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Our hospital has recently started the ICARE program. This teaches us all how to interact with people aka scripting. We have to answer the phones and interact the proper way, sticking to the scripts while people secretly monitor us. We will get "dinge...

I guess my point was mostly with that fact that I work in an area that's stressful and a lot of times we get no breaks and late lunches (we do procedures). If I want to walk to the cafeteria to get my lunch with my head down, decompressing or replyin...

I started my nursing career four years ago in orthopedics with a little med surg thrown in. After a year of that I went to an endoscopy clinic while working ot on the ortho floor. Well last night they pulled me to another floor and I was horrified. T...

I have been a RN for three years and currently work for a clinic that sees inpatients as well. Until recently, I loved this job. Loved it. Recently an efficency company came in and deemed us horribley overstaffed. The hospital cut nurses week gifts...

Thank you. Everytime he wants to end an argument during meetings he brings up doing what's best for the patient. It makes me so mad because I do care about the patients and its insulting to imply otherwise. I don't believe that it is wrong to fight f...

So today at work we were gathered for a meeting and basically told of impending budget doom. We were told that after making 350,000 in budget adjustments that our department needed $156,000 more in savings and cuts. We were told the hospital as a who...

A friend of mine emailed me to ask a question. Her husband is in the hospital with pancreatitis. His pain meds make him nauseous so he is ordered zofran every four hours and dilaudid every two hours. She says that he rang for the nurse and asked for ...

Honestly since I work in endoscopy now we see pancreatitis patients all the time and even when I had them on the floor they never had PCAS.

Never done it online, our hospital offers these certifications taught by our docs and nurses. I don't think I would have learned as much if I hadn't been to a class but that's just me.

I work in Danville pa. It is a level one trauma center and it continues to purchase other hospitals left and right. It is rural but compared to classmates that got hired in a more urban area this hospital offered about 12,000 a year more.

I bought all my texts except maternity because we had to use them throughout the four years. I would def buy them and keep the main ones. As for when I was done with school, I got rid of all of them. Every floor has had any references I would need.

Maybe implement a job shadow to be sure people know what they are getting into? Unfortunately maybe they just wanted the experience.

Did you ever think that maybe there is a reason? Yes there are some bad apples but maybe it is a terrible place to work? I left a floor with terrible turnover for "greener pastures" after 10 months because it was miserable. There was never enough sta...

I have had no luck with diets. I tended to lose 10 lbs and then would stop. I had no will power at all and working nights just packed the weight on. In January I saw the gi/nutrition doc and she figured out how many calories I burn a day and how many...

In my department and my old floor. I don't have to cover any of my tattoos unless they are offensive. It's not a big deal there but it's kind of annoying having people ask you about them all the time or show you their tattoos.

I am in pa, I got my job 3 months before graduation. The hospital here has also hired grads 6 months before graduation.

I work in a endoscopy unit with 10 procedure rooms. You typically work in three different areas. Pre, post, or procedures. The procedures vary, we have a peds rooms, a bronchoscopy room, 4 anesthesia rooms which typically specialize in ercp's and eus...

I find it funny that your techs are starting IV's and ours aren't even allowed to make an IV bag. All these little cost cutting ideas seem rather shady. In our hospital facility the RN's prep and recover the patients, we are also in the procedure ro...

I don't feel that this is true. I have taken care of many unhealthy patients with normal BMI's and when doing pre surgery assessments there are plenty of thin people on Bp meds and with many health problems and I have also had overweight patients who...

If you had read my comment, I said that your previous comments implied that monkeys could do the jobs of nurses. If you go back and look at your comments you appear to have a lack of respect for nurses while being proud of your own profession. You ha...

I wasn't comparing you to housekeeping but let's face it, you seem to believe that RN's are below you and are no better then trained monkeys. Your arguments have basically implied that you could do everything a nurse could do but nurses could never d...

To sit there and say it is alright for RT'S to insert PICC lines because it is a trainable skill is akin to saying you don't need nurses you can train anyone in the hospital to do it. I like to think my RN training sets me apart from other profession...

Ugh, our hospital plans week long events that in all honestly "working" nurses don't get to attend. It's pretty much all for the office/management types. We have an awards ceremony, dinner, poster presentation all of which I won't be able to attend. ...

They try to explain to us that without doing all this now the hospital will be in trouble next year and all other hospitals that aren't cutting back will be in big trouble. We also mentioned the big bonuses and the response we got was that patients ...

Actually they didn't have to tell us. Every year our local newspaper puts in the top 75-100 earners bonuses and salary. These consisted of admins and physicians. I guess they can do that because we are a non profit hospital. Our lead physician in our...