We nurses were interviewed by a labor department official in the NH I work at. The nursing home does not pay its nurses overtime even if they are required to stayover after their shift (sometimes...
Found out the reason for DOL visit. There are nurses in that NH who work double shift every day in the same floor but get two pay checks from two different employer's name. rather than giving the...
It is disrepectful, rude and humiliating to others. Sometimes you are talking to them in a group and all of a suden they start talking in that language and start laughing. You are the only who doen't...
Then why is a foreign student required to take the english proficiency exam? Why is a foreign graduate nurse required to take the English exams? And the employee handbook from my facility clearly...
I agree with you on almost everything. * Orientation is not enough at all...........you are forced to work beyond your knowldege, experience and your capacity. You take risk.........make mistakes and...
It all depends on what you want from your job. Whether you want to work in a nursing home or hospital.....the type of work you do in a nursing home and in a hospital is very different.... Nursing home...
As a LTC care nurse, I have been requested to rewrite, rephrase and sometimes even add few sentences to the previously written notes..the notes they were written months ago. These activies are...
O!! O!! february is not a very good time to visit NYC. The cold is terrible in Feb. Hampton inn/manhatten should be a nice place to live at. I am a new yorker never had to stay at NYC hotels so can...
saint barnabas health care system used to file for green cards for nurses. Not sure if they still do. there are few nursing homes they definitely will. Give them a call or may be just visit them and...
I work in a nursing home. I have a patient who is prescribed percocet 1 tab every 6 hours PRN for pain. She generally takes one tab at 9AM and the other at 9PM. One of my collegues, who is a floater...
I agree with you. I applied to a hospital, they called me after 2 weeks. The nurse recruiter asked me why i did not follow up with my application. I thought probably they did not need nurses anymore...
Found out that the case is being investigated and I was told that they might need our (me and the other nurses who had witnessed this disappearance of narcs) help .........good to know that something...
You are absolutely right. there was difference in the MD's order and the MAR after this girl changed it...but still....they said they don't have enough proof to write this girl up for med error.....I...
I have no idea if the management is doing anything at all. I had asked why this girl is still here and the supervisor said they don't have enough proof to fire her. I have no clue of what more they...