i just dont understand why nurses have to eat each other and put each others license on the line?
when a previous shift gave me a report, she told me that one of the patient's needle from her mediport need to be removed and showed me a mar that she wrote down my shift hour and circled the date that was suppose be removed so a nurse can sign there. she is a rn and she have worked at the hospital before she started working in nursing home and i'm very sure that she knows nurses are not supopse to do that and it is outside nursing practice and can lose nursing license if it is done by a nurse. so what was her purpose of her telling me to remove it? i'm sure she set me up so i can lose my license. i'm sure it wasnt her ignorance or lack of knowldege that nurses are not suppose to remove it. so why do nurses do that to each other? do you think i should report her to bon or something? what do you guys think should be done?
i just dont understand why nurses have to eat each other and put each others license on the line?
when a previous shift gave me a report, she told me that one of the patient's needle from her mediport need to be removed and showed me a mar that she wrote down my shift hour and circled the date that was suppose be removed so a nurse can sign there. she is a rn and she have worked at the hospital before she started working in nursing home and i'm very sure that she knows nurses are not supopse to do that and it is outside nursing practice and can lose nursing license if it is done by a nurse. so what was her purpose of her telling me to remove it? i'm sure she set me up so i can lose my license. i'm sure it wasnt her ignorance or lack of knowldege that nurses are not suppose to remove it. so why do nurses do that to each other? do you think i should report her to bon or something? what do you guys think should be done?
because they're weak!
you don't see my soldier medic/nurses/doctors peers doing that to each other back at my reserve unit. we watch each others back.
that's why i laugh seeing all these morons at my hospital whining and *****ing.
i just dont understand why nurses have to eat each other and put each others license on the line?
sorry guys. i didnt mean to go into this nursing profession sterotype of nurses eating their own young. i just feel like i need to watch my own license. thats all. i love nursing!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry guys. i didnt mean to go into this nursing profession sterotype of nurses eating their own young. i just feel like i need to watch my own license. thats all. i love nursing!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes you do have to watch your license, as no one else will . this, however, should not be considered a liscense-losing event (as everyone stated, it is within our scope of practice). it is quite simple to do, as well. but if you have never done t, i can appreciate your anxiey. it is actually easier than taking out an iv (should be no bleeding afterwards, and don"t ever forget to heparinize the port before you pull the needle out).
i think the thing that is bothering you more (that no one really addressed) is that the nurse 'dumped on you', and for no reason. in the time it took her to pick up the order, write it on the mar, and write your shift time in, she probably could have done it herself (again, doesn't take a long time to de-access). it was like she 'called it', by deciding the time on the mar, that she was not going to do it . if it bothers you so much, i would check the order (if there was an order to de-access) and see what time it was written, and picked up by the nurse. maybe you want to approach her by saying "i know this is a 24 hr job, but were you that busy that you couldn't do this quick, simple thing". i find it to be a sticky situation when someone dumps on you- you don't want to look like you don't want to do your work, but you don't want to be taken advantage of either. if this person is notorious for "dumping", then it should be addressed. if you are new to this job, you'll figure out who does this. or ask your co-workers, by simply asking an open ended question about the nurse (you'll probably get the answer if she is a dumper).
i know it wasn't a real case of dumping, but the other night i came on to work, and found a once a day med scheduled for 9pm (shift starts at 8). the nurse told me, the pt is to be started on this med. i also needed to start chemo (4 hrs worth) on this pt- so that was my priority. she apologized excessively for not starting the chemo, i didn't mind doing the chemo. i totally forgot about the med, and realized at about 4 am. it was a po med, and pharmacy never sent it up. i wasn't about to wake up this kid for a qd med. but of course, the nurse timed it for 9pm, so it looked like i didn't give it. i gave her report the next morning, and told her i didn't give the med (with the above reason), she didn't seem too sympathetic to my 'story'. she just said "oh". tell you the truth, i didn't really care. i know that sounds terrible, but the pts health was not at stale because of it. i'm not one to complain about things the other shift didn't get to. i routinely work both shifts, and know how busy each can be.
. this, however, should not be considered a liscense-losing event (as everyone stated, it is within our scope of practice). it is quite simple to do, as well. but if you have never done t, i can appreciate your anxiey. it is actually easier than taking out an iv (should be no bleeding afterwards, and don"t ever forget to heparinize the port before you pull the needle out). 
. if it bothers you so much, i would check the order (if there was an order to de-access) and see what time it was written, and picked up by the nurse. maybe you want to approach her by saying "i know this is a 24 hr job, but were you that busy that you couldn't do this quick, simple thing". i find it to be a sticky situation when someone dumps on you- you don't want to look like you don't want to do your work, but you don't want to be taken advantage of either. if this person is notorious for "dumping", then it should be addressed. if you are new to this job, you'll figure out who does this. or ask your co-workers, by simply asking an open ended question about the nurse (you'll probably get the answer if she is a dumper).
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you don't see my soldier medic/nurses/doctors peers doing that to each other back at my reserve unit. we watch each others back.
that's why i laugh seeing all these morons at my hospital whining and *****ing.