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  1. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Because of "penalty pay" for no breaks and no lunch breaks, they just started this. The union has gotten on the hospitals butt which of course infuriates the hospital and then the hospital retaliates...

  2. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It seems like a joke but it is not. If they did "surprise" visits, the hospitals would be dinged so hard they may lose their credibility so that is why the hospital knows well in advance. Isn't it...

  3. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Correct: not going to change except to hit where it hurts----$$$$. We clock in and out and if we are over-time (which they dislike as much as I do) we get 1 1/2 pay. If we get no dinner then 1 hr...

  4. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Agree with RNWriter. If you think things are bad now? Just wait and see how bad they will get. We need a board of docs/nurses who look at certain cases, case by case. I had a 60 lb woman whose family...

  5. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Trish, best to you. Yes, it is best to just go forward and learn from the past and learn that you will not accept poor treatment ever again. My gall bladder issue was two nights of thinking I had food...

  6. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Remember......Karma. I am tired of "expecting to understand" that all the problems are just trickeling down from the top. Now the nursing supervisor is running around asking the charge nurse "will...

  7. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Psychtrish I agree, no loyalty. It does not matter. The bottom line is $. But, in your case, I understand the 90 day waiting period is pretty standard in most nursing positions except in your case...

  8. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry Psychtrish39.....this is a perfect example of how being unionized would protect your

  9. Nurse advocacy (Rant)

    Guest372004 replied to KalipsoRed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have been working in the same hospital for over 20 years and it has always been union. I now pay about $1200/year union dues. When I read these posts I am even more shocked because even with our...

  10. Is anyone else annoyed by the expectations of male nurses in transferring patients?

    Guest372004 replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    How about the huge patients who want to use you to pull themselves out of bed???? I tell them "look at you, and look at me" (I am 115 lb). That sort of gets their attention. I agree. The best would...

  11. You just can't make this stuff up....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Nursing Humor

    What I would like to know..... Did these folks have health insurance? What would Obama

  12. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

    Guest372004 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    BLVN..... sounds like we work at the same hospital! Almost, although our ER is not that big. We spend tons of $ on nonsense. We once purchased a lot of blood pressure machines which were on a HUGE...

  13. Not allowed to SIT during 12 hour shift and MORE

    Guest372004 replied to katieusa's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Where the heck do you live? The "sisters" get chairs and the nurses suffer? I hope this "new type work situation" does not catch on where I am. Who came up with such meaness? Do the managers stand or...

  14. Not allowed to SIT during 12 hour shift and MORE

    Guest372004 replied to katieusa's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I still have a hard time believing this. This ought to have been in the local news. I do say that we have lots of chairs at work and most of them are chairs that are not far from being tossed in the...

  15. Not allowed to SIT during 12 hour shift and MORE

    Guest372004 replied to katieusa's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Sorry folks, but all the above it too hard to believe and too scary to believe. I want to believe this but I am going to try to research. How can management make someone stand all day? Are there no...

  16. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

    Guest372004 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    All jobs have their problems and issues. Nursing is no different. Nursing is just one of the oddest jobs one can think of. So we have to be an "odd lot" to do it, right? I mean really, who else goes...

  17. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

    Guest372004 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Our CEO made so much $ for the hospital that they "forgave" him of a $750,000 mortgage he

  18. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

    Guest372004 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    KCM...... you are 100% correct! Not 99%. Cutting nurses is a joke. All they have to do is cut a little at the top! All I want to see is::::::: the salary of the top dogs plus the bonuses. They do not...

  19. Nursing or Cursing?

    Guest372004 replied to Utak Indio's topic in General Nursing

    You might have a point there. Never truly thought of it till now. I wonder how much Red Cross non volunteers earn? Is there a CEO of Red

  20. Nursing or Cursing?

    Guest372004 replied to Utak Indio's topic in General Nursing

    This article does not surprise me at all. It is a terrible situation over there, but what are we supposed to do about it? We need to work on our own situation in our own countries. We have made the...

  21. experienced nurse with anxiety on the job

    Guest372004 replied to SFDRN's topic in General Nursing

    Great response Alot... and you must be in a different time zone than a lot of us here in U.S. I do not know of any places here that offer clinical skills due to the economy (the economy of the...

  22. experienced nurse with anxiety on the job

    Guest372004 replied to SFDRN's topic in General Nursing

    You brought up a good topic. Yes it is impossible (at least for me) to cath a female and be sterile. Need two sets of hands. And sorry big girls, but cathing a heavy patient can be a nightmare....

  23. experienced nurse with anxiety on the job

    Guest372004 replied to SFDRN's topic in General Nursing

    You are totally normal. It takes time to get comfortable with this job and there are just some things that we excel at and some that we do not. Many gave the right advice: ask for someone to be...

  24. How do you incorporate faith into your daily nursing tasks?

    Guest372004 replied to orangepink's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Agree with above.........but I did refuse to take care of ONE patient my entire career. Why? Because we were chatting and I asked him about his accent and he was German. After more chit chat he told...

  25. How do you incorporate faith into your daily nursing tasks?

    Guest372004 replied to orangepink's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    MetalrN I agree. I will hold any patients hand and they can "do their thing" as I respect them. And when they are so ill, reaching out and asking me "do you believe in god"? I say "of course" when...