lilbitgeeky

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1. Unhappy Hospital

   lilbitgeeky replied to lilbitgeeky's topic in General Nursing

   Our nurses are working more overtime, but nurse to patient ratios are not changing despite higher census and in fact all units have been given permission to higher more staff. Our management is surprisingly flexible and adaptive to our needs. Manag...

2. Unhappy Hospital

   lilbitgeeky replied to lilbitgeeky's topic in General Nursing

   Just to clarify, this isn't something from management. This is staff to staff, and not just nurses. We want something to recognize the little things that our hospital culture has lost. We'd like to be able to recognize the techs that are still hel...

3. Unhappy Hospital

   lilbitgeeky posted a topic in General Nursing

   Recently we had our unit committee meeting and among all of the other topics that we handle it was mentioned that there has been a culture shift in our hospital, and not for the better. We have had a lot of change recently and a lot of overcrowding. ...

4. Hate med/surg is ED any different?

   lilbitgeeky replied to RNKX's topic in Emergency

   A lot of the nurses who transfer down from our medical and surgical floors say that they love the variety the ER gets to see, you get to stabilize the sickest patient and if you have a patient or family that you cannot stand you don't have to worry a...

5. If you could go back and choose....

   lilbitgeeky replied to Ndnrnbsn's topic in General Nursing

   I wanted to be a librarian.

6. precepting assignment- need advice

   lilbitgeeky replied to Iliauna's topic in General Students

   I know that this is disappointing. Your preceptorship seems like it's an accomplishment, and something you've been working toward the entire time you've been in school. However, it's really just another step toward the bigger accomplishment of bein...

7. Increased Patient Volume - Suggestions needed

   lilbitgeeky posted a topic in Emergency

   I'll apologize in advance for this being long, but I'm looking for some advice. I'll start by saying I love the ER where I work and my coworkers are awesome team players. However, we've been seeing an increase in our patient wait time. We've gone f...