NightOwl0624

I am wondering how other units handle their lunch breaks. I work nights, and we have extremely flexible breaks during the work shift. Most of us don't really leave the floor, just get our food and eat in the conference room. We usually have enoug...

One of my patients had a private care giver stay all night with the patient when the wife went home. Apparently the family has used private care givers for about 3 years now during the night. The one earlier in the week was decent, she didn't anyth...

I worked in two hospitals within the same system. in the large, inner city hospital, I hardly ever heard profanity by the staff. But at the small, very upscale hospital the f bombs fly constantly by the staff. I don't care if they are behind closed d...

If the sleeping newborn baby was in the same room as you, then my guess is that nurse was (discretely) assessing you too.

I had a similar situation and without going into too many details, I decided to take the high road. Six years later, I found myself in a new position, and assigned to do some work on the same unit I left - and some of the staff is still there. I am ...

Please explain how the nurse acted to escalate this? Once he changed his mind after he was discharged and iv and foley were removed, he could have gone back to the ER. Alert and oriented people are responsible for their actions.

I had to re-read the original post and to paraphrase: .... Patient politely asks for coffee. Nurse politely states she will check his fluid intake. Patient becomes irate, cussing and throwing things..... So.... Nurse has no right to refuse patient...

I agree. I'm surprised the OP isn't receiving more support from us, fellow nurses. I understand you have to pick your battles, but under the circumstances, this kind of patient to nurse abuse is not acceptable.

Meds are given late for many, mant reasons. Most of them won't even be close to being your "fault". I wouldn't be too upset about this, but you may want to think about different approaches to try to prevent it. On our EMar system, a little icon appe...

the last time something "happened" to me, it almost took an act of God to get myself a spare pair of hospital scrubs. I was literally standing there covered in someone else's vomit and was told "we don't give out spare scrubs anymore". One of the n...

Such a tragedy. So sorry for the loss and sorrow for your community.

Fair enough, but I do think managers tend to not know or forget how difficult switching shifts can be. That or they don't care. I've seen very good nurses abused this way, and I don't think they were being weeded out. They just didn't advocate for t...

Assuming she IS a good manager.... She may be clueless or likes to take the road of least conflict. i had a manager who started hiring nurses to work 2 eight hour shifts and 2 twelve hour shifts per week. The nurses working either afternoon or night...

To me, this is just bad management. On all of the floors I've ever worked, nurses would have to submit days that they did not want to work for approval, and no more than 2 nurses could put in for the same day. For long term things like school, medi...

So very sorry, what a terrible tragedy.

I'm curious too.... (I work for one of the hospitals listed). I'm not sure that I want to identify where I work on a public forum, but I'm guessing that there are pros and cons to each hospital, and a lot has to do with the manager. I like where I ...

Henry ford hires new grads but they prefer experience. Of course that means there is a high turnover on some of the units (hence the new grad syndrome). You may not be doing critical care but it's a good start.

That is AWFUL! I'm sure you really retained all that new information, too! So inconsiderate of the employer.

We are expected to schedule mandatory education on our days off, and are paid accordingly. However, they are not usually 8 hour classes. I'm guessing they would want you to use your pto in this case. If you really made a stink I'm sure they could ...

Agree! Stick to the facts! Report what you know, not what you suspect. I did report once; a nurse came to me (I was acting charge that day) and I turned it right over to the house manager. Very strange activity in our Pyxis. I never suspected anyt...

Pretty gutsy to write a paper with that title! I love it! You probably caused quite a stir among the professors! In my program, we wrote paper after paper with the general idea "BSN good; ADN bad, very very bad". No other profession would have actual...

Having a great teacher would really help! I might consider dropping the class for now and research better options if that is possible. But don't give up!! Also, When I took anatomy, I used a lot of different resources: the Internet has many site...

I'm guessing that the issue wouldn't necessarily be whether or not the person was sleeping, but to pick apart the documentation as a whole if an issue regarding the care did come up. i am grateful for your input, I will stop using "sleeping" at all i...

No one can say for sure if a person is sleeping or not. There are good fakers out there, I have done it myself on occasion. But even a 3 year old knows the signs of a person sleeping and can identify if such a person appears to be asleep. Sad that we...

If you said "patient is sleeping" I could see the problem, but I don't understand why you shouldn't say "appears to be sleeping". They might be sleeping or they might not be, but with all of our assessment skills, we can't determine if they appear to...