DaveMac

When you see tombstones on the monitor, you pray the pt is a DNR/AND/No CODE, whatever your facility may call it. Cause when you see tombstones on the monitor, you can rest assured that this pt will be getting a real one soon.

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.3 is 0.3 because .3 could be mistaken for 3. And 3.0 is 3, because 3.0 could be mistaken for 30. Most use the 4/5 split when rounding. The questions will give you the decimal they want or the instructors will. i.e. answer to the 2 decimal point. An...

First off, sorry to hear about the load that you had here. As many nurses will say, been there, done that. That does not make it better. I have left areas where this type of staffing have been the norm. With the units being so full, I can understa...

I was stopped this morning by one of the plant service men and he asked me if it was okay to have a wooden table in the OR. I told him I did not think so and not to build the table until I got back to him. I asked a couple of ICPs in other hospital...

I agree with what you wrote with the differences between an IDN and an ICN (ICP). I have had one ICP tell me that they are the same, where I work, I feel that the floor staff think that I am both. :caduceus:

Congrats. I also have learned a lot this last year.

Seems like we work at the same type of place. Where you do InterQual every 2-3 days, I was directed by the CNO (DON) to do them every day of the week, including weekends. She has hired 3 nursing students to help on the weekends. They have other jo...

ER nurses may know this one for broken bones - BATS Fracture - Broke All To ****. My favorite one is one I use in life also, learned this one while on Subs in the Navy as an ET in the Navigation Center - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. For those speci...

The day after I posted the above, I was able to find my answer and got the wood out of the OR. The next day, I was talking with a couple of nurses from the hospital where the surgeon came from and reported that the surgeon does not scrub before, be...

Yes I would. I would have to make shift my own PPEs again. As fas as the government helping, in my personnel experence with the government, that is a joke. The government is not helping the vets enough as it is, so unless we are classed as a third...

You are so right. As I stated in an earlier statement, I was assigned as an LPN supervisor over several RNs. I felt uncomfortable in this role, and left that job within a few weeks. As was said by someone else, it is the state boards nurse practice...

I was working several years ago as a part-time LPN in a nursing home. On my 3rd day of orientation on the 3-11 shift, I was approached by the DON on my way to the unit I was assigned to. She told me that I was being pulled out of orientation and ma...

I know this is late, but may help someone else. I am working toward getting my CIC (Certified Infection Control). UNC Chapel Hill has a two week course which is very good. It is done in two one week classes. Infection Control Part I and Infection ...

It sounds like the patient might have pneumonia and a gram neg infection. They may need to be placed on resp. isolation and get IV ABTx for this. Infiltrates can mean different things to different docs. Sounds like it needs to be monitored due to t...

I have ADHD and I feel like I am doing well in Nursing. Since 1977, I have always been able to be able to do my work on my unit and go to other units when called to assist. Many look at me like they can't believe that I stay caught up. With ADHD, mul...

Being overwhelmed seems to be par for the course now. I work in a small county hospital. I am a one man department. I do Discharge Planning, Utilization Review, Infection Control, and Employee Health. I am also expected to also help manage the nurs...

This nurse is now one of the house supervisors. Go figure:confused:

I went to the DON one day about a nurse who was 15 - 20 minutes late every shift. Would talk about every patient she had and other peers. It seemed to the aid and I that she went out of her way sometimes to say or do something to cause conflict. T...

Since I was a young child, I have suffered on and off from a red raised rash that comes and goes. When it comes, it also itches. Prior to being a teenager, the doc put me on a 10% sulfer solution. Needless to say when the teenage yrs started, it w...

You said it. There are good workers and lazy workers in all areas.

was i ever an aide, yes i was an orderly back in 1977. i have also been a mental health tech, rehab tech, unit clerk, transporter, and have also done the jobs while in the navy of house keeping, plant management, and emergency response, both nuclear ...

do you ever clash with your aides? several times. what about? patient care - hiding, not answering call lights, refusing to do the job. who "wins"? usually i do, sometimes they win the battle, but the war is mine. do you have friendships among your s...

I took the Discharge Planning Utilization Review job last year, March 2007. The job also includes Infection Control and Employee health. I had been assisting the DP/UR nurse for a couple of years so she could attend classes, meetings, and time off fo...