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  1. Hospital figures break time out of pay?

    bollweevil replied to ok2bme's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I just looked at the site you link to above. It is most interesting. It is also so very sad that anyone could possibly think it is morally right or even good business sense for those motivated by $$...

  2. Hospital figures break time out of pay?

    bollweevil replied to ok2bme's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The trouble is that the nurse has to have the courage to speak up and fill out the time correction slip or otherwise make it known that she wishes to not be workiing for free for 30 minutes every day....

  3. Was I in the wrong here?

    bollweevil replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

    Of course, these days it's hard to know who's a nurse and who isn't.

  4. Was I in the wrong here?

    bollweevil replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

    62 can feel way too low if someone is used to higher sugars. I know of some patients who are used to being over 200 and they feel low (hungry, shaky, dizzy, vision changes, hard to focus/concentrate)...

  5. Subordinates

    bollweevil posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is in reference to a thread called "Re: Nurses - Leading your subordinates" I just wanted to discuss the idea expressed there by several members that we should not view aides as our subordinates....

  6. PLs Help :( Im a student last question 4 oral presentation and im lost

    bollweevil replied to rachiee's topic in Psychiatric

    Sorry I didn't see this sooner. Not sure I have answers but how did it go? I really did not understand your question, I

  7. Subordinates

    bollweevil replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you saying that the nurse is not in charge. I hear you saying that the nurse has no authority to tell you that priorities have changed or that the plan has changed and you are needed to stop...

  8. HELP!!!! I need your response today!!!!

    bollweevil replied to chocolate123's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I believe it's abandonment after you have accepted the assignment. To me, this means that, even if you are getting report and you are told something in report that you cannot accept, you may still...

  9. Tell me if this would be legal

    bollweevil replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Also, why is it putting her initials anywhere? Why isn't the nurse just signing her own name at the bottom of the MAR and initialing q dose she really gives, the way we have always done? What if she...

  10. I feel so guilty about Graduating!

    bollweevil replied to PinkFuzz's topic in General Nursing

    Or, instead of confessing, just grab your head or abdomen and say, "Ooh, I need to step out for a moment. I'll be right back." No lie, just physically expressing what you are actually

  11. I feel so guilty about Graduating!

    bollweevil replied to PinkFuzz's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes not even excellence. I have learned that sometimes all we can do is "good

  12. What a sleazy doctor!

    bollweevil replied to traumahawk99's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think it's fraud. He went to see the patient. He did some sort of exam or made some decsion. He wrote an order. If the order was inappropriate in the opinion of the OP, that does not...

  13. Tips on charting for CNA's

    bollweevil replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    OMG!! What ever did she mean that she doesn't know how to be a floor

  14. What a sleazy doctor!

    bollweevil replied to traumahawk99's topic in General Nursing

    You can't fight every battle. You made him aware, I assume you charted med not given and why or otherwise dealt legallly with this order, and what else can you do? The woman will die soon and not...

  15. am I going to be in trouble?

    bollweevil replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    If she keeps such a record, she should never, ever tell anyone she does so, as it could be subpoenaed as

  16. am I going to be in trouble?

    bollweevil replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    you can and should chart a late entry. do it exactly per your facility's policy and procedure manual. boards don't discipline licensees for just anything. you have to have done something wrong,...

  17. am I going to be in trouble?

    bollweevil replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    This happened to me once, that is, a phone call from an investigator who was with the state board. My boss told me to talk to her, so I did. I had no information anyway, only stuff I'd heard...

  18. I feel so guilty about Graduating!

    bollweevil replied to PinkFuzz's topic in General Nursing

    I think you're seriously overreacting. As was Jessica's instructor. No one was harmed in either case and there really are bigger issues in Nursing. What I am wondering about you is how you will...

  19. Tell me if this would be legal

    bollweevil replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds so utterly ridiculous, all of it. It is a good argument for doing things by hand, the old fashioned way. I can't possibly answer your question but my first impression is that it sounds...

  20. Tips on charting for CNA's

    bollweevil replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    Just curious - are you charting during the shift? Most nurses don't get to sit down and chart until they're on a euphemistically-named "break" or until the next shift has relieved them. If you are...

  21. HELP!!!! I need your response today!!!!

    bollweevil replied to chocolate123's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You should tell your boss what you told us and see what she responds. Keep safe, is the best advice. Personally, I think it seems pretty obvious that you are getting shafted. But, you should try to...

  22. Subordinates

    bollweevil replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    Doctors bring business to the hospital. Hospitals, including smart Nurse Managers, bend over backwards to make doctors happy. They provide great parking spaces for them while nurses have to park far...

  23. Subordinates

    bollweevil replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    I also have worked with nurses who picked and chose which orders to follow and which not to. Part of it had to do with surgeons always being scrubbed and orders being needed right away. They'd sort...

  24. Subordinates

    bollweevil replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting quote from the gymnast - about labels not being for people. I wonder what she was thinking, why she said

  25. If you weren't a nurse what other job would you like to do?

    bollweevil replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    Lawyer, librarian, horticulturist/landscaper, owner of a number of businesses and have managers and employees work them for me, beach bum, wilderness guide, surfer, designer of a successful something...