Ayvah

Ayvah RN

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About Ayvah

Ayvah has 10 years experience as a RN and specializes in Med Surg, Specialty.


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  1. Additional volunteers to utilize as mentioned earlier in this thread is a great suggestion. Regarding utilizing technology, the two things I can think of are : -improved call bell system. If a patient can type in their request/select one for a non...
  2. About to quit med-surg

    7:1 dayshift is absolutely unsafe, especially when you have no tech help for some of them. Ridiculous. Is the ratio the same on nights? Perhaps request a shift change.
  3. Clinic vs. Floor nursing

    I've worked both, and there are pros and cons to both. Inpatient all depends on the floor, the ratios that you will have and support staff available. I LOVE inpatient med surg work but the working conditions were enough to drive me away from inpati...
  4. Disturbed energy field. We talked in class about how ridiculous it was as we were learning about it.
  5. "Best Practice" would be to have more nurses.

    During a meeting where staffing was brought up we were told by the manager that we had too much overtime to allow funds to hire more staff...... ...... ...
  6. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

    CNA experience can be helpful. The largest positive is that it will get you comfortable with working intimately with patients. You'll also get exposure to some of the basics, such as blood sugars, foley management and ekg setup, and may give you an...
  7. Not enough equipment

    Unfortunately this is a routine complaint. The most common shortages I've experienced have been dynamaps, pulse ox's, and unfortunately even christmas trees and portable oxygen. It is a frequent waste of time trying to hunt down items and order the...
  8. Office Nurse vs Hospital Nurse

    Totally depends on your individual interests, goals, lifestyle(scheduling), staffing levels at your specific facility, etc. I LOVE working hospital med-surg but the physical aspect is something I could not keep up with since staffing in med surg is ...
  9. So KindaBack, you quoted me, where I said that I had just responded to this issue in my last post. That post (#153) quoted/responded to you specifically and gave specific examples. So I guess you are saying instead of doing a chart(thread) review, ...
  10. Several people including myself have already responded to this.
  11. People have already touched upon this issue. Report highlights important areas that might otherwise take a longer amount of time to glean from the chart and could be overlooked. In addition, there are a lot of subjective/family dynamic/random issue...
  12. Ugh, that's awful! Reports are very important to highlight critical areas of information/concern, including social issues that aren't appropriate to be written in the chart. Is there any way they can do a taped report at the very least?
  13. Loved bedside report as a patient. Once I received important information about my condition that no one bothered to tell me earlier. Liked bedside report as a nurse too - too often something about the patient is 'off' and its nice to lay eyes on th...
  14. Advice on how to leave job

    Always offer 2 weeks notice. It is up to the manager if they want to take you up on that offer or not. Always word your resignation letter very vague and positive "This letter is to inform you of my resignation, with last day worked to be XXX. I a...
  15. Floor Nursing vs. Doctor's Office

    Working conditions are a major difference between the two. It is SO nice to be able to go to the bathroom in the clinic without your phone ringing in there. You can get an actual lunch and sometimes even breaks, and, depending on the department you a...