Don't have any research for you. Sorry. Our hospital policy is to only give phenergan 25 mg or less IV push. It has to be mixed in 10 ml NS. The IV site is to be above the wrist, and it is to be...
PCA'd 8 hrs on rehab floor. Most max assist with 2-4 persons. Half confused/dysphasic/aphasic (sp?). Exhausted. 4 hrs on my unit, had 5 pts and charged. Gastritis pt, NPO wants food. FNS didn't...
I agree with you about patient safety. However, our facility has a policy that anyone can be floated to any unit. When I get to another unit, I let the charge nurse know what I am comfortable...
Ok, guys. Tell me the truth. You really work in my hospital and you've changed your names for protection! Speaking of changing your name, how many times have you wanted to change it 4 hours into...
I have to question whether or not those discharge orders actually made it to the patient. Our instructors never allowed anything in writing to go anywhere near a chart or a patient without their...
veegeern replied to Stray Kitty's topic in Cardiac
Stray Kitty, First, does your state offer protection for whistle-blowers? Second, if I had to, I could live without my license. However, I could not live without my conscience...How about
I've been an RN for almost 2 years now, and for me the fear lessened with time. It didn't help that 2 nurses on my unit were called in for a depositon r/t an infiltration right after I was hired....
My unit has a clinical coordinator who acts as our charge nurse from 7a-3p. If we have at less than 13 patient's on the floor or if we are short staffed, then she has a team. If she does not have a...
veegeern replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
Then I had the guy who was bitten by a water mocassin. He didn't want to kill the snake so he picked it up with a rake to try to move it to the woods. The snake is now totally p*ssed off and scared so...
Nupsgrad, I too could have written your reply. I've been an RN since Feb 2004. I work on an internal medicine floor...chronic patients with cardiac problems (telemetry, new pacemakers, cardiac...
The majority of floor nurses in the hospital where I work are on "variable" shifts. For us this means that we work mostly 12 hour shifts with occassional 4 or 8 hours shifts...Our shifts times are...
Sorry to hear that you're both working Christmas. On our unit, we have a sign up list for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years shifts. We sign up in order of seniority, and we ALL are required to...
First let me say that your age isn't an issue as long as you are in good health and are committed. I started a PT program when I was 28. For reasons that I won't go into here, I didn't finish it. I...
veegeern replied to Sweetiepie1497's topic in Georgia Nursing
Thomas County is south from where I live. Either way, it's rural and the wages are not going to be the same as in an urban area. However, I have found that the wages quoted in another thread of...