mfarmer88

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1. Central line compatibility

   mfarmer88 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Critical

   She's a staff member recently appointed to management. She was out at the nurses station when I arrived and just came in to help transfe the patient from the stretcher to the bed. Ive never had a problem with her before this í ¾í´”

2. Central line compatibility

   mfarmer88 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Critical

   Answer 1b: The nurses in an ICU know this. We couldn't do our jobs without knowing this. Maybe if it was just one newbie berating you, we could chalk it up to a mistake on her part, but not a whole bunch of ICU nurses. So I'm wondering if something w...

3. Central line compatibility

   mfarmer88 posted a topic in Critical

   So yesterday, I an ER nurse brought a patient to ICU with just respiratory and me. Which is fine. When I get up to ICU the director is waiting for me, and yelling at me for having levophed and NS with bicarb going through two different ports of a cen...

4. salary negotiation process

   mfarmer88 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello all! I am currently a nurse manager of a busy 32 bed telemetry unit. I am unhappy and want out. I am tired of working 60+hours and only getting paid for 40, I am tired of them forcing me to use my vacation time before I even get a chance to use...

5. Charge nurse is a low performer!

   mfarmer88 posted a topic in Management

   I am fairly new in to my position (6 months) I am a nurse manager of a floor, with a director over me. The director has been there for 32 years. One of the charge nurses on my floor is absolutely terrible in that role. She was in that role before I c...

6. Dr threatening

   mfarmer88 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Management

   The pads are kept in the pyxis on the unit. What my director told me I should have done was to tell him "I kept this SAFE for you since it has your number on it" and hand it back to him, and that would have gotten my point across.

7. Dr threatening

   mfarmer88 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Management

   what a cool service!

8. Dr threatening

   mfarmer88 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Management

   That was my point exactly, and exactly what I did. Glad to know I wasn't crazy!

9. Dr threatening

   mfarmer88 posted a topic in Management

   So last night I found a blank prescription pad that was signed and had a doctors DEA # on it as I was walking out the door. I handed it to a nurse that he had been talking to and told her, please keep this safe, it could be an incident report. She t...