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  1. Whats happening to the nursing profession?

    karbyr replied to uk_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    seems to me that in the mid eighties to mid nineties, healthcare was subjugated to the lawyers.......now , since the mid nineties, we are subjugated to the accountants...............neither which have...

  2. average milage per day

    karbyr posted a topic in Home Health

    Hi, does anyone have an idea of what the latest statistics on average mileage per day per nurse are? HOme health line published a study in 01 that it was seventeen (not on my easiest day, lol),...

  3. LPN with Battery Charge on Criminal Record-Help

    karbyr replied to 14yearLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Call the court issuing the charge and find out what that "waiver" is, also, did you ever go to court for this? were you found guilty by a trial of your peers??? Sounds like not.............might want...

  4. "Thats not my patient"

    karbyr replied to nurse2002's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, is not okay to say 'thats not my patient', and most of the time can answer the question or request, but also agree there are times it needs to be said in a different manner with an...

  5. poor spelling -- it matters

    karbyr replied to glow_worm's topic in General Nursing

    Glow worm.................I used to look at things in the same manner until I came across a great quote by Thomas Jefferson (at least I think that's who it was)..............."I would never fully...

  6. Driving me CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    karbyr replied to nurse2002's topic in Home Health

    lol, i agree kp..............is impossible to do much more than an aide sup in that amount of time.................on one of my nursing notes the quality assurance manager put a note w/ big...

  7. Driving me CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    karbyr replied to nurse2002's topic in Home Health

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......................just got fired from an agency for refusing to play this game............what is the medicare law about lengths of visits?????????they encouraged us to be in there...

  8. average milage per day

    karbyr replied to karbyr's topic in Home Health

    lol, i agree fifty would be great..............and i do get paid for drive

  9. average milage per day

    karbyr replied to karbyr's topic in Home Health

    thanks hoolihan, that

  10. Faking It

    karbyr replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

    I worked psyche for a couple of years...........a whole new perspective on faking.............and, while I agree that a lot of times the faker is trying to meet a need, giving in to a patients...

  11. have you ever "written up" yourself in an incident report?

    karbyr replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

    sure have, and have worked in some VERY punitive places........agree with the thinking that incident reports should be a training and tracking tool, not a punishment guide...........wish all the...

  12. Floating nurses

    karbyr replied to babsRN's topic in Nurse Management

    laurako, Think you are way off base imo. The time for a learning experience is in the classroom or orientation process, not when you've just been handed a full assignment that your license demands...

  13. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    karbyr replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, thank you all for a little bit of the right cure for an insane

  14. Nursing unions and small hospitals

    karbyr replied to deespoohbear's topic in Rural

    the local hospital where i live is unionized, about the same size portage view hospital in Hancock,