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Hear Say
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Oh the rumor mill. Gotta love it. So typical in a hospital, military, company, high school and on and on. "Nurses had reported of hearing of other nurses". Any concrete evidence? Specific names? Great investigative work on the part of who? before getting patients all riled up. This is so typical of the birth and life of a rumor. Probably emerged from the aftermath of Dr. Dinklebrain who really did use the same syringe more than once. Bottom line-get better investigators. This is ridiculous.
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Just Saying
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I wouldn't take my dog to that hellhole for a removal of a tick. The place should be hit with a recking ball.
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MCR
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This is preposterous! This is like eating an ice cream that fell on the floor into a big pile of dog poop! How can an health professional reuse a single-use medical device?
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TO MCR,
You raise a very good question.How could professionals do this type of thing.
The answer they are not professional.
The only thing they want is a paycheck at the end of the week.
I have learned over the last several years that the medical field has gone so far down it could not come back up no matter how hard it tried.
If only a wrecking ball would solve the problem,,,it is not the building that is at fault,it is the workers in it.
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nurse
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I worked there as an agency nurse for one day and left on my lunch not wanting to come back, I saw everything you could imagine by the staff and never returned. I credit only the ER for being a level One trauma for nassau county. Souzzi should be ashamed and be placed in a full body cast and stuck on one of those floors without his entourage. The truth be told then.
To have travel and agency nurses to replace staff to cut cost this is what you get. Unprofessional nurses who do not care or have any morals. How can they do that? Do they have a clue? Or education? Or maybe they let a LPN give the meds while a RN sits behind the desk and sits, attemting to asscertain some form knowledge through the chart other than getting up and assessing the patient. And pharmacy that reuses needles in this day and age? But keep the hospital open for the community, shelling theCEO $$$. It's all about the community, but wait........spanish. I forgot.........you did't have a interpreter when you stuck them with that contaminated needle did you and ruined their lives?
I agree with the wrecking ball theory.
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Carlos Rivera
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Just Saying wrote: I wouldn't take my dog to that hellhole for a removal of a tick. The place should be hit with a recking ball. I agree, I worked there and you would not believe the things that go on that place. I most definetly would not take my family to that place.
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HK Craig
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Cant post on the slave guy,. After all he needs time to find homes for the 101 dogs!
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Move On
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nurse wrote: I worked there as an agency nurse for one day and left on my lunch not wanting to come back, I saw everything you could imagine by the staff and never returned. I credit only the ER for being a level One trauma for nassau county. Souzzi should be ashamed and be placed in a full body cast and stuck on one of those floors without his entourage. The truth be told then.
To have travel and agency nurses to replace staff to cut cost this is what you get. Unprofessional nurses who do not care or have any morals. How can they do that? Do they have a clue? Or education? Or maybe they let a LPN give the meds while a RN sits behind the desk and sits, attemting to asscertain some form knowledge through the chart other than getting up and assessing the patient. And pharmacy that reuses needles in this day and age? But keep the hospital open for the community, shelling theCEO $$$. It's all about the community, but wait........spanish. I forgot.........you did't have a interpreter when you stuck them with that contaminated needle did you and ruined their lives?
I agree with the wrecking ball theory. You are wrong with every sentence you wrote. The ER is not the best on the island... by far. The LPNs I work with are extremely qualified to pass meds and usually are better with patient care than most of the RNs on the unit, due to the fact that the RNs feel they deserve to sit back and allow the LPNs to do everything, causing their own skills to get rusty. The pharmacy does not re-use syringes, as the nurses are the ones administering the injections and are then supposed to dispose in a sharps container, they do not return to the pharmacy. If you have such resentment for the career you chose, do your patients a favor and find a new path, we do not need a fellow RN that doesn't want to be there, there are enough of us to make up for you. You should make your unit look good, you should not run out because your unit is not making YOU look good. Take some responsibility, and don't for a second think that you are better than any other professional that actually enjoys what they do. Being an agency nurse is not how you can ensure continuity of care for your patients. You work one place one day and another place the next.. stick around somewhere for a bit and begin to view our patients as the humans they are, as opposed to a patient in a bed that you will probably never see again.
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Annette Randazzo
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Question-who is in charge of infection control in this place? Is it someone with at least a bachelors in nursing or a masters in epidemeology? Or is it, as so often happens in the Nassau hospital, an idiot with a GED who knows someone? Same goes for the investigation of all this-who is doing it? Are nurses investigating nurses? Or do they have trained investigators in on this? Please do not tell me Civil Service qualified-that means they knew who to stroke to get the qualifications lowered to get the job. Yes, doing a MONICA! Some of the victims ought to sue!
