SunDazed

SunDazed BSN, RN

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  1. Thoughts On Eliminating Nurse Report

    SunDazed replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    How may times has a CHF exacerbation patient gotten IV lasix and the ED nurse can't even say if the patient voided? Any follow up on treatment? Breathing better so it must have worked. No idea if they...

  2. Thoughts On Eliminating Nurse Report

    SunDazed replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    I agree nurses need to work better between units. sometimes the phone isn’t answered because all our NAs have been pulled to be sitters on pts in the ED- so the nurses have to toilet all...

  3. Holiday Sick Calls From Self-Centered Staff

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    There is no local agency to call in this rural area. You are lucky to have that resource. Hard to overstaff when the hospital is still short staffed and busting at the seams with patients...

  4. Thoughts On Eliminating Nurse Report

    SunDazed replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    I agree 100%. Lately we have been getting some very frail, fall risk patients. How do I stay an arms length or less away from them while toileting them and still be available at any moment the...

  5. Thoughts On Eliminating Nurse Report

    SunDazed replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    Our ED has been trying new ways of speeding up admissions and the reporting process is part of that. They did the faxed handwritten for a while. It was very hard to read, it contained very limited...

  6. Holiday Sick Calls From Self-Centered Staff

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is a culture problem, for sure. The kind of rules you speak of were used in the past, until the kin care law was passed. They did help with absenteeism, but obviously did not cause a...

  7. Holiday Sick Calls From Self-Centered Staff

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    The union here does not have as much power as it would like. The last strike vote did not even get 75% turn out. The result was no strike. There are a lot of mixed emotions about what the union is...

  8. Loss of Leadership

    SunDazed posted a topic in General Nursing

    A large corporation took over our hospital a few years ago. The CNO that was brought in on contract for the transition drove out half of the directors and most of the unit managers. The same...

  9. Loss of Leadership

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    You are right. I do still care. I am in some stage of grieving. Grieving the loss of someone in leadership representing staff in the decision

  10. Holiday Sick Calls From Self-Centered Staff

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the confirmation of a difference from other places. I am a midwesterner transplant to Cali. I can't believe work is optional on a shift to shift basis for some. I think California...

  11. Patient Abandonment

    SunDazed replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Totally nuts. When I was an LPN I worked swingbed/acute on med-surg at a small, rural hospital. The other LPN who worked opposite me twice handed off comfort care patients as dying in morning...

  12. Holiday Sick Calls From Self-Centered Staff

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    Net total called in before cutoff bell is 14 nurses/nursing aids. With one additional removed by employee health for possible Covid.

  13. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

    SunDazed replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    We are a union shop. The negotiations every 2 years are usually months late getting agreement between the hospital and the nurses' union. We always vote on a strike. Sometimes it happens. Then it...

  14. I'm Done

    SunDazed replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just curious, what you are taking away from this discussion? Are you trying to change minds? Convert nurses? Gain meaningful understanding of what others struggle with during a crisis? It seems...

  15. I'm Done

    SunDazed replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think all the nurses give all the care they can... the problem is that there are not unlimited resources - vents, man hours etc... and when the beds are full the beds are full... life-saving heart...

  16. I'm Done

    SunDazed replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    are you or have you taken care of patients with covid? do you wear PPE if you do or don't? do you have the luxury of not caring because maybe you are not really at risk of getting covid...

  17. I'm Done

    SunDazed replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    you can't even visit during our new 10a-6p, 1 per pt visiting hours without proving your covid status - proof of vaccine status or recent negative swab test and guess what? doesn't matter if you...

  18. Is it really this bad every where?

    SunDazed posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have to ask myself more and more, is it really THIS bad every where? I have stayed with the same employer through the pandemic though have changed jobs twice within the organization. That speaks to...

  19. Is it really this bad every where?

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone else out of catheter kits? We use BARD indwelling catheter/foley kits. Word from one supervisor is that BARD will not be able to supply more until after the new year, Jan 2022? So we...

  20. Fifty-Seven, Bored, and at a Crossroads - Am I too old to return to school?

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I agree with Nurse Beth in weighing out the costs, and especially looking around to see if anything you would want to get more education in would be valued AND provide an opportunity in your...

  21. Is it really this bad every where?

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that every job has the potential to have burrs that continually nag at the position being really great or near perfect. One thing I am curious about is what the crazy is elsewhere. Travelers...

  22. Hoping They're Not the Last Words

    SunDazed replied to JBMmom's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have worked many more 12's than scheduled but I would have trouble doing a 16 and being good for anything the next day! One good thing about the union contract is no mandating (... yet). But then we...

  23. Hoping They're Not the Last Words

    SunDazed replied to JBMmom's topic in Disaster Preparation

    16 hour shifts? How many shifts a week!?

  24. Why some nurses use the word "endorsement"?

    SunDazed replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    One place I worked, the use of "endorsed to the next shift" seemed to be a more politically correct way to say "Didn't get that ordered intervention done, passed it on to the next shift to do..."...

  25. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I see your point... but nurses also benefit from the competition.... look at the travel nurses leaving gigs for better gigs. Or the full time hires that are leaving for travel