janettalinda

I have no idea what you mean by this. Just exactly what is it that "liberals" are making "mandatory" that you object to? Please be specific. Thank You.

Check out the healthcare rankings for the 50 states. Which ten are in the top ten and which states are in the bottom ten? Uinions fight for BETTER pt care, not worse. Good working conditions equal better pt care. Many none union facilities have no w...

I don't think the cry-baby advice fits here with this situation. They pile on 15 or 20 pts and we're just supposed to accept it? I agree with the listen-to-your-body advice. There may be a valid reason to stick it out until Feb, I don't know. But the...

"If living were a thing that money could buy, then the rich would live and the poor would die."-sung by Odetta

When I first moved to Texas I couldn't believe how terrible the working conditions were here. Worst I've ever seen. I quit nursing job after nursing job. I had jobs that actually gave me nightmares and stress attacks. Life is too short for that. Well...

I would tell management "you can mandate any uniform you want and I can work anywhere I want, so bye-bye." I have worn all the white I"m ever gonna wear in this lifetime. What's next? Those stupid hats? Nursing seems to be going back back back to the...

If a doctor brot his child with him to visit me as a patient, I would refuse to pay for the visit. Even if only to poke thier head in door and say "how are you." Don't even answer this question! They charge for it as if it were an actual visit. I onc...

Olddog, welcome back. I thot we lost you. Shooee! Seems like we should be able to state our dislike for a word without ripping into a person like a pack of vicious dogs. (I apologize to all canines, including my own, especially my own) They act like ...

I've been a shop steward and been on bargaining committee x2. We sit across the table from each other (union and management) as equals and NEGOCIATE re: working conditions, wages, etc. This is an adult to adult relationship. Without a union, we have ...

Learn how to write a correct order and then we won't have to call you to clarify. (Doc was yelling about being called.) If nurses are the eyes and ears of the doctor, then you are working blind and deaf because you have no respect for nursing observ...

I don't care what "real nurses" have to say about me as long as I get a real paycheck. Some people need to put others down to build themselves up (at least in their own eyes). I like your positive attitude. Keep on trucking. "Take it easy but take it...

Here's my experience of nursing over the years. For years working conditions were actually improving, and wages increasing. A few years ago, maybe ten years ago, things started going downhill. Working condition are going downhill! I'm hearing about u...

I'm amazed to see yet another duty added to the nurses list of duties. Now we are expected to change Depends for our pt's visitors! You're right, Ruby, this thread is sometimes very funny. Anyone who doesn't like it, should go to another thread. I'm ...

This is pretty funny, we are all complaining about the younger generation and the older generation, but our own generation is, of cours, perfect. I include myself here. I'm not complaining, only amused.

Ruby Vee, I've never seen this anywhere-doctors rounding with their kids and expecting nurses to provide free child care in addition to their nursing duties. But I LOVED your response. You go girl. We need more nurses like you!

"Someone", not all the staff, wrote a threatening letter and that "Someone" should be fired and, perhaps, reported to the law. This letter is no excuse for the manager to be screaming in a staff meeting, and threatening to punish all the staff. No re...

PS: It isn't only managers that can write letters to be placed in personel folders. All of those staff members can also write letters and describe this managers conduct. "We all have melt downs." Please, give me a breack. What staff member would eve...

If the manager wants help from her staff she should try asking for it and then actually listening to her staff (when does that ever happen). The idea that staff should put up with being screamed at by a manager is just plain nonesense. If staff scr...

I worked LTC for a few years in a beautiful facility, great staff, and I loved the residents and their families. I was on my feet most of day, busy, but not frantic. Those were the good old days. Every day residents and families told us how much they...

I don't think Olddog was trying to make light of genecide, but point taken about calling any small time tyrant a Nazi. This supervisor has to go. And the nurses should never be threatening oneanother. Did this happen in Texas? I've seen this sort of...

OK so they tell me you know you're over the hill when you start complaining about the younger generation. Well then, I guess that makes me over the hill. We grew up 30 miles from nearest hospital so you can bet we didn't run to the ER for every littl...

(sorry, I got cut off) There is ALWAYS somithing you can do. We are not powerless. For starters open your mouth and say "I am not here to babysit your children." And by the way, I am solidly pro-union. Have only worked in union hospitals and perhaps ...

So now nurses can add babysitting to their list of duties? This takes the cake. Datonite, there is ALWAYS

PRN nursing is the only way I have survived nursing. Thank God, I have that option or I would be one of those nurses not working as a nurse at all. I cannot count the young nurses I've met who worked a few years and then left nursing completely. One ...

Yes, absolutely confront these mean spirited fellow nurses. I agree with you to also confront abuse of others, didn't mean to impy that I only stick up for myself. Thank you for making that point.