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I am an RN who returned to Neonatal ICU two years ago after 15 years apart from it and in Home Care. My husband and I are now in Lake Worth, but we are not tied to the West Palm Beach Region and we are looking all over Florida. I guess I'm lucky in t...

I apologize , and tried to edit this response. It is likely more than you wanted. I can not delete it, and so must leave it as I gave it. I recognize that your effort here is to seek nursing models. This diverges somewhat. Your first post indicate...

I was a public health nurse for many years. The worst abuse I received was from an EMT. While many appreciated my thoroughness [ i gave FAR more info than was demanded and far more than they get from family members] this one is the EMT I will remembe...

I was a public health nurse for many years. The worst abuse I received was from an EMT. While many appreciated my thoroughness [ i gave FAR more info than was demanded and far more than they get from family members] this one is the EMT I will remembe...

It may well be that the response that you read was in reply to my "all hospital nurses" post. In it, I asked for a response to a question for a study I am doing, {and i'd very much like your own response to it!-I posted last night} and asked for the ...

It may well be that the response that you read was in reply to my "all hospital nurses" post. In it, I asked for a response to a question for a study I am doing, {and i'd very much like your own response to it!-I posted last night} and asked for the ...

the "House" should be reported for putting other patients at risk. Certainly in California, where patient ratios have recently been mandated, the removal of a staff member for such a request would never have been accomodated, placing the hospital at...

I have thought all day about your dilemna on how to present why it is that nurses in the not for profit sector should not be allowed to unionize, despite all your intuition [and my own] that this endeavor runs against core sentiment and stronger arg...

well, since we are in a crisis nursing shortage part of a longstanding nursing shortage evident since post WW II, it is clear that nurses are not paid in terms of market demand. If market demand were met, there would not be a shortage. As for me, in ...

Absolutely not. Before I anser your question, this paragraph. I do not think the term non profits is accurate in what you describe...its is Not for Profit that is the term that fits here. All hospitals work for profit, in order to remain viable. As y...

Since 1999 the "Gallup Poll for Honesty and Ethics" has included nursing [it previously did not] in the list of professions ranked for perception of those qualities. In 1999 , the first year for nursing's inclusion, nurses ranked top of the list. In ...

After I wrote my post I happened on this site. Go to Salary and Benefits at this page, and click on link...information you requested will be there. The NY Hospitals have "rounds of negotiation" and what happens in other hospitals happens in the other...

In NY city, differentials for cert, BSN, etc have been in the contracts since at least the early 80s. New York has a longer history of contracts than other regions in the US, and each contract, as you know, builds on the one previous. It may be helpf...

Since 1999 the "Gallup Poll for Honesty and Ethics" has included nursing [it previously did not] in the list of professions ranked for perception of those qualities. In 1999 , the first year for nursing's inclusion, nurses ranked top of the list. I...

Never set your own standard for an eval higher than that which will be given you "Safe enough to work, needs work in a few areas". You'll be constantly disappointed. Nursing evals NEVER will say exceptional, but they will never say "Bad" [so why did...

I am not a new nurse, been at it 21 years, and I'm interested in the Miami area principally, but all the way up to West Palm. I came to this post because I leave tonight for Miami, and I wanted some background information. This thread has really di...

I'm not shy about this. When a patient comments on me, tells me how valuable I was to them, or how confident they felt in my hands, sometimes followed by an "i don't know how to thank you " or "I won't forget you", I'm really, really direct. Same t...

Back in the day [a long way back day], working agency was the best way to make money in NYC hospitals and maintain freedom. As it turns out, I am considering again relocating there. I currently work out west in a level III NICU, but a return to NYC i...

Back in the day [a long way back day], working agency was the best way to make money in NYC hospitals and maintain freedom. As it turns out, I am considering again relocating there. I currently work out west in a level III NICU, but a return to NYC i...

Wow. I am often astounded at how common courtesy is absent in the hospital culture and nurses on the short end of the stick from Doctors appearing as consulting MDs. No "hellos" , no "excuse me's" , no introductions, no confirmations from them assu...

KrebsCycle writes: "Positive promotion of men in nursing is absent. The most recent portrayals have been "Oswald" from" The Drew Carey Show", "Jack" from "Will & Grace", and Ben Stiller's character on "Meet the Parents", which have all had nega...

ImaStork wrote "At the rural county hospital where I work we have no housekeeping after midnight on weekends and 230a on weekdays so IT IS OUR JOB to clean delivery rooms and section suite if we want to have a clean area for our next delivery. Leavi...

I don't understand ANY of you who say it is "part of your job to clean up feces and vomit" or that "since noone else did it, I did it, since I'm appararantly expected" Geesh. Do all us other nurses a favor and STOP doing this. This is NOT your job, ...

AS the first poster [much more succinctly] informed, Pay varies greatly by region. A BSN differential has been factored into the NY State unionized hospital contracts since at least 1983 when I first started practicing there. I have not encountered ...

RosiePosie The 4th is past. What happened? Please let me know. I thought of you then, and have thought of you since.