I would think, that fresh out of school, the job that reinforced your new knowledge would be the best. The obs unit - 12 patients and THREE licensed staff - that's a great ratio. And these patients should be relatively stable. This would be a wonde...
Tazzi is a little more generous than I am. I'd still have made a formal complaint about her behavior whether she changed her mind and helped me or not. While we are all grateful for the assistance that CNAs and techs give us, NO WAY am I going to al...
quote "on another note, my mother is on medicaid, since having colon ca back in 1992. she did have major medical, but the company tried to say that my dad lied (which he didn't) about her having epilepsy and dropped her just before surgery. the firs...
The night charge nurse makes it for the following AM and PM shift. But we're pretty fluid with it. Usually it's not a problem if someone wants to change it.
I'm happy. I'm happy that I don't have to work at McDonalds or Wal-Mart. I'm happy that I make an excellent wage with a two year degree. I'm happy that I can go any place in the country and make a good living. And I'm especially happy on those rar...
jojotoo replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing
Do we know that these residents are being deprived of sleep? Perhaps they're going to bed at 7PM or 8PM. Those times seem odd to me too, but not abusive. If I ever had to go into a nursing home, I would want to get up at 5PM and go to bed at 10AM....
The patient may not have been a pysch case, but it sounds like the charge nurse must be. Is she CRAZY? I have never worked in any ER that tolerated patients having weapons. And that includes peace officers. Even their guns require being secured (b...
jojotoo replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing
I think that some of the posters are being a little hard on the OP. Either they've forgotten what it's like to be at the bottom of the totem pole or they've never been there at all. It's all well and good that a CNA is being advised to be a patient...
As long as we live in a free society, I think that MDs should be able to choose who they will and won't treat in their private practice. For whatever reason that they choose, as long as it doesn't violate the law. If they are affliated with a hospit...
I think that this would only be a HIPAA violation if the patient (the biological father of the OP) objected to the student sharing his clinical information. Did he? But if this is a HIPAA violation, I also think that the punishment is too harsh. Sc...
Some institutions do allow nurses to prepare IVF with certan additives. But I thought that all vials of KCL were kept in the pharmacy now (and not on the unit) due to errors where KCL had been given as a direct IVP.
jojotoo replied to RiverNurse's topic in New Nurse
I don't think new grads have realistic expectations about how soon they should be able to function independently. For me to take a new grad in the ER and teach them what they need to know, I would expect that they would need heavy duty mentoring for ...