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  1. Do you think that the nursing job outlook will get better?

    rngolfer53 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    Sure, it'll get better again, and worse again, and better, etc. The trick is figuring out when. That no one knows. As John Maynard Keynes pointed out about markets, they can stay irrational longer...

  2. Medical privacy violator gets 1 year- what do you think?

    rngolfer53 replied to petunia2016's topic in General Nursing

    I see your argument, but I disagree. Yes, drunk driving has been too-leniently treated in many places, and other crimes too harshly treated. But because the benchmark may be wrong in some cases...

  3. Any ideas on how to detach from your work?

    rngolfer53 replied to grbrico's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    From what you wrote, I'm assuming the cause of your stress is not the nature of hospice work-- e.g. the emotional loss of your patients always dying--but instead the way your agency is run. If you...

  4. Know it all Nurses

    rngolfer53 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Believe me, this phenomena is in no way limited to nursing. There are Know-It-All accountants, welders, salesmen, etc. Some figure out that they were more full of it than prescient, but they're the...

  5. Are COWs causing injury?

    rngolfer53 replied to pawsomepooch47's topic in General Nursing

    If you look at cows in a field, they spend most of their time munching grass, so of course our COWS are no different. They just need constant "feeding" thru the charging

  6. Medical privacy violator gets 1 year- what do you think?

    rngolfer53 replied to petunia2016's topic in General Nursing

    It seems this violation was pretty egregious, though the article was rather short on facts. If someone intends to cause harm to a Pt by stealing their medical records, then I think prison time is...

  7. Why Are So Many Students Worried About Expensive Tuition

    rngolfer53 replied to khiasdestiny's topic in General Nursing

    Pray tell, what's positive about wagging your iconic finger at those who don't agree with your, I would say very naive, view of how people should conduct their financial

  8. Am I too shallow to be a nurse?

    rngolfer53 replied to jonsey77's topic in General Nursing

    I'm curious about how many here believe that a nurse should be concerned about the non-nursing aspects of life, such as having and caring for a family, which is what the majority of adults end up...

  9. Name change from DNR to AND

    rngolfer53 replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    i think it is more descriptive to patients and families, and that's a good thing. and yea, i'll still be slipping up and saying dnr in 2018, when i hit official retirement

  10. Am I too shallow to be a nurse?

    rngolfer53 replied to jonsey77's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing likely won't lead to a "Road To Damascus" transformation of your personality, but I don't see anything in particular about what you wrote that indicates you need one to be a good nurse. As...

  11. Vacation - We need to find our own replacements

    rngolfer53 replied to StNeotser's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to make a quick comment on this. A major expansion of physical facilities takes a lot of planning, signing contracts, etc. Most of the time, it can't be easily switched off or postponed...

  12. Vacation - We need to find our own replacements

    rngolfer53 replied to StNeotser's topic in General Nursing

    How about having sufficient supplies and equipment.............that's also vital to Pt care. Is it each individual nurse's responsibility to order supplies and equipment, not from the supply dept. but...

  13. Why Are So Many Students Worried About Expensive Tuition

    rngolfer53 replied to khiasdestiny's topic in General Nursing

    Like any other profession, nursing is also a job used to support the nurse and possibly the nurse's family, so economics matter. If the would-be nurse already has adult obligations such as a family,...

  14. working at same hospital as my mom!!!!!

    rngolfer53 replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    Basically, the bigger the hospital, the smaller the problem would be. Probably someone is going to tease you about it, either maliciously or in a good-natured way. But if your mom is in management,...

  15. Emergency Med Dispatch???

    rngolfer53 replied to SunRose7's topic in General Nursing

    don't forget o'toole's commentary on murphy's law: murphy was an optimist. i've never dispatched, but i've been dispatched as a ff/emt, and i've sat in with dispatchers a couple times as part of...

  16. Nursing Instructor from hell

    rngolfer53 replied to MsLEE2121's topic in General Nursing

    There's a difference between advice/encouragement and making decisions for someone else. I didn't see anything in the OP that indicated that she was making the decision for her friend. You make a good...

  17. Why yes I LOVE being Screwed over! How did you know?!

    rngolfer53 replied to Crux1024's topic in General Nursing

    Wrong to be mad? Not only no, but heII no!:angryfire I would be in the face of my school about this. The tuition you pay covers the costs the school incurs, which includes administrative tasks. If...

  18. What are the boundaries to help a pt that is not assigned to you?

    rngolfer53 replied to Nurse523's topic in General Nursing

    What about the patients assigned to you? There's a legal duty to them, and neglecting them while taking care of a non-emergent need of an unassigned Pt would certainly make some lawyer salivate if...

  19. Dating Coworkers??

    rngolfer53 replied to SweetLemon's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Obviously, a suicide risk with a

  20. Do most jobs send a rejection letter after interview or just ignore you if you

    rngolfer53 replied to rainbowbright2's topic in General Nursing

    Call again. There might have simply been a foul-up that you weren't called, e.g. HR thought the hiring manager would call you who thought HR would call you. It's more likely you were not hired, or...

  21. Decided to go back to the corporate world....

    rngolfer53 replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    :twocents:Is there a free clinic in your area that uses volunteer RNs, etc? If so, you could gain some experience/keep your hand in patient care. If your insurance employer is a bit flexible, you...

  22. Do male nurses recieve as much respect from patients as female ones do?INPUT IS GREAT

    rngolfer53 replied to david18's topic in Men in Nursing

    Agree, and I don't know if it's being male, older (mid-50s) or whatever, but I seem to get fewer problems with rude

  23. "Atypical" Nurse? How discouraging...

    rngolfer53 replied to Darjeeling22's topic in General Nursing

    Good lord, where do you live? Being a guy, I don't get the same reaction for being single, but I don't see the attitude you've encountered where I live. It's a false syllogism that states only those...

  24. Nurses that are late for report

    rngolfer53 replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    And those who are late should get their pay docked. Even so, the organization is still out the extra half time. If the tardiness is at all regular, a nice chat with the late one suggesting a search...

  25. Crappy writing

    rngolfer53 replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    NSA has contacted me about using my cursive as an unbreakable cipher. Only problem is there is no way to decode it. Even by me, more than say, 5 minutes