Manatee111

I'm interested in the amount of time scheduled surgical patients wait in the recovery room for rooms to become available in community hospitals near major cities. 1 hour? 3 hours? 5 hours? How long is the longest you've ever held a patient in the rec...

Thanks for input. The waiting for beds is quite frustrating. Sometimes the wait is so long 5+ hours with NO bathroom. Some people really struggle with bedpans. Do you allow patient out of the carts? This is my first ever PACU job. It's like a whole ...

I'm concerned that even though there might be a few very large O.R. scrubs they go quick. Tomorrow is my first unofficial day at a new job even before orientation so things moved quick. Really just a day to shadow. It occurred to me that scrubs were ...

Recently, I was asked if it is individual states that govern nurses or if there was a national organization that governance over those individual states and I didn't know. So I put this question out to the knowledgable nurses here.

I work on a very busy telemetry unit. Most of our patients are hospitalized for a few days or they are made GMF. For the last 10 days we have had an extremely demanding and rude patient on out unit. He has been very inappropriate with our staff. He ...

A couple weeks back I was caring for a very high maintenance patient with a new colostomy. I had taken care of the patient three nights in a row. On the third night when the patient was more stable physically I asked our PCT to empty the patient's co...

I have been accused by a nurse of bullying, but that same nurse has accused others as well. However I haven't been caught sleeping at at the nurses station by co-worker. I don't receive long distance calls on the hospitals phone. I don't listen to lo...

The PCT has worked on our unit for several years and on our sister unit before that. Her know how is not in question.

I work on a Cardiovascular Intervention Unit. I've been on this unit almost 2 year which is the duration of my career. The other night I followed thru with an order to d/c a Rt. IJ (cordis sp?) central line on a patient that was s/p day #4 fem-pop....

Recently, our hopsital made insurance adjustments which included employees having to certify that they were non-smokers or be charge $25.00 a week extra for health insurance. They have also begun to charge any employee that catch smoking on any hospi...

So, tonight the patient of another nurse requested a pair of pajama pant because although he was told not to wear underwear to Cath. Lab, he did & they cut them off. He's a bigger guy and the only size pants we had was a large, but not large enou...

July marked the beginning of the new fiscal year at the hospital I work & as always they are trying even harder to cut costs. For over a year now a "SHARE" program has been in effect where employees find ways to cut cost & are rewarded monita...

You are so right. I came in last night to the latest staffing grid change & as I protested I could feel the eyes from the staff on me. I come to find out that all day the staff was completely overwhelmed because the day RP is a total "yes man" ...

I have been working as an RN for 2 years still making the $24.05 I started at because we didn't get raises & the new grads coming in now asking me for help & guidance are making the same $24.05 I am.

Boy, are you ever preaching to the choir!

This is called "Accountability" now, dontcha know!

Shared governance is a joke. It doesn't really exist. They say we have it on our unit & we have our unit counsel meetings monthly & we give our input, but they still just do want they want to do & not what staff suggests.

No way they rest of the world gets it. This passed Father's Day I worked the Sat. into Sun. so getting to spend the day with my dad was gonna be difficult since he insisted on going to his summer place which is an hours drive from my house. He wanted...

So now that our unit has gone from semi-private to private & I float 1-2 a week I would ask my managers the following: Why did you go & hire 2 new grads who can't float for a year when there is already too many nurses to staff the unit now?

I have been told by mult. people that after 2 years nurses are no longer considered "new grads".

How do you handle a patient who "abuses" the call light all night long? I had a patient the other night (for a 12 hour shift)who was mostly appropriate, but elderly with a lot of anxiety. She had 2.5 mg of Ativan in less than 6 hours, she was medic...

Oh, how I wish I could get through an hour without having to be in there 5,6,7 times! LOL

On one paticularly horrible day on the job when I was at my wits ends thinking about this very type of thing my husband & I went to get our taxes done at a popular tax service. After finding out my occupation the lady preparing our taxes couldn'...

I started on my nursing career 2 years ago on a Cardiac Intervention unit. Most of our patients are chest pain, post-cath, new onset Afib, but within the last year there has been a transition and now we are caring for post interventions. Pt. 3-4 da...

The hospital I work for owns several other hospitals in other areas of the country & recently they sent out this memo stating how a survey taken states that our hospitals have been chosen by Gallup as one of 25 organizations worldwide to receive ...