danh3190

I wish our management would stress noise control. Of course managers come up with silly ideas like acronyms (SHHH), but the message is good. Noise is one of the main complaints I hear from my patients and when you're sick any kind of additional str...

We're not supposed to use them on the floor. I do use mine occasionally as the apps on my phone are superior to those on the computer. I've used it in a patient's room if he asks a question I don't know the answer to. I just tell him I'm trying to...

Yeah. I was surprised to get a call from a private investigator when I applied to my current employer. She was following up on my degrees. E-mailed her a copy of the diploma and transcript and no further problem.

But, unless the person's in cardiac or respiratory arrest, what can you do with your BLS or ACLS? I don't carry O2, IV supplies, or drugs in my car. The most important thing is to call 911 and clear any obstacles that would interfere with their abi...

1. Basic entrance exams like are currently being administered. 2. Some sort of psychological exam to show ability to multitask and deal with nursing demands. 3. Interviews. A lot of people test well but would make lousy nurses. 4. Multiple references...

I like the two 12s and two 8s. Besides I couldn't take the 10% cut in pay for three 12s. My favorite shift of all is the 3p - 11:30P shift. The vast majority of meds are passed, most of the people are back from whatever tests or procedures they're...

Don't know what to recommend. Many of us also work two 12 and two 8. We don't have much control over our schedules. On our unit we work every other weekend. Never have a consistent day off. We supposedly have "self scheduling" but it doesn't wor...

I think our hospital has a couple levels of recognition, but to tell you the truth I've never really paid any attention to them. I once got the lowest level and was apparently invited to some gathering to recognize people, but didn't open my e-mail ...

Keep in mind the footnote about false positives too. At first I was surprised when the cardiologists were discharging people with elevated troponins.

It never occurred to me to tell anybody about my speeding tickets (2 tickets, 3 warnings). Don't think it's necessary in PA. As for the comments about not speeding, on my way to work everybody is about 10 mph over the limit. It's a fairly busy road...

I was reading an article today about the closing of Walter Reid Medical center and somewhere in the article there was mention of a garden where some of the nurses married their patients. But in a different vein, what is a nurse-patient relationship, ...

Maybe I'm weird but I like the new residents. I don't get a lot of attitude from them and they are often eager to teach. (Yes folks they do know more than us). If I think their order is dangerous I can always call their senior, but I really haven'...

All of the above advice is good. When I was in nursing school, I kept my EMS experience sort of quiet since in the past some nurses weren't exactly fond of paramedics. Besides, nursing and EMS are two very different things. Everyone knew I was a p...

I'd be surprised if a patient who's been properly washed every day would develop a bad BO problem. The odor I have trouble dealing with doesn't come from the armpits but from the groin/butt area, probably because the sick people have trouble wiping ...

to 1 tab q3 PRN as the patient requested

When I was a paramedic we didn't learn lab values per se though we learned about the electrolytes, e.g. we knew what a low K or low hemoglobin meant, but we wouldn't have known that a K of 3.2 or and Hgb of 8.2 were low. Of course that was almost 30...

Another problem is what happens when you hand the patient off to another nurse? Isn't it just easier to ask the MD to change the order?

I agree that improved pay and benefits are good positive motivators, but at the hopital where I work they have good pay and pretty much the same benefits as me but it doesn't matter to some people. What's also needed is motivation from the other end...

If you have any male nurses or aides you could assign them to the perverts.

What you're describing might not be poor training, but a lack of desire to work.

I work on a floor and I don't think it will be that big a deal when we retire. There are only a few of us (probably less than 5%) who are within 15 years of retirement. Seems to me like most of those near retirement are in management or other suppo...

Although I'll tell people I'm Catholic if they ask me, I don't feel it's my job to "witness" to them as in trying to convert them. I figure my witness is doing my job as best I can for them because whatsoever you do to the least of them you do for M...

As has been stated, it's all very legal. If we don't like it there's a way to change it, which is to VOTE. Are the current legislators helping the situation of the working folk. If so vote in more of them. If not vote them out.

I find that the hardest thing about documentation is finding the appropriate place to put the information and waiting for the computer to respond to the mouse clicks and open the right screen. I remember one place I was at in nursing school. There ...

I know I couldn't find an ED or ICU position when I graduated at 56 despite 25+ years as a paramedic. One MD I know (not involved in the hiring process) said I shouldn't be discouraged; I'm not unqualified, just too old. It could also have been tha...