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Totally agree, what was the lockout dose on the PCA?

Thats not exactly true, I've done alot of training r/t and your patient should talk to an experienced elder law/estate planning lawyer. Also many people who go past the 100 days either self pay for additional services, or get services through the sta...

Good for you! Sometimes good things come from bad.

when I worked on geri-psych we took patients with dementia all the time, it seemed if someone with a medical dx had a comorbidity of dementia they ended up on our unit. But each geropysch unit has their own criteria about who is appropriate for that ...

Just venting... I heard a commercial this morning that aggravated the heck out of me. My state will be voting to add safe staffing measures to the upcoming ballot. The commercial was to the effect of "Don't vote for safe staffing, it will cost healt...

It would be interesting to know how many patients were referred to her by other doctors, and how many patients self-referred, I'm sure some who saw the videos probably considered her as a "down to earth" doctor who was "fun", but ignorance is bliss. ...

Find another doctor... Has he had any exposure to ticks? may be worth testing for tick borne diseases

I trained and worked as a Surgical Tech, and very interesting that if the people who were gowned and gloved in the 10 seconds of video I saw were actually involved in the surgical procedure because they violated sterility up down and sideways. The on...

And it also has to be factored in that patients ard much more acute than they were years ago. These days, and in the span of my career, unless you'rd a self paying plastics patient, you have to be pretty sick to get admitted to a floor

In my time on my current unit I can count on one hand the number of lunch breaks I've gotten.

I agree with Libby, checking her back and neck would have taken at most a couple of minutes, just lifting the shirt and hair, but that also would not have been a thorough check... The original tick was on her leg, why check just the back and neck tho...

At my facility we wear gloves when giving meds, but one pair as the package is opened into the med cup. OP your hospitals policy is excessive and makes me think that either they have a pending lawsuit from an employee who was exposed to some med (ora...

Exactly... and my facilty has required staffing levels BUT I wouldn't call them SAFE staffing levels... BTW, the poster who wrote about nurses making gads of money. I've never broken over the mid-forties/yr as a nurse. I know some make who do make bi...

If I had the millions of dollars required to produce, make, and air a commercial? Sure.

I think the terminology I saw was "chronically understaffed hospital" and relates to the CoPs through medicare and medicaid. Just google medicare and chronic understaffing, it should bring links that mention it.

I'm not sure about links, I'll hunt around. What I have seen clearyly with my own two eyes were notices put up at several hospitals in the "legal info" area (where they put required labor notices from the state, etc) saying that if a hospital was "co...

This is one from my rescue days. We went mutual aid to another town and an older lady had ruptured varicose veins in her leg and had lost a huge amount of blood, because of our department then having multiple rescues we had to mutual aid a second par...

My favorite compliment came from a coworker who was a total type A, perfectionist, anal, kick-♧♧♧ nurse. One day after a long hard in the trenches sort of shift he said to me "I could be sick around you". Now he had said about other people, if ...

If the order does not have a range, such as give 1 to 2 tablets per patient request you cannot give it, that would put you in the realm of prescribing the med and unless you have prescriptive authority, even if the patient requests it. If you are not...

Its crazy... I'd love to see those nurses have to work a month on a busy floor with the current staffing levels, they'd last maybe a week and complain about their full bladder, yet its a reality that we often go without breaks, lunches, or even a tw...

But when I worked here in LTC/subacute we might have 40 or 60 patients per nurse.

I don't know. My speculation would be they don't want "official legislation" muddying the waters, such as a government body deciding what is a safe level. I'll research it.

The sad thing is medical/nursing errors ard NOT seen as preventable, but are accepted as status quo. I can say I felt I was a much better nurse with 4 patients (high acuity unit) than I was with 5, 6, or 7 patients.

I think that is what annoyed me, the commercial would lead the average person to believe that staffing levels are decided on the floors by the nurses doing the care. Yet medicare is reducing payments for unsafe staffing levels.

one other thing to think about if you have a common name or an easily misspelled name (as is my case) that its possible they could have googled or something and came up with the wrong info... But the hiring manager being mute about it makes me wonder...