Jennerizer ASN, RN

Shawn - stop beating yourself up. Patients are going to fall. It's a fact of life. The only reason administration cares now is because Medicare won't pay for any costs associated with it. Go back 10 yrs & most hospitals weren't even using bed...

Sounds like you both had a bad day. My best advice is to not dwell on it. Not every nurse likes being assigned a student. Don't take it personally. And don't allow one person to get to you the way she has. Learn from it & move forward.

You are not a horrible nurse. Some doctors are big babies that have social deficits. You are an advocate for your patient. Not for the lazy doctor that forgot to write a script. I think what you did was perfect...contacted the MD who was in the h...

I don't think you did anything wrong at all. We don't d/c the drip just because they convert to NSR. There should be parameters within the initial order...like notify MD when heart rate less than 70 or SBP less than 100. I can't stand nurses who ...

It happens to the best of us, but I'm sure it won't happen again. Let the guilty feeling go. You're not a robot, you're human & the patient is fine.

I'm not even sure what you are talking about.

You can't even really blame admin because it's our govt that came up with these unrealistic patient satisfaction surveys in which the hospital always loses money because it is impossible to achieve perfection in healthcare when the survey is based on...

I get what you're saying. I see it all the time. Nurses these days are viewed as personal assistants rather than medical professionals. I was admitting a patient last night and during the assessment, the family member kept interrupting because they...

New nurses in Florida make around $20/hr...sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the county. Keep in mind though...we have no state income tax. The tourists pay that. 😁

Volusia county/Daytona Beach is one of the lowest paid counties in the state for nursing.

Had a male patient ask me to wipe his butt clean while he was on the toilet. He was perfectly capable of doing this himself, but he seemed to enjoy having a female do it. I told him I would get our male pct to help assist him. Suddenly he didn't n...

It's another one of those things that looks good on paper because JCAHO is pushing for 80% of hospital employees to be vaccinated. These hospitals that are firing employees for not complying...makes me wonder if everyone in administration is also un...

My hospital only pays 10% more to work on a holiday. I'm sure if it were time & a half, they'd have more than enough volunteers. I managed to get all of Thanksgiving & Christmas off, but am working all of New Years.

The hospital I'm at doesn't have much of a code team. An ICU nurse and a respiratory therapist. Your fellow nursing staff is the team & it is run by the charge nurse. No doctor ever shows up. We are all required to be ACLS certified.

My first semester professor had approx 6 months floor experience before it overwhelmed her & she went running into the education dept for a job. Regardless, she was a good teacher even though she couldn't handle actual patient care. It's not fo...

I switched doctors after seeing how rude mine was to the nursing staff....all the time.

A lot of the hospitals here in Florida are getting rid of the patient care techs....so if you plan on being a nurse, you better make sure you're ok with doing a lot of what a typical CNA would do for the patients. I can understand why turn over is h...

I'm with you....off-duty is off-duty. Once I was having dinner & noticed someone choking. Luckily the waiter was right there and did the heimlich & all was fine. Another time while on vacation, I was on the beginning of a 2-day train trip ...

Mine started in 1865 and called itself a health reform institute, later to be renamed Battle Creek Sanitarium. It was where one of the doctor's brother's decided to focus on nutrition and that is where & why Kellogg cereal was invented!

It used to be the drug of choice until one of our hospital administrator's relatives died after being given 2 mg. For awhile we rarely saw it ordered, but it's starting to be ordered more and more...at smaller doses though.

Yes, HCAPHS surveys. That's all we hear about day after day....gives me a headache. Makes me dislike our govt even more than I already do.

Florida Hospital is attempting primary care nursing and have eliminated techs from many of their units....thus the reason there are a ton of open RN positions. It's a good organization.

We used to get nothing! Now all of a sudden we're getting 1 hour of pay for every 4 hours we are on call.

I believe night shift teaches you better time management skills and prioritizing. You basically have 3 or 4 hours to do the majority of your hands on/bedside nursing tasks. Most patients want to go to sleep at a decent hour, so you're a little more...

The job security and financial freedom make me say yes, the direction healthcare is taking due to Medicare not reimbursing the hospital for it's services unless the majority of patients are delighted with their hospital visit...no. I'm not burnt ou...