JayHanig

JayHanig

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  1. New Grad PN

    JayHanig replied to Heyyall's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Seems to me you need some attitude adjustment. I'm not being negative, just pointing out my approach to problem solving. Stop focusing on your self-perception as being slow and start just becoming...

  2. Can a RN legally supervise BSN's and MSN's?

    JayHanig replied to cosmicjustice's topic in General Nursing

    As I recall, we all took the same exam to get the same license from the state to allow us to practice nursing. It's worth noting that typically new grad BSNs arrive with the least technical skills....

  3. Going to work when you should of called out. What's your thoughts on this?

    JayHanig replied to RUNNER87RCC's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked in both North and South Carolina. Although people claimed the board would be on us for this and for that, the only thing I ever saw anybody actually get spanked by the board was for the...

  4. Going to work when you should of called out. What's your thoughts on this?

    JayHanig replied to RUNNER87RCC's topic in General Nursing

    "Draconian"? That's a kind way to look at it. Could you call in sick three times without getting terminated if you had a note from your mortician? I'm just saying... you guys probably need...

  5. Going to work when you should of called out. What's your thoughts on this?

    JayHanig replied to RUNNER87RCC's topic in General Nursing

    I assume that those points clear after a year. If that's the case, then mark the date you last called in on your refrigerator or bulletin board (whatever you've got at home). From that day on,...

  6. How To Start IVs In The Hand

    JayHanig replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    We didn't much care for IVs in the AC on the floors either. They have a bad tendency to be highly positional. Making the trip down the hall to reset the IVAC just because the patient bent his or her...

  7. New Grad Needs Advice - Hostile Work Environment

    JayHanig replied to aap2020's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I've seen that happen on occasion. I've been turned down myself by black patients because I was white. And I've also been turned down by female patients because I was male. I've been turned...

  8. New Grad Needs Advice - Hostile Work Environment

    JayHanig replied to aap2020's topic in General Nursing

    The irony of someone who rails against "people who still believe that an entire race of people is "less than" simply based on the color of their skin" on the one hand and then invokes the specter of...

  9. New Grad Needs Advice - Hostile Work Environment

    JayHanig replied to aap2020's topic in General Nursing

    Where did this happen? My entire career was spent practicing in both North and South Carolina and I never witnessed anything like that. My coworkers at the last place I worked (for 12 years) were...

  10. New Grad Needs Advice - Hostile Work Environment

    JayHanig replied to aap2020's topic in General Nursing

    They can't get blood from a rock. If they demand their money back, so what? Will they pillory you for all the staff to throw tomatoes at? They can wait for as long as it takes. I doubt they'll...

  11. How do I trust my judgement after this? First Patient Death

    JayHanig replied to nurse54361's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry that happened but it was inevitable. Let me share my coping technique for when I don't catch something that ends up in disaster. Back in 2008, gas prices shot up and so I bought a...

  12. Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    JayHanig replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    Some hospitals pull that kind of crap then wonder why unions get organized in their facilities. Happy employees don't unionize. Only the *** upon. Any facility that has a union deserved

  13. Setting the Precedent: Nurses Fired for Being Sick

    JayHanig replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    My employer set up a system where we were not allowed more than 4 absences in a calendar year. You could stay out two contiguous days and it would count as one absence, but woe betide the person who...

  14. Nurse Beaten by Patient Denied Request for Unpaid Time Off and Fired

    JayHanig replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    I wondered about that as well. You are absolutely correct. Low unemployment rates make jobs a seller's market: in this case the hospital is the buyer and the nurses are selling their

  15. Nurse Beaten by Patient Denied Request for Unpaid Time Off and Fired

    JayHanig replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Why don't you

  16. Nurse Beaten by Patient Denied Request for Unpaid Time Off and Fired

    JayHanig replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Worker's comp is your friend. You don't need the hospital's permission to bring a case, nor do you even need a lawyer. You just need to apply. In the last state I worked in prior to retiring,...

  17. Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    JayHanig replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand what your reticence was about telling her you had major GI symptoms. If she wants the nitty-gritty details, give them to her in the most graphic way possible, so there's no...

  18. Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    JayHanig replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    If you're sick, you need to call in. If the facility closes, it closes. They haven't been motivated to find replacement staff because you enable them. Why go to the expense when they can just guilt...

  19. Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    JayHanig replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I think I would have found that supervisor and coughed all over her. If she wasn't in her office, I'd have licked her coffee mug assuming I could find it. But that's just me. I don't think clearly...

  20. Help Wanted- Asking the Night Shifters for Advice

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    There is a lot of good advice here. If you don't have blackout curtains, light absolutely will not penetrate aluminum foil and scotch tape on the inside of your bedroom windows. White noise is very...

  21. Manager Seeking Revenge on New Nurse

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    As others have said, you have definitely dodged the bullet. Consider yourself lucky it happened so early in your career and don't worry about what she can do to harpoon you; her options are few. But...

  22. Unit is Total Chaos

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Nothing validates my decision to retire early more than the OP's story. After sitting on the sidelines since 2010, I've finally decided to let my licence expire with my birthday next month. Can you...

  23. Nurse Sick and FIRED: Exploring Nursing Absenteeism

    JayHanig replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I kept a sheet posted on my fridge that listed how many days and when I was last out sick. The sheet really was a list as I kept the information as it filled in until the sheet was full. I used it...

  24. RN as Patient Sitter?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am not impressed by the use of bed alarms. All they tell you is that Granny just broke her other

  25. RN as Patient Sitter?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    It strikes me that you are being set up for failure by your management's insistence on giving lip service to this issue. That being said, I'd let things land where they will, so to speak. I would...