CaptKris

The problem is the lack of direct feedback to upper management. No one says no to the CNO. They may say, "That will be difficult", but not "no that's dumb" because it is career suicide. It's like a group of people all standing around smelling the...

I'm looking for some information/clarification to how these quality measures are reported. Specifically journal articles or places to research. Here's the situation. My background is in hospice services and we work with a variety of patients through...

I work at a big hospice in floria. Our's is divided up among different divisions such as LTC, Home, Hospital. We staff every hospital in the area and on a good day I do one admit and 2 info visits. Hospice is like med-surg in reverse but you've go...

it's a lot of meds. My employer reimburses for the test if you pass and gives you a small bonus but it costs about $350 for the test and you get $500 - taxes bonus. To me it seems like a wash. The only people that take it and pass it are those th...

Sorry but the above is the exact reason why EHR is complex and cumbersome. Both posters above are defending the systems complexity by saying that it needs to be complex to achieve its goal. "Why can't you understand me, I'm a people person"- Office...

I'm ready to be done....

and with this stroke of a pen, doctors and nurses will appear and fix decades worth of bad management and hiring practices.

Ever have a patient start flooding the sinks in the ED because dilaudid is not prescribed... other great responses I'm not an alcoholic but someone has been spiking my gatorade with vodka I don't know where that 1.75L bottle of vodka came from bu...

Anyone in this class? I'm getting that excited feeling as I run out of classes to take. Any one with experience want to give me tips for what to expect? Weeks that will kill me? Looking like a lot of fun according to the syllabus.

Well that was over quickly... really not much to it.. if you didn't get an A or B in that class.. you probably didn't try.. the quizzes were based on the text right before the quiz.. the papers, although thorough, were simple and straight f...

I use K-Swiss Tubes.... and not because they made the most awesome commercial for it... but it does help to be the MFCEO of the nursing floor...

Here's how it works. You're going to go through this critique of her preselected paper. Each week. At the end. You are going to redo every question every group member did with every ounce of instructor feedback incorporated on a research article y...

I worked a couple of months of night shift and I'll work some occasional shifts but I knew night shift wasn't for me when my 3 year old would see me getting dressed in scrubs and get frustrated while saying "you goto work now daddy". Night shift hon...

What I find bizarre is that a Nurse must go before a health committee full of people who do not live on the front lines nor have direct involvement to air staffing issues. At our hospital, we have a CNO advisory council that meets bi-monthly where e...

nursing research was a crap storm masked as a chinese fire drill. We got a B in it. I walked out of that final paper grade going ZOMG.. I can't believe we pulled that off. on day 1. our group all exchanged email and cell numbers and started a gr...

I'm 6'8" and the aviators fit me great... I get them custom length and custom pants..

Yeah begin to rotate your sleep schedule the night before... and if you've got kids/fam, you'll need to rotate it back. So if I were you, clump your schedule into 3 in a row.

When searching to get into the informatics field of nursing, I see alot of people go through the EMR trainer specialist/tech support position. Finding what is a proper pay for that position is much harder. I get numbers all over the place when sear...

I wear my carharrt camo jacket hunting. It's the best thing out there. So warm and after 4 seasons still looks new. I'm definitely down on their scrubs.

This is the difference between the legal terms of "internship". An intern is not actually supposed to complete any work solo. Much like a student. It would be a violation of labor laws if an intern took a patient solo for a shift. So the employee...

As someone who likes to see how the unions work in a public environment, I find it hard to believe that, if unions wish to keep prospering, they expect workers to vote for them then wait years for the benefits. In the information age, nothing takes ...

Yeah I'm 6'8" 300+ line backer size. Patients have never been scared even on my OB rotation in school, and my obese patients like it. No 5'3" girl is going to scoot their oversized rear off the bed onto a bedside commode.

Do you feel that the hospital was better off with the union? Short of the whole "rah rah" promotion aspect, did they actually improve working conditions at all? Were better managers hired and the staff better trained? Were patient ratios better or...

"disregard women. acquire currency." that will be the best advice ever given in this thread. you're there for studies, not random hookups. the instance you take your eye off the prize and start looking at someone else's prize is when you get su...

A real manager will recognize "chronic lateness" with a different name. Time theif. A time thief knows that at 7:07 and 30 seconds, the clocking in system will report her back at "on time 7:00" 1 second after that it clocks her in at 7:15. You can...