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  1. Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients to begin on Monday Oct 1,2012

    kcmylorn posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/09/30/medicare-fines-over-hospitals-readmitted-patients/1603827/ Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patientsding... By RICARDO...

  2. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

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

    And who did that for you-the nurse with all the responsibility for their actions or lack there of!! After all- you passed out meds for "Their" residents, you assessed"Their" residents, you called...

  3. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

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

    MotherRN- just out of curiosity, what were your grades like compared to hers? Is it possible she felt your being there was going to rock her boat and make her look bad? She probably had it out for you...

  4. Does Obamacare 2014 allow only BSRN to sit for NCLEX-RN?

    kcmylorn replied to Streamline2010's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yep, that helps alot- ADN's and diploma RN's do absolutely no critical thinking. Hey Sandra Dee-"schooling" "vocational skills" can we please stop yapping like we are from a bad"Tammy and the...

  5. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

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

    !!! Yep, that's pretty much how nursing goes. I personaly think nursing school is wasting their time teaching all those nursey things- the only 2 courses they need is sabotage and bullying and lazy...

  6. FIRED I didn't even see it coming , Please advise

    kcmylorn replied to Ms.MayaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My guess is- you were not being judged on your work ethic, your morals, medical ethics, your skills, you nursing capabilities or knowledge. You were being judged on whether "they" liked you!!...

  7. I am now too expensive and too experience to get a new job!

    kcmylorn replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    The reason your not getting along with your manager is probably because you know more than they do- the manager feels threatend. Why nursing continuiously gives managerial positions to those with such...

  8. I am now too expensive and too experience to get a new job!

    kcmylorn replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Agencies are giving the open contracts and choice shifts to younger nurses. I know, I am an agency nurse. The people in the offices assigning these shifts are non nurses- they are 20 yr olds who just...

  9. I am now too expensive and too experience to get a new job!

    kcmylorn replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe if nurses would start reporting these employers to their departments of labor and the EEOC, the problem would stop. Age-ism is not that hard to prove- it just takes asking yourself"are you being...

  10. Rate of sexual harassment occurrences at a hospital?

    kcmylorn replied to lis4b's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I haven't seen sexual harassment. I think the docs pretty much know who they can slap on the butt and who they can't. They are not that dumb. They don't want to be involved in a very lucrative out of...

  11. Agency PRN

    kcmylorn replied to TLS1's topic in Agency Nurses

    That is the risk we agency nurses run. Why anyone would think agency is a 'glam job' and getting 'big buck' saaries is beyond me. I get so sick and tired of the grand majority of nursing not knowing...

  12. Weird, but missing my old state's nurses union!

    kcmylorn replied to llbCCRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    The way it is in Ohio, is the way it is in most states. There are more Ohio-ish conditions than there are California - ish conditions. As long as nursing keeps letting employers get away this, the...

  13. Lost my first nursing job... now how do I find another?

    kcmylorn replied to 071911's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    The alternative to the lawsuit would be to write a letter to JCAHO giving details of the insident and what is suspected, hiring to fill a position to use a warm body for a survey prop and dismissing...

  14. Lost my first nursing job... now how do I find another?

    kcmylorn replied to 071911's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I still have to question, where is managment's judgment in hiring a new grad vs a nurse with experience into a night shift position alone? If health care is a business, wouldn't it be good business...

  15. It's a Myth that it takes thousands of dollars to train a new Grad RN

    kcmylorn replied to andywolfe's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know where managment got their figures from. I'm just swallowing the managment Kool-aid like a good little

  16. It's a Myth that it takes thousands of dollars to train a new Grad RN

    kcmylorn replied to andywolfe's topic in First Year After Licensure

    $60,000 to train a new grad is what managment told me in our preceptor class back in

  17. Getting a job - from the employers perspective

    kcmylorn replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    The crazy thing about this- I never opened my mouth to those I mentioned. I just don't respond to them. I let them go about their merry way thinking they are ABSOLUTELY correct. I don't dispell any...

  18. Getting a job - from the employers perspective

    kcmylorn replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    In continuing with the same vein as New Man suggests: I have another experience I would like to share. I went for an interview back in 2010 while still working perdeim at the cardiac speciality...

  19. Getting a job - from the employers perspective

    kcmylorn replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    cape cod- like CP2013 posted, what do you define as 'qualified' what are you looking for in a nurse to hire to do LTC? And like New Man posted- maybe it's not the candidates but the hiring managers...

  20. Getting a job - from the employers perspective

    kcmylorn replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    What about the older experienced nurse with only an diploma and 30 years of acute care experience that hasn't been able to get a full time steady position in 4 years and have some how managed to...

  21. Lost my first nursing job... now how do I find another?

    kcmylorn replied to 071911's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    FMF- do you not feel the the fault lies with managment? If as you said, you are or were management with many many years experience and feel that the position should be held by some one with at least...

  22. Written up and confused.

    kcmylorn replied to pageturnstyle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    How old is your nursing manager- 4 yrs old. I have heard some dumb things in my day, but needing an orer to syction a DNR hopsice patient is probably the dumbest!!!!!! Is this what we have coming out...

  23. Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients to begin on Monday Oct 1,2012

    kcmylorn replied to kcmylorn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think cutting the funding to home health, and therefore the usage of home health is cutting the nose off to spite the face. How are we to get continium of care if Home care benes are cut? Has any of...

  24. Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients to begin on Monday Oct 1,2012

    kcmylorn replied to kcmylorn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There are quite a few hospitals in my area that have nurse navigators. and there is a company around me who is contracted by the patient's insurance company as a benefit, to do nurse navigator. The...

  25. Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients to begin on Monday Oct 1,2012

    kcmylorn replied to kcmylorn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I see this as identifying problems with diligent monitoring of patients while still in the hospital. I recall while working on a cardiopulmonary step down back in 2010, a post thoracotomy patient I...