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This is a very scarry, but real scenario for nurses. I am sad and distressed that many are experiencing the same thing. As nurses we need to do something and it has to be more than just complaining. I would be very careful to 'assume' that CA has ...

Hello everyone...you asked for manager response, so goes. I am amazed at the speculations I am reading about. Do you know the specifics as to why someone is discipined (written up, as you word it)? That is and should be confidential information,...

Your experiences are very interesting and I believe it is the culture of an organization that determines whether staff behave "professionally" or not. Just out of curiosity, was the hospital you first described a "Magnet" hospital? Thank you for ...

You mean anyone "not" hear one? Silent birth a.k.a. C-section...

Then you have to make the effort.

Marie, you need to be telling her, not ranting to us. Nursing profession is filled with nurses ranting to their friends, family, co-worker but not the person they have a problem with....so disfunctional.

Well, my guess is that your facility has a problem with infections and/or lack of handwashing. Why else would there be an all out effort to "improve" your customers perceptions? The public is becoming more and more aware of hospital acquired infect...

Couldn't you have asked for an intermittent leave of absence?

My thought on unions is that they are necessary only if you can't talk to your manager/director to work out issues....is that the case?

I believe strongly that nurses who are interested in beginning graduate studies should practice clinically for at least 5 years. This is based on personal experience, observations and discusssion with other graduate students. I think you should pr...

I have been a nursing director since 1993, before that I worked as a DON in a hospital based skilled nursing facility. From 1993-2001 I worked in the south suburbs of Chicago as a 350 bed hospital. Currently I work in Wisconsin at a 100 bed hospital...

ok, so if no one stays to work, who cares for the residents who live there? Or helps to evacuate them...

Was the nurse being serious or joking with/mocking the patient? The intent matters. I agree with the comments about the pain assessment.

Does it take experience or education to be a nursing director in a hospital? Master's preparation, bachelor's degree or doesn't it matter? Nursing focus or MBA? Personnally I have a Master of Nursing with a focus in nursing administration. This e...

Are you a manager, wait...a psych nurse? Why are you so hostile and outright rude. Opinions are opinions, that is all they are. You don't have to agree with me, or analyze me. Just move on!

Actually I was replying to your post about management. Whatever the job is, management or not, there are people to stink at what they do! Unless you have done the job you cannot and will not ever know what it is like. I use the shared governance m...

It is dangerous to make generalizations. I can do the same for CNS. But then that wouldn't be fair because I don't know you.

Over $20/hr is good for RN, but it does depend where you are located, metropolitan, rural, hospital, nursing home. How many other profession begin at that salary? Especially when you can make that salary after only 2 yrs of schooling. Most profess...

As to the message below, I apologize that a member took my general comment personally. I did not intend to look like I was eating my young as suggested by bea___. To quote that age old saying "walk a mile in my shoes" goes a long way. One cannot j...

Someone who doesn't have a degree (no matter what it is in, nursing or otherwise) cannot know the difference between having that degree and not having that degree...

I can't help but respond to some of the bitter messages...no matter how you look at it, how you slice it, what the arguements are, BSN prepared nurses are "PREPARED" differently than Associate degree nurses. Once the BSN prepared nurses become comfo...

I look for BSN but most often hire ADN because of the sheer numbers of 2 yr nurses in our areas. My first nursing program was 2 yr, their preparation is so much different than 4 yr RN. thanks