Scroll89

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1. So is there really a nursing shortage?

   Scroll89 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

   I really wish this was the case, its really that its just a small market for those positions and they fill either internally or through direct recruitment (nursing students -> RN -> hired). Sure my less than one year there doesn't look stellar,...

2. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

   Scroll89 replied to ryuunohime's topic in Relations

   At my hospital, the ICU nurses lead the rapid response teams and the doctors may or may not show up. We are able to order tests, imaging, give certain medications under protocols, and transfer / admit to ICU. Even if the patient doesn't quite need it...

3. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

   Scroll89 replied to ryuunohime's topic in Relations

   Any decreased LOC is an appropriate time to check a bed side blood glucose. The number "123" was simply given to indicate that it was not what was causing the issue.

4. So is there really a nursing shortage?

   Scroll89 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

   I'm an ICU nurse, and it was my first position in nursing. I'm actively looking for a position in my town (I drive an hour to work) and I can't get an interview. Mind you i've only been there for almost a year and I'm motivated to find other work bec...

5. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

   Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

   Meh, "immature" isn't quite the word I would use considering the mess is just getting re-cycled from the patients rooms to other areas. Day shift has an equal part and management doesn't want to hear about it. I simply displace the mess they make int...

6. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

   Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

   I sleep well at night knowing that day shift had the same level of inconvenience that they placed on me, plus I'm in complete and total compliance with the medication. Remember, they could have stocked the syringes and needles too. Plus lets look at...

7. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

   Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

   I have quite a few issues with baths during the morning myself. The day shift nurses consistently complain that we aren't giving our patients baths and we aren't getting our patients up. I pretty much always bathe at least 1 patient, but I can't crea...

8. Leaving Nursing for Another Career

   Scroll89 replied to cocoa_puff's topic in General Nursing

   What do you mean by Pl?

9. "I work in the medical field"

   Scroll89 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

   If family silences an alarm, they get asked VERY sternly to never do it again. If they do it again, they are removed from the ICU until we deem it safe to have them again. We edit the alarm values per the physicians okay so that patient A's HR of 50 ...

10. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately the day shifters are, and will forever be, the golden children. They are the ones that "have it so bad" and doctors "hover over them unlike night shift"... Yeah right.. All the night co-workers feel the same, but we have very little say...

11. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    If you look at our policies, it says that within 2 hours of end of shift we only have to do the admission vitals and a physical exam and the oncoming shift has to finish the rest. I can't tell you how many times the ED has called us with 30 mins till...

12. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't read through the entire thread, but I have to say that as night shift I'm often times the one who gets to clean up after day shift. It drives me nuts too because its simple things like linen piles in corners, cords, lines, and cables that are ...

13. Low census--what do you do?

    Scroll89 replied to compassionresearcher's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a smaller ICU and when we do not have patients we simply take over telemetry and stay at the hospital. We are considered "essential personnel" so we never get called off, but the poor telemetry technicians do. We respond to all rapid respon...

14. New RN-Licensed: How to enter CC nursing?

    Scroll89 replied to crome's topic in Critical

    Couple different sides to it to think about.... I was directly hired into an ICU position straight out of school. It has been awesome, mainly because the staff was supportive and taught me very well. That said, and I know it only holds so much weight...

15. Anxious about job market

    Scroll89 replied to julesjameson3333's topic in General Nursing

    Just read this, seems like nursing schools need to quit pumping out students. It seems absurd the amount of excess nursing staff, here's looking at you Ohio with your projected 75K+ abundance of new nurses. Whats with that? The other side of the coin...