daisey_may

What states allow RN's to pronounce death? And under what circumstances? Does anyone have any websites or any lists? Thanks, Daisey

Hi, I have a question about HIPAA violations because I am not familiar with procedures. I know that each case may be a little different, so anyone who has experience, let me tell you what happened. I have a co-worker who was fired recently becaus...

My 2 cents is that is not a HIPAA violation... (you're generally able to give the condition of a patient to a family member if the patient does not say it's not okay) but I do know of someone who was fired because in an email, one employee asked anot...

I have to agree with icyounurse about nursing as on-the-job training. I might have learned just as much being an aid on the floor I worked as a nurse as what I learned in clinicals. Plus, there are specialties that school just doesn't have time to ...

It surprises me that it is so different in different states and facilities!

I was 17 when I started the nursing program and 19 when I graduated with my ASN and started working as an RN. I will have just turned 21 when I get my BSN and I was told I was one of the youngest that the school had ever had. I was by far out of th...

Hello all, I'm a new nurse and have been working on a med-surg floor for a few of months. I'm still working on prioritizing and delegating. I go to my preceptor for help ALL the time. I make hundreds of notes. I love looking up strange dx's and ...

This happened the other night and it still makes me laugh when i think about it. I work on a med/surg floor. Sometimes our patients require telemetry and there are monitor techs that sit upstairs to watch our patient's hearts. The other night, the...

Hi, I am currently starting a project for my BSN that will hopefully be able to made policy at the hospital I work at. At the hospital where I work, there is no policy about offering any pain alleviation prior to an IV start. Many of the hospitals...

Oooh! I have another one. This one wasn't me either, it was a co-worker. I was on orientation still and had a hispanic patient who spoke Spanish and could not understand English. Her husband was with her, but he did not speak or understand English...

I graduated high school two years ago and can not take the blame for this one: During a senior debate class, a girl who was notoriously not very bright was asking me about what the cold war was. As I started to explain it, she quickly interrupted me...

I would personally be nervous being responsible not only for 42 patients, but 42 acute patients alone. Remember if you are uncomfortable, it's probably not right. It is your license that will be on the line. I would speak to someone about having m...

For us we have: purple arm band: DNR red arm band: Latex allergy yellow arm band: fall risk, along with a yellow sheet above the bed and a yellow leaf outside the door for fall risk we also have different yellow bands for lab that have 10 or stickers...

For me, my RN-BSN is mostly online, which I found working a lot of hours easy to work around. But, if you have class time or clinical time that you need to do, then it may be beneficial for you to cut back your hours at work. It will definitely dep...

Welcome! Why are you embarrassed that you feel anxious about being a charge nurse? And I'm curious--where do you work where you are the only nurse for 42 patients! My stress level would be through the roof! You have a lot of responsibility for so m...

It sounds to me like maybe some education is in order. Especially if you are worried about this happening again, I would speak to the manager or maybe just the charge nurse about what is within the LPN's scope of practice. I know only because I jus...

There is a lot of gray area. It surprises me that you breached pt confidentiality, leslymill, because I thought that discussing the patient within the healthcare team was not considered breaching pt confidentiality. Wouldn't knowing the other docto...

I know it's been a month since you had originally posted. I am so sorry that you are going through this. It is hard enough to be newly diagnosed with something that has affected you so much at work! And then to go back and not even receive the su...

It's interesting you bring up drinking beer and diabetes. It doesn't have much to do with bulimia in that teenagers drink beer deliberately to lose weight, but it certainly is a side effect. Before I was in nursing school, I was under the impressio...

I had not heard of this before, but unfortunately I'm not surprised. My heart goes out for these patients though because I'm sure other problems exist--or soon will, even with education. It's frustrating enough sometimes trying to teach someone wit...

In our system, MDs usually have the last say in clinical decision making, but RNs should be expected to participate. Participate, collaborate all in the patients' best interest. Advocate? I'm not sure if that's the best word for it, but the main poin...

I have only been a nurse for a month or two. The more I'm reading about HIPAA, the more I am finding that this is a gray area. The fact that this has happened so close to me makes me concerned--rightfully so with a brand new license in my hands.

It depends on what you are looking for. If you want to work in cardiac, then work there! Med/surg can kind be thought of as the catch all floor between medical and surgical patients. Med/surg can give you an awesome background if you are just look...

I just found out this morning that I passed my boards!! I was so nervous because it hardly took an hour--first one in and first one to leave-- and the test cut me off at 75 questions! It feels good to finally be over and done with those. Now I can...

Congrats to you! Yeah, that minimum question thing was really bothering me! Wasn't it getting to you? Oh and I hear you about still so much to learn! A couple of weeks ago, a patient asked me to leave the room because I "looked to young" to take o...