JBizzleRN ADN, RN

I am currently finishing up on an assigment that I took with a friend of mine. Both of us are ICU nurses. We didn't have a problem getting a job because of being a "team", we had trouble because she had traveled before and this was my first run. We a...

Fair? Lets talk fair. I put in a transfer to the ICU from my med/surg floor. Well to start with my manager offered me a day PCC position, I refused and told her I just wanted to transfer. Two days later I call HR to see if they ever got my transfer p...

Nurses get paid more. Nurses have more responsibilities Nursing is more demanding Nurses can do respiratory therapy's job Nursing is always in high demand. Don't get me wrong I love and appreciate every one of my respiratory therapist. However they...

In our hospital we cannont disconnect an iv w/o a drs order. . even to go down for tests.

Really? Every 7 days? Our hospital is still on the every 96 (every 4 days) protocool.

Okay here is a senario: On our Med/Surg floor it is normal to have 7-9 patients (yeah crazy), but whatever. So let's say you have eight patients...it's you and a nurse RIGHT out of orientation on the floor. You have no tech, you have no secretary. Y...

In southern Mississippi at a public hospital. Yeah it does suck more than I can even say..

Nobody is ready to come out orientation. It's a scary place, but remember you have people there you can ask for help and ask questions. When in doubt call the doctor :) that's what he gets paid for! Just stick it out. :nuke:

My usual routine: 1) Make walking rounds and see if they need anything then. Also if I got a good report from the previous nurse I go ahead and do my shift assessments. If I got a crappy report I'll go check the chart and then come back to do my asse...

HAHA...and get a free wax job if you aren't careful

Oh it's not like that in every hospital I wouldn't think, just ours :) They don't use travel nurses because that's what they have the "float pool" for. But when you only have 6 nurses in the float pool trying to cover the hospital's staffing shortage...

Yes, Mississippi...LPNs? I WISH....CNA'S we are lucky to have one for all 33 patients on the floor.

IV teams! Oh my that would be a dream.. With our 8-9 pts we start or own IVs and we have to draw our morning labs..so needless to say we get plenty of that experience.

Did you take it manually or was it with a machine? Either way if it was truly 40 that is considered a critical blood pressure...So you could have called the MD or put the dynamap on the patient set it to every 5 minutes and see if the blood pressure ...

Does it every aggravate you that someone on your unit answers the call light, and one of your patients wants to "see the nurse." You get there and they want pain medicine, or nausea medicine or a pillow or a blanket...so you have to make more trips a...

If I can just tough it out for a few more months I'll be fine. I look at it this way, if I can survive here I can probably survive at any hospital haha. And then I just think about moving off the Med/Surg floor to a telemetry floor or the ICU. All of...

I feel you on the tear in the front of the pants! I was pulling a patient up in bed and had my stance just a little too wide, and up went the patient and rip went the pants. Well went to the bathroom on my lunch break and used some sutures to repair ...

Why yes, I am still working there. Mainly that I am under contract with them until June of next year. It's the same situation all over again... had 8 patients... had to give six units of FFP, two units of PRBCs, trach patient that had to be suctions ...

Bluffing? Maybe, however the same situation happened on the Telemetry floor. The nurse took the 8th patient, then put in her resignation that next day. They didn't let her work her notice out just told her not to come back.

So for 4 months now I've had a monkey on my back about our hospitals Blood Consent form. On the form is states that you can contract AIDS from a blood transfusion. This really burns my biscuits as this is a falsehood on an informed consent. You canno...

I was the charge nurse, our charge nurse has full patient loads here..

Wow, you people make me jealous. Myself and another nurse rotate weeks of being the charge nurse and we still get full patient loads when we are in charge. And I mean FULL patient loads 8-9pts/rn on a 33 Med/Surg floor.

So the other night I had this lady who kept calling out for Phenergan, however when I went into her room she was chowing down on doughnuts and chips, so I refused to give her the Phenergan until she threw that stuff away. Anyway, came back out to the...

Thanks. That was my thinking but I wasn't for certain so I did not want to leave. I mean I've had bad nights before, but this takes the caked, the frosting, the pan, and the serving knife. I have never teared up on the job before...but haha...had som...

The first was 26.7 and the repeat was 29.1 I believe was the numbers. But no it was not drawn incorrectly. I drew it from the arm opposite the IV. One doctor told me that it's actually normal for H&H's to vary like this...even drawn a few minutes...