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There are plenty of Home Health nurses in Psych.

You're a Registered Nurse!!!!! You are a highly skilled professional. We really need you there's a nursing shortage you know. Oh by the way!!!! Even though you are already licensed We want you to increase your educational level. You will have to work weekends holidays and of course forced overtime. You will have quite alot of responsibility and paperwook to go with it. We do consider you a white collar professional and have great expectations of you. Welcome aboard glad to have you hope you enjoy your first day!!!!! Oh, by the way me Jones is incontinent x2. We wouldn't dare ask any other medical professional in the building to clean him, they would just refuse and quit. So you have to do it. Don't get your uniform dirty because you will probably get forced tonight. Welcome aboard

No offense to you, but let me clarify that I am referring to upper management in general. I will be the first to say that there are always exceptions to the rule. But in a strange way you help to prove my point. A mid level nurse manager does the math and figures out she's making less than her subordinates. I believe you fall into the category of the Socially Engineered Nurse doing more and more and getting paid less and less. Sounds like your work-place has white collar expectations of you but are paying you a blue collar wage. Your profile says you have 27years nursing experience. Are you being compensated justly for that??? My guess is NO!!!!! I hope you show them your math equations when you ask for that big raise.

All nurses in the United States have been socially engineered by the system to accept this type of treatment. Most nurse policy is written nurses who have a disconeect from the average working nurse and don't usually practice real day to day nursing for which they are writing policy for. Policy writing nurses are not the ones getting the forced overtime, working holidays and dealing with increased patient loads. I think nurses as a whole we should advocate for nurses who actually work the job to be writing policy for it, not a nurse that had thier last patient care experience 20+ years ago. How many of your upper management nurses are getting forced overtime and working weekends and holidays???????

Well from all the info I have gotten here and various other sources, it appears a nurse must take a certifying course to be considered a first responder. Thanks everyone for your replies. See you in class

I am a Registered Nurse in MA, I am also a part-time Sheriff. I was informed that I must take a first responder course in order to continue working as a Sheriff. Would a registered Nurse be considered trained to the level of a first responder or above? Thanks in advance for any help