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I just want to find out if other hospitals are basically dumping their LPN's, or is Allina the only one.....We have LPN's who have worked in the hospital more then 35 years who have been told that if they don't get their RN within two years they migh...

I'm not an LPN, I'm a concerned RN. They have started phasing the LPN's out, not a maybe. I'm concerned because these are good nurses that they're basically throwing away...

I agree with what Kerry said, make the lawyer's accountable. If they bring forth a frivolous lawsuit, make them pay a fine big enough so that they stop doing that..other then that, you know who's making the money, it's the CEO's and the companies the...

Again I say, the reason all of these people are coming up with all of this junk,the 6mo. unnurse, as I like to call it, is because they say there is a shortage out there. THERE IS NO SHORTAGE. It's the hospitals finding cheaper ways to get their li...

Yeah, nurses listen, there is not a nursing shortage, the only reason there are fewer nurses in the field is because we are treated so poorly... If we were treated better you would have an over abundance of nurses. It's really disgusting at my hosp...

I used to think that Nursing was such a dignified profession...The patients were our first concern....even if we had to fight with a doctor about something concerning a patient, they(meaning the hospital) would listen to us. Now, I think of my job ...

I have a question, are there any other hospitals that are sending medical patients up to post partum? We have brand new baby's down the same hall as an MRSA pt and we've had cocaine addicted pt's high on crack at the time down our peds hall. My nur...

You did a great job...Isn't it great to hear about it from your peers though :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons:

Kudos from patients does make me feel good, and it makes me feel like they do appreciate the little things that I do for them, but that's not what I'm talking about. When I think about how much money the CEO's and higher-ups are getting I don't feel...

Brownmn46- I just want to tell you that I sat here and sobbed as I read everything that you posted.....I have been trying to get a rise out of some other nurses to do something. I feel so vindicated by what you wrote. I've felt that my CHOSEN car...

Rah, Rah, Cheer, yahoo........I would love for ALL of us, as nurses to do something for ourselves, for our future, and for our patients.....Either go to Washington D.C. and march, or march to your own cities capitol on Nurses Day in 2005. I've wante...

I just want you to know that I have been one of those nurses, the older one, talking to the younger one....I had a newer nurse tell me from day shift that one of my patients was all ready to go, just sign papers and leave. I looked at the chart and ...

Fergus51, I can see where that would make an impression on the staff, but don't you think a raise or a bonus would make more of an impression then "candy"? I work at a place where they always try to come up with "non-monetary" ways of making us "hap...

All the paperwork is done for one reason and one reason only...to cover their a$$e$ and assets. I don't think that writing something down more than once is necessary. How about you? I think our jobs, as far as charting goes, have gotten past redun...

Dramaluvr, Did you complain to the Nurse Manager on that floor about your ordeal? I believe that if you don't compain about the care, the fact that your nurse probably didn't have any orientation to peds, I don't think anything will be done to take ...

I don't care how many assistants you have, that's freekin nuts:uhoh3: Get out of there as fast as your legs can carry you, cuz you'll be the one taking the fall.

I agree with watersnake, I got into the field because I could stand the sight of blood and I could deal with many different personality's. I used to love nursing, but it's gotten to the point where I look for excuses not to go to work... I don't lov...

Seriously, on Nurses Day, maybe not this year, but by next year.... We should all get together and march on Washington and show them that we are concerned about our patients care....is anyone interested?

Yes, we've had pt's that needed labaetolol every 1/2 hr and they refused to transfer the pt off of our floor. I used to work on a med/surg floor and a tele-stepdown unit. I transferred off for a reason.....I used to be the NG Queen, everyone would c...

I originally brought my daughter in to the doctor's to have her diagnosed because I was so sure she had ADD. While I was listening to some of the questions I was thinking to myself. OMG (oh my God) this is me......this is me. I'm 54 years old and ...

You won't believe what is going on now.......I'm warning all of you so if this happens in your hospital you'll be aware. My place of employment wanted all of us to attend a class that shows us how to use the new lifting equipment. We all thought, ...

Darchild77 I'm from Minnesota also:uhoh21: is it just in cities here that this is going on? Also, I work for Allina, do you? Please write to me privately if you don't want to answer here.

I would like to be in contact with some other staff nurses from other Twin Cities Hospitals. I would like to get together and talk about conditions and what we should do about it as advocates for the patients. Please let me know that there are othe...

:angryfire I'm not too sure I believe in the nursing shortage. I believe it's a way for all hospitals, nursing homes, etc. to short staff us. If you think about all of your friends that have left nursing within the last, say 5 years, I'm sure you ...

Today we had a staff meeting, I brought up the fact that for one thing we don't have the equipment, medications, or knowledge as far as some of the staff goes to deal with all of these medical patients. Some of the nurses have worked on Post-partum ...