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  1. Nurse Practitioner Called a Drug-Dealer at Sentencing

    TitaniumPlates replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    "However, these stories are few and probably shouldn’t be used to set precedence for future laws. But, we all know what one bad apple can do to an entire bag, right? What do you think should happen...

  2. Nurses secretive about getting another job

    TitaniumPlates replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Just a thought---why is it anybody else's business what she does with her spare

  3. Wastefulness in healthcare

    TitaniumPlates replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Date stickers for IV tubing. I've worked at a place where the sticker is placed for 3-4 days (depending on your facility's IC policy) in the future--and as long as you're using the tubing for the same...

  4. Is it like this everywhere now?

    TitaniumPlates replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    yes.

  5. What You Don't Know About Nursing Boards

    TitaniumPlates replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Nursing Career

    Thank you, Ms. Brown! I have commented many times on this very thing. Boards are for the PUBLIC's protection, not ours. The word you use, "draconian" is an understatement, in my opinion. I don't know...

  6. Why the misleading, deceptive or damaging hiring practices?

    TitaniumPlates posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Is Nurse Recruitment and HR contributing to the Nursing shortage as well as destroying careers? I've been hearing a lot of rumbling in the past few years, regarding the practices of HR/Recruitment...

  7. RN needs work in VA w/ disciplinary action

    TitaniumPlates replied to tellmywhy's topic in Nurses Recovery

    OK, so I was perusing this comment section because a good friend was just nailed for "possible diversion". I am terrified for her, because I know without a doubt, that she didn't do this. I could...

  8. Travel Nursing: The good, the bad, and why I probably will never do again-Part 1

    TitaniumPlates replied to Have Nurse's topic in Travel

    HaveNurse, honestly...this first part is what is basically an expectation of fast response travel nurses. The first responsibility is on YOU to make sure you can take a job 7 states away in the dead...

  9. Sacramento Area Nurses

    TitaniumPlates replied to LachyFTW's topic in California Nursing

    No. Mercy San Juan, Kaiser South sac and Sutter are not just busier but also see the "actual" traumas. I don't think you understand the conditions of UC Davis if you are interested in doing trauma....

  10. Paramedic Vs. Nurse

    TitaniumPlates replied to Crass1017's topic in General Students

    Everything Annie and Akulah said. Plus one thing. As a medic, we wear bullet proof vests in some markets. There's a reason for that. You go in with PD and FD. Scene safety is priority for yourself...

  11. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    TitaniumPlates replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Wow this really chapped my butt. ooooOOOooohhhHHH....the martyrdom here give me shivers. Really. It does. Please. This schtick about being proud of no bathroom breaks, standing for 12 hours and then...

  12. Sacramento Area Nurses

    TitaniumPlates replied to LachyFTW's topic in California Nursing

    No. It's only gotten worse. Someone who works there presently said, "Oh, we changed the culture that was bad. We hired a new director." In other words, and this is from others who have been there...

  13. Many nurses do not chart?

    TitaniumPlates replied to Guest716906's topic in General Nursing

    . Then rock that boat when you see it happening if it bothers you that badly. That charting is done under someone else's license, not yours. If your assessment disagrees with theirs then that will...

  14. What HARD truth have you learned once you became a nurse and/or CNA?

    TitaniumPlates replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    1. You control you. You don't control anybody else. 2. Nobody owes you a thing. If you hate where you are, grow a pair and change it. Nobody's going to do it for you. 3. Get a dog. The best people...

  15. What Else Can I Do For A Living?

    TitaniumPlates replied to RNCM123's topic in Nursing Career

    THIS. This is a very thoughtful, coherent response. She's frustrated, the OP. We all have those days. But she's coming to a point where she's questioning her decision to go into nursing, which means...

  16. What do you think of 12 hour shifts

    TitaniumPlates replied to RNattie's topic in General Nursing

    Yep yep. Just an excuse for schedulers/management to use you as they see fit. If we had unions and set schedules, swapping when we wanted, we probably wouldn't have this issue at all.At my former...

  17. Many nurses do not chart?

    TitaniumPlates replied to Guest716906's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, but why is there such angst about this? Get a copy of the "chart audit" example, what NEEDS to be charted and when....and start from there. Geez. If you can see what you are REQUIRED by your...

  18. Why are so many nurses against unions?

    TitaniumPlates replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I am the daughter of a Teamster from waaaaaay back. My dad was a machinist. They (corporations) started this union busting thing a very, very long time before that--and they have their schtick down to...

  19. Haunted by my past...What are my options?

    TitaniumPlates replied to MathewB's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I don't know if this has been suggested, because I haven't read all the way through the comments. I was in your situation once. My parents had to threaten legal action to get my h.s. to give me a...

  20. Would you let a relationship affect your job advancement?

    TitaniumPlates replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    ....and clarify for me... WHY is "time running out" for you to find someone to marry? That's just not realistic and to some of us, it's insulting. I'm over 40 and single. I don't feel in any way that...

  21. Would you let a relationship affect your job advancement?

    TitaniumPlates replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    IMHO, in all of the years I've been on this planet, making my decisions based on what everyone else thinks of me is futile and is NOT what is best for you. You control you. They control themselves....

  22. What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

    TitaniumPlates replied to PrincessAlexis's topic in General Nursing

    I was a nursing student at a hospital that let my cohort take part in an autopsy. We were all gowned like it was a biological apocalypse. Full face shields, hats, these gloves that went up to our...

  23. Emergent Situation Gone Wrong. Ideas?

    TitaniumPlates replied to Tencat25's topic in School

    Yep. When I was teaching EMS, we would routinely have local companies that have security guards--send their people to us for the 3 month EMT training. What shocks me is that for some bizarre reason,...

  24. IV Push med– do you always have to pull back for blood return?

    TitaniumPlates replied to missjune's topic in Patient Medications

    Not just management, but someone who is on a "committee" that likes to pull the "but you could get called into court" and the "best practices" cards to claim authority. So sticking Grandma 17 times...

  25. Charting has to be done no matter what?

    TitaniumPlates replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So true story. I received an email from the "documentation committee" (5 RNs who do nothing in our short staffed unit but pore over our charts to find things on their co-workers. gleefully. but...