CathyLew

CathyLew

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  1. Me thinks me has been blacklisted....

    CathyLew posted a topic in General Nursing

    wow, who would have thought after 20 years in nursing I would be without a job. I was 18+ years in a nursing Union, and did the one thing I said I would never do...... got lured out of the union into...

  2. Me thinks me has been blacklisted....

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    wow, Kudos to all. This has been real helpful. I was feeling so down, and like it was only me. I got some good tips, and contacted the Equal Employment people. I am going forward with a lawsuit...

  3. Me thinks me has been blacklisted....

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, I lost union protection when I went management. One thing we got in our union contract was you keep your seniority unless you are in management longer than in the union. So I would have had to...

  4. Me thinks me has been blacklisted....

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    Thats exactly what I think they are doing... I would have gone back to my job at the top of the ladder. They could hire a new grad for a lot

  5. Me thinks me has been blacklisted....

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    well, for two reasons. One, I had been out of the union for just over a year---so they didn't really have to help me, even though I held 18 years of union senority for bidding a job. Second, the...

  6. Nurses who are also Veterinary Techs

    CathyLew replied to Guest717236's topic in General Nursing

    I used to be a vet tech-- worked in a large vivarium lab. Pay was crappy, but loved the

  7. Concerned...allnurses store product

    CathyLew replied to AwayWeGo's topic in General Nursing

    Those kind of things are gag gifts--for adults. And like any gag gift would not be left where a child could find it. One of my dog sites sells something called ***** pills and Stud Drops... in...

  8. Interview outfit--is this ok?

    CathyLew replied to SydneyJo1's topic in General Nursing

    It depends if you are a guy or a girl. If you are a girl, the outfit sounds ok. If you are a guy.... I wouldn't do a pencil

  9. Just quit my job

    CathyLew posted a topic in General Nursing

    or I should say resigned in my current position as Director of Nursing Informatics, and put in a bid on a Med Surg floor job.... been at this hospital 20 years. Just went through a conversion from...

  10. Just quit my job

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    yep, you are right. it is good to vent, but not too

  11. Just quit my job

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    I was abused...and did not know how to let HR know that. It was not physical abuse, with bruises ....it was not sexual abuse. But ---- at ------ Hospital was abusing me mentally. I was psycologically...

  12. Just quit my job

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to both of you.. Man.... this was just awful. I have never quit a job. Especially one that I love. In the meeting it turned into a he-said-she said. I felt like I was back on the...

  13. Vaginal Exams

    CathyLew replied to Despareux's topic in General Nursing

    as a student, I also learned, and have never done one..... since I stayed as far away from L&D as possible! but that is part of the assessment the L&D nurses do at our facility. there are...

  14. Skin Prep- waste of time?

    CathyLew replied to anonymous1919's topic in General Nursing

    or....it sounds like a policy or protocol that someone sitting behind a desk made

  15. Skin Prep- waste of time?

    CathyLew replied to anonymous1919's topic in General Nursing

    are these diabetic patients? do you have some policy on foot care for diabetic patients where you work? that is the only thing I can think of.... we used to have to do a daily foot check on all...

  16. What administrative dept are you under?

    CathyLew posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    Are most Nursing Informatics nurses under IT? or under Nursing? Who does your

  17. What administrative dept are you under?

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Nope, right now we don't have any IT on call schedule.....so since my phone number is posted in all the nursing areas, I get called all the time for hardware issues. Bar code scanners not scanning,...

  18. What administrative dept are you under?

    CathyLew replied to CathyLew's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I started out under the CFO, since we didn't have a CIO....but now that we have a CIO, he is more under the impression that I am really IT.... like should take call to fix things...swap out the server...

  19. why nurses cannot have a nail polish..?

    CathyLew replied to ar.en.greta's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our hospital only banns fake nails, because of the risk of carrying bacteria. I think even JCAHO mentions it in one of their

  20. CALL BELLS

    CathyLew replied to GRUNGE's topic in General Nursing

    I had to throw out one alarm clock that sounded too much like a bed alarm going off. I wanted to wake up, but not jump up and fall out of bed

  21. We only have one pulse oximeter for the facility, but we have flat-screen TVs!

    CathyLew replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree with you, but I see this type of talk at our hospital all the time, when the staff does not know the facts. Our staff **** and moan about the new furniture in the lobby, or expensive...

  22. Inexperienced nurses in the Big Chair

    CathyLew replied to PickMePlze's topic in General Nursing

    Our small hospital just had three nurse managers quit and take staffing positions. we have 6 nursing units (MSP, SNU, CCU, ER, OB and OR) and now have just 2 nurse managers...one of the managers is...

  23. Joint Commission

    CathyLew replied to silentRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, but they do get super picky on some things.... I love it when they ding us and tell us--you are doing everything the correct way, its just that you aren't following some obscure policy that...

  24. not looking "put together"

    CathyLew replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    What about the other end.... those nurses who are thinking more about how they look. I swear some are feeding into the old steriotype that all nurses are out to land a rich doctor. Globing on the...

  25. Bedside

    CathyLew replied to ttpurtee's topic in General Nursing

    That is sort of sad.... the biggest thing that gets a nurse away from the bedside is experience.... Isn't that where we need our most experienced