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  1. 14 Nurses Fired and 9 disciplined in Kentucky

    night owl replied to nurseattorney's topic in General Nursing

    You would think that out of all those nurses, one of them might have said, "where's the written order?" Where's that ringing clue phone

  2. 14 Nurses Fired and 9 disciplined in Kentucky

    night owl replied to nurseattorney's topic in General Nursing

    Where's that head shaking "NO'' smilie??? I haven't read the entire thread, but someone mentioned they should get fired for stupidity and I totally agree. Why would anyone give a med just because they...

  3. But I have little kids!

    night owl replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    With JACHO at our place this week, we haven't even seen a holiday schedule to post what holidays we want 1st, 2nd or 3rd. They get so wrapped up in sprucing the place up, making sure employees are up...

  4. The Right to Die?

    night owl replied to CseMgr1's topic in General Nursing

    On the other hand, so why is it that an 81 y/o brain dead, contracted, multiple decubitus, GT, s/p tube pt be allowed to stay on a ventilator? We had such a pt in our LTC facility. Family wanted...

  5. The Right to Die?

    night owl replied to CseMgr1's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to hear of these kind of legal battles. Deliberately starving someone, to me, is murder. The 5th commandment states, "Thou shall not kill." Isn't deliberately starving someone killing them?...

  6. Goodbye My Friend....

    night owl replied to mother/babyRN's topic in General Nursing

    That was so beautifully written. She certainly must have been one heck of a gal. My condolences for such a great

  7. Do you have to pay for parking?

    night owl replied to JJFROG's topic in General Nursing

    To me that is just so absurd to have to pay to park at your place of employment. It should be provided at all times for free and in a well lit area for the evening and night shifters. I wonder if...

  8. Surprised Myself! (Standing up to Doctors)

    night owl replied to RN-PA's topic in General Nursing

    BRAVO and a standing ovation for you

  9. Nflpn & Napnes

    night owl posted a topic in General Nursing

    And they'll keep fighting another 50 years....... run solely by LPNs...and who are they fighting against???? Themselves! And you know what??? who cares. I can't even get onto NAPNES website...

  10. Teacher and Student Intimate Relationship: Is it ok?

    night owl replied to nardongputik2's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like you're looking for approval. Absolutely not. Keep the teacher-student relationship just that. Why would you even want to go there? That is so unappropriate and unethical! After you're out...

  11. Crazy Co-workers

    night owl replied to NHLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I work with her too! She thinks management is out to get her all the time. She's so busy looking for other nurses mistakes and writing up incident reports that she can never get out on time and stays...

  12. Incident report filing....How do you do it?

    night owl replied to Pete495's topic in General Nursing

    By filing them in a drawer thrown in with a bunch of other papers! Guess what I found last night? Four IR's filled out, both original and carbon copies from june just thrown in a drawer and never...

  13. An Over-population of nurses?

    night owl replied to salvati08's topic in General Nursing

    I knew it! I knew that when it was my turn to be in "the home", there would be no one left to change my undergarment... It'll be like that movie "28 Days Later..." I'll wake up in bed in the "home"...

  14. Chronic Tardiness

    night owl replied to Tweety's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I work for the federal gov't and we always say, "They wouldn't tolerate this kind of stuff out in the real world," but I'll be dang, I see it happens out there too...We're not alone...

  15. Chest Pain in LTC

    night owl replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    When I have a resident c/o chest pain, while taking his vitals I ask him, "what kind of pain is it and what number (?/10), does he have any tingling, numbness in his arms, nausea, dizziness" Observe...

  16. Have you ever given report to the next shift...

    night owl replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    At least they're listening. The nurses I give report to are too busy trying to figure out assignments, answering phone calls and what not that I wonder half the time if they're even listening! Plenty...

  17. Incident report filing....How do you do it?

    night owl replied to Pete495's topic in General Nursing

    At my place of employment, our IR's go to the Chief of Staff and he decides whether or not an investigation needs to be warranted. If so, and the blame is put on someone, action is taken against that...

  18. Drs. handwriting - Can you read it well?

    night owl replied to RN2007's topic in General Nursing

    Computers, computers, computers! Haven't seen a hand written order in about four years now. I remember the ordeal of trying to figure out what exactly it is they were ordering and I don't miss those...

  19. Nurses who let NAs Boss them around

    night owl replied to PhePhe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've said a few times to some of our NA's, "Look, I didn't come knocking at your door for this job, you came here wanting it. Now that you have it, you're telling me you don't want to do it?" What...

  20. Nurses who let NAs Boss them around

    night owl replied to PhePhe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, they ought to know better, but that hole in their head.... We had a nurse who''s been there for over 20 years. worked the night tour for 10 of them. Always said," If I can't sleep, neither can...

  21. Nurses who let NAs Boss them around

    night owl replied to PhePhe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The root cause of these problems is management. You can document 'til you're blue in the fingers, but when management sweeps it under the rug and does not address the problems, they are the root...

  22. Application of Lidocaine cream before dialysis

    night owl replied to night owl's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Well I've never either. Prolly the only reason why they want us to do the Elma cream application is to save them time. I don't feel right about it either, and am thinking gut feelings are usually...

  23. Nurses Don't Accept Gifts

    night owl replied to roxannekkb's topic in General Nursing

    Funny this should come up. Just this morning I was talking to one of our NAs and he was telling me that a resident's wife handed him a Christmas card in an envelope about two years ago. He put it in...

  24. Nurses Don't Accept Gifts

    night owl replied to roxannekkb's topic in General Nursing

    Funny this should come up. Just this morning I was talking to one of our NAs and he was telling me that a resident's wife handed him a Christmas card in an envelope about two years ago. He put it in...

  25. sleeping staff

    night owl replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Isn't anyone reading my posts? First of all, it's not happening just on a break, they sleep for 2-3 hours straight...all of them wrapped up in blankets and NO ONE is alert! Second of all, I've tried...