Tadpole

Tadpole

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Med-Surg Nurse

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  1. Hello, Just came here to blow some steam off. I just put in a three day stretch with a chronic pain patient assigned to me that was a royal pain in the behind to take care of. This patient was on our floor for a ORIF of her knee. She also had a hx...
  2. Question: When your accuity ratings are reported to staffing at your facility, are they taking them seriously :) and staffing accordingly or are you feeling like they are just blowing them off? Curious to see how others feel about this one.
  3. nurse-patient ratio

    I work at a big teaching hospital. Our ratios are currently 1:5 or 1:6 days (depending on the acuities); 1:6 on eves; and 1:7 on nocs. We have RN/CNA teams (we would GLADLY have RN/LPN teams, but we are short on LPNs ). The CNAs have 1:8 on days; ...
  4. Hi Everyone Out There. I am new to this site and a recent RN graduate. I currently work as a med-surg nurse at a busy county hospital. In the future I would like to have a career as a wound care and ostomy nurse. Anyone out there got any good sol...
  5. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Pet peeves....Nurses who like to cut down other nurses. Come on now, it's bad enough that we are all stressed out and streched out to the max with the high patient/nurse ratios and high accuity factors that we have to deal with day after day. We ne...
  6. Would you assist in abortions?

    Yes, I would.
  7. Help needed with PICCs

    Anyone out there got any helpful hints or tips to share with me about drawing labs from PICC lines when they are stubborn to give you the blood? Thanks