ajohnson8407

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1. Unit Practice council participation

   ajohnson8407 replied to ajohnson8407's topic in Professionalism

   The QI project is a unit initiative that the hospital is working on for when JACHO comes at sometime this year. The supplies is something that’s been voiced by the staff. The daisy and admissions packet is really a project I took on myself from anoth...

2. Unit Practice council participation

   ajohnson8407 replied to ajohnson8407's topic in Professionalism

   I believe they are aware of the pay. We have a mostly seasoned and some middle road nurses. I work at a community hospital branch of a major hospital system so the new grad are usually at the main campus. The survey Monkey is a great idea though! Tha...

3. Unit Practice council participation

   ajohnson8407 replied to ajohnson8407's topic in Professionalism

   We do have a clinical ladder here. It is based on a point system. Basically a portfolio that you put together of times you have spent in committees, doing committee work outside meeting times, volunteering, non-mandatory in-services, staff teaching, ...

4. Unit Practice council participation

   ajohnson8407 posted a topic in Professionalism

   Good morning. I've seen some other posts about this from a while back but I am posting again to see if there is any new insight. So I am the chair person of our unit practice council. What I do is attend our hospital quality practice council and brin...

5. Minimum nursing staff levels?????

   ajohnson8407 replied to CoeKohawk11's topic in Safety

   I also work on a small pediatric unit, we have 7 available beds. We can have 6 pts and still be staffed with 1 nurse! There should def be minimum staffing laws. I believe there should at least be 1 nurse and 1 cna on the floor even with 2 pts. Here i...

6. staffing pediatrics

   ajohnson8407 posted a topic in Safety

   Im an RN working in a small peds unit of 8 beds. We normally staff only one nurse on the (locked) unit. we get another nurse when we reach 5 patients. Im going to be meeting with the CNO about a new staffing plan. I need some helpful opinions or mayb...

7. Questions about staffing a small peds unit

   ajohnson8407 replied to oldcurlyrn49's topic in Pediatric

   Im an RN currently in a similar situation as you. I work on an 8 bed pedi unit that staffs only one nurse until she reaches 5 pts. no aide, no sec, you are alone. and did I metion we are now a locked unit and have another phone to answer (the door) t...

8. Help i need patient education handouts

   ajohnson8407 posted a topic in Education

   I worked at a hospital with Krames on Demand which I loved, I worked at a hospital with our own patient educator just call her up and she does the teaching and brings the handouts. I am big on educating my patients so they don't end up here again. I ...

9. HELP!! Cant find a job in NY

   ajohnson8407 posted a topic in Career Support

   I am a nurse from TX who is trying to move to NY to be with my fiance. I have my RN for NY and by now I think that every hospital in NY has a copy of my resume. I have called and had no one call be back. I have gone and sat in Human resources for an ...

10. Anyone wanne to help me! I need an answer!

    ajohnson8407 replied to lpn2icu's topic in General Nursing

    I know there are alot of universities that have online programs. I am about to get ready to do my RN-MSN online. I am applying to Texas Tech and Midwestern State Both are accredited.

11. Looking for some flow sheets

    ajohnson8407 replied to ajohnson8407's topic in General Nursing

    that is a good question. like I said we are stuck in the dark ages. we have meditech but we only have it for email, admission assessments, and entering orders. I came from a hospital in san antonio that we did computer charting on everything the only...

12. Looking for some flow sheets

    ajohnson8407 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi I am currently working on a pedi unit. I just started working here in October, we have a new director and we are trying to bring the unit out of the dark ages. We are still paper charting and we are in need of a new updated nursing flowsheet/asses...