midwestvintage replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in General Nursing
Over 36 years I have been in hundreds of codes and love a well run one. I have been in some that were horrible, doctors screaming and missing supplies to ones that almost seemed like a demostration...
We have been asking for the official policies on our floor for years, still have not received. tonight I had 2 patients getting blood, they wanted to send me 3 surgicals. I had a total of 15...
Nope, I am the only staff member. No cna's or anything. They want me to call NS to come check the blood for me and have the house CNA go get the blood. I talked to them about it again yesterday and...
I work on a outpatient ambulatory Infusion center. We do outpatients antibiotics, blood transfusions, wound care, PICC lines, small surgeries, bone marrow biopsies and post op surgicals. sometimes...
midwestvintage replied to ajt575s's topic in General Nursing
Our floor is always short and they have a hiring freeze. We are being mandated daily to work 12 to 16 hour shifts. It is killing my floor and a lot of nurses have left. Personally 16 hours is too...
midwestvintage replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing
I have been at the same hospital for almost 27 years but have worked in many different departments, med surg, ortho, ICU, oncology, resource team, house manager, Peds/ OB, post coronary care where I...
Valued by the nurses I work with 100 %, Patients 75%, administration, 0% As a nurse with 27 years experiance and being at the top of my pay scale I have to be really careful because they would love...
midwestvintage replied to CrystalClear75's topic in General Nursing
Did 3 - 11 for years but now that my kids are grown and gone love my 7p -7a shift. No baths, few visitors, few doctors, no managers or administration. I get every other week off and have no trouble...
midwestvintage replied to Simplepleasures's topic in General Nursing
We have a union but it is not a nursing union. They have done nothing to address nurse patient ratio, forced working 1/2 hour later even without a break, working part of your holiday off, and...
midwestvintage replied to wellstar's topic in Cardiac
Our unit protocol for CP R/O MI pt is O2 one nitro, stat EKG, can repeat the nitro up to 3, call Doc. They usually call back quickly but if pt really crumping we have a rapid response team we can...