Jedrnurse BSN, RN

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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    Jedrnurse replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Many Medicare recipients wouldn't support universal health care but also never saw a life-extending treatment that they didn't feel entitled to (as long as the taxpayers are footing the
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    Where to Draw the Line...?

    Jedrnurse replied to Jedrnurse's topic in School

    I'd have just called her at 4:10 AM the next day to see how she was
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Jedrnurse replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Seriously, it's like the worst negative baby boomer stereotypical attributes are collected, distilled and concentrated into one giant cesspool of geriatric entitlement and
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Jedrnurse replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I started to peruse it, but had to stop due to fury and nausea battling it out for
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Jedrnurse replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Is the stress/responsibility level of the position you're considering reasonable for
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    Have you ever been looked down on because you don’t work in the hospital?

    Jedrnurse replied to happyhippo's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, let them run around in their white lab coats and holding their clipboards in a hospital with no staff nurses - how's THAT going to turn
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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    Jedrnurse replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Did any of this story ever get leaked to the media? There's a special place in hell for management like
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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    Jedrnurse replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! It sure adds insult to injury when the people making much more money end up having to pay less in co-pays, deductibles, caps,
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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    Jedrnurse replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    There's a lot of irony when health organizations provide some of the worst health coverage. Sort of in keeping with the fact that they pressure their employees to come in while sick to take care of...
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    Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place

    Jedrnurse replied to ham333's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I agree that 2 months is on the ridiculous side, but I have seen 4 weeks more and more as the company
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Jedrnurse replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    With all the changes you've seen over your career span, how do you "rate"
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    Fired (Wrongfully?) And It Hurts

    Jedrnurse replied to joansmith1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm confused. You were wrongfully fired but then sent a letter of apology to the
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    Have you ever been looked down on because you don’t work in the hospital?

    Jedrnurse replied to happyhippo's topic in General Nursing

    Many clinics are staffed by FNPs. I would think that working in a clinic would help you as you see the care situations that FNPs deal with on a regular basis. Especially if you work on professional...
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    Pros and cons of RN clinic nursing?

    Jedrnurse replied to Emergent's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    You dropped VERY important words in your unofficial quote. The OP said it's not that the RN can't do the MA job. That's very different from "the RNs CAN'T do the MA job,
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Jedrnurse replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have to write an essay to cover it all, but many of my feelings about the subject come from seeing the culture of a city where my mother and her husband retired to in Florida, ie "The
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Jedrnurse replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Work past retirement age? Sure am. I've seen too many people in retirement display too many traits that I'd like to
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    Extra Duties??

    Jedrnurse replied to Keeperofbandages's topic in School

    Considering contact tracing, COVID is the worst-kept confidentiality health issue
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    Extra Duties??

    Jedrnurse replied to Keeperofbandages's topic in School

    Do you know why that was added to your job, ie what does that have to do with COVID? (or was it just coincidental...) I'd be happy to have the admin begin doing attendance again. You sound as if...
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    Pros and cons of RN clinic nursing?

    Jedrnurse replied to Emergent's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    I would expect that almost anything that the MA does would fall under the scope of nursing practice as well. What was the differentiation of job
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    Part-time School Nursing?

    Jedrnurse replied to SmallStateSchoolNurse's topic in School

    Out of curiosity, what's the total student enrollment between the two
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    Diary of a Nurse Who is Not 'Exceptional'

    Jedrnurse replied to PsychRN4e's topic in General Nursing

    I think that perhaps you have bought too much into Magnet
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    Part-time School Nursing?

    Jedrnurse replied to SmallStateSchoolNurse's topic in School

    Also, keep in mind that many schools in this country don't have nurses at
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    Mask Mandate in MA Schools Ending on 3/1

    Jedrnurse replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    What region of the country are you
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    Mask Mandate in MA Schools Ending on 3/1

    Jedrnurse replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Sounds like a potential minefield, particularly on items that tend to have written schoolwide policies e.g.
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    Mask Mandate in MA Schools Ending on 3/1

    Jedrnurse replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I'm pretty sure that that level of policy-making is NOT made at the teacher/classroom