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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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

  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 Corner

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

  5. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International Nursing

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

  6. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette posted a topic in International Nursing

    sorry double

  7. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International Nursing

    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...

  8. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International Nursing

    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...

  9. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International Nursing

    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...

  10. nurses get blame abuse any docs out there

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in International Nursing

    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...

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

    Martinette replied to livewell78's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    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

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

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

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

    This is not only a US problem it is global. I work in a country that has national health taxpayer funded government run hospitals. There is a nurse I work with who is the best nurse I ever saw. She is...

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

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

    My hospital has really really bad ratios. We are talking one nurse to 24 patients on a good day. These are acute med surg patients. The managers have no interest in changing or hearing about...

  18. Families from Hell

    Martinette replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    My belief is that yes...it is a result of the way our health service is run and meddling by politicians. The people who make the decisions have no clinical knowledge. It is bad but there are no jobs...

  19. Families from Hell

    Martinette replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    By the way most of the nurses I work with were nursing back in the "good ole days" and they are hardworking, caring but also distraught regarding the terrible nursing

  20. Families from Hell

    Martinette replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    Woody, I think that the majority of "bad care" happens when the nurses are overwhelmed rather than incompetent or just plain nasty. I currently work on a 30 bed med surg unit that won't staff anything...

  21. Does anyone like Med-Surg?

    Martinette replied to swee2000's topic in General Nursing

    I love med surg and consider it my specialty but would like it a lot better if my unit was staffed. I usually have 13 + patients. I get upset because we are too overwhelmed to provide decent care and...

  22. Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act (THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT!)

    Martinette replied to BethAn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So when do we know if it passed or

  23. Made a Med Error and sick over it!

    Martinette posted a topic in General Nursing

    I feel like crap. I made a med error last week. The patient was unharmed and my manager told me that it was a systems error etc. and that it wasn't my fault. I still feel like hell. I missed an AM...

  24. Made a Med Error and sick over it!

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all of your replies. This ward I am working on really scares me and I think it is all the "what if's" that are freaking me out. It's not going to get any better there. In a few months I...

  25. Made a Med Error and sick over it!

    Martinette replied to Martinette's topic in General Nursing

    I think I am beating myself because when I went back to look at the drug chart the insulin order was obviously prescribed and I don't know how I didn't see it. Yeah live and learn I