Young_Torso

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1. Is it like this everywhere now?

   Young_Torso replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

   The real kicker about this is that there's never a solution on their end. The answer ultimately always boils down to "you need to do better" without any specifics as to how. If you're in management/administration and the only direction you can give...

2. How many Secretaries/Monitor Techs are staffed on your unit?

   Young_Torso replied to X620's topic in General Nursing

   Mixed tele/stepdown unit. 35 beds, 2 unit secretaries max, no tele techs. We get alarms on our phones.

3. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   Young_Torso replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Did you happen to see the poll where over 1/5th of those that voted think she should be charged? What do you think will happen if she's charged and convicted? Other than that we agree on every point other than the buck stopping at the level of the j...

4. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   Young_Torso replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I think the bigger question is why wasn't this reported to the BON right away to have her license (at least) temporarily suspended while the investigation was ongoing? That seems like a much more reasonable course of action. The BON and the govern...

5. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   Young_Torso replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   This post is riddled with poor comparisons. 1. Comparing this situation to a drunk driver: not close because while both involve licensure, the accessibility to the means to cause harm is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH higher for the drunk driver. You can suspend...

6. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   Young_Torso replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Wasn't aware that she was able to find employment after the incident. I stand corrected. Kind of a strange disconnect where you can be charged with reckless homicide before your license is revoked, no?

7. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   Young_Torso replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I get that the nurse in question overrode safeguards, I get that she didn't follow the six rights of medication administration, and I acknowledge that her actions showed a great deal of negligence and recklessness. Revocation of her licensure would ...

8. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

   Young_Torso replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

   ...wait what?

9. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

   Young_Torso replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

   I'm one of those people that went into nursing for "the wrong reasons" (money, job security/employment opportunities, etc.), but I was fortunate to come to really enjoy the profession. I could see myself doing something else and being happy/successf...

10. Please Help!!

    Young_Torso replied to gravy94's topic in General Nursing

    If you're asking a question like this, it's time to find a hobby. You're (presumably) young, single, untethered, and living in a time where just about anything we want is at our fingertips. I don't think anyone has the right to be "bored" in today's...

11. Written Up

    Young_Torso replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    Sub-acute rehab.

12. Written Up

    Young_Torso replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    Unless I'm reading what you wrote incorrectly, you're stating the average acute care patient gets the same scrutiny of their orders that the average LTC resident does. Every subsequent sentence I wrote was to show how that claim isn't true.

13. Written Up

    Young_Torso replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    Disagree. I've worked LTC/SAR and currently work in acute care and it's a different ballgame now. Haldol and seroquel are routinely used for agitation in the hospital (along with benzos). At my SAR job we were told to instruct the attendings to d/...

14. DNR? details please

    Young_Torso replied to SDANG's topic in General Nursing

    From the understanding I've gathered from speaking with the palliative care physician that helped formulate the NY state MOLST form, DNR only refers to cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of a cardiac arrest. There is a separate order for DNI...