birdwhisperer

birdwhisperer has 39 years experience and specializes in ICU, Pacu.

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1. Anyone else read this?

   birdwhisperer replied to GenSurgRNFA's topic in Nursing News

   You also might want to check out what the ANA has to say . I am going by the nurses that I have worked with in 44 years and their ages and what I hear and see from the younger nurses. Search nursing...

2. Anyone else read this?

   birdwhisperer replied to GenSurgRNFA's topic in Nursing News

   Well well well..... disbelievers eh? I am already seeing it. people in management, not so much , long as the numbers crunch who cares what you have? just wait.......... And where are all these new...

3. Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

   birdwhisperer replied to RNDave's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   When you have a CEO who is now earning million dollar bonuses for keeping the hospital above water, who NEVER will let nursing staff DIVERT patients to other hospitals when the hospital is busting...

4. An open letter to the #NursesUnite movement

   birdwhisperer replied to disillusionedrn's topic in General Nursing

   One of the best articles I have ever read about what is REALLY going on with nurses and I have been in it to win it 40 years hope I can hang in there for 2 more years until I retire..... Thank you...

5. Brian Short News

   birdwhisperer replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   Incredibly tragic and mystifying,heartbreaking and thought provoking. I have been a member of ALLnurses for a while, visiting here when I needed to read on how bad other peoples nursing lives were...

6. Do (in-hospital)dialysis nurses love their jobs

   birdwhisperer posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have done a little bit of all kinds of nursing in 40 years from high risk L&D to Pacu to Icu, neuro icu,Sicu, ER, but never Dialysis. I am currently in an acute care area with very little...

7. This is just too much

   birdwhisperer replied to seconddegreebsn's topic in Medical-Surgical

   I did leave...BUt who can you report things such as that to..State Board?

8. This is just too much

   birdwhisperer replied to seconddegreebsn's topic in Medical-Surgical

   I would also leave. I have left a few places in the past few years because of unsafe working conditions. Places that are understaffed with high patient acuity either in an ICU, Home care, and the...

9. Top 10 reasons we get fired!-Poor Performance

   birdwhisperer replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   I would so love to be positive and I could have maybe 20 years ago...... WE are set up to fail with nurse patient ratios. The "grid" does not take into account acuity...what so-evah.....try being in...

10. First complaint against me...

    birdwhisperer replied to EMSnut45's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How many times do people have to complain about you before you ask...is it me? or is it a sign of the times? Is it them not liking what you say and getting reported that you were rude. and because...