eegrnbsn

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1. Neutropenic pt W/other isoloation pt

   eegrnbsn replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

   My hospital also does not split up isolation assignments. We are a med/surg/oncology floor. Our floor is split off into "pods" of 4 rooms (all our rooms are private). The other day my "pod" of 4 rooms had a c.diff pt., next door was a MDRO--urine+blo...

2. Low Census

   eegrnbsn replied to violet_violet's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah I used to say the same thing. Now for the past month our small 32 bed medsurg/ortho unit is experiencing such low census (last Sunday when I left my shift there were 8 pts. on the floor) that they are calling 2-3 nurses off every single shift, a...

3. Eliminating the Charge Nurse on a Med-Surg unit

   eegrnbsn replied to Kurious RN's topic in General Nursing

   This is how it works on my floor, except the charge nurse takes a FULL pt. load, not "one less pt." Exactly as you described, it's "ok, who wants charge today?" And that nurse carries the "charge" phone and makes assignments and assigns admits. You g...

4. Flu Season...

   eegrnbsn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just got a hospital-wide email from my employer stating that all staff are required (underlined in the email) to get a flu vaccine this year. It went on to say that those with egg-allergy or "conscientious objectors" (direct quote--but they put it in...

5. Waste of Time

   eegrnbsn replied to casper1's topic in General Nursing

   I hate this! All the time the patients will put their call light on "I need to see my nurse." When I go in there "What do you need?" The patient says "I can't find the TV remote." or "I need my dinner warmed up." Really? These are the people who won'...

6. Waste of Time

   eegrnbsn replied to casper1's topic in General Nursing

   Every MWF each RN has to sit down with these 2 board members on the case management review team--the real "High Ups" (one is an RN and one is an MD, neither of them practicing any longer except on this review board) and "talk with them about our folk...

7. Age of a Nurse

   eegrnbsn replied to ttpurtee's topic in General Nursing

   At my very small hospital (80 beds) almost all of the nurses are over 50! I feel like the odd one out in my 20's..in fact I think there are maybe only 7 or 8 RNs at my hospital around my age, everyone else is older. There are 2 nurses on my floor (me...

8. Biting your tongue when it comes to visitors!!

   eegrnbsn replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

   This literally sums up my biggest pet peeves in the world. I complain about this literally every single time I work. I'm glad I'm not the only one! To take it a step further, I have had patient's family members come in to another patient's ROOM to co...

9. What's with the drug shortages?

   eegrnbsn replied to Scooty Puff Jr's topic in Emergency

   Yes, we are out of 2 and 4mg morphine syringes. We had a few 5mg vials left but have used those up so just have 10mg left now. Also short on IV lasix 10mg. The scariest thing now is that we are out of both epinephrine and amps of d50, so much so that...

10. Urinary retention with no foley drainage(long)

    eegrnbsn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient with a situation I nor any of the nurses or even our MD's have ever encountered before..wanted to get some feedback. Pt. comes to ER with CC of unable to urinate x24hr. Bladder scan shows 400ML urine in bladder. Admitted to our floor....

11. Do you have a system for making fair pt assignments?

    eegrnbsn replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    uh oh..well if so, I hope no one from admin. catches us writing on the boards!