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I talked to the nurse yesterday and apologized. She was fine with my explanation and apology. I told her I would stop and think before I open my mouth next time.

The nurse in question does get into a bit of trouble on her own. I guess I will try to handle these situations differently from here on out. I will try to approach the day nurse, but I don't know if she will listen. I was overtired this morning, going on next to no sleep, 12 patients including one that wouldn't stay in bed, and my 4th shift in a row - maybe I wasn't thinking as clearly as I could have been at 0615. I think I would have got the same attitude from the nurse and her tech even if I went to them first - that's probably why my first instinct was to go to the supervisor.

I worked third shift last night and received complaints about the nurses who cared for my patients on day shift. I passed these complaints on to the supervisor on day shift this morning. She told the RN from days that she wanted to speak to her about some patient complaints at some point today and the RN pressed her to talk immediately. The supervisor went on to tell her the complaints (while I was sitting next to her). As I was walking down the hall to clock out both the RN and her tech approached me and told me from now on to come to them first before going to the supervisor. The complaints were from a pt who stated that a dose of her phenergan IVP was slammed into her IV site and from a pt (and her family members) who complained she had been left in the chair for entire first shift - she is "bed bound" at home. I thought I handled the issue properly - these patients would have talked to the head nurse today themselves I am sure - I was just giving her a heads up. I like to think I take the patient advocate part of my job very seriously. Any thoughts?????

My husband is a correctional officer and I am an RN. I think it has to do with the shift work and with having to put up with all the crazy things you come up against in both fields that draws us together.

I think what really bugged me the most about Elizabeth was the extremely short amount of time that she was a nursing student, it was like a month between when she chose to go into nursing and when she started working as a nurse. I can't say to much about going from dept to dept, in the last 3 days I worked IMC, then ICU, and back to my home medical floor. (Never mind that I'm only trained to work the medical floor).

I thought I was the only one who got worked up about all of this stuff! I also like how Lucky got hooked on the M/S PCA - how he got a dose EVERY time he pushed the button. Did you notice that everyone referred to the PCA as a drip... All My Children did the same thing with Julia. 10 years after nursing school she took a refresher course and was floating all over the hospital the next day.

I have a tat on my wrist that I cover with my watch when I'm at work. Occasionaly the watch will slip out of place and the tat will peak out. I received nothing but compliments. More often than not, they tend to be an icebreaker - something to talk about with the pt and make them more at ease with me.

That's why I used the word supposed. I go listen or peak at the door a lot, but I don't wake them if I don't have to.

The new Big Man at our hospital says that if a patient has to use the call light that we as staff have failed them. On our 10p-6a shift either the RN or the Tech is supposed to enter the room every hour.

I used to work 12's and I loved them. I switched jobs, and my current director does not really like 12's so I'm back to 5 eights. She is set to retire in the next year, hopefully her replacement likes 12's!

My mom had this combo (fentanyl/versed/diprovan) for a same day procedure and had nausea for at least a week.......

One of my friend's sons decided to stick a pencil-top eraser in his ear. By the time his mom found out about it, the tissue in his ear had began to grow around the eraser - I believe it took same day surgery to get it out!!

I try to give d/c instructions, but 9 times out of 10 they are in such a rush out the door that they don't listen to you at all. I say what I feel obligated to tell them, whether or not they listen is up to them.

I live just south of Decatur and work in Decatur. I consider that central IL, but when I lived in the Joliet area, they referred to anything south of I-80 as "Southern IL"

Sounds to me like the new management is trying to get rid of anyone who had accrued any kind of time (i.e. topped out their pay scale) and replace them with lower paid individiuals. The lady in HR better watch out if she has been there for 20 years she may be next