miko014

miko014

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  1. PT/OT: 100% satisfaction Nursing: 75% satisfaction

    miko014 replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    This bugs me to no end as well. What I don't get is how nurses are expected to be responsible for EVERYTHING. I mean, I don't control when you can go for your CT, so quit taking it out on me! The...

  2. "I don't want to do bed side nursing"...SAY WHAT!

    miko014 replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! Exactly! I'm a believer in experience, but I have never said that anyone has to spend 5 years in med/surg! I think one year of bedside nursing, (just about) anywhere in any hospital is all you...

  3. Patient complaints

    miko014 replied to am4182's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, there are usually 3 techs on the unit, but there are 2 separate wings that are separated by a little lobby area and the elevators. That means that someone has to be "split" between the...

  4. Patient complaints

    miko014 replied to am4182's topic in General Nursing

    I have told pts before stuff like, "I'm sorry you had to wait. I didn't forget about you, but I was with someone who wasn't doing very well", and usually they are okay with it, even if they aren't...

  5. Patient complaints

    miko014 replied to am4182's topic in General Nursing

    True and absolutely ridiculous! I think there needs to be some major changes to our system so that we can't be sued because someone didn't like the kind of pudding they got for lunch!!! (Okay, I...

  6. Patient complaints

    miko014 replied to am4182's topic in General Nursing

    Our unit's press ganey scores went down this quarter...we were at the 95th percentile before, and now we're 25th. They have also told us that we have to work at 103-104% productivity since revenues...

  7. two full time jobs for a new grad

    miko014 replied to shyinla2004's topic in General Nursing

    I work with an RN who works a full time (36 hours per week) at our hospital and part time (24 horus I think) at another hospital down the road, and it's killing her. She is SO STRESSED all the time, I...

  8. "I don't want to do bed side nursing"...SAY WHAT!

    miko014 replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    *Never* sure is a long time. I just think that a year is not as long as it seems. It would only enhance the other settings to have some experience in the basics. It's not just med/surg, either. I...

  9. Nursing students and new nurses.....about injection sites

    miko014 replied to TazziRN's topic in Patient Medications

    I give tons of flu and pneumonia vax, but not much else IM. There's the occasional B12...it's common practice where I work to avoid the DG site at all costs, but VG, Delt, and VL are acceptable....

  10. "I don't want to do bed side nursing"...SAY WHAT!

    miko014 replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    Lol Jessica! I did it for four years, and I can say for 100% sure that it helped me tremendously! I am sooooo glad I did it! It made me so much more confident in clinicals and when I first started...

  11. No Holiday Pay?

    miko014 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    No union, but holiday pay. It just recently changed. It used to be that you got time-and-a-half for working the holiday (we have 6 per year that count), and nothing if you didn't work it. They just...

  12. "I don't want to do bed side nursing"...SAY WHAT!

    miko014 replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    Ooh, good thread! I was just talking about this the other day with a coworker! There is this girl who went to hs with me. We graduated in 2000, and she is still in nursing school. She is very...

  13. Medical Workers wearing scrubs to and from work, outside the Hospital, etc..

    miko014 replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

    Amen! I work oncology, and my hospital has been named one of the 100 best in cancer for 5 years in a row...yet our inpt oncology floor is SO GROSS! We have cracks in the walls, chunks of wallpaper...

  14. Sitters, give 'em a break!

    miko014 replied to anonymurse's topic in General Nursing

    I had to do my share of sitting when I was a tech, and I hated it! But I have to say, I NEVER got q2h breaks, and I never needed them. If you need to stretch, walk around the room. Stand up and...

  15. Sitters, give 'em a break!

    miko014 replied to anonymurse's topic in General Nursing

    Our pts are not to be restrained if there is a sitter in the room with them. If you're just going to tie them down, then what's the point of having a sitter? Meds are a different story, but I'm not...

  16. Would like some expert opinions

    miko014 replied to Roseyposey's topic in General Nursing

    There is a nurse I always work with who CONSTANTLY gives me handfuls of manufacturer prefilled NS syringes when she leaves...only she has already opened the packages. I tell her again and again not...

  17. no-smoking policies

    miko014 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in General Nursing

    We're going smoke-free as of January 1st also. Another large hospital in the area is already smoke free, and the pts/visitors and staff are actually walking down the street to smoke! It's probably...

  18. Experience in Med/Surg or not?

    miko014 replied to slou!'s topic in General Nursing

    I think you should try med/surg and see what happens. You don't have to stay forever, but I have learned more from my med/surg pts than anybody else. I'm on an inpt medical oncology unit. We also...

  19. Class Gift Ideas?

    miko014 replied to tessalynn's topic in General Nursing

    So a small calss...there were about 150 of us, and that was just the BSNs...there were quite a few masters students as well as a few PhDs. Hmmm...I have lots of ideas, but I have no idea what your...

  20. Help me

    miko014 replied to BrwnEyedNurs's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't worry. What in the heck are your spikes made of??? I don't think I could cut myself with the ones we use if I tried! I'd be more worried about the pt, becasue technically there could...

  21. Class Gift Ideas?

    miko014 replied to tessalynn's topic in General Nursing

    Well...one class at my school gave a couple of stone picnic tables...my class gave benches to sit on outside. What kind of facilities do you have? And how big is your class? A budget would be...

  22. Approximate Narc. count?

    miko014 replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

    There's no needle (or any kind of adapter) on it. It's just a 1 ml syringe. If you draw it up and give it yourself, I don't see a problem with it. I'm not going to get halfway to the room and...

  23. Homan's Sign: Useful or Useless? What's your opinion?

    miko014 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen a positive once. I usually see the whole swelling, redness, warmth, pain thing. I think we were taught in my assessment class to do it passively, but most of the RNs I work with do it...

  24. Approximate Narc. count?

    miko014 replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

    We have morphine and ativan in the dropper bottles, and we also have some prefilled syringes. I don't know why we have both, but whatever. Anyway, when we take anything out of the bottle, we have to...

  25. Homan's Sign: Useful or Useless? What's your opinion?

    miko014 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hello! We were having a discussion about Homan's sign yesterday at work, and I was wondering what anybody on here thinks of this...Is having the pt actively dorsiflex the foot an accurate homan's...