This Does Not Make Sense - But happens anyway!..... In my state NO LPN can't cut a diabetics nails! If you're the only RN working in a large nursing home you have to cut all the diabetics' nails. I guess the BON thinks LPN's can't handle this simpl...
Be sure you really want to be an RN for love of the work. The work is not as simple as you think and jobs aren't as plentiful as you have been told. You are very young so you have time to decide what type of work enjoy most. Don't assume you will be...
As charge you do have some responsibility to supervise and see that meds were given, not tossed into the shaprs bin. I'd report her to the BON in a New York minute! She is lazy, dishonest and VERY dangeous.
Lady Jane, Thanks for bringing this serious threat to our livelihoods back from the dead. Every SINGLE US RN currently employed as a nurse or hoping to work as an RN should be aware of this issue.
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Dude. If you're so good with computers why can't you show who you were quoting in your post? And why do you have to scream your post? I'm not really middle age but I'm old enough to respect that the members here who are 40's 50's and older are fro...
Fixit replied to Been there,done that's topic in Relations
Exactly. The newbies haven't 'been there' or haven't been nurses long enough to have worked in a large city where you are the only native English speaking person around. Also if someone posts a cartoon of ducking under a couch just after you post y...
To my knowledge, hospitals and nursing homes do a check of their currently employed nurses every 2 years. They check for criminal background (arrests), BON actions, nursys, OIG, and the 2 national databases for healthcare practitioners. It looks be...
Totally agree. This "Hospital Corporation" has set you up to be the perfect fall guy when something horrible happens. I went through a similar situation when my old hospital was bought out by HCA. HCA then merged 2 hospitals and put the nurses in...
NO NO NO. This is ABSOLUTELY verbotin and will get you discipline in BOTH states. When you apply for the new license in the new state the new BON will always ask if you have a pending investigation. OP don't do something like this. You sound innoc...
Sorry if I'm not "helpful" or as much of a bleeding heart as some would like but I do not buy it. Seriously, be honest. You have a clean license and no previous sanctions, failed a pre-employment drug screen where YOU ARE NOT employed and now you ha...
Kudos. I'm glad you are thinking of yourself and saying no to the guilt trips/extra shifts. Nursing is very hard work and you need your days off. Agree that the hospitals short staff to make more money. There are plenty of nurses they could hire.
Personally I think it's because nurses are told that we are 'mandated to report' violations of our practice act. If you don't report something (with appropriate documentation) your license could be on the line.
Haha. We need shorter term-limits on these entitled witch hunters/members of the Board of Nazis. Then then can get back on the units to see what the real problems are-(intentional short staffing, etc)
I feel the same as VanillaNut. This ad is a waste of money that could have been spent on much better things...like designing good courses ncsbn could then market to nurses who make med errors and such. This ad is the BONs justifying their existence ...
This ad is ridiculous and a waste of money. Employers already background check, finger print us and look us up in all national databases. And patients know the how to lodge a complaint against a nurses license. If they don't then they complain to...
I can't help but think some jobs for new RNs would open up if all states would implement safe nurse/pt ratios. But I don't think that will ever happen as hospital corporations are too powerful.
As an RN friend sadly found out, elkpark is correct. Nurses are highly regulated and held to a much higher standard whether you are on the clock or off. As soon as an RN has a complaint of any sort go to the Board of Nursing you find out just how ...