Jennifernsammy

Well- you should be ASHAMED of your unprofesional behavior- all I have to say is................................................BANZI!!!!!!! YOU GO GIRL~!!!!!!!!!! Nurses are know for their "unusual" sense of humor...I got a laugh out of it. And don't feel guilty- if you could break it, chances are a patient/resident could/would do the same. Look at it like you saved the facility from a HUGE lawsuit by testing the equipment and finding it to be unsuitable for thr rigors of a hospital/nursing home floor. They should be THANKING you.

YYEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! What I would give for a primip to come in with one of those- TO TO wonderful. I hope she breezed through things like a champ. It made my day!

HI- I'm not a part of any organized religion, but I also say a prayer for any of my patients who expire under my care. I do it in my head, and would never dream of trying to inflict my beliefs on a family at that time.Nursing attracts careing,nurturing people- It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of nurses have some way of saying goodbye to their patients.It's the same thing as refusing to let one of my patients die alone. I've done all of my shift paperwork at a patients bedsidemore than once. If death is imminent, I do everything I can NOT to let that person die alone.It just doesn't feel right to me. As far as people being upset about a prayer being said over them, perhaps if you added "conditionally" :chuckle like they do baptisms.....

Well, unfortunatly, that's the way it is in our hospital, so I don't see it being that far of a stretch for another area hospital doing the same thing. Bad hospital policy???Heck yea, but I don't have any say in the matter. I was just upset that as nurses we get used to "Sending it up the chain of command," and figure we are covered.

Yes, if you have a PCA or epidural. But in our hospital (as well as the one we are talking about) Morphine gtts. are put on a regular IV pump. There is a "lockout" button on the back, but it's only a toggle switch, used for grabby confused patients.And it says "Lock Out" above it. I'm thinkin if he's smart enough to get through med school, he could figure out a toggle switch marked like that. WE don't usually use that lock out option at our hospital.

I have a problem that I neded your opinions on-First, let me say that what I'm about to describe DID NOT happen to me, or in the hospital where I work. I was talking to another nurse who works FT in a nearby hospital, and occasionally with us. At her FT job, she is a Charge Nurse of a med/surg floor days.Last week her floor got a patient who was a DNR.This patient was an elderly lady who's family agreed to comfort care. She was placed on a morphine drip and trans. out of the ICU, to the floor to let nature happen. The pharmacy sent the 50ml bag of NS with 50 ml morphine for a 1ml/hr drip around 1230. The patient got to the MS floor around 1430ish. The patient's family was there. The granddaughter was there, along with her MD boyfriend. I do not know who this MD is (the nurse wouldn't tell me his name), but apparently he is known to that hospitals' staff- I got the impression he might have been employed there at some time, but isn't now???(Loss of privelages??) So- Grandma gets settled in, and the boyfriend/MD approaches her nurse and states "Can we get her a morphine bolus to speed things along?" She directs him to the CN, who immediatly tells him NO, and calls the supervisor to let her know what was said. The boyfriend/MD insists on speaking with the attending MD, who just happens to be inhouse at the time. Again, the boyfriend/MD asks if he can order a bolus to "Hurry things along." The attending calls the CN, asks how the patient is looking- Cn tells him resps are 8/minute and pt. doesn't appear to be in any pain. Attending Doc says OK, keep everything the same, NO BOLUS ordered.The family and Boyfriend are made aware. Approx. 1/2 hr later, the call light goes on- BF says "She needs another IV bag, cause this one is EMPTY"- There should have been at LEAST 40 ml of NS/morphine left in the bag.Supervisor and Attending MD are called, up the hospital chain of command it goes, hospital lawyer gets called in, EVERYONE has to submit an incident report. The CN puts right in hers that she felt the bf/MD did it.Now here is where It gets even worse. The administrators/lawyer orders the pump taken out of the room.It isn't saved for the police. Either is the IV bag. The hospital tells everyone involved that they will handle it internally, and NOT to speak about it.The lady had severe liver damage to begin with, and didn't die for several hours.Am I wrong, or is the hospital trying to cover up a possible attempted murder? Aren't they bound by law to alert the police?? Isn't that "Elder abuse" if nothing else, and a state reportable incident? The pharmacy was contacted and made aware that 40 mgs of morphine is gone.Don't they have to account for controlled drugs? And what about this MD?? I really don't like the idea of someone like that being around patients.Obviously the hospital will try to cover it's own buttocks, but what about the poor nurse who had the patient. Couldn't she get in trouble because 40 mg of morphine is missing? What about the other RNs involved. Couldn't they have problems with their liscenses, ect. if it comes to light that they knew about a possible felony, but never called the police/nursing board ect.? Don't they have a legal responsibility to alert someone about this possible murdering Doc.? I was floored that she didn't seem concerned about those things. She felt that because she reported it to the hospital, she is covered. But if a patient is suspected of being abused and they are child/elderly the nurse HAS TO REPORT IT, even if it turns out not to be true, they are still mandated to report it. How is this ANY different?? What would you have done? I urged her to contact a lawyer-better to be safe than sorry.

I totally agree- Our hospital just put in the alcohol sanatizers, while I found them really easy to use, they are awfully drying- Bath and Body works puts out an antibacterial hand gel that has little beads of moisturizer in them- My hands feel so nice, I don't need to put on the added lotion. :kiss