Sam J.

Sam J.

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  1. Please help me, I need advice...I'm so broken

    Sam J. replied to auntdd's topic in Home Health

    Depending on your state laws you may be obligated to report that nurse- some states require reporting even if incompetence, abuse, or worse is only 'suspected' less you risk action against your own...

  2. New RN; I want to quit my job already.

    Sam J. replied to irishlynn5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I simply do not like the nature of bedside care, the meaningless paper works, patient requests that seem so worthless of my time; I want to go into an environment where a nurse and the team needs to...

  3. New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

    Sam J. replied to ndylla's topic in Nursing Career

    It's true all over the Bay area, and also all over the LA area. It's a well-known but generally unspoken situation referred to as 'the filipino mafia'. But until now I've never heard of an employer...

  4. Advice Please!

    Sam J. replied to star2601's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you read your employment handbook you might be suprised that it allows you, your car, your office, your anything to be searched while you are on company property. You give that permission, if they...

  5. Awesome new development at our corrections facility

    Sam J. replied to Two Sheds's topic in Correctional

    I admire any nurse who can give the care due the inmates in these facilities w/o degrading them. Or bariatric patients, because they require 5 or 8 nurses' time to simply turn them over in bed. Or...

  6. Switching Careers from Legal to Healthcare

    Sam J. replied to nwbsoon's topic in Nursing Career

    It's possible to work full time and go to nursing school, as long as going to nursing school IS your full time

  7. LPN pay Assisted Living Facility in TN

    Sam J. replied to LisaLPN7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    SoCal currently pays VNs about $13/HR for ALFs. Worse- the 'caregivers' that pass the meds and provide direct care make about $9/HR, and they don't have to have any state credentials (licenses or...

  8. Quit without Notice or Risk Being Fired?

    Sam J. replied to HoneyBeGood's topic in Nursing Career

    HoneyBeGood: You sound like you REALLY know your stuff, and I consider myself unusually intuitive. It sounds also like you have been thrown under the bus. Welcome to the world of nursing- the...

  9. Awesome new development at our corrections facility

    Sam J. replied to Two Sheds's topic in Correctional

    My thinking as well. This is street talk, pure and simple.

  10. Requesting to have my license suspended

    Sam J. replied to campus64's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You should get a lawyer to talk to you, and frankly. From what I read, it appears that you feel the fact that you agreed to have your LPN license suspended (or even if you had agreed to have it...

  11. offered day shift...help!

    Sam J. replied to minniemickey23's topic in Nursing Career

    Weak, groggy, fuzzy, lightheaded, confusion, altered digestion, weight gain, and lack of REM sleep deserves a 30% or 40% premium. Not to mention the real risk of falling asleep driving home after 12...

  12. 11-7 meds

    Sam J. replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Geriatric, LTC

  13. VA Hospitals

    Sam J. replied to AngelsRN's topic in Nursing Career

    Something to consider- the VA hiring process is so cumbersome and exhaustive that it might be months before you are offered a job there. And once you begin that process there is zero chance your...

  14. Texas BoN Enforcement woes, misdemeanor disclosure

    Sam J. replied to amazed21's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Talk to a lawyer so you know what to expect when you get that letter from the BON. If you divulged your wreckless driving to Texas, and they still gave you a temporary permit, maybe that's a good...

  15. New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

    Sam J. replied to ndylla's topic in Nursing Career

    Maxim (Bayada is another big player) has 1000's of home cases that require 24/7 PDN (trachs, vents, feeding tubes, pediatrics, etc.) if you can see yourself sitting at the ready by a bed for the...

  16. New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

    Sam J. replied to ndylla's topic in Nursing Career

    You could start a non-medical homecare (caregiver) agency- there is no state license required in CA, other than a local business license, and few of them are operated by RNs- you'd have the...

  17. New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

    Sam J. replied to ndylla's topic in Nursing Career

    There are also scads of agencies all over the state begging for nurses to take prison assignments, but they pay is paltry- and I'm confused why CA needs all those agencies anyway, since they have...

  18. New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

    Sam J. replied to ndylla's topic in Nursing Career

    The CA prison employment site lists the prisons, the type, the pay for LVN and RN and CNA and etc., and bonuses (for the scariest of them, that is). The bonuses for Pelican Bay (in the boonies, by the...

  19. New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

    Sam J. replied to ndylla's topic in Nursing Career

    CA has the highest unemployment rate for nurses. San Diego and LA are dried up. Might find a job in S.F., because the cost of living is so high nurses, teachers, and others are fleeing. In S.F. you...

  20. Still Angry at MAs playing nurse or PA

    Sam J. replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    In some states MAs aren't regulated by the state and they can do almost 'anything' a physician allows them (and supervies them) to do- start and give IVs, call in Rxs, wound care, etc. It's perfectly...

  21. Awesome new development at our corrections facility

    Sam J. replied to Two Sheds's topic in Correctional

    What a nice and simple and logical (and FREE) solution. After all, those who know what they are doing are merely seeking attention, why give it to

  22. Awesome new development at our corrections facility

    Sam J. replied to Two Sheds's topic in Correctional

    Just curious if the audience might at least draw the line at mental patients in jails or hospitals that lack the capacity to realize right from wrong, or to control their impulses,

  23. Awesome new development at our corrections facility

    Sam J. replied to Two Sheds's topic in Correctional

    Another (in this case, victimless) crime that will cost the country another million $ in prison costs, even as serious felons are being released due to overcrowding. In fact, we are all sex offenders...

  24. Curious

    Sam J. replied to Caleb_RN225's topic in Burn

    They sweat a lot because of the warm air and the gowns/masks and other equipment. They cry a lot because of what they deal with every day- death, suffering, unspeakable child abuse and other injuries...

  25. Advice Please!

    Sam J. replied to star2601's topic in First Year After Licensure

    For that matter, many places also have the right to search your personal computer if you take it to work, your purse, your mobile devices, your person, your vehicle, your anything- and that's only to...