HiddenAngels

HiddenAngels

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  1. Staying late after change of shift, what am I doing wrong?

    Oh my goodness BTDT I wish you were on a committee where I am. YESSSS we don't have time to stop what we're doing to go over and do rounds with the physicians and CM, it's terrible sometimes. I wish...
  2. My First Code Blue! Still Trying To Process It

    I have 0 complaints for you, but that head nurse was waaaack. She is a typical blame shifter. You did
  3. Why We Need to Talk About Our Mental Health as Nurses

    You are onto something here, and this scARES me. For every little thing that the patient tells us no matter how insignificant it may seem, I'm still mentioning it to the doctor. It could be totally...
  4. Roe v. Wade abandoned by Supreme Court

    Wrong thread or not, wow I'm shocked regarding at work drug and alcohol use by HCPs. It's something I never really thought
  5. Staying late after change of shift, what am I doing wrong?

    So after your rounds you usually have one more med pass correct? If that’s the case, get that done and then start your assessments. At least one or two. Your afternoon med pass and evening med pass...
  6. "Discrepancies" In Epic Documentation

    This doesn’t make any sense. I was thinking that this is a pharmacy
  7. Is this legal?

    Yea I don’t like this, what if there’s an order that carries over from an order set that the patient doesn’t need or is contraindicated. Def not safe. I would speak up about
  8. Patient abandonment?

    Yep. Only if you didn’t handoff to someone else. I know this is going to break your heart ♥️ but they probably won’t want you back there
  9. Patient Assessment

    What a crock! Do You know how many people I stopped from drowning in fluids with that ‘piece of crap” as he said. Do you know how many hypoactive bowel sounds .. trying to dodge SBO’s....
  10. Patient Assessment

    I do the same in this instance if I’m on nights. I’ll circle back once visiting hours are over, or if their hubby or wife is staying over I just let them know what I’m going to do and they...
  11. Patient Assessment

    No this is not the NEW standard of care. This is called laziness and I bet you they are charting that they did a whole freaking assessment. so weird to me that people do this I mean how are you...
  12. My First Code Blue! Still Trying To Process It

    You did great, you were there, all codes feel overwhelming and usually happen fast. The only thing I would have done differently is sunctiomed him with a yankauer. If I still could t clear secretions...
  13. Social Media: A Danger to Public Health

    Nice Posts! I loved your Jerry McGuire moment now get some rest.
  14. As you should. You are stressing waaaaytoo much. Breathe easy and document
  15. Yea that’s how I read it too and I applaud AARP. Can’t say I didn’t see this coming with these freaking jobs infringing upon our
  16. This one is just sad. The clinical director should have just covered, my
  17. Drama on my unit

    You know how you're sitting there on the Hulk ride all strapped in (intro to nursing) and then it starts, you ride into Bruce Banner's lab and you hear him talking out formulas and you start to get...
  18. Roe v. Wade abandoned by Supreme Court

    Interesting….this may need to be explored furthered . This may be what is needed for kids and teens, everybody for that matter. Like some public health infomercial like those lung commercials from...
  19. Roe v. Wade abandoned by Supreme Court

    What foresight you have.. It is definitely a public health
  20. Monkeypox Going Viral! What You Need To Know

    Yea my family says they used to not give you a choice whether or not you got the
  21. Same. But we haven't really had an incident that was questionable either, where they needed to prove where someone was, so this could still be the intent behind the use, we'll see. I didn't...
  22. Personal Deathbed Vision Stories?

    So true, there are times when I know someone is passing soon so I’m a bit more open when it comes to strange things patients might say or do. It’s the ones that I don’t see coming. The ones...
  23. Emerging Ideas to Innovate Mental Health Awareness

    I wholeheartedly agree! I posted elsewhere concerning the challenges that we are facing today. I believe they are multifaceted mental health included but we have some serious social and economic...
  24. Emerging Ideas to Innovate Mental Health Awareness

    Yea sounds like not enough to me. Hence the mental health crisis we’re