karenchad

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1. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   I'm sorry to say NO I wouldn't- I think nursing students should get the real hands on clinical experience that I and many others got 30 years ago in a diploma program. I know that not a popular...

2. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   Did any of you nursing students/new grads complain about this to your state nursing association or board of nursing? What did the school teach in exchange for all that tuition money they

3. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   This is unforgivable for a nursing

4. oh so now we PAY to do residency to get a job?!?! seriously?

   karenchad replied to bymysoultosqueezeRN's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   I think nursing education should go back to diploma hospital based nursing programs, where a student nurse can get a realistic idea of what nursing is all about, the good, the bad the ugly, the...

5. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

   To PICUPNP- I don't mean to scare you- but my former union Pres. ( an ER nurse) from 1980-2002 moved to TEXAS. Merry Christmas from

6. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

   A union DOES have the right to view personnel files, if the union has reason to believe that diciplines, terminations, layoffs etc. are suspicious in nature ( complaints from their unionized staff...

7. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

   To PICUPNP- With an advanced degree I would think one would have learned to express one's opinnions with more eloquence and restraint. I think all on this forum are entitled to their opinnions- which...

8. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

   I must not only be misinformed but visually hallucinating also- all the Nurse Practioners ( male and female) I have come in contact with in 4 different hospitals 2 hospitals in the same healthsystem-...

9. New national nurses union forms

   karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

   Pediatrics doesn't seem to be having a problem with lack of hiring, or short staffing issues- the papers here in Philly are full of open positions for peds bedside nurses and PNP's( pediatric Nurse...

10. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The majority of nurses have listened to the frightening scare tactics of the management. The majority of the nurses in our country are not familiar with a union or how a union works. Management has...

11. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    My old union nursing contracts all had the opening statement-'Management reserves the right to run it's busines as it deems necessary' The union agrees to that , HOWEVER, the union and management sits...

12. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    To woodenpug- I'm taking your comment to my post as sarcasm. I assure you I was not trying to be funny. I am only commenting on some people think unions make things better, some people think unions...

13. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It's very difficult to say anything nice about a non-union institution-with the current happenings in the nursing job market. Big bucks for CEO's salaries, perks and bene's, nurses out of jobs. Nurses...

14. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The union I was a member of started out back in the early 1980's- it was a radical idea back then. Our officers and shopstewards grew into their positions- with training and workshops, they learned...

15. New national nurses union forms

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Short staffing should ALWAYS be documented, along with a phone call to the Department of Health. My state has a 1 800 number to call - when I worked in a nurse unionized hospital- that number was...