bossynurse

can't operate a hospital of our size without a tube system. I guess if they want to pay someone to transport meds and labs all over the hospital 24 hours a day. Ours rarely goes down unless some d/a send a urine specimin without double bagging.

woops i goofed. our sysem is the same as nur2b.. It's great. the operator answers the call light and determines if its a nurse need or a tech need. We get a printed message on the pager...room 4402 needs pain med. I can just go straight to med room and not have to ask the pt what they need. The whole floor gets a page for blue alerts and bathroom emergencies.

Sometimes you just pray for an AMA!!!! Had a guy once that had a hx of heart and kidney transplant. Was admitted for "frequent falls". 1st I do not work on neuro unit I work on surgical unit but apparenty we had the only private room available. This guy was seen getting out of a car after a 1 hour disappearance from floor. He sent me down to security with a large sum of money to hold. AT 5pm I had done accucheck and given him some regular and longer lasting insulin(dont remember type and dose) Anyhoo at 1830 he isisted on another accucheck and told tech he would take his own insulin. He had apparently brought some from home and refuse to give it up. who knows what other meds he had hidden in room. I tried to tell him not to take it and why not to and he started cussing at me telling me to stay the f out of his room. Threatened to have his g/f meet me after my shift over. I recorded everything informed doc that pt may have taken own insulin but refused to tell me how much. He did same thing two night earlier. I heard the next day that night shift found him non responsive and had to inject dextrose. DUH! Next day tox screen drawn since he had left hospital day before. Positive for canibas. dcd home. the other night I found out he was found dead at home--too much insulin ! And to think that someone died waiting for a heart and someone had to die to give this idiot one.

TraumaRUs: Me thinks we work at the same facility. I live across the river from you. I don't feel like the whole catholic thing is thrown in your face. Aside from the daily morning prayer and occasional Sister walking around.

We use normal saline W-D dsgs all of the time w/ great results.

where I work, everybody (except prn and registry staff) works every other holiday. We don't get an extra day off if we work the holiday. we don't get extra pay. If you have Christmas off you work Christmas Eve. By the way this is a Catholic hospital that doesn't count Easter as a holiday, so Easter always seems to fall on my weekend to work. If you get a holiday off, it is simply one of your days off.