I am a retired Travel Nurse (2008) and in my travels I came across a schedule for 12 hour shift nurses. It was brillient. Every nurse knew months in advance what days she/he was to work.
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The big IF. But it doesn't look like that is going to happen any time soon. California is definatly more progressive ... but even that is not going to be good enough in the long run. Too many people...
nursing school taught nurses to use the nursing process to assess and treat people with health issues under md orders. we were taught that patient safety is one of the highest priorities. protect...
As much as a Union could or couldn't help, that is not the answer. Nurses need the legislation. California is trying to get something going, and granted it is possobly because California Nurses...
What people? Who? The nurses at allnurses? The BON? The community where your hospital is located? WHOM are you expecting to stand up and take notice? Hospitals have a Board of Directors. Do nurses...
During a Code all concern and attention is on reviving the patient. I think it makes a difference if the Code is called in the ED, the ICU or the Floor. In many of the hospitals that I have worked...
It has always been my thoughts that we do not have a shortage of nurses. We have a shortage of nurses that are willing to work under the conditions that are being presented. Change the conditions...
A nurse recruiter recently told me that termination under these cercumstances should be referred to as "ethical differences". In other words you and your employer disputed what was "safe nursing...
I disagree. I don't identify with the control issues. I feel we should identify and meet NEEDS. Let me ask, how many times would you have liked to just sit and TALK to your patient because you knew...
True, there are many that NEED a professional to administer medication and deliver treatments. And there is definatly a need to protect one patient from the medication or treatment of another. I agree...