brissie

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  1. Tips for speed without sacrificing accuracy?

    brissie replied to cherokeesummer's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Also I had the same problem with one nurse telling me to do something one way and then another nurse would tell me to do something another way. Get out your unit policy and procedure manual and check...

  2. Tips for speed without sacrificing accuracy?

    brissie replied to cherokeesummer's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Please don't beat yourself up. It is going to take time to become familiar with your job and all the little tricks of the trade that can help you cut down on time. You have only had five days on the...

  3. Do you report other nurses often?

    brissie replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I would want a colleague to discuss the matter with me before they submitted a report. I have seen some nurses written up because of a perceived error when in fact the one perceiving did not...

  4. From a student - how much of what we learn is really done?

    brissie replied to krenee's topic in General Nursing

    Wow....when you start clinicals in a hospital setting you will see how much of nursing school you incorporate. A nursing diagnosis is a way of standardizing the nursing process in a written way. It...

  5. Incompetent nurses

    brissie replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    I was a FF/Paramedic before I became an RN and I took a pay

  6. NICU filling with miscarriages

    brissie replied to JOLLIEHOLLY's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm sorry but 21 weekers cannot live. Look it up in a perinatal anatomy textbook if you don't believe me, it simply is impossible. They do not have the lung structure present to live. Gestational...

  7. NICU filling with miscarriages

    brissie replied to JOLLIEHOLLY's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Infants born under 22 weeks gestation cannot survive. It is not anatomically and therefore not physiologically possible. There are stories in the press of infants younger than this surviving but the...

  8. mobile phones and hospitals

    brissie replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital supervisor walks around glued to a cellphone. MD's carry and use them in our units. I haven't seen any problems at all and all our patients are

  9. Best Underwear to wear under scrubs??

    brissie replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    Commando.

  10. Funny Names

    brissie replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Kayoz for a

  11. Do your parents have to wear cover gowns when visiting?

    brissie replied to Love_2_Learn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    If they are going to hold then

  12. Do the day nurses clash with the night nurses?

    brissie replied to Sassybottom's topic in General Nursing

    I think they are jealous of the shift

  13. I made her cry?!?

    brissie replied to one breath at a time's topic in General Nursing

    She will do it to someone

  14. Impossible math problems, kind of long....

    brissie replied to WindyhillBSN's topic in General Nursing

    you need

  15. Just When You Think You've Seen It All....

    brissie replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They write on pts before

  16. Kootenai Medical Center?

    brissie replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Staffing issues currently center around the amount of experienced staff. The ICU receives post open heart patients for the first 24 hours before they are transferred to the CCU if they are stable...

  17. Kootenai Medical Center?

    brissie replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    The ICU at KMC is a 14 bed unit that for the most part is usually full. The hospital recently hired a new manager of ICU/CCU/PCU. They have huge staffing issues however, not enough nurses etc etc....

  18. pt abuse vs pt satisfaction

    brissie replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    I found a quote that I love, "Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him." I try to remember this, don't always...

  19. First week of of new grad orientation

    brissie replied to imnewrn's topic in General Nursing

    I would stick it out for a while just to see. You are going to have a lot worse days in your nursing

  20. Frustration by lack of respect from hospital admin

    brissie replied to Kaetlyn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry to hear about your problems. I have found more and more that the bottom line is always

  21. TB Skin test positive -- help!

    brissie replied to peace07's topic in General Nursing

    If you have never had any respiratory problems and are currently symptom free then in it is highly probable that you have latent TB. According to the CDC currently one third of the population in the...

  22. Nursing has made me dislike dealing with people in general....

    brissie replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I hear you. I work in a NICU and while my patients are the best possible patients, we have major problems with parents. A lot of our parents lately have had serious drug problems and get down...

  23. Pending write up

    brissie replied to deaga's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto to everything said so far. I'm not at all saying you made a med error but if one nurse notices that another is about to make a med error as significant as doubling the dose then they are a poor...

  24. Was I out of line ?

    brissie replied to grantw9066's topic in Emergency

    Haven't we all said things we regret? Wouldn't we have been mortified if they had been written down in a legal document? As mentioned above a simple "EMD notified, no new orders" would have...

  25. I have seen it all, or maybe not....

    brissie replied to Liebchen's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm guessing that if they "threatened" arrest then there were, as Daytonite suggested, underlying psych issues previously disgnosed going on here, maybe the MD had ordered a psych hold....you...