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Why is there such a fight between nursing and administration?!?!? I am such a patient advocate, and stick up for my floor, the patient, my staff, schedules, and it seems administration fights me in every way. Dietary called the other day and said the...

oh yeah, our hospital is offering "agency pay" for nurses picking up extra shifts. The hospital gets off a little cheaper, they have their own full time nurses working, instead of someone who has never been there, and the nurses get PAID. It benefits...

Charge nurse duties is what I was questioning, as in my above post, I am charge of a 34 bed Med/Surg unit. The nurse to patient ratio is 7:1, nights is the same . Our staffing grid states we get a "free" charge nurse for 8 hours on a 12 hour shift. N...

A big shot business man had to spend a couple of days in the hospital. > > > > He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just >like he > > did his employees. None of the hospital staff wanted to have anythi...

WATER!!! Lots of it. Remedies mine, all the time.

I don't think it is the nursing shortage. It is the greedy companies that cut labor costs to save money. High patient to nurse ratios makes for all the errors in the world, as well as poor care for patients. I would hate to be a patient now. I can on...

My facility has the same policy, that in order to smoke, the employees must leave the premisis, and clock out. In doing this, we have found, is does not deter the smokers from smoking, but it does make the employees returning to the facililty lower. ...

IV team-- if it looks the least bit red or swollen, pull it, and restart it. It will save the patient lots of trouble. 125 cc flush????? That person needs to retake IV therapy class.

I would suggest doing the hardest job first, everything from there is bound to get easier, ( or better ?!?!?). Start in the most challenging field, for you it might be your most high anxiety, or the field you feel the least comfortable in. Seven pati...

OK I have the longer version, inluding taxes. It is great. SICKNESS AND RELATED LEAVE: We will no longer accept a doctor statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work. SURGERY: Operations are now ba...

Oh, and a suggestion in orientation of a new employee? 3 weeks on their "home" floor (unit), and at least 3 shifts on 3 different units..... it would be very beneficial. The new employees expecting to be pulled, is not as bad as if they were never or...

One of the rules of nursing is being flexible. I am currently a Med Surg charge nurse, cross trained in all fields of nursing. I have been pulled to, wherever I am needed.........wherever. Nursing is NURSING. Is taking care of a a patient on a balloo...

I was recently offered a retention package, and a raise. It'll keep me for the contract I signed for 1 year. Next year, the price to keep me is higher. My job is very stressful. Horrible staffing with no regards to patient acuity. The only thing keep...

You might be a nurse if... > > > > ~ You avoid unhealthy looking peoples in the mall for fear that > > they'll drop near you and you'll have to do CPR on your day off. > > > > ~ It doesn't bother you to eat a candy ba...

Wow this was awesome, I felt every breath of all of the replies. I have to remember, Me, the RN, at the patients bedside, I am the lifeline to that patient's care. THE NURSE AND THE PATIENT ARE ON THE SAME SIDE!!!!!!!! Too bad the rest of the health ...

I agree with nene. Yellow, brown, green, some mildly black. sometimes pink, is all to be expected. However, blood, no.

The biggest change I went through was thinking the little problems in my life were SO important, now that I deal with others lives everyday, those little things have become little. It is good for me, but sometimes I downplay friends problems also.

I work on a 34 bed Med/Surg unit. Ratio is 7:1, on days and nights. On days, the total number of nurses never exceed 5. NEVER more than 2 RNs, then the 3 LPNs. with one RN as "charge". As soon as 4 nurses reach 28+, the "charge" takes up to 6. No reg...

Was an LPN first-- to RN. Go the RN route, if nursing is what you choose. Many more opportunities and ALOT more money.

Well, my hospital has recently offered me a $6000K "retention bonus package". I accepted. It was offered to very few, and very far between people (so I have heard). I sign a contract for a year, and that is what they get, a year. Then I move on, for ...

I say dialysis tech. LPN, been there, done that, got 11$/hour, and the nursing assistants at night made more than me. But do get your RN, it is worth it. Worth all the work I went through.

Full time RN staff - charge nurse Med/Surg, Tele, ER, Stepdown, ICU, Nursery, OB/Peds, Skilled Nursing, Outpatient, Endoscopy, Recovery, anywhere, and anything! I love to experience other units, and my next learning places-- L&D, NICU.....

I am happy to have found this site. I was also wondering about charge nurse duties and responsibilities. I currently and a full time charge nurse on a 34 bed Med/Surg unit. Our patient ratio is 7:1, with no regard for acuity. I start my shift with or...