Re: My DON is a Gem! Originally Posted by morte 
yup, take your time, proceed with caution....etc.....when you have the time...lol.....perhaps you can check out a patients meds and see a place to suggest a cut back....or other change......tiny little changes do add up in the end.....what is the ratio on the day shift? this is often (in my experience) the problem that impacts the noc shift....if days has too many patients per nurse, stuff gets shifted back to nocs....good luck
It's 20 - 1 on days. morte, one of the things here is that I have never seen people - almost all of them - on so many meds. And constant finger sticks, bp's q shift, lots of monitoring.
Another thing that happens here - a lot - is bad staffing management - literally forgetting to schedule nurses. We are supposed to have 2 on days and on one wing they scheduled 1, who called in. So I know that wing and helped the mandated nurse with her 8 am pass. But this is unacceptable.
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