tntrn

tntrn ASN, RN

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  1. Sesame Street Breastfeeding: Moms Push To Bring Nursing Back To TV Show

    tntrn replied to lrobinson5's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would like the moms who choose not to breast feed to gat the same amount of teaching and emotional support as the breast feeding moms. We have the choice and neither group should be scolded for the...

  2. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    tntrn replied to mamaxmaria's topic in General Nursing

    With all this feedback, perhaps you would consider going back to your original post and rewrite it, if only to make it sound like what you really wanted to say, instead of what it said. Regardless of...

  3. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    tntrn replied to mamaxmaria's topic in General Nursing

    Not allowed would be fine with me. We, in OB, don't even have an EKG machine on our floor, so I am quite sure my skill at it, from start to finish isn't even close to being

  4. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    tntrn replied to mamaxmaria's topic in General Nursing

    I think you answered part of your own question, you were hired in at a higher rate than others because of your experience. And those already there have experience too. It usually goes hand in hand:...

  5. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    tntrn replied to mamaxmaria's topic in General Nursing

    You just cannot compare those two jobs as far as pay goes. And the security people may not be employed by the hospital, but a security company the hospital contracts out

  6. What is your personal philosophy of nursing?

    tntrn replied to lcheinz36's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Wow! I wonder if we ever worked in the same place? Oh, wait! We did! Mine would be: Don't hurt anybody. Get out on time (my personal goal for every shift) Work to live, not live to

  7. Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

    tntrn replied to rntj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, they were using it all time when they talking (usually down) to

  8. Cracked and Bleeding hands...help?!

    tntrn replied to ustechrn's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Very, very expensive though, and the salespeople are very pushy and insistent. Ask me how I know. The Deep Sea product I am talking

  9. New RN 3 Mistakes in first month on Job :(

    tntrn replied to FutureRN_NP's topic in First Year After Licensure

    And I have to ask if you have properly orientated before being turned loose. You might want to examine how ready you felt versus how ready they said you were. Good

  10. Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

    tntrn replied to rntj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You can pick up on what the word or phrase of the month is easily. Where I work, I heard the word "collegial" so many times in a short amount of time that I looked it up and found that my nurse...

  11. New Health Care Bill

    tntrn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Electronic medical records may save time, bit computer charting does not. I have far less actual patient care time with computer charting. And I don't consider charting at the bedside as patient...

  12. Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

    tntrn replied to rntj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have had patients TELL me that they don't want to hear it again....having heard it ad nauseum for umpteen times before I

  13. Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

    tntrn replied to rntj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would feel exactly as you do. And I just think I would have to refuse to do

  14. Technology... how has it changed the nursing profession?

    tntrn replied to KelRN215's topic in General Nursing

    aky: you said it, loud and clear. I haven't been a patient for anything but outpatient surgery lately (and I was well cared for) but I see it every day in what they want to us to do and how they...

  15. Technology... how has it changed the nursing profession?

    tntrn replied to KelRN215's topic in General Nursing

    There is less and less time for actual patient care. Instead we are being mandated to make the computer the number one priority. A former nurse manager where I work actually made "did you chart...

  16. Banner Thunderbird

    tntrn replied to Doodleit's topic in Travel

    My daughter works in the MRI department there. Their call off policies may be different than for the nursing

  17. Do you work with any super nurses?

    tntrn replied to Bringonthenight's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have heard other nurses say this and I do not understand it at all. How can it be just because of 8 hour shifts. Regardless of how long a shift is, there is still that hours' worth of work and...

  18. Do you work with any super nurses?

    tntrn replied to Bringonthenight's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Where I work, the nurses who get the awards for Nurse of the Month are the ones who never say no to extra shifts and never say no to staying over. They do not always get their charting done on...

  19. 8-hour shifts save money?

    tntrn replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    In some places OT is only accrued after 40 hours of work.....so you might work 16 one shift and 16 the next and and none of that would be OT. We get OT after 8, if we are sheduled for 8, over 12 if we...

  20. Continuing Education in Washington reviewed

    tntrn replied to klwtiger's topic in Nursing Career

    And like many other situations where a group of administrators make policy, there can be a distinct lack of common

  21. Continuing Education in Washington reviewed

    tntrn replied to klwtiger's topic in Nursing Career

    You are a wealth of information and I appreciate your effort to share here. I have an RN friend who is about 10 years older than I am, and she has kept her license active simply because she has worked...

  22. Per diem policy question

    tntrn replied to MinnieMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    Our contract states that per diem RN's are cancelled first unless there is another nurse (full time or part time) who has requested call or unless the per diem nurse has skills the others do not. We...

  23. Closed Units

    tntrn replied to rnkitka's topic in General Nursing

    If you are a specialized unit, such as Labor and Deliver/PP, you can use floats. When med/surg people float to our unit, they are assigned the female surgical patients or the c/section moms. But...

  24. CNA in Labor and Delivery?

    tntrn replied to LetLive's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am sure they are surg techs, but because they work only for us, we call them OB

  25. CNA in Labor and Delivery?

    tntrn replied to LetLive's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Maybe we should ask you what you think a CNA's job would be in Labor and