oldandintheway

I am not nor ever have been a union member in healthcare, but have been a union member and on the negotiation team for other unions. I feel this is a VERY bad idea, one of the reasons for the existence of unions is to represent all of its members fai...

Clients, Patients, ehhh.....they are patients to me. But what amuses me is "guest services" if they are truly guests why do we bill them for services? I don't charge guests in my home!

" Last time I checked, there is a certain "Look" that seems to be prevalent also. " I notice that there appears to be a similarity amongst many of the new hires I see. A manageable compliancy taking precedence over out of the box imaginative thinker...

30k annual pay cut initially, second, actually third career. Money ain't everything, in the grand scheme of things ain't that big of a thing. California nurse, so I'm not destitute now but I also have the cushion of a fully vested retirement as a f...

I know that no one likes to hear old people take about "well back in my days" but when I returned to school in 2006 I was surprised that some of my school mates expected 90% to be an A in college. I also believe that grades are so instructor and sch...

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California has different boards of nursing for LVN and RNs; the LVN board is at Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians RN is at Board of Registered Nursing

I feel smoking weed is the most innocuous intoxicants to indulge in; however as nurses we are paid a premium for our good judgement. By smoking marijuana and jeopardizing our careers that good judgement becomes questioned. Marijuana is still classi...

After 14 pages and reading some of these words out loud I'll never be able to pronounce anything correctly.

I get amused by a lot of the anti-Union rants I hear. In a previous career one of the essential functions of a union I belonged to was maintaining an extremely high level of professional competence. If a member was unable to perform at a high level t...

What kind of nursing do you practice? Except for advanced practice nurses we generally assess but not necessarily diagnose and are not required to evaluate all the subtleties a specialist would need to know. Remember physicians are extremely quick to...

Yeah, there is usually a big disconnect between staffing and HR. Also a subtle yet important distinction between staffing and scheduling. Quite often schedulers have no clinical background and that subtlety goes right by them. I think the worst metho...

California has new sick leave laws that came into effect last June. Employers cannot ask why you are using sick leave. I feel sick leave should depend on your ability to effectively do your job, not on degree of sniffles. The patient still comes fir...

Actually physicians usurped the title from PhDs, and as I mentioned earlier most physicians I have known couldn't stand up to the academic rigor of doctoral programs. In some places surgeons are still referred to as Mister as an anachronism.

If this is a condition of employment there is pretty much no recourse on your part. Used to be easy when all of these requirements were due on the anniversary of hire date, but with the date creep of "within 30 days of deadline" after a few years of ...

Another advantage of matriculating at Austin Peay University is you can support your school with one of the greatest cheers in college sports: LET'S GO PEAY!!!! Austin Peay is pronounced P as in pea.

Which would explain my being beat into a bloody pulp in the parking lot.

Going from 12's to 8's can be a 10% pay raise. 40 vs 36 hours per week also a facility can staff with fewer employees by using a 5 X 8hrs schedule. Think in terms of FTEs, one week equals 168 hrs, divide that by 40, and now try 168/36, an employer ca...

Oh no, you're not gonna egg me on to violate the TOS that easy. Use your imagination, then go one step beyond.

In the ER all females 13 to 65 are pregnant until shown otherwise, I can't name all the times I was given TMI on birth control practices without asking. Some could be the titles of movies.

One year I got Flag Day and Arbor Day off, worked all the others.

I concede all of your points, I intentionally left out fight as the third point in the rush,hide, fight scenario. As an experienced infantryman in a last resort situation I would respect your judgement; however I would posit a concealed pistol was no...

Oh hell, I can't help myself from getting in on this. I assume most here are nurses; think for a moment upon the rule of nines for body surface, now consider you only have less than half the head in sight at any given time. Explain your Annie Oakley ...

Isingthebodyelectric, there is a basic fallacy in your example. You are comparing the most basic of nursing skills to more advanced examples of other professions. After 3-4 weeks of training one could type up the basic outline of a simple will, afte...

One of the most important attributes of being a successful nurse is good judgement. If someone chooses to indulge in something, legal or not, that would jeopardize their career I think it would be appropriate to question their judgement. I really bel...