Estella

I've read on the board a lot of comments about nursing conditions being in need of change. With the shortage, the baby-boomers coming of age--and old age-- and nurses being a hot commodity, are there any suggestions to help either draw non-practicin...

Hey Bewbew! Congratulations! You're going to start a journey of a lifetime! May the sea be calm enough to keep you happy, and choppy enough to keep you on your toes! God Bless! Estella

Hello, In our hospital netowrk we have a Corporate Integrity Hotline and a Corporate Ethics contact person. The hotline allows us to report unethical behaviors we observe in the workplace. I've seen it work, mainly to the benefit of the network, bu...

Hi! We have a nutritionist and pharmacist working together on a daily basis to keep the lipid levels r/t diprivan and TPN usage. When tube feeds start, they reevaluate the lipids there, too, just to be sure the pt isn't getting way too much fat. (We...

Hi Youda, Thanks for replying. My Community Oriented Nursing instructor is a member of the ONA and the president of our district. I attended their meeting just last Thursday with a classmate, who works at the same hospital I do, and one that is in...

I hear you. How do we change things? How do we make our importance known? Without nurses, people die from lack of care, or from the care regime prescribed by some of the doctors if a nurse isn't there to put it to a screeching halt. Most people ...

Hi everybody, I guess I'm still new enough to remember when I watched medical TV and it made me want to be there! Now that I'm on the front line in a Coronary Care unit, it's so much better! If you want a laugh: for my BSN leadership course the ins...

In 1997 my hospital passed JCAH with a 100% rating. To celebrate, each employee was sent an overnight bag with "100%" printed on the side, a gift card for a video store, and a custom woven lap blanket with a quote from the man the hospital is a memo...

Hi! I was a new grad, starting off in a Coronay Care Unit about three years ago. Diprivan/conscious sedation is one of those grey areas in class that they never really get into, because most nurses won't be using it. One thing I did learn was to l...

I'm in total agreement with all who have said "You don't have to take it!!!" An "Assignment Against Objection" form may do wonders if you are ever assigned a patient with a history of abusing nurses, among other things. If your agency/unit doesn't h...

I had a similar, but worse situation when a doc came in on a weekend "plastered." He started rambling orders that made no sense, and were potentially harmful. I had the Unit Service Coordinator call the nursing supervisor in our hospital to come ch...

I was a nursing assistant on a general surgery floor when this happened. It was only my second week! An elderly man had abdominal surgery, and had been complaining of gas all day. "Just can't get it to move...." My nurse assured me that if he moved...

Do you suppose JackAsspirin is effective against headaches caused by doctors?

I just don't want to think about how it must have smelled the following morning!!!!!! :imbar :imbar :imbar Sounds--literally--like my father-in-law!!! LOL :chuckle :roll :chuckle *

I wonder if this will change where we go when we have time to order out for lunch!!!! Thanks so much! Love it! :rotfl: :imbar :chuckle :wink2:

I agree, the method that is being used in your unit seems much shakier than the method my schoo/hospital used. Another part of the instructor relationship was that all the instructors at my school once worked for or currently worked in the hospital ...

I think my charge nurse's response was, "Nothing you won't be experiencing if you don't get here STAT!" Oh, what a night!

Last July we had a new white bird sit in a corner of a patient's room reading "The Hobbit" while we coded his patient. His attending walked in as we asked if we could call it. I think that white bird got pan-fried after they made it back to the re...

Hello New CCU RN, In our clinicals we were assigned to a nurse, who was directly responsible for the patient care, but allowed us to participate. Our clinical instructor came around once a clinical to check on us, talk with our preceptor, who I gues...

The last 6-weeks of clinicals I did before graduating with my ADN were in the unit I now work in. The "good" preceptors were the ones who stayed with me the whole time. We assessed together, left earshot and discussed what I would document, what it...

I'm an RN in a CCU in Dayton, OH with three years of experience, in the same unit. Right now, I'm making $18.05 per hour, NO benfits, part time, two 12-hour shifts per week. Next week my status will change to "resource" (prn help) with a contract t...

Hey, Micro! I work in a CCU, but we get tons of pulmonary patients. Just this past Tuesday I had the joy of extubating a patient no one thought would fly and she not only flew, but she was up walking aroung the room and up in the chair eating dinner...

The hospital I work in is also a teaching facility. When the "Momma duck and baby ducks" are waddling around our CCU, they have the same habit of blocking patient doors, walkways, and even our medication area. (Do they have a class for that, along ...

I have only been an nurse for three years, all in a Coronay Care Unit. Please don't let the name fool you, we get every kind of patient. My first experience with proning involved a very large gastric bypass pt who developed ARDs. We used donut pillo...