normarae

I am going back to the OR after 1 yr in correctional nursing. Your msg took me back to the OR immediately. Thanks a lot!!

Correctional nursing is what I call "The Last Frontier in Nursing". Why? Because every experience with patient's, physicians, surgeons and hospital managers that you have had will come to play in providing optimum care to these inmates. It can be a...

This is exactly what I was referring to in another msg regarding teachers vs nursing retirement. I think the notebook with dates time and situations is an excellent idea for all nurses because management does not really give a rats a$$ about acuity ...

I have been thinking we should write to Pres Bush and try to get him educated on the OTHER largest unappreciated profession in the USA ...nursing. Like one msg stated...we couldn't feed a large dog on our retirement income. Why is it that nurses c...

I am glad to see that several nurses pointed out the difference. I have in OR for 20 years and most managers in the last 8 years have refused (hospital policy?) to let the badge indicate the level of education the nurse has, let alone the certificat...

I am glad to see that several nurses pointed out the difference. I have in OR for 20 years and most managers in the last 8 years have refused (hospital policy?) to let the badge indicate the level of education the nurse has, let alone the certificat...

Do managers in any of your clinics tell you their is only ONE way to tape an IV site? that you can only decannulate the arterial or venous in certain order? do they tell you that pcts can draw heparin? that a sign of your performance is putting "x"...

I am 59 and work in the fine No rights for employees state of Florida. I was fired from a hospital OR because the manager felt "uncomfortable" working with me - ( had more credentials and experience than her) I went to agency med surg Tele - they w...

buffy you need to go to another country -the hospitals here have not even found out how to hire a fair/efficient manager which is the reason we don't have retention in the U.S. ------------------

I am from Florida and the hospitals have been playing the job open game with no job available for the past 5 years just to give HR interview practice. If they DO hire you they try their best to get rid of you before your benefits/bonus is given. wi...

Well well Bunky - are you sure we aren't related? I agree that we have to get our cause public and what a great idea to march. to the other nurse re telling pts how it is -it is my belief that when a patient/family member complains about "the usual l...

i have been a perioperative nurse for 18 years cnor, onc, rnfa, with open heart experience, major ortho and vascular first assistant/circ/scrub experience and love what i do. started out as an ER nurse and went to the OR. Moved back to small town fl...

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Unfortunately the many docs are not informed about the Advance directives and the hospital personnel including many RNS/LPNs do not quite understand the need for this document. Then once in a while you will get a doc who gives the patient the pain m...

It continues to amaze me that hospitals and nurses are thinking there is a NURSING shortage, at least here in Florida. Lakeland Ledger had a front page article today apparently with info from local hospital and the nurses there still don't get it. ...

The reason I have time to read up today is because the hospital who booked me for 3 12s in med surg cancelled me 5 times this week. another hospital I was sent to did team or primary - depending on howmany RNs/LPNs showed up. Last deal they wanted ...

WOW all the response to "would you recommend"indicates the MAJOR STRESS nurses are under because of the conflict of their desire to protect and provide even acceptable care to their patients AND the determination of hospitals and their management peo...

WOW all the response to "would you recommend"indicates the MAJOR STRESS nurses are under because of the conflict of their desire to protect and provide even acceptable care to their patients AND the determination of hospitals and their management peo...

Where are all the Florida nurses who are currently unemployed or trying to get work through an agency due to the way management of these hospitals have harrassed and threatened them with firing because they speak up for patient rights and safety? Tha...

Where are all the Florida nurses who are currently unemployed or trying to get work through an agency due to the way management of these hospitals have harrassed and threatened them with firing because they speak up for patient rights and safety? Tha...

I am just starting to review the comments on allnurse.com and I read with compassion the sadness in between the lines of your comment. In Florida the problem with finding a job for RN CNOR was hospitals were getting consults from "those experts" and...

I am getting chest pain just reading your message. How about 18 yrs experience in Perioperative nursing,BSN CNOR ONC RNFA, 1 year at a corporation owned hospital and received 49cent raise plus was terminated 3 weeks later because I had too much expe...

welcome to Florida and its RTW problem with nurses being gainfully employed. I am now working for an agency and after 5 days at one well known hospital at which my work was praised---I had to refuse an assignment which would have compromised patient...