hollyberry678

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1. Patient who is on his call light every 3-5 minutes ALL night long

   hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, thanks for the response. That was my guess, too...but how do you HANDLE this?

2. Patient who is on his call light every 3-5 minutes ALL night long

   hollyberry678 posted a topic in General Nursing

   This is a chronic patient, lives at a group home, came into hospital with vague complaints. Complaining about the "lazy ED nurses" and all other staff in general. on his call light ALL night long, wanting to be repositioned every 5 minutes, have th...

3. blood sugar question

   hollyberry678 posted a topic in General Nursing

   If a patient had an HS Bs of 74 and was given 10 units of Lantus, and appeared to be sleeping during the night with VSS, would you do a 'cautionary' BS check during the night, given her BS of 74?

4. I dont handle lazy aides well

   hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

   As far as my posting my troubles, I tend to only post when I am feeling frustrated. I generally do not have a problem with coworkers, I am a great team player, work hard, and teach when I can with the few areas of experience I have. I do have an on...

5. Rhythm Analysis

   hollyberry678 replied to heaverboo's topic in General Nursing

   buy a rhythm interpretation book...practice...

6. new grad 'picked on'

   hollyberry678 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, this isnt about me, but about a co-worker. He was a new grad, he had switched his field entirely and went through an accelerated program, so he had little-no floor experience. He was hired, trained, and he had many questions, and was somewhat sl...

7. I dont handle lazy aides well

   hollyberry678 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Maybe I am not cut out for hospital nursing, I dont know. I cant seem to handle lazy aides well. Again I was assigned to the other side' on my unit, night shift, 2 rn's with one aide, 12 pts (6 patients each rn). If there is not a good aide, you dr...

8. how do you get NA's to help more? (those that want to do the minimum)

   hollyberry678 posted a topic in General Nursing

   There are a couple NA's on the night shift where I work who only do the minimum. they have the standard tasks, VS q 4 hours (2x/shift) and BS (blood sugars) at 0600. They drag these out and refuse to answer call lights when they are doing this "I am...

9. Help! Rude MDs or is it me?

   hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in Relations

   remind me not to post here again.

10. Help! Rude MDs or is it me?

    hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in Relations

    Wow, everyone is so focused on the ocean spray incident, which I believe I addressed in response, that they have not focused on the bulk of my concern. I am sorry that I brought that incident up.

11. Help! Rude MDs or is it me?

    hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in Relations

    Okay, thanks Virgo, how would you have handled these responses (from residents/mds)

12. Help! Rude MDs or is it me?

    hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in Relations

    no, the patient was not on O2, was on room air. Thanks for the replies, does it sound as I described it, that these mds were rude, or am I being "too sensitive". I did email my mgr. almost verbatim my initial message, and I hope she is understandin...

13. Help! Rude MDs or is it me?

    hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in Relations

    Thanks for the replies. Well, the person who needed the ocean spray was really uncomfortable, and it was keeping her awake, and her nose intermittantly (shortly) bled due to sryness, I just thought if you were on call, you were there to answer to pag...

14. Help! Rude MDs or is it me?

    hollyberry678 posted a topic in Relations

    I am new to this position on a hispital unit in a county hospital. All is generally well except for the below incidents recently. I did last night email my nurse mgr about them, but hate to "be a complainer", though really think this behavior is unac...

15. For those of you who have experience resigning a hospital position...

    hollyberry678 replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    Also, since I have resigned, and my manager does not seem happy, can she somehow 'mess up' my re-hire status? How does one know if they are in 'rehire status'?