Thanks in advance for reading. I am told the new normal for California nurses will be as follows:
1:3 ICU
1:5 emergency room
1:5 telemetry
1:6 or 7 medical/surgical
Due to...
How do you deal with your charge nurse who tells you to “watch the patient” when you should be speaking with the doctor to report changes? My charge has more experience than I (me 8 years, her...
anybody ever taken a medical spanish course? details, links, etc... was it beneficial? online vs in classroom? some direction please. and thanks. my spanish is super
Been a nurse for a couple of years but I do not have experience with an on-call, overstaffed, standby policy before. Only worked at 2 hospitals with this being 1 of the 2. I have worked at this...
Thanks in advance for reading… Any benefits for working consecutive days/nights? I am working every other or 2-3 day splits. The other day, I did a 3 day stretch... What I notice is if you get your...
Hi all. Thanks in advance for reading. Without getting into too much detail, I work nocs and I believe the days charge nurse is targeting me. I do not have ANY issues with other staff RNs or...
had a nurse tell me i need to dilute the 1mg of dilaudid i am pushing into a PICC line, because "it's too close to the heart"... another 1 told me it will drop the blood pressure alot, if you give...
i was always taught this... mixing my morphine OR dilaudid in a 10 cc flush and push into patient. a patient asked me, why is that necessary? i couldn't explain. also, i've gotten orders before to...