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  1. Medication Nurse Assistants

    sjrn85 replied to K205's topic in General Nursing

    No one is saying nurses don't make med errors. What many of us are saying is that it takes more than a cursory education to fully understand medication administration, and many of us are...

  2. Learning Spanish

    sjrn85 replied to SueNYC's topic in General Nursing

    Get over this feeling! If you don't use it, you won't gain proficiency. Take every opportunity you can to use your Spanish. Subscribe to a Spanish newspaper, watch Telemundo, and most important,...

  3. Medication Nurse Assistants

    sjrn85 replied to K205's topic in General Nursing

    A certification is not the same as a license. If a CMA/MNA makes an error, it's the licensed nurse who is supervising who has to shoulder the bulk of the responsibility. Actually, it's a perk for the...

  4. Is this new grad a nut or what? Opinions please !

    sjrn85 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like a "Let me bust on this new grad" thread. Every day brings another new post mocking her or questioning how she graduated. She must have learned something...she passed NCLEX. (Or did her...

  5. First year, babies, orientation

    sjrn85 replied to Fraggle's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Make sure you know the rules for FMLA; you have to meet the required number of hours before you apply. I believe it's 1250h over 12 consecutive months prior to applying for FMLA. Here is a link that...

  6. Is this new grad a nut or what? Opinions please !

    sjrn85 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's why I have my doubts about the whole thing with the director of the school telling someone else that this nurse was passed purely because of who her father is. Give me a break! Schools have to...

  7. Is this new grad a nut or what? Opinions please !

    sjrn85 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    I kind of feel sorry for her. It wasn't fair to her for the school to pass her just because her father has "pull." (Assuming that this is actually true, and not just grist for the rumor

  8. Is this new grad a nut or what? Opinions please !

    sjrn85 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    "Always look on the bright side of life.." :rotfl: I talk to my computer all the time, but I can't post what I say without violating the

  9. What punishment should this nurse get?

    sjrn85 replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

    She's a nursing

  10. What punishment should this nurse get?

    sjrn85 replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

    And then someone would probably start a thread about her subsequent frequent bathroom trips. ("Is this nurse just lazy or possibly a drug abuser?") If she was just "sitting" for someone else's pt.,...

  11. "What do you need Christmas off for? You don't have kids!" (rant)

    sjrn85 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    After hearing yet another refrain of "But I have kids...you're single!," I once told someone that since I wasn't in on the decision making when she decided to have kids, it really wasn't my...

  12. Can non-profit hospice survive high cost of palliative care?

    sjrn85 replied to Mazzi's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I worked for both, and in my exp., the for-profit hospices are not as focused on the quality of care. Both of the for-profits I worked for did things I found very objectionable, like trolling ECFs for...

  13. "What do you need Christmas off for? You don't have kids!" (rant)

    sjrn85 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have kids and I don't celebrate Christmas, so every year my co-workers assumed I would be working the holidays. I used to help out, but rarely would anyone reciprocate when I needed a day off....