panurse9999

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  1. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard that the corporate hospital systems are pushing the BSN-MSN-NP on all nursing staff. Its part of the systematic moving the goal post to the right, and embroiling the nurse into constant...

  2. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Join in and tell us all why nurses

  3. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    22 years ago I was a nurse. Today I am a box checker. There is no nursing. It will continue until the corporations that are spreading us too thin get sued out of existence. Case in point HCR...

  4. Quitting during probation/orientation

    panurse9999 replied to musiklover7000's topic in General Nursing

    I am an old school second career nurse, who was groomed the old fashioned way, that giving 2 weeks notice was standard and required. In other professions, where employees are valued and treated like...

  5. Quitting during probation/orientation

    panurse9999 replied to musiklover7000's topic in General Nursing

    It goes on and on and on. I recently heard a preceptor horror story that actually topped some of my own, here in my town. New grad BSN relocated with his wife and two young children for this new...

  6. Quitting during probation/orientation

    panurse9999 replied to musiklover7000's topic in General Nursing

    Been there , done that. A den of vipers, a sorority house, a shark tank, a coffee clutch, a snake pit...these are all pseudonyms for the toxic environments that have plagued the profession. Nurses...

  7. Unsafe Environment for Graduate Nurse?

    panurse9999 replied to KMcRN19's topic in General Nursing

    This nurse, like me, is from PA. Not sure about other states, but PA is hostile to licensed nurses. The discipline taken is posted monthly on the Dept. of State website. The hostility toward licensed...

  8. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Even, at my age, if it were physically and financially possible for me to jump that hurdle and attain the BSN, its still not worth it. I won't get a job. The wet behind the ear new grad will. Because...

  9. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Would love to know what other places are doing to address nurse turnover? In 20 years of nursing I remember exactly one employer who sent me an exit interview form in the mail, 2 months after I left....

  10. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    We're not "encouraged', we're told do it, or get fired. or don't get hired. It has not been a "choice" in my neck of the woods. Its definately an IMAGE thing with hospitals competing for funds,...

  11. Humble Nurses Do This

    panurse9999 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    "Nurses practice professional humility when they realistically look at their strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and abilities. " Yes, true, and yes I do. It comes down to the Art of Nursing vs. the...

  12. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    see my other lengthy reply in this topic about why they have no nurse retention policies. They do get it. They know why. Nurse retention would mean having to play the game with rules, and giving the...

  13. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I have continually seen RN and LPN jobs wiped out in favor of "techs"...the new word that means cheap labor. Its in every single outpatient center, office clinic, and also in ORs, Surgery Centers. I...

  14. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I am happy to see that there are articles like this one to dispel the falsities. Thank you. The propaganda of a shortage is extremely damaging to all people who have been fooled by it, but most...

  15. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I do not know which state you are in, but there was a labor force study in 2014 that showed a surplus of nurses in 43 out of 50 states. (Its posted in here somewhere) In PA, we have long since...

  16. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    I think hospitals need to focus more on retention, than recruitment, and they can start by taking some responsibility for the toxic workplaces many of them are. A really great article comes to mind:...

  17. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    let me chime in, now that you have brought lawyers and lawsuits into the conversation, which is a continual growing problem in the LTC industry. Good care leads to happy patients, and happy patients...

  18. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Its ironic that, yes, nurses are seen as a liability. We are not revenue producing. We are an expense. Just like housekeeping staff. Just like laundry staff. Just like maintenance staff. Just like...

  19. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    I would also like to add that the Allegheny health system offering this program is also pushing a useless and expensive "refresher program" for old nurses to come back to the bedside. I have heard...

  20. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, and I am repeating myself, but for the sake of point on point, I am a second career RN, with a BS and MA in other fields, prior to becoming a nurse (when that field was abolished through...

  21. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget the vitals signs, that a really greedy doctor will order in LTC, Q-shift, as if this is a hospital. Totally unnecessary, and instead of 10 seconds to chart those like we did on the paper...

  22. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen, worked/ used it at enough places to know that the only efficiency PCC brought to the SNF industry was the cessation of the manual monthly turnover (night shift). In rare cases, the facility...

  23. Concerned

    panurse9999 replied to exit96's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not saying you or I, or others are bad nurses when we do tasks that are more appropriate for a CNA. We all have, and we all do, when the situation calls for it. Sometimes it takes a team of people...

  24. The Future of Nursing Retention

    panurse9999 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever heard the term "People do not leave jobs, they leave managers?" Its true. Programs like this would not be necessary if hospitals would take on the pro-active role of nurse retention...

  25. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    panurse9999 replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    This is why so many nurses job hop, hoping to find an employer that not does force them to commit the crime of fraud, or use a system of charting that commits the fraud, with the nurse signing off on...