Kayartea

Kayartea

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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  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

  16. Would like some advice on assaultive client

    Kayartea replied to 2batty2care's topic in General Nursing

    This person is creating a hostile work situation for you and your employer is required by federal law to protect you from it. Whether it means finding other placement for that patient or paying you...

  17. RN Salary survey

    Kayartea replied to RNnurse07's topic in General Nursing

    Hem/Onc AR On salary, but it breaks down to about $37.91/hr. 8-4 M-F, I work every 5th weekend and an occasional holiday. State job, so lots of holidays, vac, and sick

  18. Bad Day!!!

    Kayartea replied to Magsulfate's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, but just wanting to wash your hands of it is one of the reasons such behavior has been allowed to continue in the work place for so long. Report it. Actually, you can report it anonymously...

  19. Bad Day!!!

    Kayartea replied to Magsulfate's topic in General Nursing

    your nm had better re-think her actions in cases like this, as she is responsible for such on her unit. the joint commission has issued an alert on bad behavior among health care professionals...

  20. Are 12 hour shifts safe?

    Kayartea replied to psychnurse1998's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    While most nurses prefer 12 hr shifts for their convenience, more than one study has shown that the rate of errors increases in the last four hours of a 12 hr shift. But then there have also been...

  21. Male considering career change seeks advice

    Kayartea replied to Lake201's topic in General Nursing

    Not completely on point, but very informative anyway, see the article "Care and Chaos on the Night Nursing Shift In a Search for Purpose, An Editor Changes Careers; 'He's Asking for You Again'"from...

  22. Advice for job change

    Kayartea replied to Dempather's topic in General Nursing

    I have made many changes in my career, some great, some not so great, but I'm glad for all of them. Every one added something to my resume, my career, and my life. Don't know who said it, but there...

  23. The Doctor said WHAT?

    Kayartea replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps it's time to stop choosing our battles so carefully. Doing so hasn't made any great changes in the nursing culture as far as I can see. No MD would allow a nurse to get by with critiquing...

  24. A doctor asking you to give him a cup of coffee!!

    Kayartea replied to Shantas's topic in General Nursing

    Normally I would say just get the guy a cup of coffee, but since he makes a point of being rude to nurses, in this case I would have just said, "I don't know, you need to check with your

  25. Ethics: Does it bother you when people are in nursing to make money?

    Kayartea replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    You said it. Adding to your comments...loving your job still doesn't make it a calling, anymore than an architect that loves his job or an engineer that loves his. And no one would even consider...