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  1. Fired for expressing concerns about patient safety and care!

    kcmylorn replied to hkrntobe's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Nursing is becoming a wage slave job- the CEO's and finacial adminstrators and nursing administrations are making it that way- to shut up, nurses who complain about valid issues. Face it- they can't...

  2. Fired for expressing concerns about patient safety and care!

    kcmylorn replied to hkrntobe's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I must admit I have not read all the posts but I can say this for certain- this problem did not begin with Obamacare. This issue has been going on for the 30 years I have been an RN. If you have been...

  3. New to Agency Nursing- and worried

    kcmylorn replied to Dalla's topic in Agency Nurses

    I too am unemployed and in school for my BSN with one kiddo still at home and living off unemployment and child support. I too accepted an agency position for 12 weeks full time doing records...

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

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

    I'm going to add my 2 cents for what ever it is worth- just take some time, mull it over. I think I would consult with an employment attorney first and get some facts from them about your rights and...

  5. NEW GRAD NURSE- Fired after probationary period :(--please help

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

    I'm, sorry this has happened. This makes a very good argument for why new grads belong in the hospital under the tutaledge of an old seasoned nurse preceptor and not out doing home health care...

  6. Do I REALLY need a BSN?

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

    This whole BSN push at this time in the economy - really saddens me. It is such an oximoron. With thinking and bandwagon soapboxes like this- nursing will never add credibility to the profession. I...

  7. Do I REALLY need a BSN?

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

    I know Linda Akien's school of nursing is a very expensive one- private and Ivy league, Univ of Penn.. I had been a traveler in Linda Akiens' Hospital affiliate- HUP for 1 year. I was not impressed...

  8. Do I REALLY need a BSN?

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

    I personally want to see an article being very specific on how BSN's are better than ADN or diploma nurses and how a BSN- give me examples of these "unique professional skills" that they feel BSN's do...

  9. Do I REALLY need a BSN?

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

    I'm not against education or advanced nursing degrees. I don't think any nurse is. BUT in this economy- come on!! Don't these hospital hiring nursing managers and Nursing academia review or read the...

  10. Accept per diem job?

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

    Like Been there, posted- find out exactly what this "per deim" position means. By this i mean- what are their expectations. Do they want you to be avail to them when ever they call? Do you sign up...

  11. Do I REALLY need a BSN?

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

    With an RN and a JD- why would you want bedside nursing?! Why not just go into representing nurses in malpractice cases and state board investigations- the pay has to be better than clincal nursing...

  12. How old is too old to become an APRN? I am 57. is that too old?

    kcmylorn replied to viragoablaze's topic in Advanced Practice

    I think I've been hanging out in all the wrong places on AN- I love this thread too. I'm 56 and will be starting back for my BSN/MSN next week- one class at a time. I do have mixed feeling about this...

  13. Financial aid for laid-off workers

    kcmylorn replied to Guttercat's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Guttercat- I PM'd you. I hope it

  14. Strike nursing

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

    Union is not all about pay and compensation- they protect workers from "at will" and "that time of managment's monthly menstral cycle" terminations. There guidelines, which are the state department...

  15. Strike nursing

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

    Union is not all about pay and compensation- they protect workers from "at will" and "that time of managment's monthly menstral cycle" terminations. There guidelines, which are the state department...

  16. Strike nursing

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

    The way I look at it IS from the regular staff's point of view: and I think it is a realistic view. Let's face it, These hospitals ARE NOT loosing money- bottom line. If they were, as they claim...

  17. I'm burned out

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

    Does this sound like any of our nursing working environments? Why and for whom(which big boss) are we being burned out for? Job Burnout: Job Factors That Contribute to Employee Burnout What Makes...

  18. I'm burned out

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

    I think this is a set of feelings and a place that transends across the licenses. I too am at that place. Five years ago I wanted to go back to be an NP worse than anything: An acute care NP to...

  19. Disgusted - wipes for bathing

    kcmylorn replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    This is one time I have to stick up for the CNA's- I have never found a dirty basin in a patient drawer in 30 years.!! They may be insubordinate, they may be crafty in getting out of their work, they...

  20. Discrimination Against Ethnic/Minority Names

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

    BytheLake- Bravo- I am right there with you. I spoke up for an Asian male RN who was being bullyied by a group of mixed minority and gender identification (lesbian) nurses aids on a telemetry floor....

  21. Discrimination Against Ethnic/Minority Names

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

    I have to speak up here- as a white RN, I was hired for a position I wanted so very badly in a urban minority neighborhood in a public health clinic because it was with the medically underserved,...

  22. Hospitals, a necessary evil

    kcmylorn replied to MorningLight's topic in Holistic

    I think you have valid points and I bet that documentary was eye opening as well. I think it's a very common sense idea.But the PTB in our health care industry will never see it that way because...

  23. Disgusted - wipes for bathing

    kcmylorn replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if the CEO, nursing and hospital adminstrators and their families( including their little princes and princesses) use wipes instead of their showers and bathtubs? I bet their dogs and cats...

  24. Strike nursing

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

    Never tell/force/order/extort an older experience bedside diploma RN to go back and get their BSN, they take college courses and find out other RN's are taking courses to get out of nursing and asking...

  25. Strike nursing

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

    Nursing is in the state it is in because there is not enough unions to stop the outside interference- the short staffing, the unemployment in nursing, the excluding of the older nurses, the lack of...