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  1. There's a Mousetrap In My Med Cart

    kesmarn replied to 99percentangel's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Meanwhile, the CEO of one chain of nursing homes (headquartered in this town) makes an income of $28,000,000/year off of the blood, sweat and tears of people like us. This level of income should be...

  2. Ageism in Nursing: A Pervasive Problem

    kesmarn replied to VickyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    JZ_RN, you make excellent points. "If you're new, go to Hell. If you're old, go to Hell." Well said! I'm an older nurse and I love new grads and younger nurses! They are our future and we should...

  3. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is this happening in anyone else's place of employment? Since the beginning of 2012 our 240 bed acute care hospital has fired at least a dozen nurses and a few PCTs (nursing assistants). Many of them...

  4. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    @ jodyangel:

  5. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    Ooooh...now there's a deviously clever variation on this theme, hey_suz. Nice.

  6. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    And the devious part of it, caliotter3, was that they threw in a couple of 20 somethings terminations, too. I think to defuse the possibility of age-discrimination

  7. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you, tokmom. There are three hospitals in our area owned by this group. Two are non-union and one is union. There's quite a difference, from what I gather. Obviously, you can see I'm working at...

  8. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    Terrific comment, PennyWise. We all float as well, and there is also a float pool. But some days we're still short staffed because of all the firings, and also all the people who left when the firings...

  9. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    MJB2010, I agree. We're losing ground. People say negative things about unions, but it's beginning to feel as though things could hardly be worse with one than without! We're almost at that "we've got...

  10. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks so much for your thoughts, netglow. Believe it or not, our facility (besides firing all these people) forced all the unit secretaries to become State Trained Nursing Assistants! They were very...

  11. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    Zookeeper3, I think that may be part of the problem here. There are 7 hospitals in this area and 5 nursing schools. We are "over-hospitalled" and have an over-supply of nurses. It's good to know there...

  12. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    It's no fun, NurseCard. Did you have any trouble getting another job after your DON's

  13. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    I wondered about that too,

  14. A rash of firings...

    kesmarn replied to kesmarn's topic in General Nursing

    Hah! "Logan's Run" is right. Or "Soylent White." "It's made of nurses!!" Oops, you may be too young to catch that geezer reference. I appreciate your comments very much. Best wishes in your

  15. LAZY NURSES

    kesmarn replied to ohioguy's topic in General Students

    Well, now it's 2012 and you've either passed your boards or you haven't. Either way, you're in the real world now. If you're in nursing, I suspect you've developed a method for researching the...