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  1. Albuterol vs. Xopenex....

    deespoohbear posted a topic in Patient Medications

    I was wondering if anyone can tell a difference between these two meds? When Xopenex was first released it was suppose to be superior to albuterol because it supposedly had few side effects such as...

  2. Nursing unions and small hospitals

    deespoohbear posted a topic in Rural

    Do small, not-for-profit, county controlled hospitals have unions? I was reading through another thread about unions and it seemed like all those facilities were large hospitals. The facility I work...

  3. Transferring patients to larger hospitals...

    deespoohbear posted a topic in Rural

    I don't know if it is just our particular facility or what, but we have had major problems getting the larger facilities to accept pts for transfer. We are a small hospital, and there are certain...

  4. Bedside charting and confidentiality

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our manager wants us to start doing our flow sheets at the patient's bedside. I am not really hip on this idea, but I suppose I would adjust. The one thing I am having trouble dealing with is the...

  5. Pneumatic tube systems....

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    We are getting a spanking brand new hospital!! This is a real feat for us because the one we are working in now is from the Florence Nightingale era. (Not quite maybe, but close). Management is...

  6. Ever feel like the med/surg unit is the hospital dumping ground?

    deespoohbear posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    I was wondering if any other med/surg nurses feel like their departments are the hospital "dumping grounds?" In our small hospital, our M/S floor basically gets what the other departments refuse to...

  7. Telephone orders...read back and verified...

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    We were just told today in our staff meeting that we are suppose to read back telephone orders to the doctors and then sign it "read back and verified." I always read my orders back to the physicians...

  8. Bad Eyesight

    deespoohbear replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

    I have had glasses since I was 9 y/o (now in mid 30's) and had no trouble getting into school. I had to have a general medical check-up but I would think as long as you can read the eye chart with...

  9. Nurses Diverting Drugs?

    deespoohbear replied to jfpruitt's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, same thing happened at our facility. The nurse was removed from her management post and was given a position with no weekends, no holidays, no call. Made for a lot of hard feelings at our...

  10. Orienting nursing students in nurse tech role

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been assigned a Nurse Tech to orient to our med/surg/tele/peds unit. She is an LPN student and will graduate in August. Our hospital hires nursing students as Nurse techs after the complete a...

  11. Teen daughters 1st pelvic exam...

    deespoohbear replied to itsme's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would think any doc of either sex would want another person in the exam room with them when they examine you. Big time liability issues

  12. Have you ever felt that you have too much work to do for just one nurse

    deespoohbear replied to debbie17368's topic in Medical-Surgical

    That is way too many patients for med-surg tele! And did I read you right about the vents? There is no way in Hades I would take 15 med-surg patients and no way I would do a vent on a med-surg...

  13. Should nursing charges be separate from the room charges?

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been wondering about this for a long time. Nursing services are routinely included in the room charge for patients. Now we all know that some patients require A LOT more nursing care than...

  14. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    Oh, my patience was tried to the upmost last night at work. Why? The dietary department, again. I don't know who they think they are, but I am tired of having to argue for every little extra...

  15. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    We have frozen meals too, that the staff has been accused of eating. Yuck. I won't serve those things to the patients much less eat them myself. To be accused of stealing and eating them is a...

  16. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    It is a power struggle with the dietary department, period. Our dietary department supervisor is so warped he got the administrator of the hospital to make a rule that the hospital staff cannot take...

  17. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    I don't what is causing the burr up their butt lately. You would think that the extra money that the food costs (all $2.13 of it) was being taken right out of their pockets for pete's sake. They act...

  18. Holiday schedule....

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just got a call from my boss about the holiday schedule for the year. Said it is giving her the biggest headache of her life. Wants some of us to come in and discuss it Friday. Here are the...

  19. Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    deespoohbear replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    TMI!! for

  20. Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    deespoohbear replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    Exactly why I do not do home health care!! (Besides the gawd awful paperwork you have to do!) I don't have any advice for you but I can tell you that you are better person than

  21. Nurses collecting copays

    deespoohbear replied to hogan4736's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely not a nursing duty. That is why there are admission clerks and

  22. Pneumatic tube systems....

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely off topic here, but I have never heard of a carotid blow out!! Wow!! Bet that was a sight to see....glad to hear the pt made

  23. What does med/sug. nursing entail?

    deespoohbear replied to Kim33's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Mine were so long ago I can't remember. Seriously I have worked med-surg for 8 years. I don't ever regret starting out in med-surg. You will definitely learn organization skills and obtain a...

  24. Pneumatic tube systems....

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the responses. I have decided when I return to work (I am fighting a nasty sinus infection along with bronchitis) I am going to really push for this tube system. We lost out about the...

  25. How do you convince administration and or doctors?

    deespoohbear posted a topic in Rural

    How do you convince administration and doctors that certain pts need higher levels of care than what a small facility can provide? The past couple of weeks we have had several peds patients that...