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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 unemployment, and challenge my license). After th...

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), indications, dosage, side effects, precautions and n...

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 was retired from nursing. One day my boss decide...

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 nurse-to-nurse we decided that I was not, but she gave me go...

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 do know that one should always pursue (within prac...

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 out patient discharge instructions. The first tim...

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 psychology at State, manic-depressive disorder was cha...

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 hospital security several months to develop a pack of lie...

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 working in different specialties. The most telling c...

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 have such an inequitable and rediculous system to p...

Administrators do not view nurses as anything but expenses. In order to illustrate my point let me tell you a little story. My Friend Bob, an RN, MBA and accountant, told me about his Brother Kevin, a CPA in administration in a large hospital. Kevi...

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 Homeland Security? 'Steadfast' Bush's amazing flip-f...

"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 Prepared for Delivery It's an honor to be here toda...

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. But by all means, read all three of the books by Ec...

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 memo to administration, if only to cover your behi...

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" for LNCs, titled, "Principles and Practices for the...

If Kerry tossed somebody else's medals they were GIVEN to him by another combat Vet to toss. I, like Mr. Kerry, saw the folly of a war for hearts and minds up close and personal. I was at first OUTRAGED when blanket amnesty was given to Viet Nam dra...

Everyone needs to read the books by Echo Heron, RN. Her first one was, "Critical Care", and deals with her own career experiences. The second one I read was "Tending Lives." Each chapter is the story of a nurse in a different specialty. The best ch...

cs1295, so nice to see an outsider asking nurses (instead of doctors or hospital administators) about nursing. i could ask about crime at the mayor's office, but you folks give me the real deal. i been an er nurse for over 20 years. i've attended m...

BeachNurse, "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."~Ralph Waldo Emerson Are you aware that Emerson was a Universalist minister? Did you know that Charles Darwin was a Unitarian? There are many U-U Chu...

I just finished reading every post on this string--WHEW! All of the posts espouse the belief that if there is a god, (s)he would be pleased that we are using our brains to think. The sign on my church lawn says, "The Church For The Modern Thinker."...

The Only Good Religion I was born into a Roman Catholic family of six children. I went to public school for kindergarten, since my local Catholic school did not have one. I went to first grade in one Catholic school and second grade in another sinc...

TEN GOOD REASONS FOR JOINING A UNITARIAN-UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION Because here we join with open hearts and minds to worship together, seeking what is sacred among us. Because here we are a part of a long, liberal tradition of reason and t...

steph, Yeah, well kind of. We don't make up religion out of thin air. We use our mind to look at ALL belief systems and follow what we are obligated to, rather than depending on somebody else to tell us what to do. I have learned a lot of my reli...

I am disappointed that nobody seems to have read my post. It is number 75, and admittedly it is rather long. It does discuss my personal account of the best of all religions, which sometimes becomes NO RELIGION. What it describes is Unitarian-Unive...