purpleiris

purpleiris specializes in 1 yr M/S & almost 1 yr Step Down.

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1. Who assigns your patients?

   purpleiris posted a topic in PACU

   Hi EVeryone! I am wondering how patients are assigned in your PACU. Currently, we have a nursing assistant assigning patients, they go around the room and no matter what is happening to your patient if you are next you are next....even if the next n...

2. How are those doctors treating you?

   purpleiris replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   GRRRR I am angry at doctors! I am sick of them thinking that that the nurses are their personal lackeys, secretaries, and all around gofer. I had a doctor call me out of an isolation room all the way to the nurses desk to ask for a patients chart!...

3. Yelled at yet again

   purpleiris posted a topic in Relations

   Need to vent! Yesterday I got an admission from the ED. I paged the admitting physician for orders and one of the orders was for a cardiology consult. It was 5 PM so I paged the cardiologist. He called back and wanted to know why I paged him. I told...

4. Shift change department transfer errors

   purpleiris replied to purpleiris's topic in Safety

   I was working on a research paper that was requested by my level supervisor and just happened to coincide with a project due for my BSN. :typing I was hoping to find something to validate our thoughts and fears with this posting and with many inte...

5. Telling it how it is.

   purpleiris replied to twistedpupchaser's topic in General Nursing

   I was reteaching a 28 year old male diabetic patient on the proper diet. He had been diagnosed a year before and in the hospital 3 times for glucose levels over 600. I asked him if he had taken advantage of the hospital's diabetes support group for...

6. Nursing shortage per state

   purpleiris replied to KenH's topic in General Nursing

   I recently heard that the University of Michigan is laying off nurses and Sparrow hospital in Lansing. If those two are laying off it is scary for the rest of Michigan! :smackingf

7. Shift change department transfer errors

   purpleiris replied to purpleiris's topic in Safety

   I guess I thought it is safer because of the first 45 minutes before the change of shift when in the ED the patient will acutally have a nurse who knows them instead of a nurse who tucks them in to wait until the next shift. Personally, I would rathe...

8. Shift change department transfer errors

   purpleiris posted a topic in Safety

   I was wondering if anyone else thinks shift change patient transfers are unsafe. Does anyone have policies that prevent shift change transfers? Has anyone had any safety incidents? I would like to propose a change in policy at my facility but need...

9. What do you assess?

   purpleiris posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi Everyone, I was just wondering what you all assess in each patient? Do you do the same assessment on every patient? Just assess the issues the patient has been admitted for? Head to toe? Sometimes I feel like an idiot asking a patient with lowe...