Health-care system causing rampant burnout among doctors, nursesAs many as half of all clinicians suffer from the problem, creating risks to patients, malpractice claims and absenteeism, study finds.Imagine a health-care system in which doctors and n...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to fxyghi's topic in Pre-Nursing
You may want to talk to a lawyer. I don't know the rules in Maryland, but in Massachusetts the campus police at Harvard, Brandeis, and all of the public colleges are Special State Police. They are sworn officers who go to the State Police Academy, an...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in Nursing
No way should 2 people try to position a 400+ lb. patient, unless they are using a mechanical aide, like a lift. In Nursing Home Hell, I had to try to position a resident who weighed over 500 lbs, with 2 LNAs and a lift. Things did not go well. I wo...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to adventure_rn's topic in Humor
On an episode of "Homicide", the medical examiner says a victim died of a pulmonary embolism. Then one of the officers says "a heart attack!", and the other officer and the medical examiner repeat "a heart attack!"
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Swellz's topic in Headlines
A field with a lot of high-paying jobs when you start a field of study can have none by the time you finish. Ask anyone who graduated into The Great Recession. I graduated from nursing school in 2008, in a city full of hospitals. NO ONE wanted new gr...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Satori77's topic in Nursing
I graduated in 2008, when no one wanted to hire new grads. After a 10-month job search and a 250-mile move, I worked in assisted living for a year, then 6 horrible weeks in Nursing Home Hell, then 7 years in home health, with some flu clinics and a f...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to smiley28's topic in Nursing
I told my manager at 10 weeks, when I had a suspected miscarriage during my shift. I was working home health, and my client couldn't be left alone, so I had to wait 90 minutes for someone to relieve me. I think you should wait to reveal until you nee...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to PhyllisMSN's topic in Nursing
This reminds me of the Ohio nursing home where a meth lab was discovered in a resident's room after a fatal fire. My first reaction was to wonder how bad staffing must have been for no one to notice.
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Swellz's topic in Headlines
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF) was intended to encourage people to fill positions that have a high cost of entry, while making less money than they would in the private sector, in areas that have a hard time attracting those prof...
Not_A_Hat_Person replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing
Many 10 Commandments displays were erected in the 1950s to promote the movie "The Ten Commandments". https://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Ten-Commandments-went-from-film-to-stone-1674007.php
