Martinette

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1. Things You Wish You Could Tell Managers that Love to Short Staff

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah lots of people are quitting but there is a nationwide recruitment freeze and no where for them to go and work as nurses. Management know this and want to see them go. Quitting doesn't stop the patients from suffering unfortunately.

2. Things You Wish You Could Tell Managers that Love to Short Staff

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in General Nursing

   Oh and these same managers deny that we are short staffed and deny that there is a problem.

3. Things You Wish You Could Tell Managers that Love to Short Staff

   Martinette posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just imagine that you could have a few minutes or hours or however long you need inside a room with hospital administrators/managers. Imagine that you could say anything you wanted to them and educate them about Nurse/Patient ratios and the reality...

4. my computer turned off on the 110th question, is that good or bad?

   Martinette replied to r.o.b1208's topic in LPN/LVN

   Mine shut of at 110 and I passed. I was so sure I failed.

5. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International

   Thank you for the great advice Forenurse. We will try anything at this point.

6. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International

   Our managers have refused to come to the ward and speak with us. We have been making frequent requests for months. The only message that has come down from them is this "tough" "deal with it" and "any nurse who tries to refuse admissions because sh...

7. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International

   I was supposed to be out of there months ago but our house buyers pulled out of the sale so I am stuck until we get another buyer. I have been looking at waitressing in the meantime but if it takes time to sell the house we are screwed. At least I c...

8. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International

   It's not a bad mistake at all considering some of the stuff that is happening on our ward. I'm not losing sleep over it really. I am just so sick of the doctors and their attitudes. It's like they live in a cave or something and just crawl out to ...

9. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

   Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International

   I posted this in the UK forum because many of you know the situation with targets, short staffing, recruitment freezes etc. The Americans might not realise that medicine and surgery are so divided here. They have a lot of "med-surg" there it seems. M...

10. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette posted a topic in International

    sorry double posted.

11. can a nurse be fired for not saying "no"

    Martinette replied to livewell78's topic in Safety

    Oh for god's sake and if she had told him to stop he would have probably started berating her and screaming saying "i'm the doctor blah blah blah".

12. Ready to Call it Quits

    Martinette replied to whontime's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree. Nursing has more bad points than good IMHO. It's a shame too because it doesn't need to be that way. If nurses had decent management, support, a safe number of patients, authority and respect it would not be so bad. I would real...

13. Overhaul of health care system needed to address nursing understaffing?

    Martinette replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    It is not LESS education. It is a different kind of education. My 3 year diploma program was a lot tougher than your average Bachelors degree in other fields. I was attending nursing school while my twin was doing a degree in education. I was a...

14. Is there anything that you cannot handle as a Nurse?

    Martinette replied to cammy429's topic in General Nursing

    I'll come in from a different angle here because I have a strong stomach. I cannot handle anything sad involving young mums and their babies /children. We have a very young single mother with young babies dying of ovarian ca at the moment on our flo...

15. Overhaul of health care system needed to address nursing understaffing?

    Martinette replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    It seems to be the same all over. Most of my friends colleagues are nurses from the Phillipines, India, and Singapore. In India it is 1 nurse to 60 patients yet their hospitals are really modern and high tech. In Singapore it is 1 nurse to 20 and ...