TreceRN

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1. Chronic Tardiness

   TreceRN replied to Tweety's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   It doesn't seem to be a problem in my hospital. Our facility DOES discipline chronic tardiness. We keep track of those that come in late on our database, but the biggest problem with that is that the...

2. Are there any good hospitals to work at?

   TreceRN replied to AMV's topic in General Nursing

   It's called St. John Medical Center in Longview Washington. It's a non-for-profit, Catholic affiliated, community hospital that is part of a larger, 5-hospital system known as PeaceHealth. I'd say the...

3. Are there any good hospitals to work at?

   TreceRN replied to AMV's topic in General Nursing

   'dreamon' had a wonderful list for you. The hospital I work at is great. We have good wages with step-increases and great bennies. Starting wage for a new grad is 20.04 and top wage is 30.84 plus...

4. Assingment under protest

   TreceRN replied to l.rae's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Don't hate me because I'm "management", but I've read these posts with great interest and would like to present the other side of this dilema. I manage a 33 bed telemetry unit in a small, 150 bed...

5. How long does report take?

   TreceRN replied to RNnites's topic in General Nursing

   Our 33 bed cardiology unit switched from a taped report (which took 1/2 hour to 45 minutes) to "walking rounds" over a year ago and we've cut our report time down to 20 minutes max. Our process is the...