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  1. Nurse-Patient Ratios

    marie-francoise replied to pattin13's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    here are some links in regard to the aiken study, in case they're of help: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12387650...

  2. Aspirate Always?

    marie-francoise replied to Emma123's topic in General Nursing

    In my school we're taught to aspirate with IM injections, to ensure we don't inject into a vessel. We're also taught that the Z-track method is preferable, to try to prevent injected fluid from...

  3. What do you actually DO?

    marie-francoise replied to BethyC123's topic in Nursing Career

    Here is another thread that may be of help:

  4. Just need a little emotional support this morning!

    marie-francoise replied to MelBel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well said! Very good points. These are encouraging words, as well as

  5. Just need a little emotional support this morning!

    marie-francoise replied to MelBel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yeah, I've been there - doing entire projects that only the top dogs got credit for, and working on projects long and hard that got scrapped or phased out shortly... I am glad to know you enjoy...

  6. Safe Nurse:Patient ratio

    marie-francoise replied to hoopette34's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yep, this seems to be a consistent theme throughout the threads on this site: understaffing, understaffing, understaffing, to serve the almighty

  7. Just need a little emotional support this morning!

    marie-francoise replied to MelBel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I dunno... I'm really trying not to come to the conclusion that bedside nursing these days is mostly stress and misery, which would explain the nursing shortage. I'm just a nursing student, so could...

  8. Not sure if I really want to be an RN...

    marie-francoise replied to MUNurse85's topic in General Nursing

    You could try clinical trials work, for example as a CRA - clinical research

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

    marie-francoise posted a topic in General Nursing

    It seems as though the nursing profession, esp hospital nursing, has reached some dire straits in the past 15 years - getting worse, in particular, over this past decade. Would you agree? The...

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

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

    I don't think we're implying BSN nurses are responsible for all the problems in nursing - no, not at all! I guess we've strayed from the subject of this thread... I see a multi-factorial problem...

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

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

    You make a good point, Retired R.N.. A consistent theme in the threads on these and other nursing blogs is that people are getting their BSN, MSN, etc., to essentially get away from the bedside (I...

  12. nursing fiction/nonfiction

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

    Some recent non-fiction: Faye Satterly's Where Have All the Nurses Gone? Suzanne Gordon's Nursing Against the

  13. Attack on nurses shows how deep the health care crisis really is

    marie-francoise replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm all for government subsidizing health care - if government is there for anything, it's to protect the health of its citizens. But single-payer has to be done right. The UK does have social...

  14. Union

    marie-francoise replied to 2bmalenurse007's topic in General Nursing

    Right - I think that's the reality of it - there still are differences in the way men and women are viewed. And some of those are justifiably so because, well, there are differences between men and...

  15. Union

    marie-francoise replied to 2bmalenurse007's topic in General Nursing

    Amen, Amen, Amen! (And that's kind of a pun on "men", isn't it? ha) Anyway, great post. I do believe nursing needs an infusion of men, stat. Although the title of "nurse" could probably do with...

  16. Now I understand why there is a nursing shortage

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

    I'm in nursing school and I'm trying to view post-graduation with open eyes - and I'm scared! I'm scared because I believe I DO view hospital nursing realistically. Nursing schools' not making...

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

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

    I'm wondeirng - Did the ratio improvements in CA occur without sacrifice of ancillary staff or other services, or of supplies? I hear about nurses striking in the Bay Area, so that has me a bit...

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

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

    I had a nurse tell me this same thing during clinical - she was so adamant about it, and it was the first thing out of her mouth (I had just met her - she had just stepped into the OR to take over for...

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

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

    Martinette, Your perspective is informative - especially since it's from a country where they do have a social health care system, and with such bad results for nurses. And your point about nurses not...

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

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

    Thank you for the replies so far - I appreciate your honesty. And, my goodness - 24 acute med/surg pts to 1 nurse! On days! (or nights, for that matter!) That sounds like something out of a novel...

  21. So I am not liking hosp. nursing,...

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

    PPS You could look into doing clinical trials work for a CRO, or medical writing, or home health, or hospice, or, in short, something away from the hospital. Your nursing degree is still a valuable...

  22. how soon should a new grad seek nurses insurance?

    marie-francoise replied to destiney's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes - get it now. Even as a student, I'm required to have it - the deans don't make any bones about it - we need to have insurance. People are just far too litigious these days, and lawyers will...

  23. So I am not liking hosp. nursing,...

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

    Hi - I will let experienced nurses respond with their views (I'm only a nursing student). But, I just wanted to say that, from reading the threads on this site and other Web sites, your story seems...

  24. There is no real nurse shortage?

    marie-francoise replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe the "gray tsunami" (that's what they're calling the incoming wave of baby boomer patients that will be "breaking" soon) will force the issue, and force the feds to look at the health care...

  25. There is no real nurse shortage?

    marie-francoise replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    Very good post! Yup - and thank God for item 4. And I would add that managed care really ramping up in the 1990s worsened the shortage by cutting nursing jobs (oops!). And now with cost containment...