OUxPhys

OUxPhys BSN, RN

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

    OUxPhys replied to LindaGracie's topic in General Nursing

    Our CNO hates 12 hour shifts but she knows she would have no nurses working the floors so we have them. I work at a hospital that requires 80 hours every two weeks so we do 6 12's and an 8. However,...

  2. What's Happening at the VA Hospitals?

    OUxPhys replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I mean some of these hospitals were built in the early 1900's! I will say some of the good things about the Mission Act is it allows vets to get care the VA cant provide (for my facility its neuro)...

  3. What's Happening at the VA Hospitals?

    OUxPhys replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    It's still true that the VA nurses are the best paid, at least in my neck of the woods. As for closing hospitals a lot of them need to be closed and rebuilt but I think the VA medical center in Denver...

  4. What's Happening at the VA Hospitals?

    OUxPhys replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I am a VA patient (mainly just routine outpatient visits) and I also work for a large VA medical center on their cardiac floor. We are one of the better VA hospitals in the VA system. I work with a...

  5. Help...need AWAY from bedside but don't know where to go...

    OUxPhys replied to Nursey103's topic in General Nursing

    Plenty of options. Bedside isn't the end all/ be all. You can pursue your MSN and do education, CNS/NP/CRNA, management. You can transition to outpatient or a procedural area or the OR. You can do...

  6. Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    OUxPhys replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately the higher ups wont care, they will just replace people leaving with new grads. Its a vicious, endless

  7. Do you hate nursing?

    OUxPhys replied to rn&run's topic in General Nursing

    No, I dont hate nursing but Im just about done with the floor. 4 years is enough and its only going to get worse, not

  8. Classism in the Hospital-MD vs. RN

    OUxPhys replied to paramedic-RN's topic in General Nursing

    As one poster pointed out the MDs bring in money whereas we are viewed as a large expense. Most of the doctors are cool with me calling them by their first names but I still call them Dr (old habit...

  9. Gender Bias in Health Care

    OUxPhys replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Im a young male (33) who is overweight and Ive been told to lose weight. I haven't been offered anything other than a consult with a nutritionist/dietician and to exercise. Heart disease is also the...

  10. Happy Nurse: 10 Ways to Increase Your Happiness Today

    OUxPhys replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Probably because cost of living is rising yet wages aren't keeping up. You get penalized for calling in sick. Hospitals only care about money. Its very easy to see why people aren't happy

  11. Air Force/Dogs/Single/Housing/Flight/ICU

    OUxPhys replied to Fox_RuN's topic in Government, Military

    I would assume so. Officers get BAH right off the bat where as its different for

  12. Air Force/Dogs/Single/Housing/Flight/ICU

    OUxPhys replied to Fox_RuN's topic in Government, Military

    Yes, you can live off base. You get a basic allowance for housing (BAH) that goes toward your

  13. Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    OUxPhys replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I left a hospital like this for a hospital where this isnt as common but its very slowly becoming the norm. Its not hard to see why bedside nurses leave after only a few years between the patients and...

  14. Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    OUxPhys replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    That’s the whole point of working 3 12’s, to have more days off in a

  15. It's That Time of Year Again: Preparing for Influenza Season

    OUxPhys replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Eh, Im torn. I could go either way honestly. It doesn't help though when you read that the year's vaccine is effective 38% of the time. It doesn't even cover all the strains. The flu is such a rapidly...

  16. Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    OUxPhys replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    These so called "experts" are the ones responsible for what is going on now. I dont know how many times Ive seen yearly surveys that ask about staffing and every time nothing is done to combat the...

  17. Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    OUxPhys replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I am now scheduling 3 12's in a row less because after 4 years I am spent. It isn't worth it where Im at. My previous job it was but not now. I even volunteered to do 2 12's and 2

  18. Smoking as a bar to nursing - beyond silly

    OUxPhys replied to brianbooth's topic in General Nursing

    A hospital I used to work for would test for nicotine as part of the hiring process and if you tested positive you would not get the job until you tested negative. I do agree.....who cares if medical...

  19. Save yourself; get out of medicine.

    OUxPhys replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a well known hospital. One day I just realized that I was not being paid nearly enough for what I was responsible for so I left that hospital for another hospital and got a $20,000 raise....

  20. What are most lucrative specialties for an NP?

    OUxPhys replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Minute clinics. It's insane what NP's make working at a minute clinic. I dont know if that's considered a specialty

  21. When Nurses Dream...and Have Nightmares!

    OUxPhys replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Plenty of dreams (or nightmares I guess) where I didn't pass a single med or didn't check on the patient once in a 12 hour shift. Those are the

  22. Is Anyone NOT Going to be an APRN?

    OUxPhys replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely not. No desire to go back to school for my MSN. I see how the NP's work in the inpatient setting and that's a hard pass for me. Outpatient would be better but then all the patients and all...

  23. AACN Scope and Standards for Progressive and Critical Care Nursing Practice

    OUxPhys replied to traumaRUs's topic in Critical Care

    Meh, nothing will change. Upper admin will still say “do more with less” and increase more things to chart which leads to more auditing and punitive actions, thus driving more nurses from the...

  24. What city do you work in and how much do you get paid hourly?

    OUxPhys replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    Cleveland: Lowest is $26-27/hr for new grads. Shift diff depends on the hospital. The county hospital and VA pay more than the 2 private

  25. OK, one more time...Masters in Education???

    OUxPhys replied to Calbrunette's topic in General Nursing

    Id go CNS or administrative route. Education leads you to either teaching in a school or "teaching" in a hospital and TBH the nurses in the education department at my hospital are so far removed from...