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that's a different scenario. the pt. can refuse what they like, nobody's arguing that. but i, as a nurse, am not required to provide bad care to a pt. simply because they prefer it that way. they have a right to good care, and continually giving cand...

there's a very good reason that nurses aren't allowed to mix drugs on the floor anymore - many, many, many critical med errors that resulted in patient injury and death. yeah, it sucks to have to wait for meds, but unless your pharmacy has severe pro...

i'll add this: when you wake up in the morning and dread the next time you go back to work, even if it's 3-4 days down the road. another thing i've noticed: if you start losing your patience with people and things that you would never have lost patie...

we've had lots of these same situations. basically, my philosophy is similar to yours in that i will not personally hand them something that is restricted from their diet. i just won't, for personal and professional reasons. but, as you said, if it's...

start applying now. you can inform your employers of when your preferred start date and when you actually graduate/take the licensing exam. if you wait until you're ready to start working, you may find many jobs already taken by nursing students from...

thing is, i've had a similar situation like this come up lots of times. upon asking other nurses/charge nurses what to do, they usually just say, "chart exactly what the doctor said in your nurses notes, watch the patient real carefully, and call him...

as a nurse, i spend a good 2-3 hours a day minimum charting. this isn't because i like charting or because i have nothing better to do. believe me, i would rather be in patient rooms all day. i may be sitting at the nurses station, but believe me cha...

frankly, these nurses sound lazy. not only that, but apparently documentation of patient care is more important to them than actual patient care itself. if you charted that you did the assessment on their shift, would that protect them in a court of ...

my sister-in-law and my mother both had reactions the first few weeks they worked nights. not with vertigo, but with severe nausea and reduced appetite. i'd say give yourself time to adjust (flip-flopping days and nights does NOT agree with some peop...

what you are describing sounds like what we call prn - you have to work predetermined shifts (ex. 7-3 or 7-7), but can generally pick the days you want to work ahead of time. i think this is what you were describing. what we called per diem is someth...

having worked both telemetry and med/surg, i can honestly say this is NOT good advice. the patients may be less sick, but you will have more of them. and they and their families will NOT be less demanding, i can promise you that. no, telemetry and an...

in all honesty, i probably would have just said, "okay thank you." then i would have gone straight to my nurses noted immediately and charted what he said, using direct quotes. what a jerk.

in terms of: patient safety: shouldn't matter IF you are doing all the checks you are supposed to. and if you aren't, the two patients in one room isn't the problem, you are. this kind of goes along with medication errors... communication/confidentia...

i personally feel that there is absolutely no excuse for taking a phone order and not writing it yourself. you cannot ask anybody else to do that for you. is there anybody who wasn't taught that in school? i don't think i'd want to be a patient on th...

don't forget that in many places, you will never know when you will be getting off of work. if the end of your shift is 7:15, you may have a high chance of still being on the floor waiting for the oncoming nurses to get there or to finish getting rep...

i've noticed several differences between patient reactions to male and female nurses. the most common is with either older (think seniors) and younger (usually pedes, but sometimes well into young adult) females who are uncomfortable with males givin...

i wasn't fired from my last job (i was there only 3 months), but i left because working conditions were horrible. not having time to eat, drink, or pee, blood pressure rising an average of 30 points, hair thinning out, etc. on top of that, i have men...

i guess the meat of my question is actually this: should i be honest, or should i be positive? because it's hard to be both. is it considered okay to say "unsatisfactory working conditions"? because if i go with the honest-is-the-best-policy tactic, ...

i can't answer for anyone else at the moment, but i can say for myself that i have recently become tired of the situation myself and am actively looking to leave nursing. let me say, at the start, that i have several relatives and friends who are nur...

here's a question - my mom is an rn and works in the nursery. she once said that it was a bad idea for nurses, especially in the areas of mother-baby care, to carry their own liability insurance because often the nurses who were named in the lawsuit...

I just think that people need to be aware of the image they are giving their patients. Yes, what you look like has no bearing on your abilities as a nurse (for the most part - I refuse to believe that a nurse who huffs and puffs after a leisurely wal...

you don't see why an accountant should be financially savvy or why a firefighter should have smoke alarms in his house? really???

Wow, I guess my hospital was in the minority. We got paid 13 hours when we worked 13, but in the spring we still got paid for the full 12-hour shift, even if it was only 11 hours long.

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me: I was asked by the preceptee if I would orient her. The way it works on our floor, you have a normal patient load and the orientee begins by following you around and observing. The next day, they take 1 of y...

I thought it was pretty standard procedure to not take care of people you know personally. Not only is it awkward, as before mentioned, to have to do procedures on them (imagine having someone you know empty out your urine or collect a stool sample f...