joslina

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1. Discussing medication side effects

   joslina replied to joslina's topic in Cardiac

   *tools not tow

2. Discussing medication side effects

   joslina posted a topic in Cardiac

   I'm wondering what other hospitals are doing to improve your nurses consistency in describing side effects to patients for their new meds? We are struggling a little trying to figure out how to incorporate this into our daily flow. Does anyone have ...

3. Motivating the staff

   joslina replied to joslina's topic in General Nursing

   We have a system in our hospital that allows the people doing the work to have a say in the decisions being made which creates a feeling of great support. The decisions are not made from the top down but the other way around. Thanks for your though...

4. Motivating the staff

   joslina replied to joslina's topic in General Nursing

   We work on a step down cardiology unit with 37 beds. Our staffing model follows a team leader structure. This means that we have two RN team leaders who support 4 nurses with 4 patients each. The team leaders do not have their own patient assignm...

5. Fall initiative

   joslina posted a topic in General Nursing

   We have been looking at our ate of falls on our floor and are developing a program to help prevent them. We have taken the morse fall scores of the patients and assigned them with different interventions according to the score. What are other hospi...

6. Motivating the staff

   joslina posted a topic in General Nursing

   Recently we have had a large turnover of our staff, which is discouraging me! Not only do we spend dollars but also time to orient them only for them to put their two years in and move on, but it brings morale down! It causes cancer in our unit by ...

7. My orientee gave the wrong narcotic

   joslina replied to JohnD91's topic in General Nursing

   Do you have any system for checking meds before administered? At our hospital, we have care admin which is a scanner. We scan the pts wristband and every med if they don't match you wouldn't give them. We also ask the patient for their name and DO...

8. How long did it take to find your niche?

   joslina replied to bankssarn's topic in General Nursing

   im in cardiac now, and have been for 7 years. i think you know you found what u r supposed to be doing when you actually enjoy going to work and things make sense!! it takes a few years to really see what it is that you like.

9. cath lab flow

   joslina posted a topic in Cardiac

   wondering how your hospital deals with the inpatient and outpatients? how many cath labs do you have? at ours we have two cath labs and the cardiologists rotate from week to week they will do a procedure and then come up to the floor to ...

10. ED to Cardiac Cath???

    joslina replied to Ryan RN's topic in Cardiac

    wondering how your hospital deals with the inpatient and outpatients? how many cath labs do you have? at ours we have two cath labs and the cardiologists rotate from week to week they will do a procedure and then come up to the floor to rou...

11. Blood clot questions...

    joslina replied to aachavez's topic in Student Assist

    some people have factor V lieden witch is a clotting disorder and may need to have a filter placed in their groin to prevent clots from traveling to vital organs. in that case and others people could be on anticoag and still develop clots. if t...

12. I HATE my job! HELP!

    joslina replied to mamabb's topic in General Nursing

    i agree with nurse 2033 sometimes if you have a negative attitude going into it it is hard to change that. with that said...having patients with lines in and still having 5 or 6 other patients is NOT SAFE!! have you talked to your supervisor ab...

13. nursing structure????

    joslina posted a topic in General Nursing

    wondering how the structure is on other hospitals floors? i work on a cardiac floor with 37 beds we have recently adopted a team concept where we have a team leader (me, an rn with no patient assignment and coordinates the flow for my team with...

14. Calling the Nurse Manager...what are your opinions?

    joslina replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in General Nursing

    i would definatly call!!! it shows you are really interested. she doesnt know if your husbands co-worker gave you her name or the lady at switchboard did! go for it!