emoening

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1. Do you have a system for making fair pt assignments?

   emoening replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

   We have been dealing with this issue on my unit forever. We have a staff meeting next week to talk about this so I would love to bring some suggestions with me. On our unit, we do NOT staff by acuity whatsoever. We staff by location. Our unit (med-su...

2. Handling New Admits in a Fair Way

   emoening replied to monicanurse's topic in General Nursing

   Our original assignments always include an extra room or so (unless we're full of course). That way new admits can rotate. Our max is 6 pts. If someone already has 6, they will not get an admit. The nurses who have only 5 pts. would get the first adm...

3. End Of Life Issues---The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

   emoening replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   This is an issue I hold very near and dear to my heart. Although I have only been a nurse for 1 year now (on med-surg floor) I find myself relating closest to the patients who come to our 3 "hospice suites" on my floor to die. These patients and fami...

4. Measuring I & O with CBI

   emoening replied to AmericanChai's topic in General Nursing

   Our CBI bags are 3,000cc. We have a flow sheet that had columns for: bag#, amt. in (which is always 3,000), total amt. out, and urine output. So let's say bag #1 has just finished going in, and you empty 3,800 out of the foley bag. The Urine would be...

5. Order for a consent

   emoening replied to kanashe's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know how it's "supposed" to be done, but on my floor, us nurses obtain the consent 99% of the time. There is 1 surgeon who actually signs the consent and fills in the blanks so the nurse just has to get the pt. to sign and then the nurse witn...

6. Clogged 3 way foley with CBI?

   emoening replied to emoening's topic in General Nursing

   which port did you try pulling back fluid out of? the irrigation port or the drainage port? The irrigation port. The drainage port was patent as urine was flowing out of it.

7. Clogged 3 way foley with CBI?

   emoening posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work on a general med-surg floor and consistently have post-op TURP patients with 3 way foleys and CBI. Yesterday I encountered a situation I've never experienced before of probably 50 CBI pt's I've had. This gentleman had a 3way foley with CBI set...

8. Most trivial complaint ever?

   emoening replied to iNurseUK's topic in General Nursing

   I had a patient's son WALK IN TO ANOTHER PATIENT'S ROOM while I was in there emptying a JP Drain to tell me "I can't figure out how to work the controls on Dad's bed." Umm are you kidding me?

9. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

   emoening replied to sethmctenn's topic in Humor

   at my current hospital: Dr. Sharp -- cardiologist Dr. Love -- head physician of OB/GYN

10. Should this have been an incident report?

    emoening posted a topic in New Nurse

    I wanted to get everyone's take on this. Yesterday at work I got out of report at 7:30am and began to make my rounds on my 6 patients. At 8:15 one of my patient's physicians called me and said he was taking my patient to the OR in 45 minutes for a ur...

11. May 2009 Graduates!!! Do you have a job yet?

    emoening replied to soon2bRN516's topic in New Nurse

    Re: May 2009 Graduates!!! Do you have a job yet? kingkn-- I am working at Hilton Head Hospital in Hilton Head Island, SC. On a med-surg floor.

12. Last semester blues...

    emoening replied to SnarfGirl's topic in New Nurse

    OMG tell me about it. I graduate in 6 weeks and I cannot seem to get myself to do ANYTHING. I have worked overly hard the passed four years, overachiever-type, and maintained a 3.95 GPA. But now..I just don't want to do it. I can't bring myself to st...

13. May 2009 Graduates!!! Do you have a job yet?

    emoening replied to soon2bRN516's topic in New Nurse

    I was actually feel pretty lucky, I applied to only one hospital that I really wanted to work at, in South Carolina (I go to school in Ohio) and I got the job after one interview. They told me I can start as soon as I pass my boards as they are holdi...