Well, I have been on the Med Floor since graduating in May 2007. I also worked in our ICU for 4 yrs prior to becoming a RN, and was a EMT before that. I have found it extremely hard to care for 6 Pts...
I've worked in our hospital's ICCU for 5 yrs before getting my RN license. Yeah, I knew we are short on nurses all the time and have holes unfilled. However, what I didn't see was on the Med~Surg...
Sure! Never enuff staffing, 6+ patient assignments, mandating, 1/2 the time we don't even have 1 Nurses Aide on our 7p-7a shift! never being caught up! Computer charting thats WAY TOO...
I've been a graduate since this May - licesnsed since August - all 7 of us graduates HATE nursing - and I've even worked as a Cardiac Tech in ICCU for 4 yrs and KNEW what I was getting into!
I work 3-11 pm shifts. I have tried going in early so I can get all my Kardex info and labs for my patients on my shift - but the Charge Nurse doesn't even MAKE the assignments until like 2:30 or 2:45...
I guess I was lucky in that I worked in our ICCU as a Cardiac Monitor Tech and Nurses Aide for a year before I started RN school. However, I am no an LPN and will graduate our RN program this May...
I sold mine on Amazon.com and good goo money for them. I can look up just about ANY disease online these days and get good information, S&S, etc. on them...easier, faster, and takes less space...
I know just how you feel! I'm a new LPN grad and graduate from RN school in 4 wks! YEA! I know how hard it IS to get organized at the start of my shift - esp when I have 5-6 patients! This forum...
Honestly, I don't know if they are even recording their own. Thats a good question... I think they are such a hurry to pick up the dinner trays and get back to their patients that they just don't mark...
My facility DOES have I/O sheets on the bathroom doors. However, many of our staff (Rn's too) are negligent to record info when they pick up and remove trays when I am with other patients, busy, etc....