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1. New California Nurse to Patient Ratio

   painmeds posted a topic in General Nursing

   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 staffing shortages for COVID? What's it like in your...

2. Charge nurse hears me but doesn't listen

   painmeds posted a topic in General Nursing

   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 20+) . But I believe she has forgotten that a part of ou...

3. Why are so many nurses against unions?

   painmeds replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Union

   The union at my facility seem to protect/benefit the seniors only. As a new EXPERIENCED nurse, I get screwed on my schedule, assignments, and call-off rotation.

4. medical spanish courses/classes

   painmeds posted a topic in General Nursing

   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 basic.

5. staffing policies

   painmeds posted a topic in General Nursing

   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 hospital for almost a year now and the staffing departm...

6. Benefits of consecutive work schedule?

   painmeds posted a topic in General Nursing

   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 patients back you cared for the previous day, you c...

7. Being a target by a coworker.

   painmeds posted a topic in Relations

   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 charges. The assistant manager told me to “be careful” ar...

8. mixing pain medications with a flush

   painmeds replied to painmeds's topic in General Nursing

   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 it "straight up"

9. mixing pain medications with a flush

   painmeds posted a topic in General Nursing

   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 dilute (mix with flush) and to DO NOT dilute (draw ...