nurseactivist

If you read Governor Scott's emergency order, he outlines that FL will recognize the licenses from other states. (I had the same question)

Do not file an incident report. You are not running for sainthood. Clearly there are some questions about the policy. It is not that uncommon. Years ago, I discontinued a femerol line on a tele unit. I had been discontinuing lines in the ICU for months. You have learned from your mistake, move on. You may want to question/clarify the rationale of the policy.

The Constitution and your right to free speech still exists even if Trump thinks it doesn't! Do not wear hospital name tags. I proudly wear my union scrubs to all protests! I want the public to know that a nurse cares. Acting Atty. General tells Justice Dept not to defend Trump Order! Breaking news now.

As a public health nurse, it didn't come up often. However, we were county employees and mandatory disaster service workers. Therefore I did always answer the phone. I got called to go to a big cathedral as they were expecting incoming folks from Hurricane Katrina (even though we were hundreds of miles away). We received a few walk-ins who needed help obtaining prescription meds. I also got called and sent to our 911 center to answer calls during flu outbreak. It was interesting to be inside the center. They had huge TV screens on the walls. We had to wear different colored vests to identify ourselves. Health wore blue, transportation wore green, fire dept. wore red, etc.

I am just curious. I was never a school nurse. Why pink on Wednesday?

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When I was younger I had horrible migraine headaches and I had multiple hospitalizations for them. I can relate to the sickle cell patient that was treated as drug seeking. Finally, neurology figured out that I was having rebound headaches from narcotics and even tylenol resulted in pain that was even worse than the original headache. I have had chronic pain for years. Now I have RA/poly arthritis. I have also had numerous kidney stones. Of all the pain, intractable migraine is by far the worst! Luckily, I rarely get migraine headaches now. Just for purposes of understanding the sleep issue, I will say normally I rarely remember a dream unless it is a nightmare. Now when I finally fall asleep with a rare migraine, it is not uncommon for me to wake up with my heart pounding due to dreaming that someone was bashing me in the head or that I was in a car accident and smashed my head. So, I do believe that you can have pain while sleeping. The only time I have that type of dream is when I have horrible migraine. After years of chronic pain and the backlash from family and friends, eventually it becomes easier to try to hide your pain or deny my pain. I share this on an anonymous website, but most colleagues and even family and friends have no idea that I am having pain. The only exception is if I have severe migraine, the pallor, nausea/vomiting may give me away.

Where I am in California, financial hardship technically does not matter. However, I have seen judges ask small business owners if they are the only employee or how many employees they have. I think they try to be sensitive to finances although technically not allowed. I had never been summoned until I was employed by the county. The court knows that I am paid for serving jury duty and the result was that I have now served on 2 different juries. I wasn't jumping up and down to do it, but it is more fair than someone else losing pay. I have since retired and received 2 different summons because voter registration and DMV name were spelled differently. I got completely confused and ended up missing both summons. I have now received a letter informing me it is a "punishable." I am ignoring it. I am retired and I feel like I have done my damn civic duty. I may revisit this later. They also have changed the rules so you if you aren't chosen, they can't keep calling you back day after day. You go in and if they don't find you a case, you are done. Child care and elder care is a "get out of jail free card."

I am going to echo the review your contract. One important item that we really pushed for was re-assignment language. The language gave nurses working at the facility preference over a new hire if a position opens up. If you don't have any language like that, you might want to advocate for it, particulary, prior to your next contract negotiations. I hope it gets better for you. SOL isn't that helpful of a response, but if you are limited by your contract language, you are kind of stuck.

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I am sorry. We are waiting on Friedrich's versus CTA which will affect public sector nurses.

I have no problem with nurses disagreeing. However, when I see really snarky mean responses, after a while I can guess who the poster is without even reading their name. I think it is fine to disagree and have different opinions. It is not necessary to be mean and nasty. In reality those posters seem to have a chip on their shoulder and I really would not want them as my nurse.

My ppd converted in nursing school and I was treated with INH for one year. Years later, when I needed to be cleared to visit patients in acute, employee health sent me to a pulmonogist. If you are getting a second opinion, see a pulmonologist. They can sort it out for you and you can possibly avoid unneeded treatment.

If you are the major support for the family going back to school and working is even worse. If you want a job where you are not providing direct care, utilization review/management. There are IT nurses who develop programs. If you want to go to school for a shorter time, nurse legal consultant. Some of the state nurses or county nurses work for programs like CHDP (child health disability partnership), chip (children's programs). I am struggling with the drama of "liability." I think the person with liability is the school bus driver, pilot. They have hundreds of human lives in their hands at one time. The way I look at it, is that I did my best to care for one patient at a time.

Admin, can you move this to "Collective Bargaining" thread?