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  1. Med Error

    miko014 replied to MULEKATE's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, the docs should know. But I have called for orders before and had them not know. For example, once I called to get dilaudid switched from PO to IV or SQ for a dying pt who could no longer...

  2. Less Stressful Areas

    miko014 replied to peacelovestar's topic in General Nursing

    Any job you have will have stress. You could work at a grocery store and come home angry and upset every night. Don't let this board scare you!! Yes, we all have stress, but we (usually) don't come...

  3. What am I doing wrong?

    miko014 replied to Lightning Bug RN's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes if the veins are fragile, I have found that they blow if you use a tourniquet...if the first one blows, and you can do it without using the tourniquet, try that. But of course, if you can't...

  4. Visiting policies

    miko014 replied to NitesinBoston's topic in General Nursing

    It's situations like that that turn hospitals into hotels. It blows my mind how you have family members asking for - or in some cases demanding - things for themselves. I cannot tell you how many...

  5. Shift and weekend differentials- what are yours?

    miko014 replied to Chaoticdreams33's topic in General Nursing

    Evenings & Nights = 4.75 Evening & Night weekends = 4.75 + an extra 4.75 BUT - we have 8 hour people and 12 hour people, and the 7a - 7p people do NOT get the diff for their last 4 hours,...

  6. Magnet Status--what's on the hospital's "to do" list in order to meet the criteria?

    miko014 replied to nurse4me8897's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a Magnet hospital - we were granted magnet status about a year ago I believe. Of course, there was a big celebration and all that good stuff, and then they told us how, because of a bunch...

  7. Semi-private

    miko014 replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I think so too. But guess what we keep talking about? We've been having a ridiculously high acuity lately, too, and they haven't been bothering to make sure that we have a charge nurse without pts....

  8. Should I consider LNC? Advice Please

    miko014 posted a topic in Legal

    Hi all! I'm relatively new to nursing (finishing up my 1st year as an RN, wrked as a tech/UC for 4 years, BSN). I do like my job right now, and I do feel that I have a lot more to learn, but I can...

  9. Question about Heparin Drips

    miko014 replied to purple_rose_3's topic in General Nursing

    We aren't supposed to draw a PTT from anything if there is heparin running. Anything else, we can do it just as described

  10. Semi-private

    miko014 replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    We have mostly privates on my unit d/t neutropenic and chemo pts. There are 3 rooms that are still semi-private, but we only double pts up as a last resort. Many of the other floors do still have...

  11. Probably a stupid question, but what do you think about this?

    miko014 replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    I know she likes the PICCs - she has nothing to stick, it's a direct route for her to have access to her veins. As far as documentation, she must not be doing very much of whatever she is doing...

  12. Probably a stupid question, but what do you think about this?

    miko014 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all My unit has a pt who has been there for a little over a week and has no desire whatsoever to leave. She is young, came in with abd pain. Denied drug/etoh use on admission, but tested positive...

  13. Doctor apologized

    miko014 replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I work with an RN like that...very self-centered, not a team player at all...you know, the type who expects you to bend over backward to help her, but wouldn't condescend to toss a glass of water on...

  14. Doctor apologized

    miko014 replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Sort of...I had one yesterday who asked me to take a telephone order that violated policy (one that I am told is based on state law, but I'm not sure). I wouldn't do it (I was very nice, but I said...

  15. Inciden Report Etiquette

    miko014 replied to AliRae's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how your incident reports are set up, but we don't use names in ours. If I have to write something up, it's very "RN did this, pharmacist did this", etc. As for any disciplinary action...

  16. New Nurse - safe practice question

    miko014 replied to burnay76's topic in General Nursing

    Call me crazy, but we are a teaching hospital too, and we push many IV meds - we mix our IV protonix in 10CC and push over 2-3 minutes. Also, some of our higher dose vanco and even some chemo drugs...

  17. Family Video Taping

    miko014 replied to mydesygn's topic in General Nursing

    I've had pts who want to take pics before, but never run into a video taping situation. I would just say that I can't take care of the pt safely if I'm worrying about a video camera, and it needs to...

  18. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    miko014 replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I was saying, isn't it sad that she thinks she needs to do that in order to get her pain meds? I don't even know if she realizes that she does that, because if she did, she would act like that more...

  19. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    miko014 replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Hospice, palliative care, and oncology pts - I give a LOT of pain meds. Yes, sometimes I feel like people are exaggerating, but it's their pain. I'm just glad I'm not the one having the pain...

  20. What does this 0.8 FTE, and 0.6 FTE mean?

    miko014 replied to LoveMyBugs's topic in General Nursing

    0.8 = 64 hours 0.6 = 48

  21. Are there any dancing nurses out there?

    miko014 replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    Hah! I'm not the only one! People at work tease me sometimes because I tap (not ballroom, but still dancing!). I would love to do ballroom, but I guess I'll have to wait till I catch a

  22. help me figure out how to say...

    miko014 replied to all4schwa's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a busy heme/onc/hospice/palliative care/gen med overflow unit and we have mostly private rooms (there are 4 doubles but we only do roomies as a last resort). Because of the private rooms...

  23. Wiping Butt...

    miko014 replied to Chicagoan's topic in General Nursing

    Who cares? Nobody likes doing it, but it has to be done. Think about it this way: would you rather be the one cleaning up the mess, or the one sitting in

  24. Get THIS!

    miko014 posted a topic in General Nursing

    My unit is split into 2 seperate wings...we all work on the large unit, but on any given day we will be on one side or the other. We have 12 hour people and 8 hour people. I happen to do 8s. So it...

  25. Get THIS!

    miko014 replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    That was the real issue with me. I think we were okay, and they could have come out of report to fix the pump, I agree. But I wasn't doing anything, so I just hung out over there and the other RN...