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  1. The Wage Gap Myth

    stablesystole replied to car48's topic in Men in Nursing

    Testosterone is one helluva drug. Aggression and self-advocacy go much farther than people

  2. Can I Refuse to Work If My Facility Does Not Have Proper Personal Protective Equipment?

    stablesystole replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I took no oath whatsoever to anything or anyone. My first obligation is to myself. You will never pin me on any fictional obligation to martyrdom. If you're so desperate to make a martyr of yourself...

  3. "My Nurse"

    stablesystole replied to Appleofmyeye's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be thrilled if any of our surgeons felt connected enough to refer to us in a possessive sense. It might imply some sort of bond or familiarity that we don't

  4. ICU or IMU telemetry?

    stablesystole replied to RNTX1's topic in General Nursing

    I work with several nurses who came to my facility from various HCA facilities. Not one of my former cowerkers who have left have gone to an HCA facility. As best as I can tell, that company is...

  5. SHHHHH, dont tell anyone I'm a RN

    stablesystole replied to Barbie8808's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    What about his unprofessionalism? How is it okay to just deny someone income that they need to live for no cause? Your employer is not your God and should not be treated with unearned devotion....

  6. Just Say “YES” to Nurse Staffing Laws

    stablesystole replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    The ANA comment "Professional nurses’ and other staff members’ skill levels and expertise" comment sounds suspiciously like dumping more patients on more skilled nurses. Your hard work will once...

  7. Effect of 12 Hour Shifts on Patient Care and the Nurse: A Need for Change.

    stablesystole replied to LindaGracie's topic in General Nursing

    Take away my 12 hour shifts and I'll be taking away my labor. The quality of life effect of having four days a week not to be at work is

  8. Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    stablesystole replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    Millennial nurses are lazy? Yes. Yes we are. And I proudly include myself in this category. Hospitals are run by lazy, unethical sleazebags who cut us to the bone and always expect us to do more with...

  9. Transvascular Aortic Valve Implantation

    stablesystole replied to SBURNSTEVEN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    The newer medtronic corevalves seem to me to be more prone to causing asystole. Probably because they extend into the ventricle more and can depress onto the purkinje system more. To the OP, watch for...

  10. How does a nursing instructor spend their day?

    stablesystole posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Okay, so here is where I am. I'm one semester through a nurse educator MSN and I'm beginning to wonder about what sort of future I've actually signed up for. As I delve deeper into the program I am...

  11. Ebola - do you have the right to walk away?

    stablesystole replied to rnnina19's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You're damn right I have the right to refuse. I am under no obligation to die for my profession. I may suffer career consequences, but I accept that as

  12. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    stablesystole replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If ebola spreads into the region I am going on hiatus. The ugly truth is that ebola kills healthcare workers. I don't see myself as being under obligation to die for my

  13. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    stablesystole replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    AP Enterprise: Records chronicle how Ebola kills Reading this and seeing some of the commentary on his Sx, it looks pretty ugly. As someone who has been hit by projectile vomiting (thankfully not by...

  14. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    stablesystole replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I bet you hard cash that human ebola is droplet spread instead of pure contact like they claim. However, here's the kicker. There is a non-human strain, ebola reston that is VERY airborne and has a...

  15. First Person To Person Spread Of Ebola In US

    stablesystole replied to Blindsided's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Of course they're saying the worker was careless. They're still telling us that everything is under control and that it's purely contact spread. To say anything other than worker carelessness would...

  16. Student Uniforms

    stablesystole replied to lepew's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    All white shoes are damn near impossible to find for men, that is the ugly truth. The other real problem is that they are never good shoes. You basically condemn your students to spending their days...

  17. Insight for a successful transition from CCU to CVSICU?

    stablesystole replied to Asherah's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I have about a year and a half in a CTICU (3 years total experience as an RN). It's a high stress job and it takes a special combo of smart and adrenaline junkie to work there. That said I am glad...

  18. Tell me about your first pt to code...

    stablesystole replied to MrsICURN14's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    My first code wasn't one of my own patients. It was a patient who was known to have rhythm problems and we were watching closely in IMC. They went into torsades out of nowhere and we leapt into...

  19. does this sound extremely unsafe or is this typical??

    stablesystole replied to raindrop's topic in Cardiac

    I'd phrase it as less safe than it could be, as opposed to calling it unsafe. Having worked as a tele tech before I graduated I can say for definite that having a dedicated analyst on the monitors...

  20. Compulsory male preceptoring

    stablesystole posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm wondering if any of the rest of you guys have seen the same thing I've seen in my time (both personally and watching other people). It seems to me that in nursing, there is a small and entirely...

  21. 5 fields hiring the most 2012 bachelor's-degree grads?!

    stablesystole replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

    The article is either unfocused or missing the point with respect to nurses. The article is essentially telling all the screwups who wasted tens of thousands getting their degrees in worthless majors...

  22. Waiting a month to be paid

    stablesystole replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    So long as you're being paid fairly it shouldn't be a big deal. The monthly outlay may simply be a necessity of accounting or some matter of

  23. 12 Hour Shifts

    stablesystole replied to BigCSN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I can't imagine working nights as 8 hour shifts on a general floor (ICU and other frequent assessment environments are obviously different). You'd get to work and hit the floor sometime after 2300...

  24. How high have you seen??

    stablesystole replied to Tarabara's topic in General Nursing

    Is there a point at which a BS becomes incompatible with

  25. The Failure of the Joint Commission

    stablesystole replied to abbaking's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Is it just me or can we make a sincere allegation that TJC qualifies as a racketeering