FolksBtrippin BSN, RN

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    Help with Staffing Incentives?

    FolksBtrippin replied to tfloyd's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, this does not suggest that employees prefer non cash to cash awards, but that the total award experience matters, including who gives the award and how it is presented. That makes sense. Folks...
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    Help with Staffing Incentives?

    FolksBtrippin replied to tfloyd's topic in General Nursing

    You are saying something very different than what crash cart says. Yes, I am happy and loyal to my workplace where I feel respected and valued and I was not happy at the one where I made more money...
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    Is this interview process unprofessional?

    FolksBtrippin replied to raindrop's topic in Nursing Career

    I work on an act team. Every prospective member has to be approved by the whole team by consensus. And that includes mental health techs. We are taught not to ask illegal questions, but other than...
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    Help with Staffing Incentives?

    FolksBtrippin replied to tfloyd's topic in General Nursing

    Why would I care more about stuff I can buy with money than actual
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    Primary nurse assessment

    FolksBtrippin replied to Mgrn's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Same when I worked inpatient. The admissions nurse does the entire admission, including the admission assessment. Then hands off to the staff
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    Primary nurse assessment

    FolksBtrippin replied to Mgrn's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I was taught that LPNs assess, but they can't do an initial assessment. The RN has to do the first
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    Is this interview process unprofessional?

    FolksBtrippin replied to raindrop's topic in Nursing Career

    At my workplace, the team interviews each candidate.We come up with our own questions. We know what you can't ask on an interview (family, children, etc) and don't ask about that. You are wrong that...
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    Would you completely remove your staff from the duty roster/work assignment if they call in sick for a week?

    FolksBtrippin replied to hazyblue's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if my experience is relevant to yours OP, because I live in the US and it sounds like there are big cultural differences to where you live. I would be very relieved to have an extra nurse...
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    Burned Out or Just The Way It Is?

    FolksBtrippin replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I see. You get frustrated by the self destructive types, and that's understandable. These folks are not responding to your interventions. It sounds like you are good at and enjoy educating your...
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    Burned Out or Just The Way It Is?

    FolksBtrippin replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is a tough field with plenty of jobs and plenty of them are awful. Job hopping in nursing is common for this reason and is not necessarily a personality flaw. It sounds like you like your...
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    Why are so many nurses against unions?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    This is true, but within my union supported state, as I have stated over and again you get better working conditions and better wages at the union hospitals. And there is no way you could have...
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    Why are so many nurses against unions?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Girl, please. $27 an hour is an abysmal rate for inpatient nursing with experience. That is horrible. If you had a union, your wages would be much higher. My new grad wage including my orientation...
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    Integrity - Should I say something

    FolksBtrippin replied to MickyMb2's topic in General Students

    The OP saw a picture (or video) of a latino worker with a tagline "Gracias Senor". The OP is assuming that the picture was meant in a derogatory way. That is very, very, different from what you are...
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    Time to step down from management?

    FolksBtrippin replied to RyanCarolinaBoy's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting question and I look forward to the answers. I was never a manager, but I was a charge nurse. I left that position because I had no real authority over the people I delegated to, but I was...
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    Patient report

    FolksBtrippin replied to Bri1231's topic in General Nursing

    Well yes, when I am charge I get paid to be charge. But that is beside my point. It seems like you think you are showing respect to CNAs you work with by giving them information that they may or may...
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    Patient report

    FolksBtrippin replied to Bri1231's topic in General Nursing

    Why should the sitter know DNR status? Would you expect the sister to respond to the patient according to code status? That's not appropriate to the scope of the sitter. For that reason it is not...
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    Integrity - Should I say something

    FolksBtrippin replied to MickyMb2's topic in General Students

    Integrity is not about other people. Your integrity is about YOU. Your integrity is who you are. If you want to have a strong integrity then you need to search your own character. Judge yourself and...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    FolksBtrippin replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    All the time, especially now that I work in the community and must endure team meeting with a lot of disciplines. I sometimes hear a blow by blow of the conversation with the patient. I hear...
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    Panicking Over Vaccines 3 Weeks until School Starts!!!

    FolksBtrippin replied to guest1122560's topic in General Students

    Schools have different requirements. In my school, as long as you had started the series, you were fine. Call the person who does compliance at your
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    Integrity - Should I say something

    FolksBtrippin replied to MickyMb2's topic in General Students

    You should not
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    Union-yes or no

    FolksBtrippin replied to RNBSN08's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Your position is a little irritating for 2 reasons. For 1, you are not a nurse yet. You really should not act like you know what it is like to work as a nurse in a non-union hospital vs a union...
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    How does BON handle + marijuana screens from nurses in states that have legalized it?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

    It's different because it's still federally
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    Aide Documentation - Rationale?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Katillac's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure why aides are writing narrative notes. That's the problem in my opinion. Aides should have checklists and boxes for
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    Using medical terminology as a nurse

    FolksBtrippin replied to RCHCLVN's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't really do anything wrong. You didn't make a medical diagnosis. Not saying you shouldn't do it her way. Or that you should. Just that she's wrong. I'm diagnosing her with wrongness of...
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    Union-yes or no

    FolksBtrippin replied to RNBSN08's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    No, most people are not fine negotiating their own contracts. Because your impact against the company means very little all by yourself. That is why unions started. Companies were abusing their...