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nurse
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Move On wrote: <quoted text>
You are wrong with every sentence you wrote. The ER is not the best on the island... by far. The LPNs I work with are extremely qualified to pass meds and usually are better with patient care than most of the RNs on the unit, due to the fact that the RNs feel they deserve to sit back and allow the LPNs to do everything, causing their own skills to get rusty. The pharmacy does not re-use syringes, as the nurses are the ones administering the injections and are then supposed to dispose in a sharps container, they do not return to the pharmacy. If you have such resentment for the career you chose, do your patients a favor and find a new path, we do not need a fellow RN that doesn't want to be there, there are enough of us to make up for you. You should make your unit look good, you should not run out because your unit is not making YOU look good. Take some responsibility, and don't for a second think that you are better than any other professional that actually enjoys what they do. Being an agency nurse is not how you can ensure continuity of care for your patients. You work one place one day and another place the next.. stick around somewhere for a bit and begin to view our patients as the humans they are, as opposed to a patient in a bed that you will probably never see again. Sorry if I offended you, but i work full time not as an agency or travel nurse. I am in the nys retirement sytem an have over 15yrs experience. Please reread my statement in reference to NCMC. YOU MAY NEED GLASSES. I never said the Er is the best on Island. I give them credit for being a level one trauma center, if you have a clue. I agree an LPN can pass meds as can anyone. What they are for, interactions and side effects though is a whole different ball game. No RN deserves to sit back, that is called a fat ass. The pharmacy as per policy distrubuted that specific pen under a policy and procedure you have no clue about, or does your friendly LPN. I have no resentment in my career, love it with all my heart. I call it as I see it. And I feel sorry for all those poor people who were stuck by those fat asses thta did't read thepolicy and procedure. So get over your righteous self.
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Democratic Patronage
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Walerstein was fired about 5 years ago and now he is the medical director because he is a democratic. The place is filled with democratic patronage. The new human resource director is a friend of Judge Sharon Commision who is the wife of Art Gianelli another democratic placement. This should be a big story but it is not getting play b/c it is a suozzi operative.
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angry
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Democratic Patronage wrote: Walerstein was fired about 5 years ago and now he is the medical director because he is a democratic.
The place is filled with democratic patronage. The new human resource director is a friend of Judge Sharon Commision who is the wife of Art Gianelli another democratic placement. This should be a big story but it is not getting play b/c it is a suozzi operative. Hey Newsday, how about exposing this nonsense? NUMC is wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on excessive administrative salaries--many in the 400k to 500k range. It's true, the medical director, Dr. Wallerstein, is grossly overpaid, as are many of the administrators. This is a HUGE waste of taxpayer dollars. By the way, these folks are also in the NY State Retirement System, and retire with HUGE payouts that the taxpayers fund! This is all happening while the quality of care has eroded there! Wallerstein should be fired for the insulin syringe mess!!
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Anonymous
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Nurse:
Your comments are offensive and uncalled for. You are making assumptions and jumping to conclusions. Not very professional, and not very smart. At least you did not try and become an MD, although frankly I am scared to have you working as a nurse as well.
The fact is, you cannot let emotions and assumptions get the better of you. How can you successfully be a nurse with that mindset? I agree, if this article is true, it is a huge injustice and risk to patients that no words I can provide can suffice. That is a given.
But I agree with the other poster that there is no reason for you to assume that LPNs are any less educated about the meds they are giving. They ARE nurses. At least where I live (Canada), LPNs have diplomas and pharmacology courses. Does this somehow make you feel better about yourself to think you are "above" someone? Believe me, I have worked with some clueless RNs. Having an RN after your name does not automatically mean you are intelligent and caring. My apologies to those nurses who are.
Smart people realize that you need to investigate if these rumours are in fact true, find out if the nurses were instructed to reuse or be fired, find out why the nurses didn't speak up, if more training is needed (although I doubt anyone that clueless could get certified in ANY career), or if they are using/hiring staff that just don't care. This can happen with agencies and "lazy" nurses.
As a Pre-Med student who works with nurses, my advice for you is to think more like the professional you claim to be, and less like the stereotypical irrational woman. As a woman involved in the healthcare field, I am insulted that you could make such assumptions.
I want the best for both patients and staff. I hate to judge, but in your case, it's justified.
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Anonymous
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I also failed to point out the obvious...that nowhere does it say that LPNs are even involved. I do agree with you in that any nurse (RNs included) should not be performing a "desk job" if they are hired for general duty care.
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