Ella Halligan RN

After everything you have heard here about the necessary experience.... and they are still hot to trot for a new grad? I repeat my earlier concern: why can't they attract/keep experienced staff?

I'm sure they HAVE picked up on a few phrases. Most of them would have to do with their everyday lives, though... OUR everyday lives involve medical phrases. Most people's don't, though. As for all of those custodians, kitchen workers, switch board o...

It's not easy being the new one on the floor... no matter how long you've been a nurse! That being said... there are jobs anyone can do, and there are jobs only RNs can do. Anyone can put a patient on a bedpan. Only you can give pain meds. When I was...

Well, as someone who on my mother's side of the family is Polish gypsy and Jewish, as someone who did lose family members there, and as someone who has physically been there..... I have legitimate reason for concern. But, if you go back and read, MOS...

it probably wouldn't. but, if you had one specific language that you knew you were going to encounter every single shift (or even the majority of shifts) wouldn't it make sense to learn at least a little of it? i don't know... i guess i just don't un...

CAN an employer choose to fire an employee for this? Sure, they can. Can an employee choose to sue that employer for that decision? Absolutely. Will the employee or employer prevail in court? That depends upon any number of factors. There are certain...

There IS another scientifically supported opinion. It is using the precautions we have in place already (whether you entered nursing at the time they were called standard or universal or whatever new term is next around the corner.) Wash your hands b...

No, and apparently you can't see a difference between being forced to inject something IN to your body that may have adverse medical consequences that are unforeseen at the time of the injection and giving a urine sample. Giving a urine sample doesn'...

I have no clue who Godwin is. My name is Elisabeth. I am married to my husband Steven, which if you went to my profile and the link to one of my Squidoo sites you would see that. I have seven children ranging in age from 18 years to 16 months. I have...

I seriously do NOT get this attitude. Yes, every now and then it would cause a problem. But before I moved here (Idaho) my patient base was 90% Hispanic and a large portion of them only spoke Spanish. I didn't learn Spanish to make THEIR lives easier...

The fact is that no one is addressing the actual point: There is a non-invasive way to accomplish the same goal. But hey, if throwing out one-liners because you can't argue that legitimate point makes you feel good, go for it.

No, but in the case above.... they did.

You may feel it is specious. As someone who spent a great deal of time behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet controlled Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Germany, who has walked through the gas chambers at Dachau and Auschwitz, I guarantee you that it ...

You can keep repeating that, it won't make it true. My father worked in human resources and employment law for many years. Even at-will employment in right-to-work states can be contested in a court of law. In addition, the rights fought for and wo...

And if it was not made a condition of employment when that person was hired, that person has a case for wrongful termination. A good employee who does their job faithfully and well, abides by universal precautions (which actually DOES protect patient...

My employer has the right to insist that I be productive and work within the rules in terms of allowed sick days and time off. It does not have the right to tell me HOW I must protect my health.

Agreed. I'd far rather see people standing up for the right to bodily integrity than "play along" with a facade and charade. There are legitimate reasons that all states have some form of "opt-out" for vaccinations. Where does it stop? If the govern...

Well, the previous post listed the exact law and the lawsuits brought forth under it and the latest case. Feel free to look them up at any time. In the meantime, I am going reiterate my premise of bodily integrity. Could you imagine the hullaballoo ...

Amazingly, stating "people are not thinking" (a general statement) is not the same as saying that you specifically aren't thinking. I wasn't responding JUST to you. It was to the thread as a whole. As a previous poster noted, so far the times that it...

That used to drive me nuts, too!!! Nothing quite like having the translator ask a question that the family didn't understand when I asked it, only to have the translator use the exact same words with the exact same inflection that I did... and they u...

Then maybe staff should be washing their hands and following universal precautions. Otherwise, any number of the other strains of the flu NOT protected against by that year's shot can still be communicate to the patients. Not to mention all of the ge...

Not after the fact, they can't! If it isn't a condition of employment when you are hired then they are opening themselves to massive wrongful termination suits by trying to force it in later. (Yes, even in "at will" employment.) And I wouldn't agree ...

Unfortunately, we knew him to be heavily armed. We got security (ours were actual officers with guns, joy of being an inner city county hospital) there quickly and they escorted him off. It was a weird few days... we had armed guards at the entrance ...

It's designed to see if someone can think and can express themselves. You don't have to be Einstein or a professional speaker.... but you do have to show that there is some "stuff" up there and that you know how to use it! There is also a certain "ar...

My father didn't work in nursing, but he did work in human resources and hiring. The job description requirements (other than things like mandatory licenses, etc.) are a wish list... sure, they'd LOVE to have someone apply who had all that... but if ...