SouthFloridaTrauma

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1. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   SouthFloridaTrauma replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   We have a 25 bed unit that is arranged in a long rectangle of five separate bays all connected by a main hallway. I spend most of my day as the charge nurse traveling back and forth over the unit putting out "fires" and assisting nurses. It has nev...

2. Nurse: Patient ratios

   SouthFloridaTrauma replied to PButler's topic in MICU

   We have a nursing union here in Miami and it makes all the difference. We tabled nursing/patient ratios at the last contract negotiations in October 2003--Florida's legislature is currently considering legislation similar to California's. This is the...