Laurie52

Laurie52

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  1. Question for a nurse

    Laurie52 replied to preceptsky's topic in General Students

    My guess is that she will be precepted by a nurse from the facility. We have this in the ICU that I work in. The student works with one nurse and follows the nurses schedule. Very little contact...

  2. 2 1/2 year commitment to your hiring unit??

    Laurie52 replied to LisaFis's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It costs between $60,000 and $75,000 to orient a new grad. I think that hospitals are just trying to get some return on their

  3. Something wrong with this picture.

    Laurie52 replied to Mimi2RN's topic in General Nursing

    What about your judgmental

  4. So What Do You Guys Think?

    Laurie52 replied to NewTexasRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Why are you only planning on spending a year in the

  5. How many of you have a BSN

    Laurie52 replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    BSN with additional gradulate

  6. What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    Laurie52 replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I said professional disciplines. If nursing wants to have financial parity with pharmacists and physical therapists they will need to bite the bullet and make BSN the entry level into practice. These...

  7. What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    Laurie52 replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    This entry level into practice discussion has been going on for over 40 years!! Nursing needs to wake up and smell the coffee. There is only one other professional discipline in health care that does...

  8. What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    Laurie52 replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    As more and more health care disciplines require advanced degrees, nursing will have to keep with this trend to be credible. Most of the pharmacists where I work are pharmD and additionally require a...

  9. WOW Projects Does Your Hospital Do These?

    Laurie52 replied to gibbygator's topic in General Nursing

    From what I understand about these projects, they need to be a little more concrete than you describe. After reading about this online some things that come to mind are: --an outreach to provide...

  10. Med errors: subpoena, copy of incident report

    Laurie52 replied to nursing.mypassion's topic in General Nursing

    In the United States any records you keep are discoverable in pretrial motions whereas incident reports are

  11. now disabled...but can still do job..advice wellcome

    Laurie52 replied to carol-j's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I have bone on bone arthritis in both knees. Yes, sometimes at the end of a 10-12 hour shift my knees hurt, but I would never allow my physician to classify me as disabled. It has the potential of...

  12. Suspended for not doing as nursing super ordered

    Laurie52 replied to ED_Bound's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Hard to know exactly what to do. . . . I would have checked in the belongings, documented my conversation with the supervisor in my nursing notes and discussed the incident with my immediate manager...

  13. now disabled...but can still do job..advice wellcome

    Laurie52 replied to carol-j's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I'm not sure what you mean by registered disabled. Could you please expain?

  14. Nurses fighting for everyone

    Laurie52 replied to scecile's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I think we will have to respectfully agree to disagree. Clearly, neither one of us will change the other's mind. Thank you for your respectful discourse and hopefully in the future we can find a...

  15. Dealing with ICU visitors

    Laurie52 replied to leesespieces's topic in MICU, SICU

    I have been an ICU nurse for over 35 years. I know that families can be difficult. I know that they increase my work load. There is, however, one more thing I know. I know what it is like to...

  16. Nurses fighting for everyone

    Laurie52 replied to scecile's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    "Regarding flat tax and national sales tax: these have been promoted for a long time and are just one more way of continuing to shift more and more of the tax burden away from the wealthy and onto...

  17. Nurses fighting for everyone

    Laurie52 replied to scecile's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I would respectfully disagree with you. Any taxes on wall street would be passed on to the consumer. Credit would be much more expensive and any investments that I have would be taxed. I already...

  18. Nurses fighting for everyone

    Laurie52 replied to scecile's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    "A just taxation system where corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share" What exactly is their fair share? Paying their fair share has become the election buzz word in Wisconsin but no one...

  19. Just got a job but not happy with it... what to do?

    Laurie52 replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in General Nursing

    If taking care of patients seems like a step back to you, then I think you need to give some serious consideration to your decision to go to nursing school. Taking care of patients is what nurses...

  20. questioning trauma doc's choice

    Laurie52 replied to nursingmeatball's topic in MICU, SICU

    I am assuming that your concerns are that a commercial wound VAC was not applied. Is that correct? This is how VAC have been done for a long time. My personal feeling is that this works much better...

  21. a new grad's gripes

    Laurie52 replied to LoveActually's topic in MICU, SICU

    Perhaps you were just tired when you posted this, but overall it is really negative and you seem really unhappy about where you work. I really hate it when the ED brings me a pt. on levo, takes them...

  22. Ive just about had it. Rant, and I never rant.

    Laurie52 replied to Sirapples's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a critical care nurse for 35 years and have seen charting increase exponentially over time. I hate all the useless documentation we do. I do, however, feel that a good computer...