this is rediculous. i have been doing my clinicals at the same hospital for two quarters now. a couple a weeks ago me and a few other girls ran to the bank our break which is only a few blocks away. On our way back in the building the administrator of the hospital came running out screaming that we were parked in the wrong row. then he accused us of smoking in our vehicles and told us once again that smoking was not aloud on the grounds. the next thing we knew we had to write a 10 page paper on smoking and calling off in the clinical setting and their effects on pt. care.
what the heck!!!! we werent smoking. to me that is discrimination.
the human resorce lady at the hospital told us at orientation that if we had to smoke to leave even if it meant standing out in the middle of the street to do it. I believe if one of the three of us were non-smokers that nothing would have been said.
The Buckeye State is Ohio:) Our state tree is the buckeye tree and you pretty much see they symbol all over the state...I graduated from Ohio State and we were the The Ohio State Buckeyes...go bucks:) brutus buckeye was our mascot lol.....have you ever had the candy buckeyes? they are peanut butter balls covered with chocolate to make them look like buckeyes...my favorite:) I bet your original dean was an OSU grad too:)
Thanks Elk for the answers to my questions. Yeah, I think she was an OSU grad. The speech is coming back to me. So, if I planted this buckeye, I could grow a tree? Long lasting memory of NS trials and tribulations......... :rotfl: I will now be able to answer one more jeapordy question correctly...LOL Now the burning questions is, how uncomfortable is the buckeye going to be in my bra next Tuesday??? :chuckle
Thanks and my apologies for being a little :offtopic:
It is about courtesy not about proving points just because they can and it is their right to smoke. I just think we should be professionals and smoke smell is not professional, it is trashy.
I don't fully understand the point that you are trying to make with "It's about courtesy, not proving points just b/c they can and it is their right to smoke". I agree that it is a personal choice if one wants to smoke. How could I not b/c I am a smoker until 6/13/05. I will not be the kind that looks down my nose at people who smoke once I quit like I have seen in so many other people.
About the "proving points" why should they take the bs accusations from the admin if they did nothing wrong? If they followed P&P then heck yeah, they need to let that be known that they followed P&P. I agree that nursing and it's profession should represent "health" but what some people tend to forget is that we are human too!! We will have lives outside the hospital and as far as the smell being trashy, I would use the term that it is offensive to some, but trashy is in the eye of the beholder!
this is rediculous. i have been doing my clinicals at the same hospital for two quarters now. a couple a weeks ago me and a few other girls ran to the bank our break which is only a few blocks away. On our way back in the building the administrator of the hospital came running out screaming that we were parked in the wrong row. then he accused us of smoking in our vehicles and told us once again that smoking was not aloud on the grounds. the next thing we knew we had to write a 10 page paper on smoking and calling off in the clinical setting and their effects on pt. care.what the heck!!!! we werent smoking. to me that is discrimination.
the human resorce lady at the hospital told us at orientation that if we had to smoke to leave even if it meant standing out in the middle of the street to do it. I believe if one of the three of us were non-smokers that nothing would have been said.
Is this a small hospital? How would a hospital administrator know 1. Who you are, 2. Where you parked, 3. If you smoke?
My first question is, were you permitted by you school to leave your clinical site? I also know that during clinical orientation we are informed of the rules for that facility, were the parking regulations well defined at orientation? Did you parked where you were not supposed to be? I only ask because for the "hospital administrator" to bring this to your attention, I would think that someone had brought it to his attention in the first place or he witnessed it in person. Most "hospital administrators" have other tasks besides patrolling the parking lot. To quote you "I believe if one of the three of us were non-smokers that nothing would have been said." How would he know that you were smokers if he did not see you smoking? Sorry, the story just doesn't seem to add up. We must remember that we are a representative of our school and must be professional while we are at clinicals.
My first question is, were you permitted by you school to leave your clinical site? I also know that during clinical orientation we are informed of the rules for that facility, were the parking regulations well defined at orientation? Did you parked where you were not supposed to be? I only ask because for the "hospital administrator" to bring this to your attention, I would think that someone had brought it to his attention in the first place or he witnessed it in person. Most "hospital administrators" have other tasks besides patrolling the parking lot. To quote you "I believe if one of the three of us were non-smokers that nothing would have been said." How would he know that you were smokers if he did not see you smoking? Sorry, the story just doesn't seem to add up. We must remember that we are a representative of our school and must be professional while we are at clinicals.
I just got the funniest image of our hospital administrator out patrolling the parking garage while wearing his or her suit, with a whistle around their neck and an orange safety vest. I wonder if Dr. Redd Duke has ever has parking garage duty?
Thanks Elk for the answers to my questions. Yeah, I think she was an OSU grad. The speech is coming back to me. So, if I planted this buckeye, I could grow a tree? Long lasting memory of NS trials and tribulations......... :rotfl: I will now be able to answer one more jeapordy question correctly...LOL Now the burning questions is, how uncomfortable is the buckeye going to be in my bra next Tuesday??? :chuckle
Thanks and my apologies for being a little :offtopic:
hmmm seeing as though its a hard little nut...prob pretty uncomfy:) lmao...congrats on graduation:):) btw my puppy (my icon) is named buckeye:) us OSU alumns are pretty serious:) lol
I always kept a bottle of Febreze with me for smoke breaks etc. and that seemed to nip the problem in the bud for the clothes and breathmints for the other. You really didn't say if you were smoking in the car or not either on or off the grounds. If you were off the grounds then you followed policy and procedure and it should be noted in the paper that you have to write and also addressed with the admin of the facility. How does the calling off in clinical have anything to do with the other btw? And maybe I am being stupid, but how does YOUR smoking (if you were or any other nurse that smokes) affect how they care for the patient if they don't reek of smoke? I can understand if one smells like smoke and the effects that it could have but the other is beyond me. To me, it is just another way to pick on and single out the behaviours of another that others may dislike.
I have also set a quit date of June 13th b/c I agree that I can't teach health if I am going to continue to do things that jeapordize it. This is kind of like (in a very simplistic analogy) saying that a person that eats a meal full of onions and reeks of onions (which I despise) is going to give me worse care b/c of that fact!!!!!!!!!!! I may be way off base with that one, but isn't it the same?
:balloons: goodjob !! well done !! sould not have said it better my self.
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Thanks Elk for the answers to my questions. Yeah, I think she was an OSU grad. The speech is coming back to me. So, if I planted this buckeye, I could grow a tree? Long lasting memory of NS trials and tribulations......... :rotfl: I will now be able to answer one more jeapordy question correctly...LOL Now the burning questions is, how uncomfortable is the buckeye going to be in my bra next Tuesday??? :chuckle
Thanks and my apologies for being a little :offtopic: