swifty1031

swifty1031 has 3 years experience.

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1. Nurse-Patient Ratios on East Coast

   swifty1031 replied to shhhh's topic in General Nursing

   Same here in TX... I work a tele/step down and we have 4-5 and sometimes 6 on days with 5-6 and rarely 7 on nights. Lots of sick pts and post heart caths. I once had a "seasoned" nurse tell me that the pts on tele use to be ICU and the ICU pts used t...

2. What's the scariest thing you've ever seen as a nurse?

   swifty1031 replied to Nurse0621's topic in General Nursing

   The scariest thing I can remember was when I was a brand new nurse we had a psych pt on our unit who didn't like blondes. No one knew this until after we started our shift that night. He wigged out when I hung a new bag of IV fluids. He jumped up so ...

3. How can I be in two places at the same time?

   swifty1031 replied to sistasoul's topic in General Nursing

   Sometimes you have to let others do some things. I know it can be hard if you are a person who does everything for herself (I tend to because I know it will get done). My director has said on more than one occasion that a hospital is a 24HOUR facilit...

4. ONLINE RN TO BSN any advise on the best ones.

   swifty1031 replied to smiles04's topic in Texas

   TX Pasadena Queen-Does Texas Tech have any problem accepting EC? I know you (like me) graduated from there last year:yeah: I have a a BS in another area. Thanks:p

5. Nurses/patient care/cell phones

   swifty1031 replied to snuggles49's topic in General Nursing

   We were required to carry cell phones at a hospital I once worked for. It was very annoying. The secretary would put through family members that just wanted to check on pt but didn't have time to visit, doctors with tons of questions and of course yo...

6. Recent Excelsior Grads, I have a question

   swifty1031 replied to caringtouch's topic in General Nursing

   I waited about a month to get a date and then had exactly one month to my test date. I took a cancellation date and called daily. I finished in Feb. '09 and graduated in April '09. Good luck!

7. compensation for working short

   swifty1031 replied to maxthecat's topic in General Nursing

   That sounds like a great idea... if only! We usually get the "be glad you have a job in these hard times" speech when we are asked to work short! Oh well, as long as we continue to cover for the administration, things will never change. In fact I hea...

8. How do you administer Mucomyst orally?

   swifty1031 replied to IlovenursingRN's topic in General Nursing

   I have found that the best is cran-grape. Most of my pt.s seem to be ok with this, it does smell horrible. One time a friend of mine opened the vial and it flew all over her! She smelled horrible. She had to go get scrubs from OR, I don't know if she...

9. Per Diem Holiday Scheduling

   swifty1031 replied to cscooking's topic in General Nursing

   You would think that would be the case, however on the unit where I work the per diem are being forced to work more holidays than full time. I haven't quite figured out where the fairness in that is yet, but we were told that in todays job market we ...

10. Unreasonable family members in the nursing home?

    swifty1031 replied to TreehuggerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I so agree with the poster that tis problem is not limited to LTAC. I work on an acute care floor with occasional med-surg pts. I just want to scream when we get that concerned family member who can't push the button on the bed to raise the head but ...

11. What is happening in your hospital? Not using N95 mask, NO screening for H1N1 ,

    swifty1031 replied to JobsearchingRN's topic in COVID

    Basically the same thing in the hospital I where I work. We are no longer testing for H1N1, if the patient does come back positive for flu, then they are placed in isolation, but we only get standard surgical masks. In our unit meeting today we told ...

12. Pinning Ceremony Question

    swifty1031 replied to beebonnet's topic in General Nursing

    We opened a new unit in January of this year and our theme has been "The Climb". I think nursing school is like that... you finally reach your goal, but there is so much more out there when you are finished with school. You will always remember the h...

13. Plan to transfer from tele to er

    swifty1031 replied to pandaboi's topic in Emergency

    You must work at the same place I do!! I am currently wanting to transfer... it will be interesting to see the responses.

14. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    swifty1031 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

    i would love to say... even though you don't visit, care for, feed, etc mom/dad, you now want me to jump through hoops and bow down to your every demand (check bs every 30 minutes because we found her unconscious and her bs was 32 in ED-actually had ...

15. nurses with hearing aid

    swifty1031 replied to aminv's topic in General Nursing

    i am precepting a nurse who has hearing aids. he has a specialized stethoscope and is very capable of doing everything a nurse with no aids can do! he is very comical and when he greets a pt who is HOH he makes a joke about both of them. The pts love...