Lisah

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1. charge nurse duties?

   Lisah replied to shannonRN's topic in Med-Surg

   I am the charge nurse of a 30 bed medical/surgical/ palliative care unit. We presently have a charge nurse on days only,7-3. our evening in charge is on maternity leave, when she returns we will be rotating the shifts. on days I make rounds with the ...

2. Celebrity Patients - Who would you want?

   Lisah replied to LasVegasRN's topic in General Nursing

   As facinating as it might be to look after Tom Cruise, I would have to say I would prefer average people. Where I work there is a small town near by where a lot of weathy live or vacation at, and they are always the worst pt.'s. They think you should...

3. Nasty M.D phone manners

   Lisah replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

   Good advise from all. I remember working at a long term care psychiatric facility, and we had one of the residents pass away at about 2 in the morning and the nastiest doctor was on call. This man did anything to get out of work. I had him beeped on...

4. MRSA - what can you tell me about it?

   Lisah replied to mtgirl63's topic in General Nursing

   We are seeing more and more patients having MRSA. We are doing screeing on admission and if they were admitted to a hospital or long term care facility outside of our region in the last 6 moths we are doing the nasal and rectal swabs for analysis. We...

5. Workplace mobbing...

   Lisah replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with documenting everything, and when you present your letters to the administration be sure to give them specific deadline to respond that way you still have recourse to go further. I have dealt with this as well, when I first graduate I wor...

6. Questions about transfusions...

   Lisah replied to plumrn's topic in General Nursing

   we run our platelets through a standard blood filter wide open and we do our vitals before half way through and at the end of the infusion. Our blood is run through the standard filter and on a pump with a main-line of saline.Our irridiated blood use...

7. What is your title and what state/province are you in?

   Lisah replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

   RN from New Brunswick Canada, enrolled in my post RN to BN program.

8. body removal...

   Lisah replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

   This made me think of my first death I experienced at the hospital I had just started at. I had only been there a few weeks when one of my pt's died, they were a no code, and had a terminal illness, and I had dealt with death before, so no big deal I...

9. another jolly assignment

   Lisah replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Good for you, you survived, the typical night shift. just the other night had one guy on hourly injections of morphine, he sets his watch to alarm every hour so he doesn't sleep through a dose, got a 15 year old who decides he is gonna sign himself o...

10. A question regarding team work..... need advice!

    Lisah replied to hapeewendy's topic in Med-Surg

    I agree that you need to document everything. Also try being specific with her about what you want her to do. Tell her things that need to be done while you are on your break,ie v/s, meds whatever. If she fails to perform the assigned duties you aske...