nursing_problem

I've been staying with the hospital where im working for almost 2 years. I had my training in different areas in that hospital for 1 year and 4 months until last April of this year I was hired as an ER nurse. in other words, I am an er nurse for 5- 6...

hi guys. just want to ask how do you deal with relatives who demands nurses to make sure they can insert or start iv just once esp. in pediatric patients. we all know that we dont like failing an iv to any ptient but their are times that we have ba...

I agree with you mam. If only they know how much we do our best not to commit any mistake to our patients.

actually i brought the kid in our nursery to Ask for assistance. However, they went outrageous when they learned that the kid will be the only one to go inside and.without them. So i brought the kid back to er and inserted it myself. I actually beli...

The patient was wheeled in ER via stretcher. Normally we get the data of the patient and her vital signs. After obtaining data, our resident doctor did his history taking. While doing it in the bedside of the patient, I told him the BP of his patient...

in the letter she stressed out that i committed breach on ptients confidentiality.. i dont know what she was really trying to point out.. whether the patiemt is hearing her Bp or other people in the er have also heard.it. she also told i was arrogan...

Update: she already sent an email of her complaints to our chief nurse.. But our chief hasn't talked to me yet.. I hope she'll understand my actions the way you guys do..

to make it short, its about a relative who was complaining why i said the bp of the patient to my colleagues esp. our resident doctor louD as well as when she asked me what is the bp. she didnt inform hat she doesn't want the patient to hear the vit...

Thanks.:)

thanks guys.. i feel enlightened from your comments.. i talked to our chief nurse this morning.. and she said that i shouldn't mind what that relative have said.. she just admit.her relatives.in our.hospital for treatment and just to find something t...

And by the way, we are used in telling the doctor the VS of patients in a voice where everybody esp. The other er nurses are able to hear.

Definitely I'm not from US.. The patient was not really feeling well to give us any information so her sister,which is the closest relative, makes decisions for her. Upon arrival, the relative didn't inform us that she didn't want the patient to hear...

t just happened this morning. A formal complaint will be filed maybe tomorrow or days to come. I haven't spoke to my the hospital administrator or medical director yet and they haven't reprimanded me.. YET. As I spoke to my chief nurse and head nurse...

Thinking of the situation makes me nervous more and think I really did something wrong like not apologizing and answering back. But my point was to explain since she asked if that's how we do it in ER. What makes me nervous more is they're going to w...

I know mistake is not acceptable in our profession but the truth is we cannot avoid making one.For a newbie like me in our work, I feel like I'm the most stupid person ever landed in planet nursing whenever I make mistakes and write an IR. My mistake...

i know i haven't experienced a lot yet and my comment won't weigh much. but reading your entry is an envy for me. You find your job like a routine already and how I wish I could be one in the future. Consider yourself lucky coz here in our country w...

Just take what she told you as a challenge and accept it. Think of it as a drive for you to make a smart care plan for your patient. Just knowing that you did your best is already enough. In case she finds your work still not good enough, don't be di...

Well, there are times I evaluate how I did for the day. Sometimes, its overwhelming to see that I admitted a patient by myself, didn't get nervous because I knew what I did, etc. BUT.. I must admit I sometimes get toxified when there is a patient to ...

I got my research topic already.. its about emergency room nurses' clinical performance and time management.. i need help/ suggestions.. i constructed my proposed criteria for clinical performance and questionnaire and based it on 11 key areas of nur...

thanks esme.:)

thanks.. but my problems is, my topic should be clinical performance but instead the criteria i used for is for clinical competency.. im asking for an advice if i should go for clinical competency instead but it has problems which i stated already o...

i know ideally if care shoud be given to them, it should include the relatives as well-- it should have been me holding that nebulizer, stayed with her until she was in the dialysis, get meds for the patient and not the relatives,etc. and that is how...

i believe there was an investigation. however, the result of it was not yet known for the doctor just submitted his report. Our chief nurse told me that the major problem i will face is why i wasn't able to join the patient in going to our dialysis d...

its ok. Since the patient is in an OPD basis, their relatives where the one to get the meds from our pharmacy. But if they are admitted, we''re the one who'll get it. anyway, the patient arrived 2:45 am.. since our dialysis dept is not 24 hours, we ...