AuDDoc

AuDDoc

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  1. Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    AuDDoc replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    Oh H to the NO! We've been told here that if a patient attacks us we are either to try and escape or curl up into a fetal position and protect our head and face and hope the police come and not defend...

  2. Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    AuDDoc replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    Trust me I know about patient surveys impacting your raise. I can score in upper 90 percentile in patient care surveys, but if 2 or more patients complain about me then I can be denied a raise. Wow so...

  3. Patient videos on social media?

    AuDDoc replied to BonnieSc's topic in General Nursing

    Mostly probably because unless the patient signed some sort of very specific waiver they could turn around and say that they were taped without their permission and their privacy rights violated. Some...

  4. General Disdain Toward Job

    AuDDoc replied to shaneb9's topic in General Nursing

    I think a lot of the quick start direct entry programs aren't bad if they would only take people with pre-med degrees or some other healthcare degree like PA programs do. I can tell you I could run...

  5. Least Favorite Things Patients Say

    AuDDoc replied to remotefuse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I find when you offer to walk them over to the director's office personally and have a little dialogue about the situation they usually shut up. People tend to not threaten you when they know you will...

  6. General Disdain Toward Job

    AuDDoc replied to shaneb9's topic in General Nursing

    You are in the military and complaining about seasoned folks treating newbies like crap? Ever seen how an E-6 treats a private? Most places I've worked there isn't this attitude, but in the places I...

  7. Least Favorite Things Patients Say

    AuDDoc replied to remotefuse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "this will only take a minute" - no it never does. "I got the sugar" - brown, white, granulated, powdered, cane? Oh you mean you have diabetes Sir do you have high blood pressure? "No". Sir you are on...

  8. Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    AuDDoc replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    Also, since Medicaid pays so poorly for services rendered and management is only concerned with the almighty dollar, perhaps Medicaid patients should not have their surveys

  9. Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    AuDDoc replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    Best quote I ever heard was "Happy employees make happy customers". You can't have one without the other. After working in healthcare as long as I have I can walk into a facility and tell without a...

  10. Medicare and DME supplies: HHAgency

    AuDDoc replied to Rosey02's topic in General Nursing

    Talk to the patient's doctor. Often times if they can put in consult to PT and OT they can get Medicare part A (inpatient) to pick up the cost of many of the prosthetics and DME that patients require...

  11. Nursing VS Medical School

    AuDDoc replied to kwr2439's topic in General Nursing

    Have you taken the pre med classes? This usually weeds out the people who can hack it in medical school. I went the pre-med route and then graduate school for my clinical doctorate, then I went to...

  12. Hospital Cares More about HCAHPS than Nurses!

    AuDDoc replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    You don't work in a VA by any chance, because you described my current employer perfectly! Seriously though, $%# their scores! As I've told our director here before I didn't go to school as long as I...

  13. Can we lay to rest the "compassion" nonsense?

    AuDDoc replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    The VA. The good news is if you've seen one VA you've seen one VA. I just have the unfortunate experience of being at a bad VA for being a provider. It's ok though because I have plenty of job...

  14. communicating with patient dilemna with native tongue

    AuDDoc replied to mariarose's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Unless you are fluent and have the credentials to back it up, then use the hospital's interpreting staff. That's what they get paid

  15. Assisting with Circumcisions

    AuDDoc replied to Babsten22's topic in General Nursing

    As someone who has spent a lot of time in the nursery doing newborn infant hearing screenings, it has always been a physician (usually the OB who delivered the child) and a nurse assisting with the...

  16. Two week notice

    AuDDoc replied to Dee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Your post is not clear. Did you put in a 2 weeks notice in the same hospital and move to a different department or did you put in 2 weeks notice then move to a different job, and are now contemplating...

  17. Can we lay to rest the "compassion" nonsense?

    AuDDoc replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    Well with the hospitals changing the big H to hotel, it does wear on you as a provider. Where I work the patient is never wrong. NEVER. You can do a stellar job and they do not receive exactly what...

  18. Employee vs Patient: Do you receive care where you work?

    AuDDoc replied to ladedah1's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I was an employee and patient at previous facilities I worked at. I didn't mind. I found I often knew who to go to for services and was treated exceptionally well since I worked there and most people...

  19. Maternity discrimination

    AuDDoc replied to Kmendi's topic in General Nursing

    Have the baby. Enjoy some time with your little one. Then apply for jobs. As others have said you would not be with the company long enough for FMLA if you had complications and if you have insurance...

  20. Continuing school....What now ??

    AuDDoc replied to Adamson94's topic in General Students

    Many masters programs will require you to have the BSN or take the majority of the courses required for your BSN. If you can find a program that will let you take your AD RN and go straight through to...

  21. Tattoos and nursing

    AuDDoc replied to Adamson94's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I work in the VA so we have lots of former military nurses so tons of tats, strange hair styles/colors, etc. As a patient it never has bothered me, but then again I like tattoos. Then again some...

  22. New BSN grad salary Columbus, OH

    AuDDoc replied to ccollins8907's topic in General Nursing

    Pretty competitive. You could be making the same amount of money if you went a little further south and have a lower cost of living though. Many of my friends who are in nursing live in Ohio and they...

  23. If you had a reset button, would you choose nursing again?

    AuDDoc replied to amazingme's topic in General Nursing

    I would have definitely chosen nursing and got my LPN in high school (our high school had a great program) and then went to a technical school for my AD RN (with my GPA I would have had a full ride),...

  24. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    AuDDoc replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

    The hospitals I did nursing rotations at when I was going through my RN program were in an area that had a lot of IV drug use so I just always practiced universal precautions with everyone and just...

  25. Some people are too smart for nursing

    AuDDoc replied to Careerchange88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A lot of the beginning courses in medical school are memorization. Then you build upon the knowledge and have to apply it. Plenty of friends in white coats and trust me when I say their tests when you...