panurse9999

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  1. What one law would most improve nursing?

    panurse9999 replied to myoglobin's topic in General Nursing

    I love the idea of patient/ nurse ratio laws, but I still think the best way to determine right ratios is by acuity. For example, years ago, before LTC turned into virtual hospital level care on all...

  2. What one law would most improve nursing?

    panurse9999 replied to myoglobin's topic in General Nursing

    Due process in all job terminations. Not this whimsical phone call you get 10 minutes before you leave for work. "....DO not report to work....." Mandatory full time hours if full time Mandatory Part...

  3. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent feedback...and I was parsing. I dont make them up. It was ..."No one could have the time to chart Q shift VS with 30 patients, even if you made them up, because the data entry time is much...

  4. Onerous Onboarding With Nasty Nellie, The Job That Lasted a Week

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I try every day. Its a huge undertaking.

  5. What was nursing like in the year of 2000?

    panurse9999 replied to jezun's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Paper documentation by exception on paper folding flow sheets. A nurse could spend 7 to 7.5 hrs with patients, not clicking endless boxes on computers for hours on end. LTC was LTC, we did not have...

  6. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    When you look at some of the job boards on their websites, and see the job ads posted on indeed, monster, linkedin, etc, one would assume they lose about 20 per day, each Or it could be that the job...

  7. Patient fall

    panurse9999 replied to littlemissBSN's topic in General Nursing

    How was it supposed to be prevented? I was walking a patient down a hall, arm in arm, and down he went, and took me with him. Patients fall like rain drops in this field, for any reason and for no...

  8. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    panurse9999 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I am putting up a better reply. Not making light of this horrible, awful event. Not at all. My point in the last one I posted, was that when we habitually (trained and ingranied) do so many of the...

  9. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Once had a call light flashing for 20 minutes not answered, and when I got to the room , patient wanted her water cup re-filled, as 3 family members sat in the room and looked at me. True

  10. I am not good at nursing

    panurse9999 replied to Lostinorlando's topic in General Nursing

    This post screams of a new grad with unlimited potential and zeal, who is being systematically cut down and put down by a toxic nurse manager. I am sad to read a post like this. I have walked in these...

  11. What now?

    panurse9999 replied to Crookshanks24's topic in General Nursing

    And if you quit, which you will, and I have because of this deceit on the way in the door, they will have your replacement lined up in less than an hour. Been there, done that. This behavior grows...

  12. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto. Realistically , its 15 more for me, at minimum. Love the hamster wheel analogy....for me its high tide at the beach...a continual repetitive motion of a wave crashing on my head, then sucking...

  13. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I went to school 22 years ago as a second career nurse whose job was wiped out due to automation. I knew it was not going to be clean, easy or glamorous. I knew I'd be exposed to vomit, poop, pee,...

  14. Stabbed in the Back in ICU

    panurse9999 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am continually amazed at the epic fail tactics that people in positions of high leadership use in the course of their job. If I am to guess, this was a Nurse Manager of the ICU that allowed this...

  15. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I am a second career nurse whose first career was lost to automation. I was offered a job at half my pay, or a severance package. I took the severance , and was accepted into an ADN-RN program 20...

  16. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I am often mystified at why people "encourage" others to go into this profession, knowing full well what the profession has to offer 1. stress 2. back aches 3. bullying 4. required re-education out of...

  17. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    The charting systems now days take an enormous amount of time, and make us check off things we did not do. check, check, check....it becomes autopilot. Just read the thread about the Vanderbuilt...

  18. Is it like this everywhere now?

    panurse9999 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    Its food for thought, when we are discussing a thread about the shift from hell, the constant stress place on nursing to do more, and do everything, and do it all to perfection. Its called "Death by a...

  19. Is it like this everywhere now?

    panurse9999 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    When hospitals and nursing homes moved from paper charting by exception to EMR, which was required by an act of congress in 2009, which then spent billions of dollars to roll it out, I'm not sure they...

  20. Is it like this everywhere now?

    panurse9999 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    I am not aware of any hospital in PA that will hire an ADN anymore. A very large mega-system that has been moving fast to purchase other hospitals, is forcing the ADN staff at those hospitals to get...

  21. Is it like this everywhere now?

    panurse9999 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    no they're not. Not in

  22. I'm having a hard time finding an RN Job

    panurse9999 replied to nurse0000's topic in General Nursing

    You are not alone. Here in PA, the job market for nurses is non-existent. Market saturation . My advice: Stay home and take care of your baby if you can swing it financially. Or look for a non...

  23. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    My first job out of nursing school 20 years ago, and for 10 consecutive years afterword... It cannot be this bad everywhere, I'll find another job. (Finds new job. Starts new job. Repeat. Repeat....

  24. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Think it cannot happen to you? Just wait. Did I tell you when I was actually furnished with the complaint? 8 months later at the unemployment hearing. I won the

  25. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    She's been ********** the thread since I posted it. There is not one single hospital system in PA that will hire a new grad ADN. Not. a.single.one. We have all been locked out. PA is saturated....