I do part time 8s, but I imagine it would completely depend on your place of work. I don't do strictly 3 8s a week, though. My schedule is more sporadic, so I might work 4 or 5 shifts one week, and then have a week or so off. I normally do 11 days a ...
We have no aids at all. As an RN, I have between 4-6 patients on days/evenings and I do every single thing for them on my shift. Vitals, glucs, meds, washing, turning, feeding, assessments, admissions and discharges, calling docs, calling pharmacy, a...
Yep, same here. Also in Ontario, and each nurse here (whether RN or RPN) has their own load of pts, no help. If you're one of the 4-5 (days) or 6-8 (evenings/nights) pts assigned to me on my shift, I do it all. Vitals, glucs, physical assessments, me...
Does your facility have/use filter needles for meds in glass vials? We were taught to use them in school, but I've never actually seen them on any floor I've been on, so I just do without.
I'm just under the 1 year mark since I started working. I've not had a chance to do compressions myself, but have been otherwise involved in 2 code situations at work, one of them being my patient who I had just rushed up to ICU cause he was going do...
Reading another thread got me thinking about this...I always get to work at least a half hour before my shift starts. Do I want to or like to work for free? Hell no! But I really don't know how else I would ever get out on the floor in time to get ev...
Wow, it sounds like things very different where I work! We are not a teeny hospital by any means, and actually a smallish regional center, with lots of pts coming from outlying areas.My floor is not so bad, as we do get more break time than our CBA a...
Also, since there is no overlap of shifts, at 0730 (or whenever my shift starts), it is me and only me who is responsible for those pts. If I don't know anything about them, what if the doo-doo hits the fan? I wouldn't know anything about their dx, c...
Do you all have overlap of shifts, or....? We don't have any overlap, so even if I only wanted to get report, I'd still have to go in a few mins early or else the previous shift would have to stay late to give me report.For those that don't do chart ...
Just to be clear, a good 90% of the nurses where I work come in early. The ones who don't are more or less skipping chart checks from what I can tell (although I'm usually too busy to really pay a lot of attention), but i think i can only name maybe ...
jrsmrs replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Nursing
In my limited experience, it's all about perspective. You can choose to focus on all the things that are wrong with people- chronic illnesses, cancer, addictions, terminal illness, loneliness in LTC, etc- or you can choose to focus on how you're work...
Can you feel your own? My submandibular nodes are always palpable, but just slightly. When I'm fighting some kind of infection, they're quite swollen and often tender.
I've heard of similar things happening to a few people in my program. If you know you're prone to this kind of thing, you need to take care of yourself and make sure you've had something to eat and drink before watching anything that might bother you...
MRSA really shouldn't be a concern for you as long as you're healthy and not immune-compromised. Lots of health care workers are carriers. MRSA precautions aren't really for you as the nurse, but so you aren't transferring it from the infected patie...
So I live in Canada, and I'd never heard of a CNA before coming here. Just curious about the roles of an RN or RPN/LPN vs a CNA. Who does what, how are patients assigned etc? Here, in hospital, a nurse gets his/her patient assignment and is on his/he...
Oooh, ok. That sounds very similar to PSWs, as they're called here- personal support workers. Here they only work in LTC, though, not in hospitals. So how many patients would an RN have then, and how many per CNA? Do you work on all floors of a hospi...
Just because it's done doesn't mean it's right. Keep a pair of gloves in a pocket at all times so that, in case of emergency, you don't have to go running for a pair.
Sorry, yes, I did mean amps, not vials. And yes, I have asked on a few different floors if they had filter needles, but they never do. As far as changing needles, if my needle has pierced anything (ie, the rubber stopper of a vial), I do change to a...
I'm just a student with no personal experience or expertise, but we were taught that most of the time, if a person had been ambulatory prior to the DVT being found, then it was likely safe for them to continue with their usual activity.
Just a guess, but I think I'd say no. IV fluids would be filtered and removed via the kidneys rather than the gut, right? So Those fluids wouldn't really help with motility. At the same time if the person is NPO they shouldn't have much in the way of...