kemper1974

I don't have to apply for disability yet (I have RA and Fibro) but have gone thru the process with my husband. The most important thing is to document everything! My sister in law worked for SSDI as an investigator, and she said that if there is a po...

If you clocked out and stayed over to chart on a patient, would that not be a HIPPA violation, since legally you are not a paid employee with a right to access a medical document at that time?

we have 100-120 deliveries a month the nursery nurse is present at all deliveries, anlong with Respiratory for meconium, decels, preemies and C/sections. Peds will come in from home for

Well, our unit has thrown ortho/neuro elective suregerues in to our pp/gyne mix....

I spent 8 years working ortho/neuro before I switched to OB in 1985. I learned so much on the ortho unit, but was starting to need a change. I have worked L&D, mother baby, management and NICU. I love L&D, but after 31 years in nursing, the b...

When this mix was initiated, several hospital employees from other units were worried about the unit having male patients on the floor, even tho they were on the other hallway. Personally, I don't think a male THR/THK is going to jump out of bed to b...

Does anyone work on a unit where there are 2 polarly opposite patient populations? I work on a 24 bed OB unit as a primary nursery nurse. We have to capability to have 3 extended transition/special care nursery beds. Everyone works 2 units. Nursery n...

28 miles each way, and I pass 4 other hospitals to get there!

******* My husaband got Guillane Barre after surgery last year. He is no longer independent after 16 weeks in the icu and rehab. I am currently starting my second round of chemo (rituxan) I got my dose Wednesday. I can get the regular flu shot 4 week...

Isn't it funny how when you are hired in to the job FULLTIME nobody ever tells you that you can be put on call with no pay, flexed or cancelled and you must use your PTO to make up the difference? This week we got an email from our manager stating we...

1) Hellllllooooo....let me see you do my job, because you are so far removed from reality you have no clue 2)You really believe that staffing has nothing to do with acuity or patient satisfaction?

When our unit used to be a great place to work (5 years ago) we had all sorts of bulletin boards. We had a monthly theme...Mother's day was pix of us and our own babies, HS graduation, nursing school graduation, our baby picture, June Brides, Hallowe...

The hospital system I used to work at closed our unit to make way for more med-surg beds to accomodate our growing ER. We were all able to transfer to another hospital in the system, after we re-interviewed at the new place for the same positions we ...

I had been an RN for 5 years in charge of an Ortho/Neuro unit. One night the supervisor begged me to come in extra and be in charge on the medical unit, whcih I had done before. This particular night I got report from the day nurse. There was one pat...

I have had RA since 2001. I have been on MTX since then, and have been on and failed humira,remicade, orencia and am currently on enbrel, which by itself helps a bit. I started on a clinical trial in Feb that combines the enbrel with rituxan, so far ...

We had a unit secretary who passed away rather suddenly, and she visits from time to time. She had a very distinct perfume (old lady fragrence) and we still smell it all over the unit. She has been gone for 6 yrs now, and it still happens....we just ...

Nurses are not laid off, but overtime is forbidden,extra shift bonus is gone, our on call pay was done away with (now we have flex hours where we are not needed, and they have to re-evaluate staffing every couple of hours. You could be scheduled 7p-7...

We have our meetings at 1730...right in the middle of dinner for those working or home. What irritates me is that I have to drive in an hour each way for them to read stuff off a paper. This could be accomplished in an email. Our staff meetings are ...

I just hate that we had to use PTO hours when we were called off. We finally persuaded HR to let us choose if we want to use PTO or not get paid. The difference for me between 60 hours and 72 is only about $70, so I am hanging on to my pto; I really ...

Hire Managers that have actually worked bedside in the area they manage within the past 2 years, Managers that come from other areas or non clinical jobs have no idea what we do on a day to day basis, and they tend to pile on more impossible tasks/e...

Florida....no overtime,low census days, on call instead of work, hiring freeze.If we do work someone is usually floated (I am on OB, most of us have not worked anywhere else for years, so we really feel lost) Staffing is cut so tight that it sometim...

Hi...I am starting Rituxin for my rheumatoid arthritis this week.....I am also on Enbrel and Methotrexate. My hair thinned a little when I started the MTX, but the folic acid I take seems to have helped. I work in nursery, so chemo is way out of my...

Brings back memories..in the 80's we would give most of our patients 100mg of seconal or nembutal and 1/4grain of morphine. When they woke up they either were 8-9 cm and then delivered, or if no change went home in the am. (we did not do epidurals or...

Oh yes.....we have little notebooks we have to take room to room. (we are just starting since Jan. 1st) Not only is the notebook difficult to see, especially with bifocals, i have difficulty with the thumb pad. I have bought my own optical mouse, whi...

Have to agree with you! The ORMC sytem has the lowest nursing morale I have ever seen, and safe staffing is sacrificed. Then when the unit doesn't get good surverys back ftom the patients, it get filtered down to the understaffed nurses.Sad, because...