RN4NICU

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  1. That Johnson & Johnson commercial!!!!!!!!!!!

    RN4NICU replied to jad2's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely

  2. "undercover" patients in New Mexico

    RN4NICU replied to mscsrjhm's topic in General Nursing

    I think this "program" is a ridiculous waste of time and resources!! It takes nurses away from the real patients. Shame on those who do this! Ooohh this makes me so mad! :angryfire Imagine being a...

  3. Buying your own scrubs.... hygienic????

    RN4NICU replied to leslieanne's topic in General Nursing

    U.S. hospitals are too cheap to provide scrubs for all their staff. And I'd be willing to bet that many, if not most of the people you see running around town in scrubs are NOT nurses. They probably...

  4. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

    RN4NICU replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Don't know who told you that, but I've seen many wrongful termination suits - where the employee was truly right - get thrown by the wayside in court because of at-will employment. One example was a...

  5. Nurses caps!

    RN4NICU replied to FERTMYRTOBRN's topic in General Nursing

    Brand new sparkly white shoes may look pretty, but they hurt like h*ll after 13 hours on your feet. And these are high quality cross-trainers, not Walmart shoes or "nurses shoes" that hurt my feet...

  6. Nurses caps!

    RN4NICU replied to FERTMYRTOBRN's topic in General Nursing

    Outside of LTC, they really are not appropriate/practical to the work setting. For example, if I wore a cap in the NICU, I would probably ignite it under the radiant warmer (there have been times when...

  7. Home Health Nurse Safety

    RN4NICU replied to JULESNYRN's topic in Home Health

    I see where you are coming from, but my thoughts are nurse safety over confidentiality. Confidentiality would not be violated to the point that condition or reason for visit would be released....

  8. Coool...We may be doing face transplants in the near future

    RN4NICU replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    They also reattached the face of that woman who was attacked by a mountain lion on a biking trail in CA. They are doing all this through plastics. She has several surgeries to go, and they are...

  9. Coool...We may be doing face transplants in the near future

    RN4NICU replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wouldn't a face transplant change the underlying musculature as well? I'm wondering how deep they would go. Just transplanting the skin? Why not just graft - it seems like that would "take" better...

  10. Coool...We may be doing face transplants in the near future

    RN4NICU replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    That will be a blessing for sex offenders, escaped criminals, etc. who want to alter their appearance, wouldn't you

  11. Nurse Abandonment - What does it constitute?

    RN4NICU replied to nightingale's topic in General Nursing

    About your article, It is my understanding that the FL nurses were fired for insubordination, not charged with patient abandonment. If you check out this thread on the subject, you'll also see that...

  12. HELP...... Need Your Advice!

    RN4NICU replied to Ari RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ari, the facility that trained me for OR had a similar stipulation. They did not require us to pay tuition upfront, but we would have to pay it back if we left before having worked there for a year....

  13. NLN vs. CCNE?

    RN4NICU replied to MDEMT280's topic in Nursing Career

    Personally, I wouldn't attend a school that, out of sheer ignorance, considered the NLN the "be all end all". CCNE is very legitimate and any university program that is not current on accreditation...

  14. Pay rate poll

    RN4NICU replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    LVN is equivalent to LPN They are called one or the other depending on what state you are in. CA and I believe one other state calls them Licensed Vocational

  15. med aide

    RN4NICU replied to dogresQer's topic in General Nursing

    the more you are around nursing, the more you will come to see that most aspects of the job/career are not fair. your license could be put in jeopardy due to the actions of others in so many ways, i...

  16. MA's Calling Themselves Nurses?

    RN4NICU replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    That's how it was in my program too. Two chances to score 100% - get it or you're out. In one of my previous posts, I put information from an MA training program - the one where I was aghast over...

  17. Do You Regret Becoming A Nurse?

    RN4NICU replied to ladylou88's topic in General Nursing

    I am a NICU nurse and there are days that I do regret becoming a nurse. I only work part time right now, which has made me infinitely happier with my career. I'm past the point where I want to be...

  18. New Mothers Groped by Lab Technician

    RN4NICU replied to ERNurse752's topic in General Nursing

    That was my thought exactly - since when do lab techs do ANY kind of physical exams?? They can look for a vein, but that is as far as they go. He probably sings in the choir. It seems that type...

  19. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

    RN4NICU replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    My thoughts. At-will employment does not offer protection from being released from your position, even on a "bogus" charge. You can pursue wrongful termination, but it seems to me a roll of the...

  20. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

    RN4NICU replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You have to admit - the tone this poster has used with those who have already responded does not exactly make people want to help. OP has "virtually" bit the head off everyone who has offered...

  21. med aide

    RN4NICU replied to dogresQer's topic in General Nursing

    Hi! This wasn't "to" me but I'd like to respond. I am one who believes that meds are a nursing function, period. There is SO much more to safely giving meds than just the 5 rights. You need to know...

  22. Hourly vs Exempt Salaries

    RN4NICU replied to pumpkin's topic in General Nursing

    When you are working as a nurse in the clinical setting, you cannot leave early. You can't take off at 2:00 when your replacement doesn't arrive until 3:00 or 5:00 or 7:00 (well you CAN if you don't...

  23. Does Johnson & Johnson Commercial Really Help Nursing?

    RN4NICU replied to Snoopd's topic in General Nursing

    It's great to try to lure nurses into the field. It does absolutely nothing to make people want to stay in the field, once they have been suckered into thinking that nursing is great. Why focus on...

  24. Nurses, Will you work OT for straight pay?

    RN4NICU replied to klondike's topic in General Nursing

    Big surprise face:stone Good ol' Bush - make the rich richer off the backs of the poor and

  25. Not sure if I want to be a nurse....

    RN4NICU replied to RN-04's topic in General Nursing

    I bet they are too ashamed to do a study. If a study proved what all of us know - high attrition rates in nursing - people would ask "why?" Especially those that the J&J "Be a nurse, Dare to...