It may be different if one has a BSN or higher degree, but otherwise nursing really is a blue collar or pink collar job, though some people will argue to the death
My thought is that the general public shoud consider themselves darn lucky that there are people willing to do this work. A patient throwing a hissy fit about food and water (the sec. doesn't order a...
First of all, I have to disagree that patients pay a fortune for their care. Some people, depending on the insurance, may pay as little as $25 a day for a hospital stay, and may have a total out of...
Yes, well, you would pay the $100 copay that you owed. The rest of those people don't pay, have no intention of paying, and they probably don't even get charged in the first
Mulan replied to registerednut1221's topic in General Nursing
Yeah, and too bad these people that are so concerned about someone being shaved couldn't do it themselves. Or maybe a son help a father use the urinal? God
If the patient was a no code, I don't see why the doctor should have reacted in that manner. In my experience, sometimes the female doctors are the worst in the way they treat nurses. Does that...
I don't have time to do hourly rounding (I don't even have time to write my name on the board, particularly since there is no pen there to write it with) since I am too busy doing everything else I...
I would write her up for every time she has done this. She didn't call you report first because she knew you wouldn't accept the baby if she did. She's just passing her problem off onto you,...
I no longer work at this hospital, but we would be put on call without pay, and many is the time I would drive all the way into work and then get canceled after I got there, with no compensation....