colddeadpeople

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1. Does your facility make you use scripts with patients/visitors?

   colddeadpeople replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Mandatory in-services. Here's a good one. Worked for the VA in Long Beach. This was during a time when sexual harassment was the hot topic of the day. One of the millions of idle brains in the massive eduction department decided that we'd all have to...

2. Dealing with ICU visitors

   colddeadpeople replied to leesespieces's topic in MICU

   10 minutes every hour only invites trouble. Every hour, you're asking for it. Every 4 hours makes it more manageable. But even then, and you are correct, it must be backed up by management with some "help" to enforce it. We all lose credibility when ...

3. Difficult family members/visitors

   colddeadpeople replied to anewday's topic in General Nursing

   Educated yes, professionals, no. "Professionals" have more control over their lives and decisions. Nurses are simply tools of labor. Professionals ask for and receive more help, consults, etc. Nurses tolerate lousy conditions. Professionals are accou...

4. Coding visitors?

   colddeadpeople replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

   Go to lunch.

5. a new grad's gripes

   colddeadpeople replied to LoveActually's topic in MICU

   IV pumps that fail during transport. MOST of them will hold a charge, but they're frequently failing with that continuous whine and can't be reused. Telephones in disrepair. Some of them have been thrown away and not replaced. Again and again, WH...