Leng27RN,BSN

On our facility cancellation do not have rotation, if you are the less senior you are the 1st one to be cancelled and floated.......which I do not like at all, and seems to be unfair. Does not matter if you are full time or part time, if the part time people are more senior than you, you get to be cancelled even if you are full time, this is a unionized hospital!. As a new grad how are you going to learn and earn money as well!

However, most of the nurses said that it usually gets low on summer and it picks up too. Our floor is so unpredictable it gets low today and later we would be full again like in a day the floor woule be full. There are times when our ER, ICU, and Tele would be not busy too so the census are low this time on summer. I just feels like new people on the job gets to be cancelled and that is sad. If they would make it "take turns" when being cancelled I would feels sad when I am already a senior and have been working there for more than 10Yrs.

Yeah, they experienced the same thing here on this hospital and on other hospital they worked for.

I think they already raised that during the union meeting but no change, i feel so sad about that... I just have to accept that fact i guess...and the longer i stay the higher my seniority becomes.

Thank you so much for all the replies. I am really okay with floating rather than be cancelled. I guess that comes with work and as my other co workers said they have experienced the same thing when they were new and as their seniority went up, they were never cancelled as much as before. I love nursing!!!! It is hard work but a definitely great and fulfilling job.

Hi everyone, I am a new grad and has anyone experience of being called from work saying that your shift is cancel because of low patient census? That is kind of sad you know, because you want to learn and work, and as a less senior nurse you get to experience that. Some of my coworkers said that they had the same experience when they started like not only work being cancelled but also a lot of floating and now they have been working for 15+++ years. Also, in our unit Med/Surg, our census is unpredictable, low census now but an hour later it would be full again on our unit. Also, our manager tries to schedule as many nurses in one shift which they dont need and as a result the new nurses end up being cancelled. It is just sad. Being cancelled and floated to other unit. Is that the same with other hospitals or facility? Any advise........ Thanks

Thank you so much for giving your opinion, i'll try to look it up some more, it was just for my mini care plan, and i was just wondering about it just in case i encounter the same thing on my "real big" care plan. Thanks again.

Is chronic renal insufficiency the same as chronic kidney disease? I was kind of confused. Thank you.

Hi, i already searched the database and found a lot of info about sepsis, and i just needed the right keywords :chuckle. Augigi, I emailed you some info you are asking. Again thanks for all your help. I just needed enough info to gather so its easier for me to do the careplan. Thanks for sharing all the websites and resources you guys know, thanks.

Hi, this is for my careplan and i am tying to look for treatment, and also the drugs used and anything that would help me with the careplan. I found a website "emedicine" it talked about sepsis, bacterial. It seems that its hard to find info about just "sepsis" and not severe. I have to do a careplan and my instructor gave me lab values to also figure out what meds are to be used. Is there any resource specific to urosepsis or just sepsis. my intstructor told me to use "sepsis" as the primary diagnosis. Thanks.

I went to that website and it mentioned severe sepsis. I am confused if urosepsis is severe sepsis already or just sepsis and does not have any organ dysfunction? I know that there are classifications such as sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. I was trying too look for a source that is specific to urosepsis, some sources i found talked about sepsis in general. Please help. Thanks

Hi, does anyone of you guys know good resources like a website i could go to find information about urosepsis. I looked at pubmed, emedicine online, cinahl,etc and also i've search google and still did not find a good source and some of the articles either won't open or is a good article but not in English. I am doing this for my careplan. Thanks in advance

Hi, i need help with this case my instructor gave use. A patient who has spinal cord injury has not voided for 6-8 hours, it is a medical injury, what do you call that medical injury and what would you do? When doing my research i came across spinal shock and AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA. Could the patient be having AD? i am not so sure with my answer if it is right , please someone help me if i am on the right track. Unfortunately that is the only info my teacher gave and no specifics. THank you in advance

I have no more information other than a spinal cord injury patient who has not voided for 6-8 hrs, which is a medical emergency, and my instructor is asking what kind of medical emergency is that? and what to do with the patient. AD is a complication of a spinal cord injury. I am confused right now.please help. Thanks.

There is one more thing, my classmates are thinking it is autonomic dysreflexia, because our intsructor is asking about a medical emergency that needs to be treated immediately? What do you guys think? Thanks.