Yes! I have a recurring nightmare that I did not know that a patient was assigned to me for a the whole shift, and NEVER took care of the patient the whole time! :uhoh21:
I work with a nurse who is anorexic and has a constant smell like this, more like rotting garbage, from vomiting all the time. It doesn't smell like vomit, it's a horrible, metabolic type of odor. Could this person possibly have an eating disorder?
:yeahthat: Thank you, that's EXACTLY everything I wanted to say, but was COMPLETELY SPEECHLESS for a minute after reading that post! Whoa! Are they kidding! Perhaps she would like to contact her local newspaper, as well!
We still do this and we are a huge university medical center! However, for our OR scrubs, we have a Pyxsis type of machine to make sure we don't steal any scrubs! :smackingf
Ambulatory Surgery Centers are fine as long as you are in good health. They are not for people with complicated medical histories or are high risk in any way. In the event of emergency, they would call 911 and transport you to the hospital. If you ...
Every other weekend here is Friday and Saturday. We are also required to work 2 Sundays (as dayshift is required to work 2 Fridays) a month. Most people choose to do those Sundays on their weekend so as not to screw up their weekend off.:beer:
I think an emergent situation like that is a little different that the unfortunate way mandatory overtime is usually used, when adequate staffing was never provided, there WASN'T any relief scheduled, and you are just expected to stay. I believe this...
Wow, how fancy! While I haven't had to do it for a long while, I used to smash the pill inside the blister package with a Nitro bottle! No fancy pill crushers for us!
Wow, I thought only we had this problem. H&P and consent DEFINATELY required to go into the room! We are constantly getting grief for this, as if it is new or something! I'm wondering how many others have problems with patients not going to PA...
In my union hospital you get time and a half if you work the holiday plus an additional 8 paid hours to take another time. If you are not working the holiday, you get 8 hours of pay.
We have a nurse where I work that used to receive a lot of gifts and things. She was brand new to our unit as well as a fairly new nurse and it just kind of made us go hmmmmm? We have two schools of thought on the subject: 1. She was sending thin...