Susie2310

Susie2310

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  1. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Susie2310 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I agree completely with what the OP has written, but I do not believe for a moment that the OP's post will result in any improvements in working conditions for bedside nurses and for improved quality...

  2. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Susie2310 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    The reality is that some employers are able to intimidate their employees into passivity through implicit/explicit threats of termination or other retribution. Employers often seek out employees who...

  3. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Susie2310 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    In my area, health care organizations have announced record profits and have been expanding their facilities. Yet, at an area hospital a physician actually told us, when my family member was a...

  4. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Susie2310 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry this happened to you. This is a business model. Nurses and other staff are viewed by many facilities as flexible labor. Why pay a temp agency when staff can easily and inexpensively be...

  5. Kicking out visitors during report

    Susie2310 replied to delphine22's topic in MICU, SICU

    I think that the title of your thread "Kicking out visitors during report" could have been more respectfully phrased, for example: "Requesting that visitors leave during report." It always seems...

  6. Labs that I need to focus and report

    Susie2310 replied to jtanga's topic in Critical Care

    In my opinion, these points cannot be emphasized

  7. Why are culturally stereotypical behaviors so tolerated?

    Susie2310 replied to mclennan's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Do you have any nursing or life

  8. A New Study Shows Why Obamacare Should Have Been Single-Payer

    Susie2310 replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In the UK everyone who receives a salary/wages above a certain threshold is subject to a deduction from their paycheck (National Insurance Contribution), which covers contributions to the National...

  9. NY post slams NPs

    Susie2310 replied to ryguyRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    I am an RN and I agree completely with the article. There is obviously no comparison between NP education and training and physician education and

  10. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree with you that there are abuses both in terms of over treating and under treating patients. Of course there are health care providers who practice negligently. But this has always been the...

  11. Male catheters

    Susie2310 replied to libran1984's topic in Men in Nursing

    This post is juvenile and offensive. If the women had male OB's it is very likely because they personally selected the individual male physician to be their physician, and spent time developing a...

  12. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    dudette10, I recommend reading this article, if you have not done so already: There is an interesting article in Health Leaders Media titled "Hospitals' Fear of 30-Day Penalties May Speed Hospice...

  13. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you feel this way, you have the right to make the decision to forgo curative care for yourself. Other people have their own values. The fact that medical care is so expensive is not the fault of...

  14. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    toomuchbaloney, I think you will agree that the language of your earlier post that I copied below, which I replied to, conveyed a meaning that was not nearly as considerate of the patient/family and...

  15. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Subee, I am neither young nor inexperienced. And patients lives are not abstractions. They are very real and concrete to the individuals concerned and their families. Patients and their families...

  16. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What constitutes futile care is a huge debate all by itself. Physicians and other medical professionals, along with patient advocacy groups and medical ethicists, do not agree (i.e. there is no...

  17. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I respect your opinion, but I believe patients and their families, once given sufficient information, have the right to make their own choices. In your own particular case, you have the right to...

  18. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    toomuchbaloney, There is an interesting article in Health Leaders Media titled "Hospitals' Fear of 30-Day Penalties May Speed Hospice Admissions", dated June 6, 2013. The federal government cannot run...

  19. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    While various practitioners may believe that providing these expensive treatments are not the best care, that opinion is only valid for themselves. The patient has his/her own values, may wish to...

  20. God Taught Me A Lesson Today

    Susie2310 replied to valliloves's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I think that you learned a lesson that is important, but I feel that you are being a bit hard on yourself. Your instincts were correct that patients do have the right and deserve to be treated with...

  21. Why can't hospitals do better?

    Susie2310 replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I respectfully disagree with the above, although I will say that in the US, with decent health insurance, people are fortunate to have available to them high quality medical care, and often don't...

  22. Americans Rate Nurses Highest on Honesty, Ethical Standards

    Susie2310 replied to herring_RN's topic in Nurses Rock

    This is great news! I am proud to be part of a profession that has a code of ethics and rates consistently at the top of the list of professions in terms of the general public's trust and

  23. So disappointed in hospital RNs and MDs

    Susie2310 replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    From my reading, bowel sounds - their presence or absence thereof by themselves, are not considered diagnostic of bowel obstruction, but both small bowel and large bowel obstructions show altered...

  24. So disappointed in hospital RNs and MDs

    Susie2310 replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree that the OP did generalize his/her post to hospital nurses and MD's. I agree with your comments about NP training; in my research of NP programs (at reputable universities) I have seen...

  25. ECG Help

    Susie2310 replied to Myoclonicjerk's topic in Cardiac

    The American Heart Association has an online basic rhythm recognition