RNBSNxo

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1. Have you used ethics hotline?

   RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

   bothers me? It is about patient safety and providing proper treatment, there are rules for reasons, ok!?

2. Have you used ethics hotline?

   RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

   Well hospitals have different policies, I know, but for ours there are certain meds they say MUST be on a syringe pump and cannot be put into the running IV fluid line-retrograded. The policy also is you cannot retorgrade a med that is more than 3mL,...

3. Have you used ethics hotline?

   RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

   The policy says only medications in less than 3mL can be retrograded-put directly into the running IV fluid line and then you set a new rate on the secondary pump setting. So she goes in the room with a medication that is prepared in 10mL and per pol...

4. Have you used ethics hotline?

   RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

   Suesquatch The patient is lying in their bed and the parent at their bedside thinking their nurse is providing the best, safest care per policy. So...I consider it unethical for a nurse to be giving medication not according to policy and/or not accor...

5. Do you have to work everywhere in the hospital first?

   RNBSNxo replied to xInspiredx's topic in General Nursing

   You said "nurse starting out" read your own message. Not new nursing student or just interested in nuring. The title of "nurse" means something. Now you say pre-nursing student, good job. And I still did give factual information about my facility, I ...

6. Do you have to work everywhere in the hospital first?

   RNBSNxo replied to xInspiredx's topic in General Nursing

   Altra, she said "as a nurse starting out," This did not say as a nursing student starting out. It said as a NURSE starting out. You wouldnt be concerned if a "nurse starting out" did not know these things, I would. If the poster said nursing student ...

7. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   RNBSNxo replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   No "ghost" stories but some of our pediatrics patients during their palliative care/dying process have said people were in the room who were not, one child said he saw angles, another girl said "god" was here for her. The only time I was kind of scar...

8. Do you have to work everywhere in the hospital first?

   RNBSNxo replied to xInspiredx's topic in General Nursing

   Are you a new nursing student because if you are a new RN then you should have learned these things. As a nursing student you went to different areas. When you are hired for a floor no they do not have to rotate you. Many hospitals have floating thou...

9. maybe I wasn't being nice.....

   RNBSNxo replied to hearthelper's topic in General Nursing

   Well they need to know what to do, patient safety is the concern. It can be an issue of competence. I know in emergecny situations some of us lose our heads and thinking skills. Maybe your hospital needs some mock situations, inservices, etc. You see...

10. Will filing bankruptcy make it hard to get a job as a nurse?

    RNBSNxo replied to stacey914's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have to tell them? If not, don't. It isnt there business. I know I have heard about some employers going to start or are doing credit checks more now but I did not know it was that common/already started happening. Mine has never been checked ...

11. Have you used ethics hotline?

    RNBSNxo posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is nosey but has anyone ever called the ethics hotline to complain about a nursing issue? I have never heard about it happening but some fellows nurses have talked about it because we have concern. I wonder because there is a nurse that has some...

12. Help with Major CNA Problems

    RNBSNxo replied to JSBoston's topic in Relations

    We have issues to with cnas but just a few of them. There was multiple nurses talking about it and finally someone wrote a letter and it was directed to managers from the RNs as a group. If your managers do not step in then you go above your managers...

13. Lost and need some direction.......

    RNBSNxo replied to awise0003's topic in General Nursing

    Yes appeal. Tell them all you have done like you did in this post. Hopefully you do not have past issues/unexcused absences or tardies/emergencies. Do you have any medical proof- Was your son take to the doctor? Do you have any proof of your colitis?...

14. blood cultures after antibiotics

    RNBSNxo replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in General Nursing

    you do blood cultures at first spike and then start antibiotics but you dont stop there. here, every 24hrs a culture is redrawn when a patient spikes IF they have a central line. maybe the current antibiotic they are on doesnt cover the infection the...

15. Nursing school is too easy!

    RNBSNxo replied to Maghunter's topic in General Students

    Nursing school is not easy, your school is corrupt. Some schools do lose funds for low pass rates. Is there an ethics board to report these things to anonymously like there is in hospitals? In the end you all will be affected. When you get into the r...