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  1. A song that fits this profession

    pennyaline replied to mandykal's topic in General Nursing

    LOVE your pumpkin!! Yes, the OP shared an absolutely lovely song, but enough with the virtue script already. Let's find a tune that expresses how smart, educated, skilled and knowledgeable we are...

  2. I hope that they get the same compassion some day

    pennyaline replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like the decision to admit her to Hospice was made after the surgery, once the toes had been amputated. It was possible that they couldn't get all of the infection and opted to not take...

  3. Unemployed New Grad

    pennyaline replied to mitchell79's topic in General Nursing

    In my area, one of the local giant health care corporations has just finished building another brand spanking new hospital facility. It is a huge campus. The hospital itself has five floors. Several...

  4. How do you feel about this?

    pennyaline replied to 1TachyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but watching those mindlessly smiling nurses baking, bagging and delivering cookies to the two featured obviously overweight patients (what a BAD call that was!), made me want to barf....

  5. How do you feel about this?

    pennyaline replied to 1TachyRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is revolting. I am absolutely disgusted. We are unappreciated as it is, expected to function according to virtue script, doing the jobs of other departments as well as our own, doing dangerously...

  6. RN Nurse VS Pharmacist

    pennyaline replied to thongvo89's topic in General Nursing

  7. Don't know what to do. I just CAN'T. TAKE. THIS. ANYMORE...........

    pennyaline replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

  8. Don't know what to do. I just CAN'T. TAKE. THIS. ANYMORE...........

    pennyaline replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    New grads and old pros are going through this right along with you, hun. Nurses with years of experience and seniority in their workplaces who thought they had job security are on unemployment or are...

  9. Not properly trained for ER?????

    pennyaline replied to bassadict69's topic in Emergency

    I don't know if "everyone here" agrees with that, but I do. There are very few new grads who are anywhere near ready for that level of hurly-burly. You've had more exposure to ER procedure than...

  10. Should Alzheimers Clients have the right to REFUSE medication ?

    pennyaline replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Care conferences, IDT meetings and care plans are all about these problems. The individual patient's behaviors should be documented thoroughly, the appropriate referrals made for assessments, and...

  11. I don't care anymore, I'm never saying another thing...

    pennyaline replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Are you aware that many of today's nursing managers may have been bedside nurses for only a very short time if at all (especially prevalent in long term care), or may have the opinion that bedside...

  12. Confused??

    pennyaline replied to silverapple14's topic in General Nursing

    Aargh!! The preposterousness of the Nursing

  13. My Father Died Today

    pennyaline replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    My sympathies to you and your family for the loss of your dad. It's hard, hard, hard to lose them. It's been almost four months since my own mother died unexpectedly, and we were able to all come...

  14. How to quit an agency?

    pennyaline replied to Gr8Dane's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to quit the agency, give them two weeks notice then work your notice out. If you want to be assigned to someplace other than the prison, tell them the things about the assignment that...

  15. Ever had a premonition?

    pennyaline replied to 86toronado's topic in General Nursing

    I dreamed that my father and I were in the kitchen and that he was explaining to me that we just go on, and that everything will be all right. But my father had died almost twenty one years earlier....

  16. House Dr. doesn't allow hospice in facility

    pennyaline replied to KY RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It is always appropriate to bring up Hospice with family members anytime there is end stage disease. You may contact the patient's responsible party and, without laying accusations, explain to them...

  17. Just lost my first nursing job... Do I have to mention it on my resume?

    pennyaline replied to klmn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It's curious that they asked you to resign. If you were within a formal orientation period, they should have been able to terminate you for any or no reason. In any event, don't sweat it. You were a...

  18. Patient's family that lies and blames everything on staff....

    pennyaline replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    Bravo for your director, who recognized the problem for what it was. I hope your hospital had the guts to let the family take the patient to another

  19. Military hiring nurses as civilian employees

    pennyaline posted a topic in General Nursing

    An Air Force base here is advertising for RNs to work as civilian employees in their on-base health care facility. I know that the military has always had a number of civilians working in support...

  20. No more mandatory overtime.....

    pennyaline replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    Okay. I'm an RN in LTC, and I've never heard the term "doing a med cart." We call it... passing meds. I know what a med pass is and how it's done. Every nurse does it, and I've never known it any...

  21. No more mandatory overtime.....

    pennyaline replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, it's worse than that. Don't let that get around, okay, because the only one who'll be in trouble for it is you. If your shift is over and they can't mandate that you stay, go home and take care...

  22. "If you sit down and chart for more than 15 minutes, that's considered a break"

    pennyaline replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Most states do not guarantee 15 minute breaks. Still and all, if an employee is "on break" it can be construed that the employee is not working. If the employee has been charting during an interval...

  23. Curious: Any increase in cardiac related ER visits since MJ died?

    pennyaline replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    It was very hard to tell that from your post :wink2: No throat jumping was done. Sorry you took it that way,

  24. "If you sit down and chart for more than 15 minutes, that's considered a break"

    pennyaline replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Better than that. If they put it in writing, take the written policy change to the Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division. The DOL frowns severely upon employers who tell employees to do work...

  25. LATERAL Violence. How Nurses treat Nurses!

    pennyaline replied to Medic/Nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Correct. Other posters in this thread have commented that lateral (and vertical) violence has historically been used to the benefit of some staff and administrators for a very long time. In training,...