NayNeyRN

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1. What causes you to almost scream (internally of course) during your day?

   NayNeyRN replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

   As a night shift nurse- being an after thought or completely ignored for any type of celebration. Our facility is a specialty surgical center with an overnight inpatient pool. Everyone else goes home...

2. What causes you to almost scream (internally of course) during your day?

   NayNeyRN replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

   To be fair to the 5th graders, even though I’m a nurse I’ve always been perfectly happy to roast myself if I am sick and have a fever. I can’t stand the

3. 24° Chart Checks

   NayNeyRN replied to NayNeyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Definitely not a SNF facility. We are a specialty surgical hospital, very rarely do we have patients that stay more than a day but occasionally we do. We have a very high patient turnover rate, and we...

4. What causes you to almost scream (internally of course) during your day?

   NayNeyRN replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Getting slammed with multiple admits stacked on top of each other because the previous shift doesn’t do the admit requirements if they come after 1800, Pacu starts calling report at 1845, and then...

5. All about the Night Shift-Tips & Tricks to making it work

   NayNeyRN replied to TheVikingLady's topic in General Nursing

   Blackout curtains to help darken your room. Winter is always a bit easier to me because I go home when it is still dark outside, and then I go to sleep in a dark environment so my body thinks it is...

6. 24° Chart Checks

   NayNeyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

   How does your facilities handle 24° chart checks? Other places I have worked, we just verified orders were entered and signed off. But at the facility I work at now, we have a new form we must...

7. nurse doesn't do her charting

   NayNeyRN replied to NayNeyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   No, what you are thinking of is the nursing report sheet, or kardex. What I am referring to is the initial assessment done on every patient when they first report to the floor post surgery. Your head...

8. nurse doesn't do her charting

   NayNeyRN replied to NayNeyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Our ER nurses typically do chart auditing. But it's not uncommon for a nurse to do a couple as well. Small facility means we wear many

9. nurse doesn't do her charting

   NayNeyRN replied to NayNeyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   But the patients ARE there? An admit arrives at 10:00 am, and no assessment until the next shift does their daily assessment that has to done every 12 hours. Shift change is at 0700 and 1900, anyone...

10. nurse doesn't do her charting

    NayNeyRN replied to NayNeyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've worked second shift at a larger surgical hospital, and occasionally work day shift if they ask, so I know how busy it can get. Any admits that come to the unit after 1800 are the responsibility...

11. nurse doesn't do her charting

    NayNeyRN replied to NayNeyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I 100% agree that pt care takes priority, I'm usually that way myself. But when she has two admits and no other patients the entire day, and NOTHING is done, well, that speaks of poor time management....

12. nurse doesn't do her charting

    NayNeyRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work night shift in a specialty surgical hospital. We get lots of admits, even well into my shift, and patients tend to discharge the next day (not all, but most). There is one day nurse in...