RNforLongTime

RNforLongTime

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  1. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    See, that's just ridiculous

  2. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

  3. Really, I don't know where they get their info from..

    RNforLongTime replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    There is no differential for BSN grads in my area and I have a

  4. Night Shifters... How do you do it?

    RNforLongTime replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I don't take any drugs at all. I work 2-12's and 2-8's a week. Usually they are consecutive..the first night in I will try to take a nap before my shift...if I can't sleep, which happens on occasion,...

  5. Burned out!!!!!!!!

    RNforLongTime replied to emilee1978's topic in General Nursing

    I'm working at a place like this now! I am NOT looking forward to going back to work there and would quit tomorrow if it weren't for the fact that I've got bills to pay and my husband has been laid...

  6. Your Pet Peeves in Nursing..

    RNforLongTime replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    My pet peeves are the crazy office politics that abound in EVERY single hospital/workplace in the US! Also, nurse managers who don't care. Coworkers who tattle tale to make themselves look...

  7. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    I earn 4 hours of sick time per month. My hospital has a silly rule that if you call in twice in a 12 week period, you are written up, which is the most ridiculous policy I ever heard. One year on...

  8. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    My best guess is that she wanted me to reconsider my sick call. If it was mega important, she'd have tried my landline. If I was in deep trouble, I'd have been called on Friday and made to come in for...

  9. Advice please!!!!

    RNforLongTime replied to mzjones6's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, don't listen to that senior nurse who told you to give the tylenol without the actual order. That IS practicing medicine without a license and you can get into deep doo-doo over it. I...

  10. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    The funny thing is....had she called my home phone..my husband would've answered it, brought me the phone and woke me up. THEN I would've talked to her. I'm not obligated to answer my cell phone...or...

  11. How do your units/hospitals judge acuity and staffing loads?

    RNforLongTime replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    Oh and there's no unit secretary/ward clerk to answer the phones and take off orders. We have to also do that job as

  12. I need your input on a potentially life-altering decision...

    RNforLongTime replied to Scrubs911's topic in General Nursing

    If I had to choose..based on the job market in my area(NE OH/NW PA) I'd choose

  13. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    The thing is I work in PA so the same laws don't apply. The reason I didn't call her back is because I was SICK and in bed

  14. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    No, I'm not. We really don't even have a nurse manager. The director of nursing is our acting nurse manager because they fired the last TWO people who had the job and to save money, since the hospital...

  15. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    You are a gem of a nurse manager. My NM doesn't give a crap. I had a miscarriage last November and not ONE person from my place of employment called to check on me or see how I was doing. Not one...

  16. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    Why couldn't the nursing supervisor just TELL me what she wanted instead of being so vague? Knowing that I would be fretting until I DO get a chance to speak to her which won't be till Tuesday. I have...

  17. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    No, actually I DON'T have any L&D experience. I can't put a mom on the monitor...couldn't tell you anything about what the waveforms read..wouldn't know about decelerations or if/when a baby needs...

  18. Working on a smoke-free campus

    RNforLongTime replied to ivorybunny's topic in General Nursing

    Our campus is smoke free but patients and visitors smoke RIGHT in front of the entrance to the ER. There's a sign RIGHT by the entrance saying No smoking but obviously people can't READ! Staff smoke...

  19. How do your units/hospitals judge acuity and staffing loads?

    RNforLongTime replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    Um, they don't. We have 6 beds in our ICU and only ever 2 nurses. No matter what the acuity is. And we're lucky if we have a nurse aide to help out. I work night shift so I have to be respiratory and...

  20. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! I can't trust anyone apparently. I have my suspicions as to who might've given the supervisor my cell phone

  21. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    I would have no problem if she tried to reach me on my land line but she didn't. Only called my

  22. Do you feel like you do enough?

    RNforLongTime replied to Sparrow23's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the others. Learn to delegate tasks to the CNA's. You just cannot do it all no matter how badly you want to do it. You've got meds to pass and charting to do. It stinks that you can't...

  23. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    The straw that broke the camels back was last Saturday when I was the labor and delivery nurse for 4 hours. The delivery suite was closed but still? What kind of facility does this kind of thing? I'm...

  24. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill. My guess is that the supervisor wanted me to reconsider my sick call since there was probably no one to cover

  25. Is it ok for your work to call you after you called in sick?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I don't see it the way you do..If I were to get fired from this place, which I don't think I've got anything to worry about, actually the unemployment office would care since it would mean...