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kcmylorn

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  1. Going full time at a hospital in which you work for agency?

    kcmylorn replied to NurseCard's topic in Agency Nurses

    I know some agencies have waiting periods( or used to)- some are 3 months, some are 6 months and some are 1 year. I did that when I worked travel and went to work full time staff at one of the...

  2. New Health Care Bill

    kcmylorn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    cpl- perhaps to understand my post you should do some reading in Sociology, more specifically, reading under subcultures and why they exist. I believe the sociologists have well documented the effects...

  3. New Health Care Bill

    kcmylorn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why don't you just take care of your patients and stop judging

  4. New Health Care Bill

    kcmylorn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Not a Hat- I totally agree. If the Canadian PM of Newfoundland could not afford to payout of pocket to have his surgery in Miami - he would not have, unless there was no one in Canada could perform...

  5. New Health Care Bill

    kcmylorn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Perhaps you are proposing a elitist society, discriminating against that woman sitting eating a burgers- which are cheap food with no nurtirional value, or the person buying cigarettes, and the person...

  6. New Health Care Bill

    kcmylorn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I believe the right to earn a living comes under the 'Pursuit of Happiness', I also think 'right to life' would also mean

  7. New Health Care Bill

    kcmylorn replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What Is 'Socialized Medicine'?: A Taxonomy of Health Care Systems - NYTimes.com - Socialized medicine and universal health insurance plan/ affordable care act are 2 different things. Socialized...

  8. Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

    kcmylorn replied to rntj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All this AIDET stuff is to get MR/MS CEO their big multi million dollar bonus. I had to chuckle yesterday on my way to work- I was driving behind the ******* truck delivering Lunch meat to the grocery...

  9. Have CNAs bullied nurses (RNs/LPNs)?

    kcmylorn replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    netta- if more CNA's had your philosphy and work ethic, the job would be a more rewarding and pleasurable place. Thank you for being the CNA you

  10. Have CNAs bullied nurses (RNs/LPNs)?

    kcmylorn replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In a word- YES. In another work- we are forced to prostitute our RN license to the these uneducated people that are the equivalant of bullying, threatening, extorting and intimadating

  11. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    No, not really- misrepresenting yourself as a licened professional when you are neither- licenced and do not meet the critera to be called, labed,referred to or classified as a "professional" is...

  12. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think Medical Assistants can be considered "professionals". To be a 'Profession' there must be certain criteria. 2 of which the Medical Assistant does not have- Licensing and Work Autonomy.I'm...

  13. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    It is not"more patient friendly " to allow patients to think they are communicating with a licensed qualified "Nurse" when infact they are communicating and obtaining serious health information from a...

  14. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    An MA calling themselve or allowing patient's to continue to call,adress or referrto them as a 'nurse", is a criminal act of fraud- as the position statement from the NYSNA clearly, in plain English...

  15. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    I found discussion on this on the the New York State Nursing Associations's website. It's a position statement on Utilizing UAP's. I am not from NY state. I do not work in NY state but all states have...

  16. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. It is a sorting or allocating prioity . Triage involves clinical judgement. Medical...

  17. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    The problem is with the system. The healthcare system allows this fraud to go on because it is cheap. It is cheaper to hire a non licensed personel than to hire a licensed RN. I say Rn because and LPN...

  18. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    It's fraud and it needs to be dealt with as

  19. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    The original poster clearly stated Ashley was giving her advise. Ashley was indeed practicing nursing without a license.We have all read about people impersonating Doctors and practicing medicine:...

  20. Another rant regarding MA's and Nurses

    kcmylorn replied to samirish's topic in General Nursing

    This may not be a popular answer or one in vogue but I do think it is reportable to the state. It is fraud. No one can identfy them selves as a nurse idf they are not licensed. If the nature of your...

  21. 1 year decision: contract job vs perm, need advice

    kcmylorn replied to Sniped4Life's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Ginger's mom. Agency nursing is a hit the ground running position. I did agency travel for 3 years. I had over 25 yrs experience when I did it. The orientation is not 1 week it more like...

  22. Mass patient Incidence

    kcmylorn replied to Reydel's topic in General Nursing

    What happened to the days of doing your own homework assignments? Research your subject matter- you have more avail to you today then we did 35 yr ago We had to go to a place called THE Library" No...

  23. Why is unionization a subject of taboo??

    kcmylorn replied to wanderlustRN24's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I feel that if nurses were unionized- there would be a manadatory safe staffing law across the board/country not just in small pockets of the country where there is a union and the employers have a...

  24. New Nurse 4 Med errors in 6 months

    kcmylorn replied to lpncharlie's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you should beat your self up with negative self talk. This is a SYSTEM problem. (repeat that several times to yourself) This is called 'Short staffing', dangerous staffing levels 1 nurse...

  25. Why is unionization a subject of taboo??

    kcmylorn replied to wanderlustRN24's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I just want to throw this out there. I heard the other day that the hospital I used to work at, which was union when I worked there but is no more, are hiring younger less experienced nurses because...