Strike or time to grow up!

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I hear so much talk about striking that it scares me to think that there are so many people who would abandon their patients so easily. Maybe in some cases where safety is an issue I could consider striking (after all other methods have failed). I feel that nurses need to stand together more politically but not by striking. There is currently too much fighting between nurses at this point (adn,BSN, MSN, CNA etc.)

When people strike I hear them talk bad about agency workers (scabs). Does this mean you would like to see no one show up??

Does this mean you would like to see your patients suffer??

If so maybe it is time for you to leave nursing....

Jared

Originally posted by majic65:

[qb]Dear Jared, Military or civilian, you are giving perinatal/L&D nurses a bad name! It is people like you who lead other nursing staff to think that OB/postpartum/antepatum is the "easy" place to work--Ihave heard that over and over in my 18 years as an OB nurse!..............................

OMGoshhh!!!! Ohh uuuhh (here it goes!!!!)))) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaa hahahahahahahahahahahaaa heeeehheeeeheeeeee (rolling out of my chair) hhoohhoooohheeeeheeeheee (hitting the floor)........(short breath)....heeeeheeehhaaahaaaaaa haaaa (rolling on the floor)....hheehheehhehehehe (Turning hypoxic)....hehehehehehehehe ((Stomach starting to hurt))))..hheeehheeee................LMAO, LOL, LMDO..

Should have checked my email sooner but I have been off work the past few days (you know how it is).....

I think your bashing words were given a good try but if you would have read the entire post you would have realized that I only surf the web when there isn't anything to do, 2-3 patients on the ward who are sleeping etc....If I woke them up to give a back rub or do teaching The would throw me out.

Postpartum is ok but not the area I wished to work. As a new nurse the military will not allow me to work in a speciaized area until I have 1 year nursing experience.

What I have done as a new RN of 9 months:

ACLS, OB ultrasound, Fetal Heart monitoring, PALS, NRP, CPR Instructor, 15 sem hrs of graduate level courses, began a research study, and more..

I volunteered through the Red Cross at a military base over 300hrs to become competent in Labor and Delivery.

I began My masters to be a CNM and WHNP (to add before I even passed my NCLEX exam and 3 weeks out of nursing school) Am 1/4 finished with a 3.85 GPA.

Last month I paid $2000 and took 4 vacation days to become certified in OB ultrasound- got a 98% on the exam. I worked a 12hr shift then went to the airport and worked a 12 hr shift when I got back.

I think my knowledge base for teaching is excellent and they get lots of use too. I participate in 5 discussion boards and access ovid and medline type research data bases to use when a rare question arises that I can not answer for a patient. My discharge classes usually last about 30minutes when most nurses are done in less than 10 minutes.

My patients like me very much and I am often the one people ask for information when problems arise. My name is frequently appriased on the comment cards that patient fill out.

In my 9 months as a nurse I have been off to a good start (not just academically). What have you done? Strike??

Have a great day.

Jared

[ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: kennedyj ]

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Originally posted by majic65:

[qb]Dear Jared, Military or civilian, you are giving perinatal/L&D nurses a bad name! It is people like you who lead other nursing staff to think that OB/postpartum/antepatum is the "easy" place to work--Ihave heard that over and over in my 18 years as an OB nurse!..............................

OMGoshhh!!!! Ohh uuuhh (here it goes!!!!)))) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaa hahahahahahahahahahahaaa heeeehheeeeheeeeee (rolling out of my chair) hhoohhoooohheeeeheeeheee (hitting the floor)........(short breath)....heeeeheeehhaaahaaaaaa haaaa (rolling on the floor)....hheehheehhehehehe (Turning hypoxic)....hehehehehehehehe ((Stomach starting to hurt))))..hheeehheeee................LMAO, LOL, LMDO..

Should have checked my email sooner but I have been off work the past few days (you know how it is).....

I think your bashing words were given a good try but if you would have read the entire post you would have realized that I only surf the web when there isn't anything to do, 2-3 patients on the ward who are sleeping etc....If I woke them up to give a back rub or do teaching The would throw me out.

Postpartum is ok but not the area I wished to work. As a new nurse the military will not allow me to work in a speciaized area until I have 1 year nursing experience.

What I have done as a new RN of 9 months:

ACLS, OB ultrasound, Fetal Heart monitoring, PALS, NRP, CPR Instructor, 15 sem hrs of graduate level courses, began a research study, and more..

I volunteered through the Red Cross at a military base over 300hrs to become competent in Labor and Delivery.

