kcmylorn

kcmylorn

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  1. This is why we need socialized medicine, regional medicine or national medicine - what ever one wants to label it. If we take the competition out of the Hospital PTB/CEO/ MBA/MONEY MONGERS/BEAN...
  2. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    I think I would go to the police and file a complaint about her texting you. That's harrasment. You can save those texts and show the
  3. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    Going to the unemployment office is a good sound and very smart idea. When someone goes to the unemployment office this is their chance to be heard and for them to be counted. The unemployment office...
  4. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    I agree, I wouldn't go to their meeting either. I would however let them send you a letter of termination. EVERYTHING you get on paper is to your advantage/ evidence!! And keep it all- it will come in...
  5. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    Sony voice recorder sold @ Staples= $40.00. Plays for 440 hours and fits in your purse the size of an eye glass casr/small. I bought one and brought it to my meeting with HR and My NM when they fired...
  6. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    After reading you post again- you posted, you even documented next to your name/signiture- "given to the wrong patient" that's NOT false documentation- that's documenting the truth! You notified all...
  7. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    I'm not so sure I would contact any one- except a nurse attorney (RN JD) That nurse attorney web site sounds like the best place to start. I would not contact any one from that health care facility....
  8. Terminated over the phone at night

    sweetnurse63- this LTC facility wouldn't happen to be in Burlington County NJ? NJ has a bad reputation for diong this to it's
  9. Terminated over the phone at night

    I am not suprised. That's the way it is in LTC- a revolving door. It's that way in any civilian healthcare institution now a days and has been for the past 4 years. When and how is someone or a...
  10. I think the marvelous, ever knowledgeble, multi talented ,versatile $4.9 million dollar /year hospital CEO would handle it single
  11. Yes, I was fired at the end of my 3 month probation period for documentation omissions- the documentation was just putting your initals on a MARS and TARS. It was Thanksgiving 2009 and it was my day...
  12. Is hospital work like an abusive relationship?

    Yes, Nursing is an abusive spouse relationship. I though I was the only one with that analogy. Been in this abusive relationship for 30 years. I keep trying to get out- it's all we know, nursing....
  13. I was fired for not documenting in one of their MARS or TARS on Thanksgving Day. I guess I didn't document that day- I was my holiday off. Guess I have really long arms. This is what ass***** are...
  14. Is nursing "care" a thing of the past?

    Stop sending nurses to these BSN programs. Chalk up one point for diploma schools of nursing!! But the BSN's know how to Google, facebook, tweet, power point and Excel! And basic nursing has been...
  15. An RN with a Bachelors in Biology instead of BSN?

    You can defniately tell the difference in the nurse. I work for one with only a BS. She is a disaster. The only reason she has the job is her "bachlors degree" The is definately something missing-...
  16. Nurse-Patient Ratios on East Coast

    It's specific examples like this that need to be told to Capital Hill, and the media. not the ambigious bull**** they hear from these "Nurse" in their ivory tower of the ANA, and think
  17. Nurse-Patient Ratios on East Coast

    I have to say the same goes for here in NJ. I worked a tele step down floor in a cardiac/pulmonary hospital( the hospital called it med/ surg) but all pts were monitored, and3 days post CABG, cath w/...
  18. Help PLEASE

    Do NOT be a nurse in NJ.There are no jobs, the working conditions are horrendeous, the nurse managers are the brutal worst- fire for the the least little whim. There are jobs for nurses advertised in...
  19. Do nurses get fired often?

    The above is so true- when a nurse witnesses or knows of a questionable situation, that nurse can count on being terminated or given a rough time to encourage him/her to quit(forced resignation)....
  20. Charge nurse to secretary? Legal issues?

    That's the way we did orders and floor nursing in the B.C(before computers) days. We made due then- we checked our orders regularly, this was built into our time management skills , wrote the orders...
  21. Do nurses get fired often?

    My all time favorite for the Bronze Turd award- Thousands of nurses unemployed or under employed in this country, many more on the brink(aka: not enough money to pay the monthly food and mortgage...
  22. Do nurses get fired often?

    Yes!! nurses get fired alot. It's not always for things that would make sence for a nurse to be fired over- drug diversion, call outs, gross incompetence. Nursing is the flavor of the month club. If...
  23. push back/cancel with no pay

    ESME12- We nurses are the hospitals "perceived" largest expenditures. IN reality - the CEO is the largest expenditure- shh don't tell any one. If word gets out, the healthcare industry might have...
  24. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

    Ethics is something that comes with age. And so is seeing the bigger
  25. push back/cancel with no pay

    What pay cuts have these paragons of humanity/CEO's taken in the past few years. NOTHING!! How much do they earn???? It's all about what's good for the hospital?( this is the guilt trip to justify...