catlady

catlady BSN, RN

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  1. Replacement-Nurse Company: Undermines Progress

    catlady replied to nyforlove's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    How do you expect your patients to receive care when you're not there? Do you really think the managers can handle the patient load? If it's really about patient care, you'll be grateful someone's...

  2. What nursing shortage????

    catlady replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with you completely regarding nurses who come in with an entitlement mentality. I've heard nurses say that the interviewer should just accept them showing up in scrubs or jeans or unprepared...

  3. Who should I deal with, HR or NM?

    catlady replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    I'm curious (because I want to do the same thing) how you arranged to get an interview without putting in your transfer application

  4. DON said mean things about me...which I overheard.

    catlady replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    First, contact the 401k administrator at whatever company is handling your account. Have them stop the deductions from your pay if they're still going on. You should have some idea of where you want...

  5. OLD RN refreshing and returning!

    catlady replied to ladygoldenchance's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to be a travel nurse, you're going to have to get a year of current hospital experience. That is what I am doing right now, after spending the past six years away from direct patient care,...

  6. Galactorrhea

    catlady replied to EDValerieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is she one of those LaLeche ladies who never stop

  7. administrative costs of health care

    catlady replied to labman's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I'd assume administrative costs would be a lot higher than 25%. Administrative costs are all the paperwork costs that don't go directly toward paying the

  8. Pregnant while in nursing school.

    catlady replied to Shannie05's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how you're going to be able to do that. You'll have the baby right in the middle of your program. The school isn't going to let you miss clinicals or classroom, regardless of the need....

  9. Is it true that Physical Therapist Assistants get paid more than RNs?

    catlady replied to ttran's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, golly, didn't we just have a gignormous thread about

  10. grrrrrrrrrr.........

    catlady replied to luvkitties's topic in General Nursing

    While in an ideal world you start distal and work your way up, it's not always possible or feasible or even desirable. And I might put the tourniquet on first, too, to give the veins a chance to...

  11. I had to take a few days off.....

    catlady replied to HyperRNRachel's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone needs time off, although it would have been more considerate of you to ask for vacation time so they could cover your absence, rather than call out and leave your colleagues

  12. Floor Nurse and Unit Nurse

    catlady replied to beckyvon's topic in General Nursing

    Usually "unit" means ICU and "floor" means med-surg or other

  13. Help!

    catlady replied to ckben's topic in General Nursing

    Being that you're moving from another area, perhaps the recruiters are somewhat leery of bringing you in with no experience in those patient care areas. Would you be willing to offer them six months...

  14. PEG tube leaking

    catlady replied to limabean's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago when I started in LTC, the only kind of G-tubes we saw were Foleys. They were usually 24g or higher, 30 cc balloon Foleys. We changed them once a month and prn, just like urinary Foleys....

  15. PEG tube leaking

    catlady replied to limabean's topic in General Nursing

    Here are some pictures of different type of tubes:

  16. Preceptors-What's the real deal?

    catlady replied to zahryia's topic in General Nursing

    They must figure that since a nursing instructor can have ten students at a time, two orientees must be a piece of cake. Not that I

  17. Air Force and Pediatric Questions

    catlady replied to msbelva's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't a nurse at the time, but I did spend four years as an Air Force officer many years ago. The reality is that once you join up, they own you. It's your responsibility to figure out what to do...

  18. I was suprised...

    catlady replied to jenni82104's topic in General Nursing

    We have plenty of patient contact. You are seeing that nursing is not just a collection of technical skills, because clearly it doesn't take an RN license to transport a patient or do an EKG...

  19. PEG tube leaking

    catlady replied to limabean's topic in General Nursing

    PEG tube placement is a surgical procedure. There's not much a nurse can do with a PEG site other than keep it clean and dry. If it's leaking, the physician should be notified. Since the OP already...

  20. Will LTC as a new grad kill other options???

    catlady replied to 777RNThatsMe's topic in General Nursing

    I personally wouldn't have any qualms about hiring an LTC nurse into the hospital, because I know exactly what they do, but unfortunately, I've known nurses who've had trouble moving in that...

  21. HIPPA Question

    catlady replied to -Emma-'s topic in General Nursing

    I think whoever disciplined that charge nurse was a little harsh. What privacy rights exist for the dead? They're likely to end up in the newspaper anyway. http://www.rtnda.org/foi/hipaafaq.shtml Q....

  22. ways to improve in-patient satisfaction

    catlady replied to evans_c1's topic in General Nursing

    Because, despite my sarcasm in my previous response, not every issue is a nursing issue. I am sick and tired of being blamed for bad food, bad housekeeping, poor ventilation, missing doctors, etc.,...

  23. Co-worker hitting up the Dr.s for meds during shift?

    catlady replied to babiesX2's topic in General Nursing

    Tell me that doctors don't write scripts for their relatives, friends, and each

  24. ways to improve in-patient satisfaction

    catlady replied to evans_c1's topic in General Nursing

    One of the reasons nurses aren't keeping patients informed is that the nurses aren't being informed. The doctors don't always remember to keep us in the loop, so we're scrambling to find some...

  25. Infection Control and Caps

    catlady replied to Fiona59's topic in General Nursing

    Not in my school. I went to nursing school in the mid 80s; we wore caps and white uniforms and so did the staff nurses at the hospital where we trained (except L&D and ICU). My school and the...