Aloe_sky

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1. Am I burnt out? Or, are my coworkers making me bitter?

   Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   I completely agree!

2. Am I burnt out? Or, are my coworkers making me bitter?

   Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks, I actually sold my soul for my daughter's tuition to be covered by the hospital haha.

3. Am I burnt out? Or, are my coworkers making me bitter?

   Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   You're right, they hired a new "charge nurse" last night was her first night. She's been a nurse a little over 1.5 years. It was my third shift in a row and I came back to a new assignment, I asked why? Her response..... she wanted the patients I had...

4. Am I burnt out? Or, are my coworkers making me bitter?

   Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   I agree, I also feel bad for the patients. These nurses are new and I may come off stand offish so they don't ask me questions. The sad part is, they wait till day shift comes in to ask questions when I could have answered it. Although they really sh...

5. Am I burnt out? Or, are my coworkers making me bitter?

   Aloe_sky posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm at a new hospital, I love bedside nursing but we are always understaffed, 3 patients in the ICU is the norm which I really hate!! I still don't dread going into work yet, in fact I pick up extra shifts EVERY week. I use to be a helpful nurs...

6. False Documentation & Relationships

   Aloe_sky replied to Curiouscat12345's topic in Relations

   Shouldn't you have addressed your concern in that moment to this nurse? I don't understand why nurses especially charge nurses see or hear something, sit around, say nothing, do nothing and then tell management. I was always taught the first step is ...

7. Dangers of open ICU?

   Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you, the problem is all Drs will give different answers. A patients MAP goal will be 65 with an order for pressors to start, cardiology will come in the morning and say SBP goal to titrate pressors. When you verify with critical care, they say ...

8. Dangers of open ICU?

   Aloe_sky posted a topic in General Nursing

   OK so I just learned something today and have been an ICU/ED nurse for a few years. A coworker that is a travel nurse just told me the reasons why me and her are frustrated is because this is our first job in an open ICU. we use to complain tha...

9. Pressure ulcers & Q2hr turns

   Aloe_sky posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm at a facility where start of shift I'm noticing patients don't have foam wedges under them. The nurses will say they removed it so the patient can lay on their back for 2 hours. I was taught to never leave a patient on their back with exceptions ...

10. ICU Nurses, Clear The Pumps q1hr and Document Or...

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    We use cerner, when the medication is scanned and rate adjusted and documented, it calculates the volume infused that hour. These nurses "unchart" or clear the computer calculated volume infused. I spoke to my manager about this because I'm...

11. ICU Nurses, Clear The Pumps q1hr and Document Or...

    Aloe_sky posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am at a new facility where the nurses clear pumps q1 and document continuous fluid intake instead of clicking in the prescribed volume in the computer. They say it's "not accurate" but this is really frustrating. I get it if a patient for example i...

12. Dialysis catheters

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely agree, my manager admits the staff are resistant to learning new things despite the access to education. Thanks for the response.

13. Dialysis catheters

    Aloe_sky posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question regarding dialysis catheter’s. At the facility I work at they call non tunneled triple lumen dialysis catheter a “Shiley with a pigtail” I’m use to calling this a trialysis catheter, or a doublelumen dialysis cath I call a Quinton, ...

14. Nxstage CRRT Documentation

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    For our charting it says at the beginning of the hour document the I&Os from the previous hour (then the computer calculates what to program the CRRT machine to). Then in the next column it says at the end of the hour document the actua...

15. Nxstage CRRT Documentation

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    OK thank you! I’m just trying to wrap my head around why it’s not documented on the actual hour the fluid removal and pressures were measured. Did they ever explain?