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There are many topics about managers and how ineffective they are ... with this article, I would like to give you some insights in how your manager is performing and what barriers there may be.
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When Sentara Princess Anne Hospital opens in August, it will feature a high-tech way to track who sees patients and how much time caregivers spend in their rooms. Hospital staffers will be issued badges with tags that are scanned when they enter and leave a patient's room...
Baby boomers facing retirement are worried about their finances, and many believe they'll need to work longer than planned or will never be able to retire, a new poll finds.
The 77 million-strong generation born between 1946 and 1964 has clung tenaciously to its youth. Now, boomers are getting nervous about retirement. Only 11 percent say they are strongly convinced they will be able to live in comfort...
Clinical News
Although most victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) present to the emergency department (ED), they are not usually identified and may not receive interventions, according to a study published online March 15 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Topics
I over heard two sweet patients discussing Nursing uniforms. Both stated they had a very hard time telling the Nurse from all the rest of the staff. I began looking around at the uniforms the staff wears. Every single person employed by the company wears scrubs, from housekeeping on up. They suggested it might be better if the Nurse went back to the all white scrubs and let everyone else wear colors. So, my question is, how many of us would be willing to wear white if it helps out patients recognize us when they need us?
What do I do .. as a student when my preceptor seems borderline psychotic and is behaving in morally and ethically inappropriate way? Talk to someone at my school? Talk to someone at the hospital? Write up an anonymous comment and send it to HR a few weeks from now. Oh and she's not new. She's been a nurse at this facility for 10+ years. Please don't tell me this is the reality of nursing in a big hospital...
Student Discussions
I overheard a resident talking to her attending about how she was more comfortable in the hospital setting, but in the clinic she couldn't get patients to stop talking and asking questions. Word for word this is what I heard her attending say to her, "You'll learn how to make them be quiet, you're there to make money not talk...
We are just a few weeks from pinning! YAY!! I'm on the pinning committee and we are trying to put together a cute Who's Who kind of thing for our class. We have a few things like :
- Most likely to be late
- Loudest
- Asks the most questions
What else can you think of to add to our Who's Who?
Regional Discussion - Florida
Currently, I'm not bilingual. I probably have the spanish speaking skills of a two year old and can only hold very limited conversation. I would love to be completely bilingual, and plan to one day be at that point. However, do you think it will hurt my chances significantly of landing a job as a new grad RN/ADN and not even being bilingual in the Miami area?
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