Before you start writing up you may consider discussing this with management first. Good luck, it is hard to work with someone who won't do their job, esp. when it effects your ability to do your job.
OK I fought myself about putting this on here, but Nursing acronyms...... we all have them right? When I worked with the army people in an army hospital in Seoul Korea ( I was civilian) was indoctrinated and ***** was new to me ( "messed" up beyond...
I must say that is a pet peeve of mine, when I have worked places that let floor nurses float to ICU we always get the "wow this is so easy, only two patients" A lot of float nurses just do NOT get that ICU will give them the easiest most stable pati...
sorry to say this, but at my last job was told that the reason we don't get more art lines is medicare has strict standards and won't pay. I am happy to say that we had a new group of hospitalists that came in and but a quick end to this. They ha...
10 ml with push pause technique, while on the subject never use smaller than a 10 cc syringe to flush a picc, can rupture the line, worked one hospital that routinely used 3 ml syringes and we actually had "picc repair kits"
Good luck hun, I hope it works out for you. I only had to quit one job without notice and that is when patient safety was in severe jeopardy due to the actions of a coworker. You already have something lined up. This job is stressing you out. Def...
my husband had edema post neck fusion and could not get anything down. I had the urinal from the hospital (just in case) and was doing outputs on him to decide if we could make it till monday morning or needed to go to er. HAHA.
funkywoman replied to Cari Turner21's topic in Humor
When I was a new nurse we had a patient in SICU who was "running down the stairs and fell on a knife" and we kept his xray (back in the old days when x ray was actual film on lighted board) up for days, butcher knife coming out of his back. Wife tr...
funkywoman replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor
My husband had some serious c-spine problems, ended up with 4 level fusion and double culpectomy. When we first went to a chiropracter (not realizing how bad it was) he told the doctor "my cervix hurts". The doctors jaw dropped and he just stared ...