GM1928

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1. Nurses thrown under the bus

   GM1928 replied to GM1928's topic in General Nursing

   I said above that the shift supervisor told me that I needed an order before that dressing could be changed. Shift supervisor said I needed an order before I changed that dressing. Policies and procedures were checked. Nothing pertaining to dressing ...

2. Concealed Carry for Caregivers

   GM1928 replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

   The San Bernardino shootings were at a medical facility. It is, I fear, just a matter of time until hospitals join other gun-free zones in being sites for shooting rampages. The facility at which I work has mall cops on duty...they don't have guns....

3. Nurses thrown under the bus

   GM1928 replied to GM1928's topic in General Nursing

   Because it was a chest tube, I deferred changing it until we got actual instructions from the MD. If I'd changed it without an order, and something had gone wrong, I'd have been on the hook for doing something without an order. I discussed this ver...

4. Nurses thrown under the bus

   GM1928 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm an RN on an ortho unit at a large hospital. We recently admitted a patient with a chest tube. Several days went by without the dressing being changed. I cared for the patient on the 7th and 8th days after admission. The general surgeon, who w...

5. Staffing a unit

   GM1928 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone. I work on a med/surg/ortho floor at a large hospital. One day recently, we started the shift with 3 RN's. Shift supervisor pulled one of us to another floor, which left us with two RN's for 12 patients. Granted, the census was low...

6. Older professional just starting out

   GM1928 replied to MrKP's topic in Men

   I became an LPN in 2010, after 33 years in media. I was 48. I worked for a urologist for a couple of years and then went back to school to become an RN. I worked on a hospital ortho floor for a year after getting my RN -- and then briefly for a cl...

7. Difficult co-worker

   GM1928 replied to GM1928's topic in Professionalism

   Update: I asked for a few days off to tend to my ailing father...this on the heels of the incident with my co-worker. My boss called me to her office late today. She fired me. She said it just wasn't working out. Earlier in the week, she'd said ...

8. Difficult co-worker

   GM1928 replied to GM1928's topic in Professionalism

   Thanks, everyone. I went to my supervisor and talked to her about it. She was sympathetic (or appeared to be). She called a meeting of the 3 of us, which was this morning. I told my co-worker that the micromanaging has to stop...she tried to just...

9. Difficult co-worker

   GM1928 posted a topic in Professionalism

   I'm an RN and new to a outpatient procedure center. There's a co-worker who micromanages me. As I went to empty a wastecan, she told me not to, because it wasn't full enough. I started to haul soiled linens out of the recovery room; she told me th...