cmbuckley

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1. Job Satisfaction/Unsastifaction

   cmbuckley replied to threeholepunch's topic in ADN/BSN

   We as Nurses are human beings and not machines. Nursing is a 24/4/365 job. Do you assessment.....document it..........nursing care document it......... Prioritise and whats not done can and must be left to the next shift....... Management will soon r...

2. advice needed

   cmbuckley replied to RehabRNjc's topic in General Nursing

   Run away you are going to be falsifying MEDICAL RECORDS that could one day end up in a Court of Law. I`m sure that`s a Felony and it`s definetly Morally Wrong.

3. Petition to help new grads get experience

   cmbuckley replied to Brian's topic in New Nurse

   Be carefull what you ask for. In Ireland the salaries of new grads have been reduced to a pittance in order to give them jobs.

4. Is there a flu outbreak in your area?

   cmbuckley replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   Why are people going to the ED with Flu like symptons? Unless you fall in to a specific group ( 65 years of age, pregnant or have a comorbidity stay home nothing to be done. All that is happening is people with other emergencies such as broken bones/...

5. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

   cmbuckley replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

   Open plan ED`S so that the patients (ESI 3,4 + 5) can see the (ESI 1 + 2) patients. Have seen it work many times when there are multiple trauma`s from 1 incident so it spills out on to the main ED (Trauma Rooms full) these patients with non acute/n...

6. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

   cmbuckley replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

   You are a Registered Nurse not a transporter. If all your peers agreed to not transport and wait for the transport person there would be delays all the time and management would have to address the transportation issue and not have RN`S doing ancilla...

7. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

   cmbuckley replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

   Press Ganey Score

8. Needing Advise

   cmbuckley replied to Brianrn's topic in General Nursing

   Though this may seem like a simple matter it is actually a complicated one and one of the reasons there is QA, PRI, D/C Planning,Case Managers, whole teams ( Social Workers, OT`S, PT`S, RN`S) involved in a patient`s care. This one fell through the cr...

9. MD refuses to sign a telephone order.

   cmbuckley replied to modernhippie_'s topic in Critical

   Recently worked in an ED where telephone orders were taken by the ED RN for newly admitted patients. Such abuse I have never seen 3 pages worth which included all tests for the duration of the patients stay. All medications irregardless of when they ...