JKL33

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    IV Push Med Question

    JKL33 replied to guest1122560's topic in General Students

    I do agree with their concern about syringes being unlabeled/not labeled properly. Even in the ED there's almost never a need to go so fast that there isn't time to throw some kind of label onto a...
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    IV Push Med Question

    JKL33 replied to guest1122560's topic in General Students

    I think you're right. Trying to recall...I'm about 99.99% sure I have never failed to relabel a syringe. Even the thought of it makes me uncomfortable. Actually I used to tape the empty vial to...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    What acceptance of this enables is the practice of huge corporations running their healthcare business by churning nurses. They mitigate the costs of doing so by getting new grads to reduce the costs...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    In the interest of fairness we must acknowledge that the very basic costs are way more than that. You have to include ALL of your own wages during that time period, as you are not replacing a...
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    JKL33 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    I did at first think you were commenting as if you felt that you should be told that you WILL administer general anesthesia as long as the patient was willing to accept the risks of it, because that...
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    Coworkers Opening Patient Windows During Inclement Weather

    JKL33 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    How are the souls supposed to escape if no one opens the
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    JKL33 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    That was not my intent. I thought it was more an interesting point about what a 'yes' vote might represent. In your first post you launched quite a mini-diatribe about people losing their licenses...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    I do, too. *** Otherwise, there are plenty of experienced people who would want to continue to practice nursing in a hospital, given hospitals' historic (but no longer deserved) reputation...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    I also disagree with this. I really do hope you are not trying to be ridiculous with me. The experience, in this case, is the result of being on the inside. Of already having the job. Of not...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    I will spell it out. These new grads are given useless advice such as to observe the place while they're there at the interview, "talk to people" and spend a day shadowing. All three of these are...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it doesn't seem like these two statements are somewhat in conflict, but to me they are. Unless you were referring to naïveté more as a personal defect rather than largely a matter of...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    There is no sign-on bonus money involved. My understanding is that the basic contract is that if you accept a new grad "residency" job offer (aka regular job with a regular orientation), you MUST...
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    JKL33 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I do think so. Or perhaps what I am arguing is the other side of it--I disagree that in any/every instance someone should be able to tell you what you WILL do with your license, and you must or...
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    JKL33 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. I read that. I voted yes, though I myself have no problems giving it. When I read your initial response it seemed like you were concerned about all the people who could lose their license...
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    Colleague asked me for a Tylenol from my med cart. What to do?

    JKL33 replied to FromMNtoCA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes! Far more economically-sound in more ways than one--since, generally, treating people like fellow human beings instead of enemies is a good way to support productivity. Things used to be as...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    Good lourd. If you want people to work for you, you have to get them to agree to come work for you, you have to pay them, and you have to somehow keep them or else deal with the horrible injustice of...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    Probably blocked but I'll write it anyway: That is THE THING that makes this topic a topic at all. Stop being so sure that everyone but yourself is some kind of irresponsible bandit that...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    No, I wouldn't feel the same. I would say in that instance there was an underhandedness on the part of the applicant/employee that was felt, pre-agreement, to be acceptable to that individual. I don't...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    This is just...?? We can do better than this. So far we have heard the tired, old, usual: - The Greedy New Grad rebuttal (several comments made here-some rather rude right off the...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    Now that I agree with! ? There is still the problem of them having few options even if they do recognize that signing the contract is committing to something that might not work out. Some of the...
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    IV Push Med Question

    JKL33 replied to guest1122560's topic in General Students

    The ISMP has condemned the practice of diluting medications in a saline flush syringe, for various reasons. You can read about it here and other places. Among the reasons are safety concerns...
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    Colleague asked me for a Tylenol from my med cart. What to do?

    JKL33 replied to FromMNtoCA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Understand that the wonderful culture of nursing in the U.S. has now allowed employers to characterize your nabbing of paracetamol as not just petty theft but also DIVERSION. This thread has...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    Again. The product/goods received as part of this contract are whatever the employer says they are. There is no way for a new grad to understand that's what this contract means. Even if a lawyer makes...
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    JKL33 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    The question did not ask if responders would refuse to give the
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    JKL33 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    There's more than one reason they do it. But my point is that they are very loud and whiny about justifying their contracts by pointing out how expensive it is to hire new grads. Just like the...