RN1989

Well, I'm not so sure that the guy who thinks he knows more about CPR is completely wrong. Having ACLS change from pushing CPR, to pushing defib, to pushing CPR, over and over again through the years- obviously we aren't making a huge enough dent in...

I think the "LOL" is one of those things that if you don't laugh, what else are you going to do since it was probably a "no win" situation for the nurse.

TX is like any other state - there are things that are better than other places and things that are worse than other places. Many come to this forum hoping to hear that things are "heaven" and better than where they are at. Many are disappointed. O...

Every place I have worked, surgeon's orders trump all the other docs orders.

Why do you think that doctors STILL think that we don't do anything unless it is ordered by a doc? Why do you think that a doc can be an unprofessional jerk but it is the nurse that is counseled and sent down the road to termination? Nurses do not...

That's the problem - we've been fighting for years and in the grand scheme of things - we have gotten NOWHERE. And so people leave to "greener" pastures only to find more manure and then again, they look for another job while fighting the current j...

As long as they didn't try to screw you some other way - absolutely.

when i hit near my 10 yr mark my asst. manager and i had an interesting discussion. she told me that many places, including our employer, had little use for nurses with 10+ yrs of experience and would find ways to downsize them and not hire them as n...

Oooh, that's a pretty good site! Too bad we didn't have internet around when I started.

:chuckle One place I worked at was bad about that. There were several nurses who had been there forever and their IV taping way was best. They literally would redress the patient's IV sites every shift because they didn't like the way someone else...

And there you have it - you have to stay current like Janey said. Which is why I am so irritated that nurses get angry because they are required to take CE for license renewal. How can you practice in a vaccuum? Yes, there has been some stuff that i...

A blanket statement like that is not cool. Evidence Based Practice is a good thing. When nurses refuse to change their practice because "we've always done it this way" is when the problem starts. I have found that some newer nurses have had a har...

The biggest problem that I had when I worked the unit was being bored. Literally. After running my butt off taking care of 7-10 pts on medsurg and tele, having 2-4 pts in the unit was slow. I could get everything done and would sit there staring a...

Nothing like trying to cram in one more thing! :)

If she is having a lot of rush jobs, sounds like she needs some time management classes. That is not cost effective. Had she been willing to offer you more money, she would not be having so many rush orders. Sounds like there may be more poor busi...

I fully expect them to require it for the rest of us at some point. Just like with the fingerprinting - they require it on all the new licensees and have a "lottery" system for getting all the prior licensees fingerprints on file. Either that or the...

I know that the TX BON is disciplining nurses for things that have nothing to do with nursing. It has to do with their little clause about "moral turpitude". I've talked with some nurses that got arrested for minor traffic violations because the c...

The other healthcare professions in TX also have to take a jurisprudence exam. Yes, I just got my quarterly thing. The list this time was a lot bigger than I have seen prior lists. And now that they are putting the LVNs and RNs together on the li...

After reading some of the posts on here, I find that there are MANY nurses that are ignorant of nurse practice acts and how the law factors into our profession. Somehow, I doubt that there are going to be many nurses that will retain the info, but,...

There actually are not very many LNCs on this forum. They don't hang out here, they are on other forums. And yes, there are more successful LNCs than you think. However, when you look at the numbers of nurses who have taken various courses - the ...

After interaction with some inhouse LNCs, I have found that they do seem to do much more "paralegal" work than what independent LNCs do. The ABA puts LNCs into the legal assistant/paralegal role and do not view them as being nurses practicing a nur...

The scrub jackets are ok as long as you can get them in EVERYONE's size. There is nothing worse than when the facility is buying scrubs for the staff and chooses to go with the cheapest company that doesn't have small enough or big enough scrubs for...

Absolutely get insurance, even if you have a regular full time job. The hospitals will not protect you.

If you are in a hospital or nursing facility, you cannot just tell people that they can't come in. If you are well enough to go without the routine nursing care and checks that are required - you are well enough to be at home. Yes, generally when pe...

Let's not forget all the costs for registering vehicles, etc. We just found out that when you buy a used vehicle and register it, you have to pay sales tax on what the state thinks the item is worth, not what you paid for it. Considering that my c...