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    Telling your boss about seeking another job

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have had two interviews with another SNF. I am one if three final call backs for inservice coordinator/employee health/ infection control officer. I also have interviews Monday and Tuesday with two...
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    Weekend schedule - seeking feedback

    savoytruffle posted a topic in Home Health

    I am interviewing for a position with a local company. It's twelve hour shifts Saturday and Sunday and eight on Monday. Work 32 an get paid for forty. Has anyone worked this before and did they like...
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    Weekend schedule - seeking feedback

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Home Health

    Food for thought for sure. I also have a sales interview lined up with a competing home care. Sounds more up my alley, three interviews in two weeks! Lucky lucky me! I am feeling so excited and...
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    Overhead music

    savoytruffle posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Our facility has overhead music all day long. Just there in the background, just loud enough to make everyone nuts. On top of the call bells, chair alarms, door alarms, and tabs units, it's a...
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    Weekend schedule - seeking feedback

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Home Health

    Redhead the job description. Main duty is admissions and care plan development. Sounds like weekend star of cares. Those can take hours per
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    breakdown at work

    savoytruffle replied to LookForward's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I started reading emotional intelligence 2.0 but got side tracked. It was recommended by a peer at school. Just being consistent, even tempered. Not showing and reacting to everything. I have trouble...
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    Weekend schedule - seeking feedback

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Home Health

    I understand that I will have a lot of learning to do. I am going to ask in depth about their support and orientation length. I've been a nurse for nine years, and I'm looking for something flexible...
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    breakdown at work

    savoytruffle replied to LookForward's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Everyone has their own threshold. I am stoic. By the time my job makes me cry I've been pushed to my breaking point. One of LPNs came in my office crying real tears because someone sat in her seat at...
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    R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

    savoytruffle replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I believe it is more a socio-economic problem rather than a generational one. I was born in '79. I really think of myself as a younger generation employee (I'm 34! But most of my peers are my parents...
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    Tattoos/Piercings in the workplace?

    savoytruffle replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I love my tattoos. I've been on multiple job interviews and have not hidden them. Near the end of the interview I always ask about the policy of the facility and it has never been an issue. I was just...
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    Overhead music

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I don't think the residents can hear it. They never talk about it. It sure drives me crazy. It's a Sirius radio. Sometimes it's country music, but mostly it's an oldies station. It's become the sound...
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    What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    savoytruffle replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    Spring and Autumn and Summer. Nice names. Last name was Pigeon. I kid you not. And my daughter knows twins named Lacey and Gracie. They rhyme. It's cute when you're three, not when you're
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    ADON feeling alone

    savoytruffle replied to adamsmom2's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    *inservice. Not unserviceable. Stupid
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    ADON feeling alone

    savoytruffle replied to adamsmom2's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    After I started at my current facility, both the other nurse managers left for better paying jobs. One in April, one last week. We have no replacements for them until the end of July at the earliest...
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    Good communities upstate?

    savoytruffle replied to NewYorkerGirl's topic in New York Nursing

    Syracuse has opportunity, but I'm not sure the pay is on level with downstate. The cost of living is cheap- look into smaller rural communities. They have more demand for higher degree nurses. The...
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    QIS

    savoytruffle posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Quick question: I had heard that once a facility has had a QIS survey (I'm in Upstate NY) that the next survey must be a QIS I have not found this written in anything and wanted to know if anyone...
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    QIS

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Thanks, we weren't so lucky this time. Two nursing and three other tags this go-round. Plan of correction done and implemented. Ny said they will go all QIS by 2014- I won't hold my
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    The Unwritten Laws Nurse Managers Live By

    savoytruffle replied to rntj's topic in Nurse Management

    Sounds as if the OP has never had the pressure of being a manger. The grass isn't always greener. I could write a similar list for staff nurses that would not look very flattering. Try to keep some...
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    Missed out on so much

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm salaried. So no OT. I have tasks that must be completed before I leave, such as an admission. We have a supervisor that comes in off shifts, but to expect her to do a complete admission and cover...
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    Missed out on so much

    savoytruffle posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    I am very sad. I tried to leave work to get to my second grader's music program at school. She had talked about it non-stop; how she would be on the stage with her class singing for flag day in front...
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    Missed out on so much

    savoytruffle replied to savoytruffle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm looking to move to MDS, but we are down RNs right now and I have to work in this position until some are hired and trained. I can't afford the pay cut to the offices. The ones I've investigated...
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    Anyone else a Biker Nurse? ;)

    savoytruffle replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I've got a 2011 Suzuki boulevard S40. Small, but Iove it! I used to ride to work more, but the traffic has me more nervous. I like to ride on weekends with my
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    Question for atheist nurses

    savoytruffle replied to pre-nurseshan's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    To answer the OP's question, yes. I've bounced between beliefs- trying to settle on what I find to be true for myself. There is no deity. There is a spiritual aspect to human beings that can be...
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    Tattoos in healthcare

    savoytruffle posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Just curious about others' thoughts on tattoos or other modifications in healthcare. I work in long term care, which tends to be more conservative in dress codes. Facial piercing and ear gauges are...
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    Rehab needs to get a clue

    savoytruffle replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Medication aides would not be a good solution in LTC. A nurse is needed to monitor these medications and the patient. Many times I'm being interrupted for therapy. I get calls from the manager to...