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  1. Bone Graft (+screw), AVN tx - anyone with experience??

    BrokenRNheart replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    I have read that the donor site is very painful. This is for navicular (scaphoid I think). It's such a small bone to fuse, seems that it wouldn't take much from the hip. I never realized that the...

  2. Are 2 year nurses getting phased out?

    BrokenRNheart replied to mack7580's topic in General Nursing

    With a nursing shortage? Now, with the way the people in high places have been acting lately it wouldn't surprise me but it sure is a ridiculous idea considering the facts. This rumor is as old as...

  3. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    BrokenRNheart replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for adding this information

  4. placed on unpaid adminstative leave today

    BrokenRNheart replied to jrbl77's topic in General Nursing

    jrbl, I came to this forum in February totally defeated and fed up with nursing. Management is evil and I think we should be able to do evals on them as well. I am tired of management having full...

  5. Letter to Congress: ANA "Safe Staffing Saves Lives" campaign

    BrokenRNheart replied to marie-francoise's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks for all the additional information here. It helps to post all the options to compare and decide. Even if all of them are voted for just to get the signatures to the

  6. Tattle Tail Traits in Nursing??

    BrokenRNheart posted a topic in General Nursing

    Have other people noticed similar things about "Tattle Tails" and their behavior or traits in this field? Notice TT's tend to add facts (lie) about the story they are telling to management? Notice...

  7. MICHIGAN: Safe Patient Care

    BrokenRNheart posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    for michigan nurses: click on the link at the right: action alert...contact your legislator ready made letter. easy to do and send. http://www.minurses.org/spc/indexnew.shtml "prohibiting mandatory...

  8. SHORT SURVEY ON STAFFING LEVELS: Please take a minute for UAN to collect

    BrokenRNheart posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    what is rn staffing like where you work? as part of the newly launched safe staffing campaign, uan is collecting feedback from staff nurses on what staffing levels are like in their facilities....

  9. Should Nursing Schools Change What They Teach?

    BrokenRNheart posted a topic in General Nursing

    Since nursing has changed so much over the years, does anyone think that nursing schools should add hospitality, customer service and how to micro manage to their education? When we graduated as...

  10. The long term effects of being fired

    BrokenRNheart replied to Poochee's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, especially if they lied or added their own twist to the "issue." My last job just burns me up because of how she described things when basically it was pretty obvious that I was fed up and said...

  11. The more I think about a comment that my coworker made to me, the more ticked I get!!

    BrokenRNheart replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    She was clearly getting at the both of you. She couldn't wait to vent about Amy to you. Amy really irritates her. I guess I would ask her what is wrong with the report that needs changing just to make...

  12. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    BrokenRNheart replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the patients that can reach for their phones and food and then ask you to pull up their blankets. "No, you can do it." I really don't mind doing it, it takes only a second. But, WHY? Why become so...

  13. Medication Errors-Why?

    BrokenRNheart replied to ERGirl83's topic in General Nursing

    ya, that's right. more frickin problems from admin. the med scanning system. but doesn't that take all day to pass meds now? i haven't had the pleasure but had training in it and it seems like a very...

  14. Should Nursing Schools Change What They Teach?

    BrokenRNheart replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    "Why don't they have volunteers, candy stripers" Not enough people that want to work for free - not enough to go around. "families think that if you are not in their room you are goofing off...

  15. Should Nursing Schools Change What They Teach?

    BrokenRNheart replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    :up: I have said at my last 2 jobs that they need to hire a hostess to go around and do just that. See what they can do with customer service and hospitality so we can do nursing. One place I worked...

  16. Medication Errors-Why?

    BrokenRNheart replied to ERGirl83's topic in General Nursing

    "I believe it's listed as a med-error if the med isn't given within the hour-before and hour-after listed on the MAR?" Most of the nurses I worked with have all admitted that they are passing 9 am...

  17. Medication Errors-Why?

    BrokenRNheart replied to ERGirl83's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't had any errors in a long time but I have had close calls. For me it was mostly interruptions. Another thing I noticed is when something went wrong and you couldn't shake it off it...

  18. Fired after re-entry to med surg nursing. Anyone have success re-entering nursing?

    BrokenRNheart replied to malloryjane's topic in General Nursing

    Don't let that knock you down. Being fired or chasing nurses off seems to be the norm. So, go to http://www.skillstat.com/learn.htm and practice those ekg's and try a simple book like Rapid...

  19. Should Nursing Schools Change What They Teach?

    BrokenRNheart replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    :up:

  20. Calling Docs by their first name...

    BrokenRNheart replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    Noticed that as the interns come up you tend to be on a first name basis and when you page them and they call back, they even say they are "first name." As they become residents and attendings I end...

  21. When do you NOT want people to know you're a Nurse

    BrokenRNheart replied to Nurse_Newbie's topic in General Nursing

    Any more, I don't care to admit to it. I have gotten to the point that I don't think hospital nursing is respectable because you have to be extremely submissive and passive to take the BS they dish...

  22. New nurse here...slapped today by patient.

    BrokenRNheart replied to Bonny619's topic in General Nursing

    I have never been assaulted (yet). Just a weird crack-head thing that was more intimidating than harmful and inappropriate. I was wondering when reading this what is actually in place for us as far as...

  23. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    BrokenRNheart replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    Reading this made my stomach quiver again. Any hospital topics make me SICK. It is out of control. There is another topic out there about ativan (anxiety). The nurse that started it and all the...

  24. Dirty needle stick...and I'm 20 weeks pregnant...

    BrokenRNheart replied to tbr96's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with AIDS pt's in early research. Not to down play your fear at all because I would feel the way you do. But just to give you a little ease to your worry. AIDS basically does not live when...

  25. Maxim Health Care Services

    BrokenRNheart replied to uvbnwarned04's topic in General Nursing

    Agency doesn't pay vacation. I know them. If you did not work over 40 hours in ONE facility you short yourself out of overtime. That's a problem with agency. If it is over 40 in one location then...