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We are only culturing patients that come to and transfer out of ICU for the multi-drug resistant acinobactor that has shown face to our hospital and that is it. Inless they have a history of isolation needs we isolate and culture for clearance.

Why do people randomly culture patients on admission?

When someone figures out 18 rights let me know because I have only heard of the 5.

Write about the type of nurse you want to be. Are you going to be caring and empathetic or are you going in to get a paycheck? Also think about how you will talk to patients and their family.

Littman classic se2 is the one I use and so do alot of the other nurses on my unit. The price was under $100 for it.

I support PAS, espically when the patient is alert and oriented and does not want to suffer anymore or go througha disease process that will only cause pain and suffering. Human life is valuable because we are able to make the decisions that are best for us and we need people to help support and carry out those decisions. Look at it like this - if you had a pet, be cat or dog, lying on the floor whinning out in pain, unable to eat, wetting them selves and not moving away from it because they can not move or get out side. Are you going to just let them lay there or are you going to take them to the vets and do what needs to be done so they do not suffer anymore?

Good for you. It is a major defeat, boards is something I never want to do again. So congrats.:monkeydance:

That has been our complaint all along. I work on a med-surg/cardiac icu step down unit. Primary nursing is 3-1, team nursing is 6-2. A lot of the time we have ICU appropriate patients, so even making sure that I see everyone every 2 hours is sometimes hard esp. with the team nursing.

I had a patient hang her self in the shower. She used the emergency pull cord in the shower. The worst sight I think I have ever seen.

Hourly rounding would be great if it could actually happen. I work on a very busy unit and the hospital has initiated the hourly rounding to up patient satisfaction scores. In the hourly rounding we are required to ask about pain, positioning and toileting. The fact of the matter is you can not always get to every room every hour and it has not boosted our scores at all. In fact in some surveys the patients have responded with, if you are going to ask if I hurt every hour have something for my pain every hour. Yet it has decreased the cal light use so the unit is a bit quieter.