qiqueen

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1. Early Morning Nurses (and Nursing Students)

   qiqueen replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

   I never drank coffee before I moved onto day shift; loved nights, but now I am ready for bed by 9:30. My routine is vastly different from my spouse: He wakes me up at 4:45 since he leaves for work at 5. I make the bed and have coffee. I catch the ...

2. Looking for some great advice ......New to Quality Improvement

   qiqueen replied to JordiesMomRN's topic in Quality Improvement

   Great start; find out who is collecting your ACC, STS and device (PPM/AICD) data so that you can see what is trending well and what needs focused upon. Talk to your physician chair for these areas-he/she should know the data (it is benchmarked) and ...

3. Application under review?

   qiqueen replied to 2016Grad's topic in Job Hunt

   In my experience, you are being impatient. Usually, again, my experience, the job is left open for a preplanned period of time (say 2-4 weeks) and then the team starts the process of reviewing applications and then interviews of those with which the...

4. Insensitive Husband

   qiqueen replied to Jrod85's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps the perspective should not be about hours worked in a week (marriage is not a competition) but ulitmately how you honor each other. Ideally, your marriage is a team; therefore, you discuss how to work together each day for the overall good o...

5. The effects of not reporting harassment

   qiqueen replied to Funkymiss187's topic in General Nursing

   I would also report this to your Medical Staff Chief; the physician's behavior is against their code of ethics behavior and should be part of his/her recredentialling file. When staff don't report adverse physician behavior, patient safety can becom...

6. Horizontal violence in the workplace

   qiqueen replied to soulshine101's topic in General Nursing

   Are you familiar with a "culture survey"? This questionnaire would point you to some of the types of questions you might be interested in asking. If your system already performs this (usually every other year), you might want to hone in on a filter...

7. Which tape to use?

   qiqueen replied to mindofmidwifery's topic in General Nursing

   One might also want to consider the purpose: occlusive, basic coverage, etc. Many times paper tape will be sufficient; however, I agree with whomever mentioned silk as a favorite. As an old Ortho nurse, silk is wonderful for knees with all the flex...