nicole109

I agree--I think you need to be professional about it...It seems to me that there might be some bad blood between you and this other nurse if you are going this far out of your way to get her fired. Especially when it doesn't really pertain to you. D...

My mortgage broker used my w-2 and my last 2 months of pay stubs--this included my shift differentials which were huge because I was working weekend option night shift (almost $10 of shift differentials)--that was the pre-approval package that he sen...

I can see both sides here--and I'm certainly one of those people who will read something once and get all bent out of shape and then read it again and go well...wait a minute, maybe it wasn't worth all of that and sheepishly walk away--LOL! I certain...

If there is an inmate on your floor, there should also be a police officer or a correctional officer with that inmate, and they keep the key. The nurse doesn't get the key, because they aren't law enforcement, and have not been trained to use handcuf...

As one of the other posters said, Bayview is VERY different from JHH--as are all the other facilities in the Hopkins systems. I came from Bayview, and when I left there about a year ago, I was making $28 and some change as a full time day shift nurse...

In order to determine who is involved in a case or not...both attorneys involved in the case do what is called "discovery", where they attempt to discover the facts--this holds true in all types of law. During this process, they subpoena ALL of said ...

Insurance is a heated debate, and yes, you are in part covered by your employer--however, as a previous poster mentioned, you are only covered for the time that you were employed...so if a suit is filed after you leave, and you are involved, you will...

Do you guys have self-scheduling, so that you can access the schedule online from any computer? That would alleviate the neccessity of having to call someone? And I second everyone else in saying that I would call the person making the schedule or th...

Ditto to the above, I think I wrote or responded to a post about them before. I met a business person at an office about a PRN job for this company, he had no idea what a nurse did on a normal day--I politely left and never looked back, they called b...

The first time that I teared up in front of a family, I was doing a home hospice rotation, and we walked in as the patient was taking her last few breaths--it was only a matter of minutes. The nurse that I was with had been seeing this patient for a ...

I agree--I don't think that this is very smart--I will just say that I think that some of the things that the OP mentioned, you may actually have orders for and not even realize it. In the hospital that I came from, we had standing orders for a patie...

Despite your best efforts to speak with the DON, the facility is going to do what they want...what you need to do, to cover your own behind is to DOCUMENT like crazy...make sure that you document everything that you are assessing, and who (MD and nur...

I grew up in Southern MD, and have been a patient many a times at Civista, formerly PMH way back when! I made the gruesome commute to Baltimore from LaPlata, happily bypassing Civista, Southern MD, all the DC Hospitals, BWMedical, and everything in b...

if you can't photograph a patient without their written consent, they shouldn't be photographing you (or your badge) without your written consent...i would start handing the family the consent forms, then see what they say =)

This is interesting--and I've never really thought about it from this angle, I've had patients before drinking out of the toilet, etc. to get to water...it's really sad when you think about it. But when you think about the things that we do, to get t...

I was an RN for 5 years on a Neuro floor before making the switch to home care, and I worked all of the shifts, even weekend option. This was the best career move that I could have made for my family, hands down. When you interview, I would encourage...

I would start by putting something in writing to administration, including something from security. I think it's ridiculous that you only have 1 security officer on duty for the entire hospital (did I read that correctly?) and that they are consideri...

I used to work with many nurses from the Philippines, and they never used their real names...they had an American name that staff and patients would call them by, most of them even had their American name printed on their badge to avoid patient confu...

Stay at least within the facility that you are in for a little while, and get your feet wet. And please, don't take this the wrong way--but make sure you are very confident in your skills before you start to travel. You never know what type of assign...

Just to play devil's advocate, because that's normally what I do--when I worked in the hospital, I too had to do hourly rounding, and I HATED it with every bone in my body, so much so that I refused to do it most days, got written up for it, fought w...

I think it's clear that you need to move on, but as the others have said, not from nursing as a profession, but maybe from bedside nursing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming to work, day in and day out for the last (insert number of ye...

Just wondering if anyone out there currently works for, or has recently worked at Howard County General? Pros, cons? Salary, benefits, etc? I am not a new grad, and am exploring new employment in the area, but I see that Howard County has A LOT of jo...

Belgarion--I think you need to fill out a patient satisfaction survey and write all of that in BOLD letters because management seems to think that scripting works and thinks that calling patients by their first names is disrespectful...it's amazing t...

I think that HIPAA is taken very seriously at all facilities--I once had an MRI done where I worked and went in to look to see if the reports were completed, so that I could have my colleagues look at the films for me--both he (being the chief of the...

Does it really matter what the CEO makes? They chose to go to school and choose their own career path and their own path in life--just as each and everyone of us did...Are they being paid fairly? Who knows? But who are we to judge? In each and every ...