MultipurposeRN

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  1. can you refuse an assignment?

    MultipurposeRN replied to mamason's topic in General Nursing

    You should be all right if you don't accept the additional patient. It would be if you abandoned a patient you had already accepted for care. At least that's how I interpret it. You might write or...

  2. Catholic hospitals-yes or no?

    MultipurposeRN replied to texascowgirl's topic in Nursing Career

    I work at a Catholic hospital. We do seem to have a higher percentage of self pay patients that come to us than the nonreligious hospital across the street. It's very top heavy administratively, but...

  3. ICU nurse vs acute nurse?

    MultipurposeRN replied to a_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    There's no dumb questions, only dumb people who don't ask questions! :) ICU you'll have usually a 1 nurse to 2 to 3 ratio, they'll be sicker, often w/ vasoactive drips, ventilators, frequent...

  4. Co-worker hitting up the Dr.s for meds during shift?

    MultipurposeRN replied to babiesX2's topic in General Nursing

    That's why when I call in sick, I don't ASK...I TELL them, " I am sick, I won't be in today!" Don't give them the option and I would have told them, no, I am not coming in because I'll be spending...

  5. Anyone work Per Diem?

    MultipurposeRN replied to Agent99's topic in General Nursing

    I loved it..did it for years, but got divorced and had to have bennies. I wasn't very good about putting money back while working per diem, either. Especially for retirement. but the flexibility sure...

  6. $100-$150 per hour...too good to be true?

    MultipurposeRN replied to user9876's topic in Legal

    I am not real fond of Vickie Milazzo, partly because I think most of her money is made in selling courses that are way too high priced. I remember on a nursing forum..it may have been on the LNC board...

  7. Racism in the workplace

    MultipurposeRN replied to staygold's topic in General Nursing

    - Too bad people forget that NONE of us are true americans- only American Indians can say "go back to where you came from". Even the Native Americans came over here from

  8. is anyone else stressed out?

    MultipurposeRN replied to jrbl77's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know if you'd be interested or if it's still available, but there were Disease and Case management jobs available in Illinois state wide not too long ago..they were home-based. I think you could...

  9. RN with huge medical debt, looking for high paying work

    MultipurposeRN replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

    I might also suggest getting on MSN Money or Frugalliving.com or a site like that, posting your expenses and income..MSN money especially is helpful about coming up w/ ways to save money and where...

  10. NCAA Rules against the "Chief"

    MultipurposeRN replied to fotografe's topic in General Nursing

    I think peoples' energy should be better spent on things than agitating over sport mascot names, IMHO. Why spend money on lawsuits over something so ridiculous? No wonder our society is such a mess,...

  11. Breastfeed or else

    MultipurposeRN replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, what a hot topic! Breast vs Bottle always seems to be. The problem is, why should it always BE Breast vs Bottle? Why not Breast and/or Bottle? I haven't read all the posts either. My Uncle was...

  12. Please be nice to medical students

    MultipurposeRN replied to cantor2537's topic in General Nursing

    Has the OP even replied to any of these? I didn't sift through all of them. We've all dealt with our share of jerky docs, nurses,managers, RT's, etc. I do my best to maintain courtesy even when under...

  13. Family member complaints

    MultipurposeRN replied to Nurse1966's topic in General Nursing

    Our facility is using Press Ganey to continge our bonuses. Of course, departments like ER aren't ever going to score high. I don't understand why OUR pay has to depend on what patients and families...

  14. Needlestick with HIV exposure

    MultipurposeRN replied to veegeern's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so sorry to hear that happened to you! Thank goodness for the quick response in getting treatment. I'm just curious, what medication do they give you post exposure? I'd heard of something you...

  15. Taking a child off life support

    MultipurposeRN replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    If this poor kid is truly brain dead then nature will take it's course. Maybe there is no legal or ethical obligation to provide futile care, but the mom just may need more time to come to grips....

  16. Finished Nursing School on Friday...marriage is toast

    MultipurposeRN replied to Gaelic's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I haven't read all the posts. I think I would've had enough when I found out that he loaned the car to them...and lied to you about it. If there's lying involved, there's probably something lie...

  17. You're Discharged....GET OUT NOW!

    MultipurposeRN replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    They better look at it like a good customer service/quality of care issue. And letting a pt who may have pain needs sit in a lobby for hours waiting on a ride home is neither. Maybe the marketing...

  18. You have a what on your where?

    MultipurposeRN replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    I used to hear the word 'rising' all the time, growing up here in SW

  19. Need advice...life threatened by pt's family today

    MultipurposeRN replied to SotaRN's topic in General Nursing

    And comment on the gun thing...if you shoot someone, and you can't proove 100 percent it was absolutely necessary for self defense you could go to jail. Is it worth that. Would you rather be dead? I...

  20. Charting Bloopers

    MultipurposeRN replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I saw an ER note that read, "Pt co of liquid diarrhea running from house x 3 days." Yuck, glad I don't have to visit that house!

  21. Delegating bedmaking, bedpans . . .

    MultipurposeRN replied to pancake's topic in General Nursing

    During nursing school. I do think that bed baths and bed pans should be the students duty to do. When I was teaching, my first year students would do total care, assessment, vitals, meds, feeding,...

  22. Phone interview

    MultipurposeRN replied to danigirl58's topic in General Nursing

    ask about low census days and their float policy...is there orientation to other units, a rotating list of who's turn it is,

  23. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    MultipurposeRN replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    "with a child, 1 medication error can KILL them...99% on a test is not passing!" That's a little extreme. Technically 1 med error can kill ANYONE, not just a child, depending on what the med error...

  24. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    MultipurposeRN replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    My guess would be hotdogs because of sodium and

  25. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    MultipurposeRN replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    A problem our school ran into when I was teaching clinicals was not just faculty, but enough clinical areas on enough days of the week. We three and sometimes 4 schools w/ various health care majors...