danielleRN76 replied to whealer's topic in Forensic
We have 5 SANE nurses at my hospital. We have a calendar that we sign up for the days that we want to take call. We generally take 24 hour shifts, but sometimes take 12 hour shifts. We get paid $3 an...
Way to go for following through. You'd be surprised how accurate our gut feelings really are. I hope that she isn't being abused by her father, but something sounds not quite right. Nurses are in such...
danielleRN76 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC
OOOh, I have a few good ones back from my years in LTC. This one cute little lady, I got her washed up for the night, into bed, and I pulled the covers up nice and neat over her, she looked at me so...
danielleRN76 replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency
OOOOh, yesterday... Hypothermia 7 y/o Mom states she has had a fever for 5 days, tonight checked temp at 0300 it was 96.8 so I wrapped her up in warm blankets and brought her in.. um hello, maybe your...
danielleRN76 replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency
Our documentation system has a pull down menu where we can see all of their visits and notes from each visit after 2004. we have a FF who came here last night for her 37th visit in 2007, plus we found...
danielleRN76 replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing
I would still work, but definately not full time nights! I love being a nurse, can't imagine not doing it at all, but not feeling the financial stressors would make my life so much
Where I work there are a variety of shifts. In the in pt units it's a mix of 8 and 12 hour shifts. Usually if you work 12's you do 3 a week for 36 hr full time. I had a hard time at first adjusting to...
danielleRN76 replied to KaminoAcid's topic in General Nursing
A lot of places will require you to be on a rotation of some sort. Most will accept a day eve rotation. Most hospitals that I amfamiliar with actually have a harder time filling evenings than nights...
danielleRN76 replied to TooterIA's topic in Emergency
When I worked on the telemetry unit, we used it for all our order entry, Emar, labs, basically everything except the bedside notes, and bedside assessments. The admission was through meditech and the...
There's a nurse that I work with that tells us in report that a pt is alert and orientated times three. Makes my skin crawl!!! my other pet peeve, is heighth. Oh look we are about the same heighth!...
danielleRN76 replied to danielleRN76's topic in Emergency
The triage nurse took the hx, I was just kinda observing for this one since I am still on orientation. We went into the room where the pt was crying and stating she had been bleeding huge dark clots...