FlightRN2B

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1. Safe patient load? tell me what you think

   FlightRN2B replied to FlightRN2B's topic in Cardiac

   I'd like to say that the nurses where I work are tough... but that's a story for another day..... the CNA's set up the serial vitals and they do all the weights, bed baths, which are done during day shift and they record all the I&O's except the ...

2. Safe patient load? tell me what you think

   FlightRN2B replied to FlightRN2B's topic in Cardiac

   Thanks for the empathy, and the advice. The only thing I can say is that I work with a great staff that somehow gets the job done. The patients on this floor for the most part are stable however there has been a couple of patients go bad where they n...

3. Crabby MD's in a hurry to get back to bed

   FlightRN2B posted a topic in Cardiac

   I have really come to hate when you call a doctor before it gets late at night for pain control orders, even something as simple as tylenol because your patients bp is in the toilet, so giving him or her another 5 mg of Ms IVP. would be totally inapp...

4. Safe patient load? tell me what you think

   FlightRN2B posted a topic in Cardiac

   I recently started working on a cardiac/surg floor where the patient load is currently 8 to 10 with the possibility of having as many as 12, also because this floor has LPN's working, I as well as the other RN's have to cover their primary assessment...

5. Shortest time you held a nursing job?

   FlightRN2B replied to PlanetCaroline's topic in General Nursing

   6 months which should have been 6o seconds, only I'm not a quiter and didnt have the vision to see that I was swimming in shark infested waters. I was a new grad working in a specialty unit. Have you heard the term that nurses eat their young...........

6. Foley Position

   FlightRN2B replied to QUEENIERN's topic in Operating Room

   My question to you is, does your facility have a policy in place? if not, maybe it should. Ask the educator. I have been taught that for men you should always tape the foley upwards and downwards for women. I'm not so sure I would worry about a press...

7. Eliminating LPNs - are hospitals doing this?

   FlightRN2B replied to kalaith's topic in LPN/LVN

   As an ER Tech, I used to work hand in hand with the nurses and doctors. Once in a while there would be a LPN joining the mix of personal. I would think to my-self, I'm an EMT-II. I can do what there doing (wrong) I didnt have a clue. Then years later...