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kcmylorn

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  1. Customer Service at any cost and its effect on burn out and safety??

    kcmylorn replied to PACURN1818's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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.

    kcmylorn replied to ShellyRn1117's topic in General Nursing

    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.

    kcmylorn replied to ShellyRn1117's topic in General Nursing

    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.

    kcmylorn replied to ShellyRn1117's topic in General Nursing

    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.

    kcmylorn replied to ShellyRn1117's topic in General Nursing

    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.

    kcmylorn replied to ShellyRn1117's topic in General Nursing

    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.

    kcmylorn replied to ShellyRn1117's topic in General Nursing

    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

    kcmylorn replied to sweetnurse63's topic in General Nursing

    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

    kcmylorn replied to sweetnurse63's topic in General Nursing

    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. What if a hurricane hit your facility while you were there?

    kcmylorn replied to tiroka03's topic in General Nursing

    I think the marvelous, ever knowledgeble, multi talented ,versatile $4.9 million dollar /year hospital CEO would handle it single

  11. Do most LTC facilities fire for mistake on orientation?

    kcmylorn replied to markfish's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    kcmylorn replied to jimmy the P's topic in General Nursing

    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. Do most LTC facilities fire for mistake on orientation?

    kcmylorn replied to markfish's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    kcmylorn replied to AnneBlunnRN's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    kcmylorn replied to Skylarslaughter's topic in General Nursing

    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

    kcmylorn replied to shhhh's topic in General Nursing

    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

    kcmylorn replied to shhhh's topic in General Nursing

    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

    kcmylorn replied to Jade77's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    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?

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

    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?

    kcmylorn replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    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?

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

    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?

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

    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

    kcmylorn replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    kcmylorn replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Ethics is something that comes with age. And so is seeing the bigger

  25. push back/cancel with no pay

    kcmylorn replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    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...