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Is anyone out there part of a Magnet hospital? Were you involved in the Certification process? Were your nurses keen on making the push for the Certification or did they view it as something everyone else wanted them to shoulder? We have no magne...

The place where I work is instituting a new parking policy. To get to the lot where we are to park, we have to exit the rear of the hospital, go past a row of big dumpsters, past a lot full of vans and fleet vehicles, cross a main down-town street, e...

I think this is Fire Arms 101 when you take your class for your permit. Don't ask, don't tell. I've been reading debates at Allnurses.com about whether assaulting a nurse should be a different level of crime, whether nurses are somehow "special" c...

Our hospital has 800 beds. A new section was built and is slowly being moved into. So figure there are maybe 500 active beds. Between ICU and the other units, maybe there are 4 patients per nurse. (Probably closer to 3:1, but the math is easier w...

I went to the crime statistics. There have been two thefts on streets adjacent to the hospital, almost on the campus, in the last 6 weeks.

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Anything like that would be helpful. Maybe I can get the suppliers to come by and give us some demonstrations and/or answer questions.

Yes I agree. The thugs know when the victims are going to be there. That gives them an advantage. The thug knows we're mostly female. Finally, the image of nurses has been sexualized, especially in pornography. That's why I mentioned Suzies XXX ...

Presumably, our danger is diminished once inside the hospital. (I am not so sure, since there is no attempt to screen people in the halls and all entrances to the place are wide open except at night, when they are locked, but not guarded.) A pistol...

Bless you. I know that concealed carry is a hot potato on this website and many others. My question to those who object to exercising their 2nd amendment freedom is simply... given this situation in which my fellow employees and I find ourselves, w...

I didn't put this on my original post. But the administrator and "Safety" officer simultaneously had convulsions when a nurse asked about concealed carry permits. After they recovered, they informed us that the campus is strictly a "gun free zone" ...

We are SEIU. So far they have been incredibly uninterested. Some nurses who believe in and work with the union may try to get them to notice the problem. We'll see. But mostly, lights are not part of our contract.

We are trying to work on a team approach for going to our cars. This does not work as well upon arrival which is also (at this time of year) in the dark. So... it is more than likely we will at some point be walking alone in the dark to work. Our u...

Look... #1) Life is short... too short to hate your work. #2) Some units s*ck because they have snarky, back-biting, catty, clique-y people working there. #3) I have worked on those types of units, and on great units with fabulous team spirit. #4) I'...

They made the OR team where my daughter works have a little ringy-dingy bell (like the kind they use at the meat counter in the grocery store) to announce it is time for the "time out." They made us change our forms that are used by the anesthesiolog...

It is so unfair and unjust. If they happen to ask you something and you say "I don't know"... in our hospital, you can pack your bag and leave. BUT THAT's NOT ALL!!! They are going to go into our patient's rooms and ask them... Did your nurse in...

The problem with our current set up down here is that the government doesn't go to the trouble of determining the standards and enforcing them. They contract out their responsibility to this agency that has to prove they matter by finding "dangerous...

They are unelected, unaccountable, almost unlimited in what they can decide to require. I spoke with a well-known expert on clinical research. They contracted her to advise them on evidence based practice. She quit in disgust after a short time bec...

Our Core Measures are a mixed bag. On AMI we are superb and way beat the national average in door to cath-lab times. Our dicubitus rates are very low. When it comes to Pneumonia and CHF... we're near average, I think. With SCIP, I think we were b...

I am not saying that I work in the world's greatest hospital. But I've been a nurse for 38 years and it's the best one I've ever worked in. Have you ever worked in one that didn't sometimes make you crazy???? I live in a not so densely populated ...

Just talked to my daughter who is an anesthesiologist. JC made them put a ringy-dingy bell in each OR room. Circulating nurse rings the bell and everyone stops and does their little final check. Maybe JC hasn't told us about the little bell and th...

I'm just a peon, of course, and am not privy to all that transpires, but I'm on a shared governance council and we're the first clinical faces that see the most recent changes. I believe that the hospital administration has groveled, and promised, a...

Based upon everything the hospital suits are saying, we will not be allowed to bill Medicare/Medicaid for care we give if we lose accreditation. We had a visit some time ago and go provisional status, with requirement that we develop an "action plan"...

Health care in the US has phenomenal strengths and profound weaknesses. (A genuinely American trait, I think.) We have very strong voices (the majority party now) favoring the centralization of medical decision-making and payment. We have some gov...

You folks have really provided some good information. I do think we're getting distorted images about your system. Our system has some real problems. The political furor has arisen because there are (according to the Democrat party) "45 million uni...