PrimaFacie

I strongly agree with JZ_RN. About 5 years ago I took a night RN position in LTC. I had always done ER & OB and was pretty efficient, but in my 'old age' I wanted to try something slower pace. I found very quickly that LTC was not slower pace. ...

Why do they even know she has it? It's not on any public record that you have MI. Get it and don't tell anyone except your attorney, when/if you need to use it.

That too, but other actions which ignore IC measures help spread ick all around. Jewelry, pins, headbands, badge holders, nail polish, fake nails........all these things that some nurses seem to not be able to live without sometimes....all carry ge...

And this attitude is why MRSA is an epidemic.

But aren't you missing the point? How is it displaying your own personality when you wear the logo/art of some company? All you are doing is advertising for that company. There is no individuality displayed in this action....on the contrary, it is a ...

is it really your personality portrayed, when you snap on an item with logo/saying/artwork of some company? rosie the riveter is a cultural icon of the united states, representing the american women who worked in factories during world war ii,[1][2][...

i've seen so many cutsie type things on uniforms that could potentially harbour bacteria and i just don't get why a nurse, who is supposed to be advocating for their patients would choose to endanger patients and themself just to be all b[color=#00ff...

I'm never ok with lying, even if the job market is bad. But the OP said they were making financial cutbacks....so a truthful statement here is: They were making cutbacks and I was the least experienced nurse on the unit.

This is a tough situation. It won't be constructive or helpful to criticize your school or your new grad program for lack of preparing you. From reading this board lately, it seems many new grads are not ready for the real-life world of how hard ...

Esme, whew, thank you, because I was starting to feel like some in this conversation thought I invented the practice, and was being blamed for it. I do have a few last thoughts on this, but I'll keep them to myself and hope that the topic can go b...

A lot of patients/residents are fearful of staff treating them with predijuice if they report anything....so possibly the investigation bombed when they interviewed the resident. Recently, when my mother was in the hospital, I got my own lesson on th...

A deficiency in human decency?? Because someone has different ethics than you about something that does no harm, does not make them a lesser human being. For people who are so up in arms about something that still exists today in medical schools, l...

"On October 25, 2004, the members of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) endorsed the Position Statement on the Practice Doctorate in Nursing. AACN member institutions voted to move the current level of preparation necessary for ad...

Strange....this is a nursing forum, and nurses aren't allowed to diagnose, so as a nurse, why do you need an unofficial/armchair Dx to "know where to start"? Seriously, you are treading in dangerous, unethical and possibly illegal waters trying to ...

What I always found much more scary, on nurses endangering themselves, was how so many disregarded or only halfway used precautions in rooms where pts had MRSA. Then they would inevitably say; "we are all colonized anyhow." Bulls***.

Sorry, didn't mean to put you on the spot, but thanks for the clarification. I'm a little sorry for the new grads of today because they get less experience, yet twice the hassles from admin, and at least 5x the worry of litigation and/or co-workers t...

-Yes, it is very sad that they get very little hands on experience. -I'm not sure why you say what you do about Diploma grads. The only drawback was the additional length of time to complete the program, but the hands on clinical experience was unm...

Thank you......Nursing school and hospitalizations back then was a world apart from how it is now. (except for the stress level) I don't get any exposure to recent grads in my current path, so that is why I was quite shocked to see nurses graduate n...

The food and drink at the nurses station is an OSHA rule. When I went to look it up to cite it for you, I found this funny article by a doctor who was ticked off by it: Why Is Food and Drink Prohibited At The Nurse's Station And Other Hospital Wor...

How horrible for you! I agree that some units are just awful and the manager usually sets the tone for how the rest of the staff treats stuff like that.....but if you are all (or several) in disagreement with how she manages the unit, why not discuss...

Everything ms.chia. said is correct. Let me just add, I see people transferred to our base all the time and it's not a glam assignment, so they are very unhappy (until they get to know us). You will probably have little to no choice where you will b...

It is growing tiresome responding to you because you twist things, ignore the points, neglect to read the links I provided, and generally don't understand or are refusing to understand that something just is as it is (or was). First of all, I didn't ...

that was interesting. again, i have no idea if people admitted to the hospital signed something that would have covered that event. it's likely that they did, but i wasn't aware one way or the other. i'm sorry that this is such an "unsavory" thin...

did i read this article wrong? isn't [color=#38393c]united healthcare workers west (seiu-uhw) the union the nurses belong to? why would they lobby against the law?

Where I work we get 1 hour for lunch and to be honest, I would rather take 15-30 min and go home earlier. I asked if I could do that and was told no.