Erianne1074

I've worked in Orthopedic Unit before and we have this Q ball esp among postop knee and shoulder surgery. Some of my patients seem to get along well with Q ball but for those who are dependent on narcotics prior surgery, they usually ask for additional pain narcotics. I guess it depends on certain patients, or a case to case basis.

[And the COO announced at a meeting with doctors that they want to get rid of the "old nurses"(not sure it was exactly worded that way) and bring in "new nurses" that can "grow with the company". I'm about to go postal!! So they thought they can manipulate new nurses right in front of their nose!!! truly unacceptable.:angryfire Without those "old nurses" or shall I say "full of wisdom nurses" there can be no good future nurses in the field!!!

75 or 265 doesn't matter. I stopped at 75 and my friend at 265, both of us passed. I trusted God on those moments of uncertainty. I hope you will too!

yes, i worked in an hca hospital. and yes, we will be handing out those colorful cards any time soon, to announce to our patients and their families that we have all the time...( i wish!!!) during the one on one interview with my manager, i told her that i always say to my patient "do you need anything else before i leave?" and it's no brainer asking that sort of question to your patient...but no,no ...she insisted that we should follow "is there anything else i can do you for you? i have time." ok fine! i'll follow the script because i am being evaluated on this role play(my manager as the patient and me as the nurse). nurses are not only caregivers, advocates, blame receivers,bellboys, shock absorbers, waitress, carpenters, electricians, customer service rep, maids, ....we are also actors and actresses..wow, hollywood here i come!

our hospital recently implemented hourly rounding. but before that we have to go through a one on one teaching session with our manager so we can go through a script on how we will address our patient every time we make rounds (a script...sounds like a play!) "is there anything else i can do for you? i have time."- this should be the exact words we are required to use before we leave patients room. (i could bring a recorder with me and play it everytime i check on my patient...hehe! ) of course, our patient are expected to be informed of this hourly rounding. and if we don't show up in their rooms or missed the due time for rounding..patient and family can write us up and complain. take note , we are to document this rounding in a piece of paper. if not our attention will be called for not documenting it. so my guess would be unrealistic documentation. why? most of the time you can be stuck in one patient for 45 mins to an hour esp when you have a needy patient. and they rarely provide us with nurse aide or techs. (can i just clone myself..! maybe clone a secretary so somebody can enter doctor's order while i do my hourly rounding). well the reason for this because they want a high score on patient satisfaction..oh yes to be recognize! how about nurses satisfaction? nah..they don't care! anybody care to react?