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  1. I'm the bad guy for not working off the clock

    old&improved replied to cwilliams032's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a hospital and according to our director if you're off the clock you cannot access a patient's medical record. It is a HIPPA violation. I don't know if that applies to insurance work as...

  2. It's That Time of Year Again: Preparing for Influenza Season

    old&improved replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Throughout my 40's up to mid 50's there were a couple of years I didn't get it because I felt I was healthy and had a strong immune system, but now that I'm 62 I make sure to get it. I have seen some...

  3. What city do you work in and how much do you get paid hourly?

    old&improved replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    Does IHS require a BSN? Someone told me they do, but in their ads they don't specify that. Just

  4. Leaving federal job for nursing school

    old&improved replied to guest62419's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You make some good points for the OP to consider and although I may sound unhappy in my job I am not. I work at one of the better places. That being said I liked my job more 15 years ago when most of...

  5. Leaving federal job for nursing school

    old&improved replied to guest62419's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I wouldn't do it. If you read enough threads in Allnurses you will see how frustrating and difficult this job is. Not necessarily the patient care, but all the bureaucratic BS. Do you have a good work...

  6. Is it like this everywhere now?

    old&improved replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know when the peak was, but I graduated in 1991 and I loved it for 15 years. It started gradually becoming more intolerable where I work after about 2006 or so. I have to say, though, as bad...

  7. Is it like this everywhere now?

    old&improved replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. It is very disheartening to hear that it's no better for

  8. Is it like this everywhere now?

    old&improved replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding adding more tasks to the nurses workload: Where I work they started requiring nursing staff to check all the expiration dates on our supplies and equipment monthly because we had been dinged...

  9. 5 yr Nurse Burnout

    old&improved replied to ambersky004's topic in General Nursing

    Love this. I completely understand how you feel. I find myself dreaming of such things when I'm frustrated and burnt

  10. How to retain nurses?

    old&improved posted a topic in General Nursing

    "How can we retain nurses?" This question was queried at my last staff meeting by the director. We currently are using 17 or more travel nurses in our approximately 150 bed hospital with at least 20...

  11. Action plan

    old&improved posted a topic in General Nursing

    At the place in which I work the director has started a new disciplinary method for nurses who have been reported for some wrongdoing regardless of whether it is against policy or a complaint from a...

  12. Action plan

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    By references I mean books, articles, etc. It is kept confidential by the managers. It is the people who it happened to that spoke up on a personal basis to the workers they felt safe with. It is...

  13. Action plan

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    I also wondered what would happen if they refused to do it. I think I would. So far the 3 people I know who received an action plan have not refused and its a fairly new thing.I imagine they would not...

  14. nursing directors, administrators

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. That is bad. I can't say my facility has gotten bad as far as providing us with supplies, but they are having 1:1 meetings with RNs to find out what they need to do to retain us (because they're...

  15. nursing directors, administrators

    old&improved posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I'm wondering if this is something that is only happening at the hospital where I work or if other nurses (especially those who have been in the field >15 years) are seeing this as well....

  16. nursing directors, administrators

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    That's good to know. I thought some of it may be due to all the new ways hospitals are losing money (i.e.no reimbursement if a pt gets a UTI while having a foley, poor HCAPs, etc) which affect all...

  17. nursing directors, administrators

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my! I hope I haven't "outed" myself. But, yes. That is the place. So Davey DO, is it this way everywhere? I have only worked at WRMC, but I suspect it could be similar everywhere

  18. On-call or cancelled? That is the question!

    old&improved replied to Eschell2971's topic in General Nursing

    When we are put on call we get $2 or 3/hr and are put on call in 4 hr increments. So 7-11, 11-3, 3-7. If you get called in within that 4 hr period you get time and a half until the end of the 4 hr...

  19. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    old&improved replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. Where I work they offer time and a half and THATS IT. When it was suggested they offer something more incentive-wise the nursing director repeated that time and a half IS the incentive. And we...

  20. possible ebola patient

    old&improved posted a topic in General Nursing

    A patient came to the small hospital I work at (100 beds) late one night with vomiting and diarrhea. He had come from west Africa 2 weeks before where he travels frequently in relation to his work....

  21. possible ebola patient

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. Yes. I will definitely get in touch with our infectious disease nurse. I think that will do more than addressing

  22. possible ebola patient

    old&improved replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    He was in the Congo. I googled the Congo and it said there was ebola there last August and the last confirmed case that tested negative twice was Nov 21 2014. That is only 3 months ago. So, yes, there...