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I have been a nurse for 35 years. I have gone full circle in almost every aspect of nursing except ob-gyn except as a nursing student. I have known nurses through out my career that are chronic complainers, write up other nurses to make them feel supeior in reporting everything. I was reported for not wearing panties!!!! I had worn the same color of panties as my support hose. She even asked me if I was wearing them. In order to make her eat crow, I showed her my panties color and my color of my support hose. This nurse will go out of her way to try and make herself look good and try to win over the families and relatives by putting down other nurses down on any shift. Crabby and more so. There is a bad apple in every aspect of nursing. Yes in this day and age Nurses need to help ou r younger nurses because they are the ones that will be taking care of use if going in Geriontoloy Nursing.

Hello: I have been a nurse for 34 years. I too worked in alot of specialty areas in my nursing carrer. In Texas you cannot be blackedballed because of a on the job injury. Human Resourse can only give out information. When lookin for another job you give your name,current license and a resume. Once you are hired you cannot be asked if you had any on the job injuries. I had an on the job injury. The same facility where I worked I asked for transfer to a job that was an in house transfer. I was transfered to Employee health, Infection Control,Workers compensation. This is way before hospitals started doing their own in house injury reporting because The Texas Workers Compensation was costing to much money for the facilities to handle the compenstion.

Hello CapeCodMermaid; For some unknown reason The administrator is aware of what the "freebies" entail. I do not know how it works here in Texas. But I will ask our Cheif Nurse Officer regarding this. I will reply this weekend. I will be attending an Infection Control Conferece in Austin, Tx. Friday evening I will be at a pajama party. I am a member of the Red Hat Society. Yes I am over the Hill!!!! We do not have a secretary to distribute our office supplies. Central supply is where we get our office supplies. If it is not in stock Central, it will be ordered if it is reasonable. But due to my preference in colors, I buy my supplies. I do not get reinburst. I have labeled all my supplies with my name on every thing that comes out of my pocket and keep all my receipts. Thanks for the info.

My subacute facility will buy our basic needs. Pens, pencils, erasers. We use postets from our representatives of Home Health, Respiratory, updated beds, Doctors with the drug that is being used by them.We also have Doctors that pass out pens with their name, address and specialty. Rns do get postets but I prefer to use my own color of my office supplies(lavender to purple) and place my sticky address sticker that I use for sending mail. I save my receipts for tax purposes. I am a manager for the 7pm-7am shift and the designated Infection Control Officer and I am able to get supplies that are offered in Central. I have sent notes to our Chief Nursing Officer in order to have Central Supply have the equipment for Nursing, Rehab, Wound care, Peg Feedings with the tubing and syringes, this applies to salem sump tubes and Dobbhoffs,etc. The Rn Manager is the one to get central supply items after 5pm. We also have a small supply on the unit itself. For pharmacy the Rn is allowed to get only what is one dose for night meds and all other medications are filled the next day by the Pharmacy. I remember that in the early 80's we had to start buying our own supply to decrease the cost of items that were constanly being replaced. Most of our private ambulance services also supply postets and pens with their logos. We have one Independent X-ray Professional that supplies us with canleders, pens, and Pizza for the shift that orders the most x-rays that are done on their shift. How is that for PR!!!!!!!!!!