Recently, it has come to my attention that MDs have been targeted for over prescribing narcotics for pain control. My mother has become one of the victims of these new laws that have made it difficult for primary care physicians to assist patients wi...
ER nurses tend to get desensitized. The hospital should rotate them. I floated to ER from med/surg. Not sure how your ER is run, but this ER worked as a team. The stress level was not the same as the floor. The patients were seen as rooms and ha...
lhome replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Stress 101
Venting is good. I totally get it. I hope you can find something that fits for you better. There are jobs with more human contact and support. Try a nursing home.
lhome replied to mercedesbattista's topic in Career Support
All medical staff should have life time health care. We are exposed to everything. I think staffing companies have there place, but we are at risk as a profession. I hate to use union busting as an example, but it is the same. We have no protecti...
Nursing is such a broad field. There are so many types of nurses with varying degrees of expertise. Not all nursing positions hold the same stress levels. Once you have been a nurse for a while and if you ever get the experience of being a floor...
Patient routine is a given in report, but remember anything that helps the next nurse coming on shift to know what to expect is important too. Because if it is not an expected situation, it should set off her alarms to look for a change. Remember t...
Remember as a new nurse being so confused, writing down the report, and being uncertain as to what was the most important. For me, it took experience and learning to process the significance of everything. Understanding the disease process, risk fa...
lhome replied to letsbefriends's topic in New Nurse
You are not alone. I remember the torture of being a new grad in a sea of stressed out staff. The demands placed on the floor nurse are astronomical. I remember when I had just come off orientation, I was working night shift. I had three admissio...