zuzi

zuzi

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  1. Can an employer penalize you for calling-in due to illness?

    zuzi replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion: each and every facility need to have a policy and CLEAR rules for sick days and call-in. Each and every facility need to have employee for oncall, PRN or partime hired and READY to be...

  2. Would you want to be your own nurse? Your own patient?

    zuzi replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Oh dear... you don't want to know.... I am a excellent patient with an excelent nurse but you need to stay away from me if you see me just like a carrier of health insurrance and you advice me to take...

  3. Promoting Team Bonding/Spirit on a Unit/Floor

    zuzi replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    To create a team bounding first you need to create a TEAM. A team is build in time and could be destroyed fast by bad decisions. First starts with hiring process... you hired bad people you have bad...

  4. Ideals vs Reality for the Aspiring Nurse

    zuzi replied to Peige's topic in General Nursing

    And a soft one.... what did you learn in school IS PERFECT, what you will see in reality could be: bad, good, perfect, partial perfect, or.... GUIDED by internal politics and policies.....if...

  5. Which nursing jobs are most creative? I'd love some ideas.

    zuzi replied to Diahni's topic in Nursing Career

    In one of my 1001 carriers I worked with deaf kids and mental delay ones, is a pleasure to educate them and a chalange in the same time. Did you try to add "an addictive" song to the images for...

  6. new grad struggling with unit politics and poor performance

    zuzi replied to pinkiepie_RN's topic in General Nursing

    DBL, sorry to hear that about you. My first question is... when they hired you the knew about your mental health issues? Because if so... then NOW, when yourself have concern about yourself, they need...

  7. Speaking of facebook...inappropriate...but am I within my rights...?

    zuzi replied to laurasc's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry that is happen with you somenthing like that! Look how I will think if I was, you! You could not change people you could change just your self! If you belive that is WRONG, and I belive...

  8. Which Field of Nursing Do You Love and Why?

    zuzi replied to Angeljho's topic in General Nursing

    Love Ortho, give me Orthos as many as good, let me there with people and them H&H, sutures stiches, to talk to see, drains, Txs, blood thiners, labs, ROM, weight bearings, pain meds, spinal block,...

  9. How to Show Others You Are Happy While Working...

    zuzi replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Nursing

    Hey you can't look happy when you are not, you are not a plastic face to change one smile with another one? May be you can , I can't is foreign cultural background...if I am happy I am, and generally...

  10. Flirting at working????

    zuzi replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    Try to stay "UNFILTREAD" loooooool, aka please don't try to flirt, american culture is pretty conservative as much I seen here.... french, o la, la, another style .....ok another style, european......

  11. How much do you enjoy being a nurse?..pros, cons..quality of life..happiness?

    zuzi replied to Canadian eh?'s topic in General Nursing

    GO for it, you will be good! You need to give your self a chance! For me... I love to nurse! Is a hard profession, you need to know to know it from beginning, and you need to love to be nurse. You...

  12. If you've ever cried at work...

    zuzi replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry Katie that was happend with you...yes I cried... but what you need to know is crying at work here has totally another meaning than in any other parts of world. I remember that i cried...

  13. If you could build your perfect Nursing Home......how would it be?

    zuzi replied to Ling07's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You could make much more money, but less

  14. If you could build your perfect Nursing Home......how would it be?

    zuzi replied to Ling07's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    OH MY GOD! This is a BIG dream of me... a perfect NURSING HOME! A nursing home is A HOME! Start from here and you will see ALL that you need to have a perfect nursing home! What do you have in a home?...

  15. What Are the Chances of Getting Paid Overtime in a SNF?

    zuzi replied to the_alchemist's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in couple of LTCs and hospital also... just IF you don't, you don't take "lunch time"...is just your option. Nurses tell I don't have time to take my lunch....i am sorry ... I was there and I...

  16. What Are the Chances of Getting Paid Overtime in a SNF?

    zuzi replied to the_alchemist's topic in General Nursing

    First I would like to tell you that NO OVER TIME, really means NO OVER TIME. I will explain you why to be able to understand. All facilities all private ones, is like in my own home , my house is MY...

  17. threatened at work

    zuzi replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    Take it like a "black" joke of faith. At soon you are not hurt and was just verbal...is part of "nursing beauty".... long years ago...and Zuzi was a young nurse, and in OR was a kuku patient, sedated,...

  18. Is it a sin to want a day off?

    zuzi replied to rn4babies63's topic in General Nursing

    Hey....let's over analyze it.... "feeling guilty" means for you REALLY feeling guilty...??? Is it guilt or is fear? You fell guilty if you did a bad think (and not always necessary are a lot of people...

  19. Experienced Nurses:If you would have known then what you know now you would have....

    zuzi replied to NoeIssa's topic in General Nursing

    Belive in your sixth sense if it told you that somenthing is wrong...IS WRONG, how wrong could be... well... depend...from a false alarm...till a closed to

  20. When A Nurse Can't Offer a Hug...

    zuzi replied to Cherybaby's topic in General Nursing

    You talk about hugs? WELL.... THIS LADY is a creepy one! Dosen't matter what is in your head and how creepy you are.... IS MUST to show compassion because you are nurse and when you choosed this...

  21. Open a Window

    zuzi replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sue, a big hug... dear you... Yup the same custom here also... much more three days we let milk and water glasses on the window border and cover the mirrors... the soul of dead person stay 41 days...

  22. Nursing intervention for schizophrenic patient having sex?

    zuzi replied to robinslapsRN's topic in Psychiatric

    What is the policy of facility? What are the psych condition of the two patinets, are stable or not? Is in an acute care setting or not? What you know from them H@P related them behaviors? Did you...

  23. How "for-profit insurers hijack our health care system"

    zuzi replied to travleur's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Do you belive that...?? Well, is possible! But also is possible, another one.... he is a very smart man (I said that?? lol), a super experienced executive, he seen A LOT in his health care management...

  24. How "for-profit insurers hijack our health care system"

    zuzi replied to travleur's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have big, big, big concerns... related why now and not why then before he speaked out....but is a good interview for sure. BIG WORDS... "you think about NUMBERS, you don't think about people!"...

  25. How many of you are on prescription drugs for anxiety, depression, mental health?

    zuzi replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of nurses are on drugs..this is a true that scarred and scarry me a lot! From where I come, people don't drug them self, special nurses! A nurse need to be clean, able to think, to decide good,...