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I've had the school dream with the final exam part too! I'll have to Google it!

Yes! I have a recurring nightmare that I did not know that a patient was assigned to me for a the whole shift, and NEVER took care of the patient the whole time! :uhoh21:

You are absolutely right about this. Many times there is a misconception that seniority automatically wins. Not true.

I work with a nurse who is anorexic and has a constant smell like this, more like rotting garbage, from vomiting all the time. It doesn't smell like vomit, it's a horrible, metabolic type of odor. Could this person possibly have an eating disorder?

:yeahthat: Thank you, that's EXACTLY everything I wanted to say, but was COMPLETELY SPEECHLESS for a minute after reading that post! Whoa! Are they kidding! Perhaps she would like to contact her local newspaper, as well!

All I can say is OMG! Don't walk, RUN AWAY! FAST! VERY FAST! GO NOW!

We still do this and we are a huge university medical center! However, for our OR scrubs, we have a Pyxsis type of machine to make sure we don't steal any scrubs! :smackingf

Ambulatory Surgery Centers are fine as long as you are in good health. They are not for people with complicated medical histories or are high risk in any way. In the event of emergency, they would call 911 and transport you to the hospital. If you are not comfortable, just let your surgeon know that you would rather have the procedure in the hospital. By the way, never be afraid to ask questions of your physician.

Every other weekend here is Friday and Saturday. We are also required to work 2 Sundays (as dayshift is required to work 2 Fridays) a month. Most people choose to do those Sundays on their weekend so as not to screw up their weekend off.:beer:

Oh, how I agree with that!

I think an emergent situation like that is a little different that the unfortunate way mandatory overtime is usually used, when adequate staffing was never provided, there WASN'T any relief scheduled, and you are just expected to stay. I believe this was the original intention of mandatory overtime legislation.

Wow, how fancy! While I haven't had to do it for a long while, I used to smash the pill inside the blister package with a Nitro bottle! No fancy pill crushers for us!

Wow, I thought only we had this problem. H&P and consent DEFINATELY required to go into the room! We are constantly getting grief for this, as if it is new or something! I'm wondering how many others have problems with patients not going to PAT requiring everything to be done on admit. Otherwise known as "my doctor told me you would do it here". We spend sooo much time time doing labs, EKG, CXR in addition to our lovely new and very time-consuming computerized charting. If the patients would just go to PAT, and the docs had the paperwork on the charts, everything would move so much faster!

In my union hospital you get time and a half if you work the holiday plus an additional 8 paid hours to take another time. If you are not working the holiday, you get 8 hours of pay.

We have a nurse where I work that used to receive a lot of gifts and things. She was brand new to our unit as well as a fairly new nurse and it just kind of made us go hmmmmm? We have two schools of thought on the subject: 1. She was sending things to herself to try to impress everyone since she was new. (She is a little nuts!) 2. She used to pull up a chair to the bedside and sit there with the patient for a VERY long time while we ran around like nuts doing her work!:angryfire 3, A combination of both! It is 2 years later now and she never gets anything anymore! Additionally, she is one of the rudest, laziest nurses that I have ever had the displeasure of working with and she is privately referred to as the "chair jockey" (since she does not get out of it, EVER!