Word: technicians
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James Kunen's article on the trend toward replacing nurses with unlicensed patient-care technicians led Clare Kranstover, an R.N. and caseworker with Kemper National Services in Park City, Utah, to issue this blunt warning: "Patients, beware! You will be at risk when hospitals put you in the hands of a technician. If the person caring for you does not have R.N. after his or her name, leave that hospital immediately!" Kranstover, 41, has been a nurse for 11 years, and was a cardiac nurse at a San Diego hospital the night a technician allowed a patient who had just...
Stephen Dohl, now a nursing supervisor at a Charlotte, North Carolina, skilled-nursing facility, wrote of the stressful night in a local hospital when he was the only nurse--working with two assistant nurses and one technician--in charge of 37 patients. Downsizing, explains Dohl, 43, is the reason he no longer works in a hospital. "The more experienced nurses tend to be the ones let go," he says. "Then they are replaced with people fresh out of school who are cheaper. I left hospital nursing because I couldn't give patients the time I felt they needed." Such ruthless...
...change for '96 was that Karolyi, head coach of the '92 team, was replaced by a duo: his wife Martha and Tracy. They were an effective team--Martha Karolyi the experienced technician, Tracy the supportive den mother. The group they assembled for the Olympics was older and more mature than the '92 group: three were competing in their second Olympics, and the average age was 18. Moceanu, the tiny 14-year-old who got the most advance press hype, was an exception that will soon be against the rules; for the 2000 Games, the minimum age for competition has been...
...procedures we use vary," he says. "We notify the administrator of that facility, be it an administration building, classroom etc. We take all information we can and go from there. It may be a situation where we ask people clear area so the place can be searched by technician or whatever...
Rahsaan J. Glover, a technician at Moto Photo, was standing outside his workplace on Dunster Street across from Holyoke Center at 11 a.m. when he heard glass smashing above him. Glover looked up in time to see Podkopaev step out of the window "like he was just stepping off the sidewalk...