Sisukas

well, this was not one of my most shining moments.......my patient had not had a bowel movement for about 6 days, best as i could figure from our i&os and the snf records of from whence he came. being the proactive yet lazy new nurse that i was, ...

The job of some nurses in our hospital is to do Quality Assurance for reimbursement...sounds as is that's what the OP does.

please, please, for the love of pete....spit out your gum!!!!!! if i want to hear snap, crackle and pop in the morning, i'll eat rice krispies. i literally could not continue my day until that was off my chest....

A nursing supervisor pronouncing a DNR patient deceased walked out of the room, shut the door, and told me in her best Munchkin voice, "not only is he truly dead, he's really most indubitably dead".

i blamed one on a dead person once:eek:....turned him on his side to wrap him, and either the pca or mr. gonetogreaterthings let one loose. since mr. g probably wasn't going to be embarrassed, i gave him the credit.

time to get one of your advanced practice nurses or a nurse educator involved. it sounds as if she has some fear/trust issues and i'm afraid that she will go to your point of view, miss something, and kick herself until next year....you need some bac...

I wasn't implying that the CNA was expected to work off the clock. I was saying that the CNA is working to help the patient, and trying not to say that I didn't care for the attitude I read in that post.

"i beg to differ. even if one is not on the clock and the person in the bathroom was ok, the cna should have at least helped or found other help for the rn. that is why they are called "nursing assistants" to help the nurse. " they are called nursing...

"It's fun until someone loses an eye. Then...Hey! Free eyeball!"

glad you've made the choice for nursing:yeah: i'm curious about your decision to be a surgical nurse, though. not that i think it's a bad, thing; god love them for doing what they do because that means i don't have to do it. it only took one observat...

another thought...do you have benefits through your retirement that would allow your wife to work per-diem? my husband carries full insurance through his job, which allows me to work pd, which really raised my salary. and with the shortage, i don't g...

yeah, i had warned her....we just underestimated how well that would work. she got the chicken ceasar salad for lunch...one of the few hospital foods that's made to order. i do treat my pcas well; and am very mindful of how their days go. i also make...

Don't assume that not having a bowel movement for 4 weeks is a normal part of pregnancy.

1. when you check the med sheets at night,if a med isn't on the pre-printed sheets, pharmacy isn't aware of the order. if you have to write it, fax it. 2. the chair is not on wheels so you can toodle around the nurses' station. get up off it, walk to...

"what's the magic word?"

as a clinical instructor for a 12 hour/day rotation...my group does not attend report. why? there's not enough room/chairs at the nurses' station; the majority of the rns are uncomfortable taking report with a bunch of white uniforms standing and/or ...

let me just throw another thought out there...if there were no nurses to care for patients during strikes, how would that affect a strike vote? when we had a strike in our area, i started wondering that for myself; (even though i wasn't part of the s...

"I don't want to work...I want to bang on the drum all day....I don't want to play...I just want to bang on the drum all day...." Todd Rundgren.

To the custody patient who drove drunk with a BS higher than 300 and didn't want that cuff on his leg..."I'm sure your friend who's taking the dirt nap right now wouldn't be complaining about a cuff on his leg". Okay, I did say it. What I wanted to s...

I know you'll remember these shifts when you're delegating to your aide in the future.....The best lesson I learned in nursing school? "The CNA's will love you when you put a patient on a bedpan; they'll kill for you when you take the patient off".

i avoid drinking fountains at all costs.....have been busted by my husband for staring at his cousin's veins over thanksgiving dinner....and often tell the pending heart attack guy at our local hockey games that i'm off duty so he'd better settle dow...

My concern for you is that you're cheating yourself. You're young, you should be out responsibly having a good time. Here's what I've learned....you can have a great time with your friends without drinking and with getting in early. My husband is in...

I agree. I will tell the person who brought the situation up to me that corrective action has been taken, but if they ask for specifics on the discipline, I tell him/her that that isn't something I can share.

"You're (re)covered well here."

I agree with everything up to half of number 5. If you are not a supervisor, you shouldn't tell the supervisor how to correct the problem. This puts you dangerously close to showing the same attitude that you are complaining about. And you are right ...