Sounds like sour grapes. Shine it on. Meanwhile, I hate you for vacationing in the tropics. Damn you and your pina coladas! (OOOoooooo! Imagine the evil look you're
pennyaline replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing
I read somewhere once that nursing programs are great money losers for colleges and universities. This college no doubt totted up the enrollment and financial aid numbers and decided that the loss had...
If someone from the lab comes and draws the trough, that person wouldn't necessarily know that Vancomycin was running. It's not up to them to know what meds are
Disclosure of a patient's confidential information is done on a need to know basis only. If the patient died of a reportable disease, it is up to the hospital to report it to your state's DOH. You can...
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
Many of us have expressed that we understand why. We don't want to be secretaries either, but we are often asked to do what we know how to do and fill the clerk's position. And in some cases, when...
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
No. I'm saying that for years I, as well as many others here, have worked units without secretaries and done the clerical stuff ourselves. And I'm not saying that we should accept this treatment in...
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
I fail to see how stating that I have worked more without secretaries than with them has anything to do with allowing myself to be used and encouraging others to be used. I am simply stating facts....
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
I don't understand your point. Is being expected to take a turn at secretarial duties on your unit equivalent to being treated in an illegal and immoral fashion? Or are you using "nurses as...
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
Right, and they hire cheaper yet still experienced nurses whenever they can. Meanwhile, it makes no sense to the business mind to pay two people (nurses who are already on staff, and unit secretaries...
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
No, it's not because it should be like that. It's because it IS like that and under current economic conditions it's going to stay like that for the duration. Reinforcing that this is how things are...
pennyaline replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing
You do understand that the work you're downplaying as "administrative" (which is erroneous, by the way, as it is supportive and not administrative in any respect) is what we were taught to do in...