mbarthold

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1. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   mbarthold replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   What happened to "Errors are SYSTEM process errors"? And the 'no-blame' culture? Don't be afraid to report a mistaken. We're not interested in punishing you - we want to help fix the problem so it doesn't happen again. It seems to be missing, somehow...

2. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

   mbarthold replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

   No. Just no. That's workplace violence. No one - patient, staff, physician, visitor ---NO ONE has a right to abuse anyone. And your supervisors/charge nurse/nurse manager shouldn't have waited 5 days to address the issue. Two hours of that behavi...

3. Do women find male nurses attractive?

   mbarthold replied to Sykadia's topic in Men

   I met my husband on Match.com -- he's a nurse, but it was his voice, his intelligence and his ability to carry on a very intelligent conversation ----and we shared so many interests -- that was the attraction. I'm often said - we can talk work - or ...

4. Which Masters Degree is Best?

   mbarthold replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   And once you decide what specialty you want - consider changing from a RN to BSN program to a RN to MSN program. The RN to BSN program is a total of about 122 credit hours, with about 60 of those credits transferred from an ADN program. The RN to ...

5. Nursing Supervisor is Inappropriate

   mbarthold replied to Shelby, BSN, RN's topic in Relations

   This man fulfills the very definition of sexual harassment. Report him to HR. They won't take it lightly - if they did, their company would be liable also. Go now - your life shouldn't be miserable because of this man. To be honest - if HR doesn't he...

6. EpiPens....who knew?

   mbarthold replied to roser13's topic in Medications

   My husband has two epi-pens - our copay was $12. We don't have incredibly wonderful insurance that pays everything, either...... Something sounds odd with the cost you're getting. Melissa