Nursing is a tough job, doctors think, we do the job for the most part and carry their orders. I hope doctors will have a rotation with a specific nurse and shadow them atleast once in their medical school career or life cause we work closely with do...
Recently, I shot myself in the foot by unknowingly scheduling myself for a 5 day straight 12 hour night shifts. I should have known it was coming. I cared for the same patients for most of these 5 nights shifts and by the fourth night, I told myself ...
NG inserted by nurses, confirm by air and then chest X-RAY. The air thing is just for the nurse to know if she's in, if not then reinsert. We don't use it until confirmed by Chest x ray and doctor has read the xray.
CVP is PRESUMED to be a measure of the Right Ventricular End DIASTOLIC PRESSURE. RIGHT ATRIAL PRESSURE= RVEDP This is a huge problem with assumptions. As an ICU nurse DO NOT DEPEND ONLY ON NUMBERS and ASSESS the patient's overall signs and symptoms. ...
Please get that RN after your name and then come back here if you don't get a job in a month. You are way ahead. Hospitals needs RNs. Are you an RN?? NOT YET.
thevez17 replied to 1Jessie86's topic in Relations
I agree with some. It was a rush move to report the nasty nurse just by one episode of nasty attitude. I have worked with one nasty nurse and tried to get along. Sometimes they mught be having a bad day or she had experienced bad shifts with new nurs...