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  1. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Lee1 wrote "What is the solution??? Nurses should become independent practioners in a much broader sense, more nurses should be on hospital boards, CEOs of hospitals, etc. (Nurses cannot even charge...

  2. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Suzanne, I am really interested in your experience in Thailand.What a great experience you must be having. How did you get there? Its supposed to ba a truly lovely country with beautiful people...

  3. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Did I miss something? Noone implied all foreign nurses come from poor countries. And Who said free will should not be excercised? What has been said, certainly I have said it, is that the nations...

  4. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry Liz, that I thought differently. Certainly the concept of free will freely exercised is important to the entire discussion, and the comment important, while my response reflected lack of...

  5. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Several of the responses to the topic and my comments on my referred to pages seem to imply some sort of hostility by me towards the foreign nurse. "That's why they call it a free country" was one...

  6. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    suzanne4 posted " Why is there such a negativity developing about bringing in foreign nurses?..If you look at it, foreign nurses do not change your salary, or working conditions. They can actually...

  7. disciplinary nightmare

    pieWACKet replied to rosieposie's topic in General Nursing

    Well, Rosie. Your post, initiating this thread, mentioned that you felt terrible, and that you are scared of losing your license. I think your original post asked if anyone knew what you could...

  8. Geriatrics and constipation

    pieWACKet replied to dragonfly954's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in home care for 15 years [good for you still doing it despite the misery of paperwork that forced me leave a job I once loved] in Manhattan, and most of my patients were elderly. I can't...

  9. merit wage increases...inquiry

    pieWACKet replied to blinks's topic in General Nursing

    You write "i have requested merit increase in wages for the last 2 years and have been shuttled back and forth betw the DON and Administrator who have played this good cop-bad cop game with me....

  10. disciplinary nightmare

    pieWACKet replied to rosieposie's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry so long, but I have some points I think will help you listed at the bottom of this treatise. You know, I can kind of understand what happened to you as you describe it. In nursing school, yes...

  11. want your opinion

    pieWACKet replied to weezieRN's topic in General Nursing

    webbiedebbie, you are referring to what i wrote when you say "Why should management be threatened when we suggest change". Management DOES need to hear our suggestion, and we all need to make them. I...

  12. want your opinion

    pieWACKet replied to weezieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Weezie wrote "i do have some ideas considering they still have the seperate labor rooms and a seperate delivery rooms, etc, i would like to be apart of trying to recruit midwives and ob doc that are...

  13. Questions For a Few Nurses

    pieWACKet replied to ashnate02's topic in General Nursing

    1) Is the nursing salary pretty good? No. It is insufficient to meet market demand as expressed in a longstanding nursing shortage evident since the post WW II era identifiable by occasional periods...

  14. want your opinion

    pieWACKet replied to weezieRN's topic in General Nursing

    You say: "How can I let them see my side for someone who is ready willing and able to do the job with greatenthusiasm for the profession I feel i would be a great assest to their floor and have a lot...

  15. Pharmaceutical Companies are taking YOUR money!!

    pieWACKet replied to Dave ARNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This talk of drug reps and the insinuation of need of market through our practice is certainly worthwhile, but a larger view of the sinister role of the pharmaceutical corporations to the greater...

  16. pay scale- why so hush hush??

    pieWACKet replied to lanilpn's topic in General Nursing

    caroladybelle said "However, the two unionized hospitals that I have worked had possibly the most lazy, donothing staffers among the unionized staff (the RNs were not union). Many of these people I...

  17. Is the Nursing Shortage Ending?

    pieWACKet replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I suspect, after reading your post, and the abstract of the article [the full article being unavailable without subscription] , that you know the answer to this question.I will ,however, take the...

  18. pay scale- why so hush hush??

    pieWACKet replied to lanilpn's topic in General Nursing

    cannoli said it best "They don't want it discussed because they are paying different people different amounts,and don't want it known, because it stinks like rotten fish." That is, UNLESS you work in...

  19. Teaching Nursing as a Career

    pieWACKet replied to Tamera's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is a greatly misguided reality of nursing academia that teaching nurses to prospective nurses is confined to those with a masters degree. I also believe that it harkens back to poor nursing...

  20. Survey: Do you think hospitals should require a uniform code for nurses?

    pieWACKet replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    When I started nursing in the 80s, we all wore white, a few wore a cap, the [now archaic] reminder of another period in nursing dress. Now, at the hospital where I work, we can wear the color scrubs...

  21. Nurses are not Doctors

    pieWACKet replied to Plato's topic in General Nursing

    "So, naturally I have problems with the nurse practioner being considered an 'advance practice nurse.' In reality they are a doctor's assistant. Our professionalism does not come by being more like a...

  22. Is a pacifier a chargeable item in your facility?

    pieWACKet replied to layna's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our pacifiers are chargeable, no matter the type. We don't use the nipples sent along with the forumula as pacifiers....those are not charged but are only for forula or Expressed milk ingestion. We...