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    Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    martymoose replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    No I dont overspend- theres nothing to overspend with! Or else I wouldnt be driving a 13 year old truck with 225,000 miles on it. Boy, I would love to have a new one of those- or even a used
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    SLP vs RN: Need Advice!!

    martymoose replied to Stephia87RN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess my biggest concern would be why aren't the doctors thinking of more long term meds instead of prn meds for a behavioral issue that doesnt seem like its going to be short term. My answer would...
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    Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    martymoose replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Are you implying that nurses purposely let pt's suffer ??? That we are letting them just sit in whatever and they cant see and hear? Don't you think we already know that? How stupid does management...
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    Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    martymoose replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

    GDMT. This makes me so angry. We are sympathetic to a persons needs. How can we be in more than one place at a time. Fk. administration in trying to place all the customer service blame on all the...
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    When our older nurses die :(

    martymoose replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Those old nurses are lucky they didnt have to work in the atmosphere that we are in now. They were respected back in their day. Good for them. Sorry for your loss
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    Broken

    martymoose replied to NotAllWhoWandeRN's topic in General Nursing

    OP Im sorry you are going through this. If you can afford to live on less money , maybe that dr office job might be better. As an aside, to all those who say PT helped them, how did you afford it? my...
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    Holding "Ordered Meds"..... What are the rules?

    martymoose replied to jk2185's topic in Patient Medications

    Especially clonidine! rebound hypertension. Your comment is so true- it 's sometime the meds that keep a person in their ranges. The decisions have to be
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    Genicular nerve ablation

    martymoose replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    i should explain. It's a RFA of the nerves going to the knee for arthritis relief. It is done when someone is not eligible or wanting a knee replacement or the downtime involved in that. RFA of those...
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    Genicular nerve ablation

    martymoose posted a topic in General Nursing

    has anyone heard of this , or had it
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    Why white shoes?

    martymoose replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    I wear "sneakers" as I literally have to sprint to get all the bed/chir alarms we have. It's kinda hard to sprint/run from a seated or standing position with the danskos on. Some of my co workrs do...
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    How hard is it to get a hospital job anywhere in the country

    martymoose replied to ~Shrek~'s topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Good luck to you, I hope you find something. I live in a somewhat rural area, but the big hospitals just acquired the rural hospitals and basically closed them down. It stinks, as I had hoped to move...
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    Medical Device / Pharmaceutical Employment Opportunities for Nurses

    martymoose replied to tawill5's topic in General Nursing

    from what I've noticed lately, this is one of those jobs you have to already have outstanding experience in. All the ads I see say "proven sales
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    Going to be fired?

    martymoose replied to Meridian2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Op, I'm sorry things are this way. It really sounds like the LTC thing is really not suitable for you. It is what it is. I dont think your coworkers are ever going to let anything slide ( which they...
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    Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    martymoose replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    I swear, medicare only does these surveys because they know people are going to give crappy scores, and there for they will have reason to deny
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    Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    martymoose replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    But you will be out of a job. And probably wont get a cent, not even unemployment As long as there is a glut of nurses, these situations will continue. No win
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    Is this discrimination?

    martymoose replied to WheresMyPen's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Exactly!! She can say all she wants and refuse care for her father , but what freaking business is it of her to be telling other patients that you " have no license???" But until management tells...
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    Is this discrimination?

    martymoose replied to WheresMyPen's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Typical of management. never sticking up for a good
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    martymoose replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    When a pt is on the call light 10 x an hour, Id say that constitutes 1 on 1. And you pray your other pt's, who the 1 on 1 pt loudly states he does not care about, don't exsanguenate ( sp?) , drop...
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    martymoose posted a topic in General Nursing

    that pay as much as nursing
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    What do you hate most about your job?

    martymoose replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    could be worse. had an etoh er who was in her 50's . not currently drunk. kept leaving her shirt down for all to see. she didnt
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    I Told him she shouldn't be discharged....

    martymoose replied to NursingInChaos's topic in General Nursing

    dont feel bad. old people fall. they get injured. she probably would have had the same outcome at a nursing home- lets face it- they cant watch a person every minute of the day too. Difference would...
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    martymoose replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    Im also figuring out now that maybe why I am not finding anything else is because me and everyone else are looking to get out of bedside nursing locally. Many of my coworkers are moving on to...
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    martymoose replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    In regards to pharmaceutical or device sales rep ,I've tried. Locally they all want"proven sales records". But thanks for the
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    martymoose replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    No, that's not the only reason. I feel recently with our ratio change,and some new procedures that put a pt at a very high acuity( tavr, etc) that things are very unsafe. I have applied to other...
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    martymoose replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    Dont get me wrong-I worked at Mickey D's for 3 years, and factory work for 17, until that went to mexico. I just see some of the degree'd jobs not paying even what nursing makes as a 2 year degree...