hunnybeeRN

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1. March 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

   hunnybeeRN replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   "They're cutting back on overtime by pushing the new 'time management awareness' policy."

2. Joint Commission's Staffing Standards for Hospitals

   hunnybeeRN posted a topic in Safety

   I know that the Board of Nursing's Administrative Code of my state requires that patient condition, nurse experience, and complexity of assignment be taken into consideration with nursing assignments. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with J...

3. Patient stable when I left

   hunnybeeRN replied to yourbee4eva's topic in Pediatric

   Children can have rapid changes. All peds nurses realize that. It is quite possible there was a change in condition from your last set of vital signs to the oncoming nurses initial assessment. I once had a physician tell me that "each time we go into...

4. Dear Lord, give me the strength to deal with yet another GROUP PROJECT

   hunnybeeRN replied to seconddegreebsn's topic in General Students

   There is a difference in being legitimately sick or otherwise unable to contribute and just being lazy or failing to communicate with your group. Please, don't feel bad about something you can't help. My last group project was an 8 person project tha...

5. No lunch for lunch break?

   hunnybeeRN replied to sakiohma's topic in CNA/MA

   I agree with Here.I.Stand. You are entitled to a thirty minute, uninterrupted break. However, the timing of that break cannot interfere with patient care. One suggestion you could make to your employer is to allow the lunch breaks to start at 1:30p...

6. Advice on Expressing Patient Safety Concerns

   hunnybeeRN replied to hunnybeeRN's topic in Safety

   Thank you.

7. Has anyone ever look down on you because you are a nurse

   hunnybeeRN replied to dulcet's topic in Relations

   Nurses are regarded differently in other countries. We once had a resident who was always willing to assist with IVs. He once told us that in his country (I forget which one - it's been so long ago > It's all perspective. How many times have we go...

8. Advice on Expressing Patient Safety Concerns

   hunnybeeRN replied to hunnybeeRN's topic in Safety

   I spoke with Risk Management before I left full-time. They had started floating pediatric nurses to the medical-surgical floors to take 5-7 adult patients without orientation. This included nurses who have never worked anything other than pediatrics....

9. Has anyone ever look down on you because you are a nurse

   hunnybeeRN replied to dulcet's topic in Relations

   I will admit, before I went into nursing, I was ignorant of what nurses actually did. I respected them because my family always thought well of those who were in the field, but I had no idea what it was all about. I wanted to be a veterinarian from t...

10. Visitor filming during code

    hunnybeeRN replied to Lev's topic in Relations

    No legal expectation of privacy isn't exactly true. You do have a say as to when and how your image is used and even the right to deny the use of your image. I will pose for photos with patients (I work peds and often times parents want a picture of ...

11. Advice on Expressing Patient Safety Concerns

    hunnybeeRN posted a topic in Safety

    I worked three years as a pediatric registered nurse at a facility. I left due to patient care concerns. I returned to work PRN after three months off to find the situation unchanged and, though I wish to leave again for the same reasons as before, I...