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Thank you for the information it has been helpful. I took the job due to a quest for a place to belong and ended my nursing career after a national disaster and a death forced a move to a new area. I am committed to the next 15 years with the school if the work environment can be less of a "constant blame game". Some of the issues are COVID-19 recovery and some of it is faculty working in a constant state of "Short Staffed" just like everywhere else. I enrolled and am currently in an MSN with a focus on education. I am about halfway through increasing my own educational level because it was a requirement for long-term employment. I am committed however I have no space in my life for negative self-serving people (Unless they are students, HAHA). Thanks for the information it will help me calculate my workload form

Thank you for responding and for the advice to look back at the contracts. Nursing education is very different from the clinical setting. The Union contract states lecture is 1:1, lab/lec, 1:0.89 and clinical 1:0.75. I have started the contract on Sept 2 which states 35 hours per week for a total of 180 days from Sept-June (School year). Terms run for 11 weeks. The school employee is represented by AFT professionals. I did not specify the definition of "Prep" I was referring to grading, lab set up, lab clean up, equipment repair, drive time, exam proctoring, faculty meetings, conferences, student exam reviews, student mentoring, nursing technology software setup and monitoring, learning management system set up and monitoring, textbook reviews, administrative planning, and the vague catch all of "Shared Governance"

I am a new faculty in a community college two-year program. What does the standard workload calculation of the lecture credit mean? The union handbook is vague and has no definition of what the 1:1 ratio means. Is it one hour of teaching or contact to 1 hour of prep? I have asked other faculty and no one seems to know. For something that is stands, I would think that there is information out there.

This is a strange way to look at the issue but...When I have potty trained all of my children they looked at me with big eyes that say.."I want to please you but I have no idea of whats going on or how to go about it." and the frustration for both of us began. PT families in a hard spot have the same look in their eyes. I block out my own frustration at the PT family by remembering and connecting that look.

Hello I'm a RN new to nursing in the SNF setting. I work only NOC shift. It's natural for me to be awake at night. My current issue is being forced to stay into day shift because the day shift nurses refuse to pass their own medication. I have been told that it's "Not in their duties to pass meds because their are given a medication aid to do that." Which calls out every weekend. (Mostly due to the fact that she told management 2 months ago that she does not have daycare for Sunday.) One day nurse left a floor with demented patients with no supervision so she could go to lunch. Is is common in this setting for licensed staff to refuse to do patient care? Is refusing to give a patient medication a form of abuse? How do you document on a patient when you do not know how and what medication they are on? and why is day shift so focused on only their tasks? Has anyone dealt with this before and what is the best way to let my concerns and desire to leave on time be aired without offending the day shift staff.