nursejill1943

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1. Your Pet and your schedule...

   nursejill1943 replied to KatieBell's topic in General Nursing

   I work only 8-10 hour shifts, but the way that I solved the problem was to fence in my yard and put a doggy-door in, and my boys go in and out when needed. Puppies require you to be home to train them, and I have one dog who is in his last lap of lif...

2. Injections- still pull back?

   nursejill1943 replied to angelbyte's topic in General Nursing

   I still instruct all nurses to pull back on the syringe. I did have a nurse last week,insert two syringes at the same time, never heard of that before.:balloons: :flowersfo

3. Unfair Discipline at Work...What do you Think?

   nursejill1943 replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

   I think that you need to approach this problem from another point of view, and that is from customer service . When we are in the hospital of our employment ,and families, patients approach us , we need to always look upon them as our customers. Whe...

4. Snow emergency excuse?

   nursejill1943 replied to BeenThereDoneThat74's topic in General Nursing

   As an admnistrator, we know who is going to make it in to the hospital, and we know the nurses who aren't even going to try. The longer we have to prepare for the snow emergency, the more that we should be doing for our staff, that always support us...

5. Should nurses return to wearing uniforms?

   nursejill1943 replied to hellerd2003's topic in General Nursing

   I thnk that Nurses should return to wearing a uniform, and I'm not sure that our caps shouldn't be part of this uniform. I have been Nursing for over 30 years and have seen a change in professionalism of staff. I think that we were proud to be a Nurs...

6. What does your spouse do?

   nursejill1943 replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

   My husband is a Management Consultant. He represents Management. I was a Union Leader in my past, and have since gone to Management, and we are now both on the same side. Happy New Year to all my Nursing Friends