rnwayne

rnwayne has 24 years experience.

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1. Do male nurses recieve as much respect from patients as female ones do?INPUT IS GREAT

   rnwayne replied to david18's topic in Men

   I've been a "male nurse" for 27 years now and have seen this issue change over the years. I do think my age and experience has also played a role in how I'm viewed. I've seen many young nurses both genders questioned if they knew what they were doing...

2. How do you delegate to bullies?

   rnwayne replied to liljsmom02's topic in Relations

   Our hospital has a different type incident report for everything that could happen. The one you need is what we call a "Problem doc". Verbal complaints to the boss just get brushed aside but put it in writing and it's much harder to ignore. As for t...

3. Somebody please set things straight for me!

   rnwayne replied to crb613's topic in Med-Surg

   I've worked on a medical floor for 18 years. We have a separate floor for surgery but of course surgical patient's with infections come to my floor. Doctors are treated noticably different on our surgical floor. Being a guy has always worked to my ad...

4. PICC team

   rnwayne replied to rnwayne's topic in Infusion

   No we don't use ultrasound or microintroducer tech. We still work by what we feel only. Efforts to educate administrative people concerning what we need are going very slow. Their pat answer is always that we need to train more nurses to help. Got ...

5. PICC team

   rnwayne posted a topic in Infusion

   I've been placing PICC lines for 10 years in a 140 bed independent hospital. As a staff nurse on the medical floor with other patient's to care for, I've been finding it more difficult to take the time needed to place a PICC. I can't just ignore my o...