Last October, my then 10 month old grandson received his first flu vaccine on a Tuesday and by Friday night was having full blown witnessed, video-taped focal seizures. After being hospitalized for a week and having EEGs, an MRI, and several other ...
June55Baby replied to amandagayle's topic in Mississippi
as far as schedules, working 12 hr weekends, you miss parties, cookouts, kid’s ballgames etc but you have time off during the week for dr appts, grocery shopping, class parties and field trips. weekends/nights all the "suits" are at home and there a...
June55Baby replied to amandagayle's topic in Mississippi
Oh my, NICU is my first love, so there would be no question there. I have worked every other weekend and nights as well and now work straight M-F. Also, it's 2 totally different environments. You are right, you're gonna have to decide what's work...
June55Baby replied to amandagayle's topic in Mississippi
I don't know your age or experience, but as a nurse close to retirement, I have wished many times that I had taken the offer from UMC back in the day. They offer excellent benefits and retirement. I work with nurses now who are in their early 40's,...
June55Baby replied to nfdfiremedic's topic in General Nursing
This is a "through-put" issue and Joint Commission has standards that apply to patient flow. I'm sure your patients are not "satisfied" with this arrangement either and poor patient staisfaction scores will definitely impact your reimbursement from...
Ordering ASA for AMI patients (not CHFers) is probably tied to Core Measures or the Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Rule from CMS, which impacts Core Measures and HCAHPS (Patient Satisfaction). Using VBP, CMS will redistribute funds to participating ho...
June55Baby replied to misswhitney's topic in General Nursing
At our hospital we use "Smarties". It is simply a post card with the hospital logo on it and we write a thank you note for what the employee did proving they are a "smartie" and we tape a roll of Smarties Candy to the post card and make a big deal o...
June55Baby replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing
Yep! Good place with great administrative staff and a very strong CNO. Hospital has received "One of the Best Places to Work" awards more than once AND this year the State Nurses Ass'n gave us the Nightingale Award for Best Hospital Over 100 Beds...
June55Baby replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing
So far we have had a very nice Nurses' Week! Yesterday we had a Popcorn and Coke party ay 2 and again at 9 for all nursing staff (RNs, LPNs, CNAs) including non-clinical nurses like me! We were given a very nice key chain with the hospital name a...
June55Baby replied to whiteoleander5's topic in General Students
If it's your blood... try this old quilter's trick and use your own saliva. I know for a fact my saliva gets blood stains out of quilts when I stick myself while quilting.
KNARE, check with your hospital's Joint Commission coordinator... from what I understand according to The Joint Commission, that requirement is "...applicable to psychiatric hospitals and patients being treated for emotional or behavioral disorders i...
With kids you gotta do Disney! ! ! Stay inside the park, use park transportation (bus, tram, boat, whatever is available), go early (one park opens early each day to people who are staying in the park) and come back to your room and rest in the afte...