Deb2300

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1. male student nurses

   Deb2300 replied to sicman's topic in Male Students

   I find the older female patients want nothing to do with a male nurse or a male CNA. It must be an age barrier block. The female patients simply don't feel comfortable around the male healthcare workers and have no trouble telling them so. Any fema...

2. What do you do when you know a nurse is making false statements in the chart?

   Deb2300 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work on a Med/Surg floor. We use a 24 hour flow assessment sheet for the patients. The sheet is nothing more than a check list of the systems: Lungs--clear Skin---moist AP--regular, etc. The problem we're seeing is with a nurse who never wears a...

3. Define the Assistant Nurse Manager's Job

   Deb2300 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work on a very busy 18 bed Med/Surg unit.Our staffing pattern for 18 patients is 4 nurses (this includes the ANM) She will take a smaller and easy patient assisgnment, which we are all OK with, but she does absolutely nothing to help the rest of u...

4. Manditory Overtime

   Deb2300 replied to LenMalRN's topic in General Nursing

   We were also threatened with abandonment and fear of losing our licenses. With further research, it was confirmed by administration that our refusal might be a state reportable incident. It was further learned that if we gave ample notification tha...

5. Hospitals with IV, or Vascular Access Teams

   Deb2300 replied to Daniel1115's topic in Infusion

   Nursing Ed has taken on the task of educating one nurse per wing for PICC line certification and L-caths. Not an easy undertaking. It has taken close to 2 years for this to become a reality, but it's working. Most PICCs are not placed in an emerge...

6. Pulling PICC's

   Deb2300 replied to Blue11RN's topic in Infusion

   I've only had trouble pulling PICCs that were placed in Radiology. For some reason they adhere to the wall of the vein more frequently. I'll do one of two things before I attempt to pull one placed by Radiology: 1. I'll flush the line with NS and...