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...
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...
funkywoman replied to icu26RN's topic in MICU, SICU
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...
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...
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...
funkywoman replied to Cari Turner21's topic in Nursing 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...
funkywoman replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing 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...
funkywoman replied to JeneraterRN's topic in General Nursing
I actually took over a patient at shift change and the nurse (this is scary, was an ICU) had him on 2L face mask and said "well the doctor ordered it", patient had been on the mask for several hours...