SweetnurseS

SweetnurseS

New Member
  • Content

    8
  • Visitors

    1,329
  • Followers

    0

About SweetnurseS

New RN, LPN for 13 yrs

Latest Activity

  1. Med-Surg Topic of the Week .... Nurse to Patient Ratios

    I work on a 20 bed med/surg floor where we have one charge nurse who works days 6:30 to 3 mon thru friday. We work 12 hr shifts. Our patient ratio varies depending on the census. Usually we have around 15 patients most days. Our average is 3 prima...
  2. Change of shift report

    Also....Starbuck, that sounds like something that might work. I'm thinking if we all had a copy of the worksheet to follow when we give report. You could tell me how yours is set up? Thanks. I appreciate all these ideas.
  3. Change of shift report

    I was asked by my manager to see if we could come up with a better solution to give and take report. That is the reason why I started this post. We also have bedside charts. 3rdshiftguy do you use kardexes? I am wanting to eliminate some of the s...
  4. Hello - What state are you from?

    Another Mainer here. I live in central Maine, north of Bangor. I work as an RN in a small rural hospital on a medical surgical floor with 26 beds.
  5. Change of shift report

    I'm looking for ideas on shift report. Currently where I work we tape report. I feel this works the best for us as we used to have verbal and took too much time. Wondering what others do and looking for ideas to improve report. TIA
  6. Team Nursing-

    Years ago the small rural hospital where I've worked for 15 yrs. did team nursing. About 8 years ago they changed to primary nursing with a charge nurse. I prefer primary nursing as I usually have 4-5 patients, I am responsible for baths, feeding,...
  7. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

    I work in a small rural hospital and my own physician happened to be on this weekend. When she saw one of my patients and wrote this order "humidified oxygen to liberate sputum" the respiratory therapist and I couldn't help but laugh! We asked h...