Owney

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1. How are you spending your retirement?

   Owney replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

   My boss got tired of my complaints about the corners I had to cut trying to give nursing care that I could live with. She retired me (AKA found somebody to lie about me, fire me, contest my 6 months...

2. New grad RN with questions on IVP meds

   Owney replied to heaverboo's topic in General Nursing

   Heaverboo, When I was in nursing school, way back in the 1980's, we were required to write 3X5 index cards for every drug each of our patients were given. It listed generic &/or trade name(s),...

3. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Owney replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Babs, From my first day in the ER of a major trauma center, I knew I was putting myself at risk for PTSD. In 1981 I don't think it even had a name yet, and I had no idea how much I was paying until I...

4. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Owney replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Dear readytolive, zoeboboey gave you a good answer. My therapist thought I might be ready to work after a year, so she gave me a referral to the "rehab counselor." After speaking with her...

5. Leaving for awhile...ambivalance...help

   Owney replied to 123sunnid's topic in Retired Nurses

   Dear 123sunnid, It sounds as though you should explore your career issues with a disinterested third-party such as your mentor, therapist or pastor. I know next to nothing about floral design, but I...

6. No more internet access

   Owney replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

   My Dear Colleagues, I have seen computers move into hospitals throughout my career. Before the internet (yes, there really was such a time) we had some PCs that were supposedly dedicated to printing...

7. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Owney replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   My Dear Colleagues, In 1976 I obtained a bachelor of arts degree from San Diego State University, with emphases in developmental, personality, abnormal, and industrial psychology. When I studied...

8. How are you spending your retirement?

   Owney replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

   Like some of you I retired early (57) and live on disability (SSD). Unlike most of you my boss woke up one morning and decided she no longer loved me so she suspended me and gave the chief of...

9. Has Anyone Read the Echo Heron Books?

   Owney replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

   I read "Critical Care" and "Tending Lives." Heron's career is very much like mine. She worked for 17 years and I worked for 22, mostly ER. In "Tending Lives" each chapter is the story of nurses...

10. Who are the Uninsured?

    Owney replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Dixiedi, Are you prepared to withold your care to fellow humans and watch them die because they cannot afford to pay it? Why should the greatest country, with the greatest medical care in history...

11. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    Owney replied to Blackcat99's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    mkue, How can you say FINALLY if you read the date, 27 February? How can you say that Kerry "sings with a different choir every day" if you look at Junior's flip-flops, especially his flip-flop on...

12. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    Owney replied to Blackcat99's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "Fighting a Comprehensive War on Terrorism" Remarks by Senator John Kerry at the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations February 27, 2004--University of California at Los Angeles--As...

13. Great book entitled "NURSE"

    Owney replied to kea6783's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I read, "Nurse", by Peggy Anderson, RN when I was a senior nursing student. For a heart-rending story of a Viet Nam Nurse's experience read, "Home Before Morning." I forget the author's name....

14. I'm so frustrated and sad...

    Owney replied to Sadie04's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sadie04, I hope you archived your message to yourself. If you have not, go back to your post and down load it into your word processor. Whenever your patients care is compromised, you should write a...

15. History of Expert Witness (Nurses)

    Owney replied to dunga's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I recently saw a discussion on allnurses about getting started in Legal Nurse Consulting. The best advice was to visit the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. They publish the "bible"...