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  1. Shift Cancellations (Please HELP!!)

    Come to my hospital lol! No such thing as low census.... We're in constant gridlock :/
  2. Part time Nursing shifts

    I do part time 8s, but I imagine it would completely depend on your place of work. I don't do strictly 3 8s a week, though. My schedule is more sporadic, so I might work 4 or 5 shifts one week, and then have a week or so off. I normally do 11 days a ...
  3. We have no aids at all. As an RN, I have between 4-6 patients on days/evenings and I do every single thing for them on my shift. Vitals, glucs, meds, washing, turning, feeding, assessments, admissions and discharges, calling docs, calling pharmacy, a...
  4. RN total patient care...

    Yep, same here. Also in Ontario, and each nurse here (whether RN or RPN) has their own load of pts, no help. If you're one of the 4-5 (days) or 6-8 (evenings/nights) pts assigned to me on my shift, I do it all. Vitals, glucs, physical assessments, me...
  5. Have you ever performed CPR? Results?:

    I'm just under the 1 year mark since I started working. I've not had a chance to do compressions myself, but have been otherwise involved in 2 code situations at work, one of them being my patient who I had just rushed up to ICU cause he was going do...
  6. IV push medications - nursing students

    I'm in Ontario, Canada. As students we were not allowed to do any IVP meds. We had to minibag everything or have the RN do it.
  7. Speaking of... Getting to work early

    Wow, it sounds like things very different where I work! We are not a teeny hospital by any means, and actually a smallish regional center, with lots of pts coming from outlying areas.My floor is not so bad, as we do get more break time than our CBA a...
  8. Speaking of... Getting to work early

    Also, since there is no overlap of shifts, at 0730 (or whenever my shift starts), it is me and only me who is responsible for those pts. If I don't know anything about them, what if the doo-doo hits the fan? I wouldn't know anything about their dx, c...
  9. Speaking of... Getting to work early

    Do you all have overlap of shifts, or....? We don't have any overlap, so even if I only wanted to get report, I'd still have to go in a few mins early or else the previous shift would have to stay late to give me report.For those that don't do chart ...
  10. Speaking of... Getting to work early

    Just to be clear, a good 90% of the nurses where I work come in early. The ones who don't are more or less skipping chart checks from what I can tell (although I'm usually too busy to really pay a lot of attention), but i think i can only name maybe ...
  11. Reading another thread got me thinking about this...I always get to work at least a half hour before my shift starts. Do I want to or like to work for free? Hell no! But I really don't know how else I would ever get out on the floor in time to get ev...
  12. Is nursing a depressing job?

    In my limited experience, it's all about perspective. You can choose to focus on all the things that are wrong with people- chronic illnesses, cancer, addictions, terminal illness, loneliness in LTC, etc- or you can choose to focus on how you're work...
  13. Help with the lymph nodes!

    Can you feel your own? My submandibular nodes are always palpable, but just slightly. When I'm fighting some kind of infection, they're quite swollen and often tender.
  14. I've heard of similar things happening to a few people in my program. If you know you're prone to this kind of thing, you need to take care of yourself and make sure you've had something to eat and drink before watching anything that might bother you...
  15. MRSA Concerns

    MRSA really shouldn't be a concern for you as long as you're healthy and not immune-compromised. Lots of health care workers are carriers. MRSA precautions aren't really for you as the nurse, but so you aren't transferring it from the infected patie...