BeckysMom1952

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1. Secretary infighting

   BeckysMom1952 posted a topic in Management

   I'm going to make a long story short. I have two secretaries (Jill and Mary, names changed) who seem to get along although each has told me about the other's "game playing." On a recent morning Jill stalked into the office and told me about Mary's do...

2. Avenues for a second job?

   BeckysMom1952 posted a topic in General Nursing

   My hospital is very low census for a long time now, and we're all getting called off a lot. Paychecks are suffering. But we have mortgages and other bills. I need another job, but what I don't want is another "weekend commitment," besides, other hosp...

3. Threatened by Patient Family

   BeckysMom1952 replied to Susan9608's topic in General Nursing

   The response by your hospital is complete BS. On our floor we've stopped being nice. Threaten once and you're out- we call security and you're escorted out, and if need be, visitors to that patient are stopped completely. Threats of physical violence...

4. PCA pump error

   BeckysMom1952 replied to BeckysMom1952's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for these replies. The drugs are barcoded but the machines aren't capable of reading them. The patient actually did get that 25 mg of morphine and they only found out when it started beeping because it was empty. He got Narcan of course, but i...

5. PCA pump error

   BeckysMom1952 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Question: Our charge nurse set up a PCA pump with morphine for a new grad. Our policy states she has to set it up with another RN, but this manager just did it herself then had another nurse go in and check it. So, what happened was, she set it up so...