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I've learned to be friendly and ask yes/no questions for the quick in and out of the room type of things. But communication is too important to leave it to Google. Between dialects and slang, you...

Right there YOU just revealed as much private health information as they did. None. Nurses don't take a vow of silence at their pinning ceremony. We're allowed to talk. We're just not allowed...

What protected health information was given out?

I've always thought it was hereditary, but I'm sure dealing with the stupidity of people at work hasn't helped in my descent into hermitdom...

Often the poo is more attractive to deal with than the person it came out of.

Working any shifts per week can lead to burn out.

We only use them when we do antibiotics that come in a bag instead of syringe. We don't get sent any overage for priming the line so we have to put a flush bag on after each dose and otherwise you...

Mostly I quoted you so it would be seen twice, because it was a good post, not because I disagreed. :)

It might not have even been an off day. Doing something different than you would does not necessarily mean wrong. I often don't call RR when a newer nurse would because I know that everything...

There should be a policy for such situations. It usually goes something like charge nurse tries to call, house supervisor tries to call, if still no response, it goes to medical director. 6 calls...

Well really, most hospital policies are insulting and based on not trusting nurses to use their brains.

Good advice. We do this all the time at my job. Getting something we aren't familiar with? (Which happens all the time when census gets high.) Call to the floors that are familiar. And if it's...

Bed management is usually a high school grad that has a list of diagnoses/MD services that go to which floor. There's no critical thinking, it's just x goes here and y goes there. Our floor doesn't...

I work on one of those peds floors. And doctor orders don't overrule hospital policy. Believe me, I think it's STUPID to have to reset a pump on adult sized patients that can tell me that their IV...

TJC ain't gonna do anything that actually threatens hospitals. Hospitals will stop using them if they actually started regulating stuff that matters.

Freebase? :p

I'm very sure it's not a conspiracy theory. But based on an unconfirmed internet identity, I wouldn't be sure enough to take action regarding someone's employment.

Address the problem they're in the hospital with. If it's closely related to the weight, then you can relate it to the weight in teaching about the condition. But as a general thing? We don't have...

No. You were worried that patients would recognize themselves. There's a huge difference between that and one of your coworkers who is intimately familiar with your entire patient population and...

I didn't mind the long distance code requirement to make calls until our residents started having long distance phone numbers, and then the attendings too. So I get stuck having to find the code...

Honestly, you sound like you handled everything exactly how I would have. That's not a good thing. You sound much like me, I'm passionate about what I do, and I do my best, and if I get critiqued...

Likely not an actual scope of practice concern, as you're just playing answering service, and those are perfectly legal. But if you aren't getting paid, definitely a nice question of employment law....

In this economy, whatever else, go for job in hand rather than the one in the bush.

That's because you can live a lot longer waiting on the kidney. A wait that long for a lung and you've dropped off the list because your dead, not because you got the lung.

I swear, if I hear one more management person say, "It's only a few minutes!" about yet another task they add to our workday without taking anything away. Never mind that they add another "only a...