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Why do nurse managers always solve a conflict between 2 staf members with a meeting with the 2 conflicting staffers? I have never found this to be helpful. I find it only creates long lasting ill awkward feelings between the 2 parties involved and no...

InfirmiereJolie - don't you think that if you are a licensed nurse, you should atleast have more up- to- date information/references on the subject matter/mental health care- atleast something more recent than than 1965. Perhaps you should study up o...

[h=6]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/science/scientists-to-seek-clues-to-violence-in-genome-of-gunman-in-newtown-conn.html?ref=us&_r=0 News Analysis[/h][h=1]Seeking Answers in Genome of Gunman[/h] Genomic analysis will be used to study the DNA...

[COLOR=#0066cc]http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/states/lauraslawindex.html Involuntary Outpatient Commitment AOT Research[h=2]Research on Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT (Involuntary Outpatient Commitment)[/h]SUMMARY: Forty-four states permit the us...

Why not go to unemployment- at least apply for it and see what they say. Don't assume that you don't qualify and don't believe every thing the employer/hospital/nurse manager tells you- they don't know the unemployment rights and laws as I have found...

I'm not a new grad, but an old experienced RN who can't find a position around the Philly area. When I interviewed for positions far away, 50+miles, I got the stupid question from the HR and Nurse manager- "why so far away from where you live?" Do th...

I'm finding this ban gun posts alittle long winded and pretty boring, along with the nit picking of every sentance made by posters with the opposing view. All the banning in the world is not going to stop someone who is mentally distubed from getti...

Our police are over burdened now with trying to stop the drug trafficking. What are they going to do when gun smuggling comes to town. You all know that when we ban all guns, there are still going to be those that want to keep a weapon in their home-...

I am not a fan, nor am I a member of the NRA. I do not own a gun, I have ever seen a "real gun" nor have I ever owned a gun. I am terrified of guns. This would not be something I would have in my own home. I am not psych nurse, nor have I ever been...

I wish the nurses of this upcoming strke on Dec 24 much luck and success. I know for me- I am seeking employment out of nursing come the first business day following christmas. I can not afford to remain in nursing any longer after 32 years. I will l...

I am just opininionating here- I read yesterday, that kid's mother also grew up around guns. She was described as being from a "gun culture". She grew up in New Hampshire- which has many rural areas. The paternal side of my family is from NH and sti...

Nurse Karen, What about sending that ppetition to the DHS and NIH?

You are not alone- I'm in a similar boat. I got screwed by an agency- promised me extra money per hour for doing a shift no one wanted- then they refused to give me my pay stub and I know I didn't get the extra money. Went to unemployment. I got my ...

That has to United Healthcare- I took that test also. I am not sure if I am on their auto reject list. I will try it to see.

so you are in favor of studying the mating habits of the pot-bellied spotted howling gecko wombat :)? just kiddin, i understand what you are saying. my random thoughts are not always the best lol Probably have a better chance of getting a job doing t...

Going back to what someone posted earlier- about the violence in music, in video games and on TV- the how detached society has become with facebook, twitter etc, and the way our society is, I would love to see a large scale concerted effort on all th...

My thought is- even if we had laws to ban all guns, there would still be smuggling and those that want, will get them. Just like illegal drugs. There still remains the core issue of mental health and how poor our mental health system is- lack of acce...

Did managment offer a movie ticket out of their TOOL box?

I have never heard of declotting a PICC with TPN- Is this something new? I was a bedside acute care nurse for 30 years up until 2 years ago- never declotted a PICC with TPN. Protocals differ in the hopsital, was always a streptokinase or a heparin s...

I don't think the original poster is taking it lightly. I think having worked in another place other than nursing, when she finally did get into the working world of nursing, she knew there is something seriously wrong with the "nursing work environm...

I think it would have be interesting( and probably a good laugh) for that reporter to ask that HR person-Gay Westfall, if the reasons for the picketing were not short staffing and a threat of a layoff- "What does SHE think the reason for the nurses p...

I wish I could find a permanent postion that was out of nursing and be done with nursing forever- let all the some one else's who have no fromal education in nursing do it. The CEO's, the HR trash, the secretaries, the project managers, these bird b...

You are right Testa- And it is that waste of money that is the reason why we nurses are not paid what they used to be paid, why new grads can't get their first jobs , why there is no competent orientation periods for them or nurses new to the these f...

It is too much. It's way too much. Every other industry took a big hit in pay scale, doctors took a big hit in payscale, nurses have taking a big hit in payscale, Engineers took a big hit in payscale, Some lawyers took a big hit in payscale. What's t...

Tell them to settle it amongst themselves. That's what the nurses are told to do.