NurseScribe

Have you considered REPORTING the hospital? Those are unsafe practices that are endangering many people. You would be doing the public a favor if you found the local hotline number and gave a detailed report. It can often be done anonymously. You mig...

Davey, Davey, Davey........? thank you for the laughs!

Taking vital signs gives the patient a few minutes of attention. Documenting them covers the nurse. I had a patient who kept yelling about her abdominal pain and telling her family she might have appendicitis. Took her vital signs every hour for 6 ho...

You keep using the term "care home." Is that the same as a nursing home? "Better pay, shorter hours and more time off"?? Where? I have worked in 5 different nursing homes during my career from CNA to LPN to RN. The staff/patient ratio was ...

My first job as a fresh LPN at an LTC facility in early 1984, when providing hygienic measures for the residents, we didn't wear gloves. Just used good ole handwashing techniques. Like you, Davey Do, I worked in LTC in the early 80's. As a CNA...

You wake up and realize you drove home and fell asleep right after you parked the car. It's over an hour later. You're still sitting in the car. Time for nighty night!

NO. I'm not a hero, I'm a nurse, doing what I was trained to do. That's all.

One of the principles of nursing is nonmaleficence-"Do no harm." If a hospital allowed staff with no symptoms and no vaccine to be in contact with patients and later found out they were carrying the virus to every patient they came in contact with, w...

"IMHO physical attacks and aggressiveness has a lot to do with how staff manages patient behavior. Especially now that we can't just put someone in restraints anymore. Physical attacks are rare in our facility but our staff is tops." I'm not c...

Thank you for your honesty and candor talking about your experience with having Covid. I think a lot of us nurses would go along like you did thinking "It's not that bad..." until our O2 level tanked! The part that affects me the most is how long you...

I agree with Speedynurse and some others-it depends on the unit. Where I work now (psych ward) the day shift nurse will pull out the scheduled medications for the evening shift and put them in the locked patients drawer. I have no problem with this s...

Your charge nurse did the right thing by changing your assignment. That family was probably not going to change and they would just burn you out with negative responses. Don't doubt that you are a good nurse when you get an impossible patient...

Good article with much food for thought. Nurses sometimes take care of everyone but themselves. Thank you!

The fact that she is accusing you/spreading rumors about you making narcotic errors is a red flag. I believe the legal term is slander and libel. You don't mess with another nurse's professional reputation. It would make me wonder if SHE is div...

Keep looking...

I noticed in the first problem it only gives the IV fluid as running at 100 cc/hr from 1600-1900. So it would be 100 x 3 hours, not 100 x 12. ( In real-life nursing, of course, it would probably run all day...) The second problem is trick...

There needs to be a hard limit on the amount of patients one nurse is responsible for. I really enjoyed being a nurse for years-until the amount of patients kept getting slowly increased, more and more duties were gradually added, and LPNs and CNAs w...

Tweety I'm impressed that your hospital is actually working with you a little bit! Don't stop what you're doing. Keep writing letters and stressing how unsafe it is for patients when the nurses are stretched too thin. We all have to keep working for ...

Fecal Ova and parasite screen?

"The Joint Commission does not include, "A. Handwritten orders," as an example of medication safety practice." Good to know. Although facilities without EHR are still using them.

This was an excellent article, especially the part about having your antennas on high alert. Good job spotangel!

Loved the Fraggles!

Been working in mental health for the past 6 years-I agree with everything Davey Do has posted. Good advice. Be not overwhelmed! You are not the only nurse that has anxiety and depression. We all carry different kinds of baggage and the past ...

So- Mr. Smith? You told the doctor you had a pain level of 11 and no one was helping you?

I see nothing wrong with telling them you have no knowledge of the situation if you have no knowledge of the situation. JKL33 said it very well. Don't be tempted to try to make yourself look better-stick to the facts and don't volunteer a...