I began My masters to be a CNM and WHNP (to add before I even passed my NCLEX exam and 3 weeks out of nursing school) Am 1/4 finished with a 3.85 GPA.

Last month I paid $2000 and took 4 vacation days to become certified in OB ultrasound- got a 98% on the exam. I worked a 12hr shift then went to the airport and worked a 12 hr shift when I got back.

I think my knowledge base for teaching is excellent and they get lots of use too. I participate in 5 discussion boards and access ovid and medline type research data bases to use when a rare question arises that I can not answer for a patient. My discharge classes usually last about 30minutes when most nurses are done in less than 10 minutes.

My patients like me very much and I am often the one people ask for information when problems arise. My name is frequently appriased on the comment cards that patient fill out.

In my 9 months as a nurse I have been off to a good start (not just academically). What have you done? Strike??

Have a great day.

Jared

[ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: kennedyj ]

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Kaka Nurse

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We are short an RN (Bsn) and I think have a position for 1 LPN also. We are in Kaiserslautern Germany.

Email me directly or post a private message.

If you are interested. But you have to remember that striking is forbidden and you can be fired for it (or even penalized under law)

Jared

[ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: kennedyj ]

[ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: kennedyj ]

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Kaka Nurse

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We are short an RN (Bsn) and I think have a position for 1 LPN also. We are in Kaiserslautern Germany.

Email me directly or post a private message.

If you are interested. But you have to remember that striking is forbidden and you can be fired for it (or even penalized under law)

Jared

[ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: kennedyj ]

[ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: kennedyj ]

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As a new nurse the military will not allow me to work in a speciaized area until I have 1 year nursing experience.

same thing applies in many hospitals not in the military. and that is how it should be -as a new nurse, you have much to learn.

when you talked about working a 12 hr shift, going to the airport, coming back to work another 12 hr shift, did you mean you hadnt slept at all in between all that?

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As a new nurse the military will not allow me to work in a speciaized area until I have 1 year nursing experience.

same thing applies in many hospitals not in the military. and that is how it should be -as a new nurse, you have much to learn.

when you talked about working a 12 hr shift, going to the airport, coming back to work another 12 hr shift, did you mean you hadnt slept at all in between all that?

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Specializes in NICU, Informatics.

jt- I think so (did he not sleep at all) because according to him he's super nurse :D

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Specializes in NICU, Informatics.

jt- I think so (did he not sleep at all) because according to him he's super nurse :D

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(did he not sleep at all)

well according to recent studies, the effects of lack of sleep are similar to the effects of etoh intoxication. More mistakes are made from lack of sleep & more accidents occur from lack of sleep than from intoxication. Someone may think they are super-nurse for working so much, but it is irresponsible & unprofessional for a nurse to be putting her pts in an unsafe, hazardous situation - with the nurse being the hazard... It is also against the Nurse Practice Act to not prevent the pt from being in harm's way. A nurse who has had no sleep in a whole day cannot function optimally & can be harmful, thus violating that standard. An RN could lose her license for that.

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(did he not sleep at all)

well according to recent studies, the effects of lack of sleep are similar to the effects of etoh intoxication. More mistakes are made from lack of sleep & more accidents occur from lack of sleep than from intoxication. Someone may think they are super-nurse for working so much, but it is irresponsible & unprofessional for a nurse to be putting her pts in an unsafe, hazardous situation - with the nurse being the hazard... It is also against the Nurse Practice Act to not prevent the pt from being in harm's way. A nurse who has had no sleep in a whole day cannot function optimally & can be harmful, thus violating that standard. An RN could lose her license for that.

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Not that it matters but in my first 9 months as a nurse, I was working as charge in a huge intercity L&D with about 250 deliveries a month. Most of our patients had serious medical problems as well as pregnancy--so I don't remember ever sitting around for 6 hours. And I was way too busy actually NURSING to be getting all those initials after my name.

P.S. I have never been involved in a strike, but let me tell you, if I ever return to hospital nursing and the issue arises, I will be a part of it.

Are you bored with REAL nurses yet, J???

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Not that it matters but in my first 9 months as a nurse, I was working as charge in a huge intercity L&D with about 250 deliveries a month. Most of our patients had serious medical problems as well as pregnancy--so I don't remember ever sitting around for 6 hours. And I was way too busy actually NURSING to be getting all those initials after my name.

P.S. I have never been involved in a strike, but let me tell you, if I ever return to hospital nursing and the issue arises, I will be a part of it.

Are you bored with REAL nurses yet, J???

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