wino73

I think you should approach him on his attitude at work. Not necessarily the brown nosing because if you and others notice it Im sure the doctors notice it and believe me it is not gaining him any points. However, if he is grumpy at work and it affects his working relationship with you and other coworkers, then it needs to be addressed. When teams are not effective it ultimately affects patient care.

What I have seen with cellphones at the workplace is that it is out of hand and a distraction from patient care. You can not compare a staff nurse with a cell phone to that of an administrator with a cell phone. The nature of each job is completely different. At what point did society become so dependent on cell phones that a nurse at the bedside can not care for their patients without a cellphone on his or her hip? Let's face it if there really was an emergency while you were at work do you really think that your family would not be able to get a hold of you? All that is is an excuse, and a lame one at that. If you want to leave the floor and take a break and use your phone that is fine, but if that is what you have been doing chances are we wouldn't be having this conversation. Why don't we all hang up our cellphones and for once make our patients the priority while we are at work.

Don't you have a regular Supervisor or Charge nurse on your shift or do the bedside staff act as CN? How is your management tiered?

We do get recognized for RRT. We are careful in who we chose to do RRT min 2 yrs in ICU, CCRN prefered, and acts professionally while at work and must not be in any discipline. We all have polo shirts and each quarter we have a drawing first prize is $1200 to attend outside conference, 2nd is palm pilot, and 3rd is $300 to apply toward nursing subscription or membership.

Is your Rapid Response Nurse out of the count and available for all calls? We were told this is the standard out there, however will be activating family response and have concerns about the amount of calls that will pull the RRN away from her patient. Just wondering what the standard really is.

Just wondering if anyone has a process in place for the doctors to sign the restraint orders to be compliant with JCAHO and the state? Seems like we are constantly chasing them down and still are non compliant at times.