NayNeyRN

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 complete that wants us to also verify that previous nurse...

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 when surgeries are done and we drop down to skelet...

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 chills.

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 have to do these on every single one of our patie...

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 my next admit comes at 1930. So now I have three full...

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 night. Once I hit bright sunlight, it tends to jolt ...

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 particular, who never seems to get her work done. She freq...

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 to toe assessment, that sets the baseline for pati...

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 hats

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 admitted after 1800, the night nurses perform the a...

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 of the oncoming nurse to assess. There have been ma...

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. As far as her telling the orientee to "leave char...