CHESSIE

CHESSIE

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  1. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    We are not a Democracy nor are we a Republic. You stated yourself when you said "the top 1% captured 95% of the wealth." We are now an Oligarchy. The Republican Party talks constantly about "Smaller...

  2. Do RNs get extra pay for working with students?

    CHESSIE replied to johndough's topic in General Nursing

    jrwest, I certainly do not blame you for 'looking for a way out,' but I hope that it is in the medical field as I am sure that your knowledge and skill can be utilized. I know that some of my former...

  3. Do RNs get extra pay for working with students?

    CHESSIE replied to johndough's topic in General Nursing

    I retired over twelve years ago. So, you can call me an "old fart," who is out of the loop. However, from what I am reading, it appears that nursing education, is not what it should be. Where are the...

  4. Do RNs get extra pay for working with students?

    CHESSIE replied to johndough's topic in General Nursing

    First we must address the issue of short staffing. If there is sufficient staffing, I would think that part of our responsibility would be to help students and new graduates be all that they can...

  5. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Diane, that is exactly what I said, this congress would never agree to a Medicare for All type of health care. We need a Democrat in the WH and a strong voice of Democrats in the House and Senate....

  6. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Diane, need to get the insurance companies out of health care! We need a Medicare for All, single payer system. Health care is a right, not just a privilege for a few with wealth. However, until our...

  7. Would you quit over white uniforms?

    CHESSIE replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    If, prior to my retirement, I had been made to wear white, again, as I did when I first entered nursing in the mid 1950s, I would have complied, as long as I, and my coworkers, were given sufficient...

  8. Nurses Fight Back! Why Some Hospitals are Despicable

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I am happily retired, but a former neighbor was a new BS grad and thrown into an untenable situation, such as you describe. She, willing, admitted that her clinical knowledge was lacking although she...

  9. Nurses Fight Back! Why Some Hospitals are Despicable

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Twenty five years ago, our local paper employed an investigative journalist. She "dug deeply" into some nasty issues regarding our local hospital, and it ended up having the CEO dismissed. For a while...

  10. Nurses Fight Back! Why Some Hospitals are Despicable

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    It is not just "for profit" hospitals that have the issue that you eloquently describe. I worked for a "non profit hospital," and retired over ten years ago. This "non profit" hospital, and all...

  11. 4th Jokes

    CHESSIE replied to kidfloat's topic in Nursing Humor

    Do not be too sure that "you will not care what you look like at 80." I am very close to being 80, I am still active, albeit, no longer employed as a RN, and yes, I do care about my appearance. That...

  12. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    It is not the ACA, which although it is a program that must be expanded and changed so that insurance companies are eliminated. They are making too much profit, even though it was "cut" to being able...

  13. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    All hospitals should have experienced RNs, such as yourself, to mentoring new RNs. Many of these recent grads are second career RNs with Bachelor degrees, but most, unless they were LPNs or ADNs prior...

  14. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    The ACA is not to blame for what is happening to health care. If anything, despite the fact that insurance companies still make huge profits and can dictate lengths of hospitalizations, more people...

  15. 4th Jokes

    CHESSIE replied to kidfloat's topic in Nursing Humor

    Can you imagine what those dragons, butterflies, and other tattoos, that may "look cool" on a person in their 20s or 30s will look like when they are 80? It will only be a "joke" to someone who is an...

  16. The Patient's "Guests"

    CHESSIE replied to rnsheri's topic in Nursing Humor

    When you have walked in the shoes of an RN/LPN for a couple of years, please write again. As nurses, believe me, we see it all. Do we use humor and sometimes dark humor? Yes, we do, as this is what it...

  17. Bedpan? Why not a Poise pad?

    CHESSIE replied to TryVeganToday's topic in General Nursing

    I've been retired for ten years, but my husband was recently hospitalized. Staffing was dangerously low, so I stayed with my husband and gave him most of his care. This particular hospital wanted to...

  18. Bedpan? Why not a Poise pad?

    CHESSIE replied to TryVeganToday's topic in General Nursing

    When my husband was hospitalized, recently, the unit was very short staffed, so I stayed and cared for him. The wonderful RNs who were assigned to that unit felt that soon they would be asked to wear...

  19. doctor's office gripe

    CHESSIE replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Nola, this is why we need a single payer system of health care. The PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Plan) have advocated this for years, and they suggest a Medicare for All type of system. More...

  20. doctor's office gripe

    CHESSIE replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I hope that you are able to find another physician. My former PCP died, fortunately, I found and fabulous internist upon the advice of another doctor friend who practiced in another state, but knew...

  21. Would you quit over white uniforms?

    CHESSIE replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    White uniforms, blue uniforms, purple uniforms, who cares as long as they are pressed and neat? The issue in nursing is staffing or lack thereof, and the lack of collegiality of staff. The lack of...

  22. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    The situation, of which you speak, is true. It started escalating downward for nurses in the 1980s this was during the Reagan administration of "trickle down economics" a.k.a., policies that only work...

  23. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I am a retired "dinosaur," and would do as you did, when we had students rotating to the unit where I worked. You are now retired, from what I read at the end of your post, but during your employment,...

  24. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Unions do try to do their best, but the "big guns," of administration are far more powerful. Just look around your area, and if it is anything like my area, any doctor who "dares" to open his/her own...

  25. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    CHESSIE replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Would administration begin to comprehend? Would they, still, criticize that nurses were not working more quickly? Would administration say that nurses should "not work harder but work smarter?"...