlotte county and formerly did staff relief at doctors sarasota and englewood community. and i worked for six months at fawcett. i haven't worked in 17 years but i have been a...

  20. what are hospitals doing to fix the nursing shortage

    woody62 replied to phillies's topic in General Nursing

    I watch the same thing. And it reminded me of something I had watched in 2002. A company, that was connected to the health care industry, decided that none of their employees could smoke, at work,...

  21. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    I guess your patients are from an uninformed group. Here, in Florida, most of the people are well informed about just what Medicare pays for. Any number of seminars are held each year, a variety of...

  22. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    First, if you have Medicare it doesn't make any difference which state you live in. Medicare is a federally funded program that is administer by each state but the state has no say in what it covers...

  23. what are hospitals doing to fix the nursing shortage

    woody62 replied to phillies's topic in General Nursing

    If hospitals do what they have always done, they will take certain aspects of care a way from nurses, hiring unlicensed persons to do the task that they once had to pay nurses to do. And they will...

  24. Calling yourself a "nurse"

    woody62 replied to Jamie2887's topic in General Nursing

    Actually you would be a vet tech, not a cat nurse. No vet employees a nurse but a large number of them do employ vet techs, who have gone through a long training program and in a number of states are...

  25. Medicare Question

    woody62 replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry but you are wrong. Suppliers for respiratory and diabetic supplies do bill Medicare. And if one has Part D, their pharmacy gets authorization from their provider, fills the prescription,...