Kayartea

Kayartea specializes in Medic, ER, Flight, ICU, Onc.

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1. Question about hospital transfer policies

   Kayartea replied to Kayartea's topic in General Nursing

   It is way too many. That is why we are trying to get it streamlined. As for why it's this way, who knows? We're a University Hospital and the process has just grown. Every new initiative has meant...

2. Question about hospital transfer policies

   Kayartea posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm currently working in Care Management and part of what I do is assist with transfers from other hospitals. Our current arrangement for accepting patients is very cumbersome, involving 3...

3. what do you say to patients...

   Kayartea replied to ceccia's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   You can also remind them that embarrassing things (some very similar) happen to people who aren't sick and it's not their fault either. Mostly it helps to just be matter of fact about

4. Epic (Nursing) FAILS!

   Kayartea replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nursing Humor

   When I was a nursing student one of my patients was wearing a Texas Rig catheter and, as is usual with those (they need to make some of the Rhode Island sized), was having difficulty keeping it in...

5. Your Pet Peeves in Nursing..

   Kayartea replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

   Putterers - people who work all the time, but never seem to be able to get anything done. Obsessors - people who make the job 50 times harder than necessary for themselves and all the rest of us if...

6. Things I have learned from being a nurse/NP (and some that required no degree at all)

   Kayartea replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   Trying reason on a patient in "Status Dramaticus" works just about as well as it does on a two year old in the middle of a temper tantrum. (Come to think of it, they are very

7. Short for???

   Kayartea replied to JDougRN's topic in Nursing Humor

   * Cardiac patients with MUH (messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking), or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again). * Stroke patients - "Charlie Carrots". CCFCCP (Coo Coo for...

8. What would you change about Nursing to make it better?

   Kayartea replied to RNman09's topic in General Nursing

   Well, yes, and no. Doctors admit patients to the hospital for the nursing care. If it's something that can be taken care of solely by the physician it's done in the office, not the hospital. Nurses...

9. Chart Audits -- I Couldn't Make This Up!

   Kayartea replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   One of my favorites was when one of our brand new foreign fellows charted in the H&P "complains of of frequency ass burning micturation". Of course, he meant associated with burning micturation....

10. What would you change about Nursing to make it better?

    Kayartea replied to RNman09's topic in General Nursing

    Push through legislation to allow billing for nursing care. As long as paying for nurses is lumped in with the bed charge we will continue to be seen as the most expensive, most troublesome...

11. Do nurses make the worse patients?

    Kayartea replied to laynaER's topic in General Nursing

    In general, I don't think nurses make bad patients, but they do make the worst family

12. Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

    Kayartea replied to KaseyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe we should track the cost of blankets and pillows and sodas to families? Much of the cost is in the dissatisfaction expressed by nurses and the plans of so many to leave the field as soon as...

13. HELP!

    Kayartea replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, but I disagree. Patient Safety was involved. Any time a nurse is too upset to do the job, or another nurse has to stretch to cover for an upset nurse, all of the patients being cared for are...

14. HELP!

    Kayartea replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    more than just reportingit you need to fill out a patient safety net (or whatever your hospital uses for reporting sentinal event and patient safety issues). the joint commission has issued an...

15. Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    Kayartea replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Are you actually thinking that acting like that will improve