lberghood replied to shearan's topic in Management
Amen to all of the previous posters, i too am a new manager and i am blessed to have a DON and a ADON wh o do back me up. I went from staff to management at the same time several of my peers did so we have each other to consult with and vent to and ...
lberghood replied to firegenie's topic in Career Support
I am also angry on your behalf and very sad that you are treated this way. Unfortunately these things do happen. I agree that it is a toxic environment and hope that you will find a place where you can be appreciated. I work for a hospital that re...
Excellent thread!!!!!! I was actually going to ask for advice on this very topic. I think Charlie said exactly what I needed to hear. I have been in nursing for 18 years, 7 yrs in psych and am now working as a night supervisor and encounter this s...
lberghood replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Safety
YES YES YES I can so relate I wish that i would have this site as a resource when i started my career. I have worked in many a small nonprofit facility where i have dealth with drs who were either incompetent, untrained or just unbeleivably unprof...
My first job we also placed the meds in an envelope for passes and i had no idea that it was illegal but i found out that it was when i worked subsequent jobs. At my facility if meds are needed for a pass or discharge the dr must write an order ahea...
lberghood replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Safety
I paged the attending dr on a child whose xray showed a fractured hand in a psych facility at 3pm She called me back at 11pm. No excuse and not unusual for her. I, of course, had already taken care of situation with another doctor.
Don't know a lot about music therapy but in the hospital where i work(psych) th unit i was on was in a state of chaos with a lot of crisis and someone got all of the patients in the dayroom and put on bob marley cd, worked like a charm!!!!!
AMEN TO THAT I am a aupervisor at an acute psych hospital and was actually toying with the idea of trying to make the staff be patients for a day, i actually thought that it would be good for them if we made them wear headphones with loud derogato...
lberghood replied to newnurse51's topic in New Nurse
Errors happen and a most of the time they are part of the "system" and not just an individual error. In the 2 instances that you described you were not the only person at fault. In fact you did not even hang the bag of fluid if i am understanding t...
lberghood replied to Samantha2000's topic in General Nursing
I can totally relate and i do think that this is normal for a nurse when you are learning and will probably get worse when you graduate and are "on your own" I also think that if this is interfering with your life to the point that you are unable to...
Have also dealth with this in more than one job. Think that there is probably one in every hospital. Ive found that being civil and keeping myself emotionally detached works best. Don't let her rent space in your head, it's not worth it and everyt...
We don't have day supervisors anymore either and it is very fragmented as i have noone person in particular to give report to. We have an old fashioned hand written sheet with the census, admissions, discharges, code, special observations, transfers...
I totally agee with helping the staff out when they are genuinely overburdened however i have learned to stop myself when they are adequately staffed and the work load is within the norm. The reasons for this is because unfortunately some staff tak...