Sheri257

Sheri257

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  1. Police Killed Our Patient

    Sheri257 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Well ... the guy was about to rape a CNA. To me, that's criminal ... which is why I used the criminal comparison with both criminal psych and corrections facilities.

  2. Police Killed Our Patient

    Sheri257 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    If a patient has dementia, psychoses or whatever ... and they're in a criminal psych facility because they're violent ... the healthcare system says it's not their fault. BUT, if that same patient is...

  3. Police Killed Our Patient

    Sheri257 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I've got a real problem with this. I sometimes wonder if people who make these rulings have ever had a patient attack them. So ... were you still supposed to talk the patient out of the assault if the...

  4. Is Cali a good state for Nurses?

    Sheri257 replied to JennyAS's topic in California Nursing

    Same here. I've lived in several places both in the south and the east coast and I've never done better financially than I have in California. California does have a lot of problems, and everybody...

  5. Is Cali a good state for Nurses?

    Sheri257 replied to JennyAS's topic in California Nursing

    The reason you hear California treats their nurses well is because we have the ratio law. Unlike other states, they can't give you more than five patients. IMHO, that's the number one reason to work...

  6. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Timothy ... you have some legitimate criticisms of unions but, this is going too far. CNA is NOT just out for themselves. They got the first ratio law passed in this country which benefits 80 percent...

  7. Telemetry Monitor Errors

    Sheri257 posted a topic in Cardiac

    I was in a situation the other day where the monitor on my patient was showing up to 20 PVC's per minute yet, the patient seemed fine. Then the PVC's went back down again. When I asked about this I...

  8. Police Killed Our Patient

    Sheri257 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    So true. As one corrections psych nurse told me: they tend to like nurses more than cops because we give drugs. Why do we expect cops to do the job of healthcare providers? Think about it ... the...

  9. Police Killed Our Patient

    Sheri257 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    You raise some very interesting points. I sometimes wonder if some elements of the law enforcement approach should be used more ... especially in criminal psych facilities. Because even when those...

  10. regarding borderline patients

    Sheri257 replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    On the flip side ... if clinicians are having so much trouble identifying and referring malingerers out of the system (which they obviously are in many cases), does that not indicate that certain DSM...

  11. Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    Sheri257 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Ok ... so I guess California is falling outside of the norm. If other schools and employers are doing this in other states, I wonder why California nursing schools and employers aren't checking...

  12. regarding borderline patients

    Sheri257 replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    And therein lies the problem. As long as it's not too difficult to fake a disorder, and since the system doesn't do much about it then, the credibility of that disorder/diagnosis can always be called...

  13. regarding borderline patients

    Sheri257 replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    But that doesn't mean there isn't flaws in the diagnostic criteria. Wasn't homosexuality once considered a disorder in the DSM? While different cultures may prevent certain conditions from being...

  14. Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    Sheri257 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    I've been through three employer background checks and none of them involved fingerprints. Again, I may be wrong about this, but I don't think employers can run fingerprints. I think only state...

  15. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    I do think Timothy has a good point here. The cost of living is much cheaper in Texas so, if you make $50K or $60K there's probably a good chance of coming out of head more financially than if you...

  16. Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    Sheri257 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting ... I guess I have it wrong. Maybe it varies by school or by state. I was told they couldn't. Maybe they need board authorization or something like that but, whatever the case may be, my...

  17. What you make as a nurse Vs. Cost of living

    Sheri257 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting perspective ... :chuckle. I tend to agree with alot of what you're saying. I've lived all over the country. There are plusses and minuses wherever you go but, I'm in California to stay....

  18. Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    Sheri257 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, it doesn't surprize me. Even if a nursing school does a background check, they don't run fingerprints ... only state licensing and law enforcement agencies can. The background check I had...

  19. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    There are plenty of anti-union RN's who post in the California forum, and there have been plenty of anti-union threads in that forum also. Just because a lot of California RN's may support unions...

  20. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    First of all ... since when is BLS data anecdotal evidence? As far as Scripps Encinitas ... those raises didn't come down until AFTER the union won the election. It's not unusual for management to...

  21. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    I wasn't expecting a warm response. The claim was made that the data was biased. I was just pointing out that it's not. Afterall, I seriously doubt that data from the Bush Labor Department could be...

  22. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    So I guess all those Texas nurses who post in the California forum shouldn't be allowed to post there either

  23. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    Sorry, but that's simply not true. I invite you to do a survey of union versus non-union hospitals in California in areas where the cost of living is exactly the same. The pay, not to mention benefits...

  24. Raising Their Wages......

    Sheri257 replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    Well, if you want unbiased sources ... Bureau of Labor Statistics: in general union workers made $9,000 a year on average more than non-union workers in 2005....

  25. Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    Sheri257 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    We didn't have to do a criminal background as criteria for nursing school acceptance but, once we were accepted, we did go through a criminal background check before we started since JCAHO recommended...