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  1. Fess Up! How much HSP stuff is in your drawer???

    makes needs known replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Tape, alcohol wipes, glucoscan lancets, gloves, and nebulizer vials, and once one of the keys to a narcotic cart that I had to drive right back to

  2. LPN's and care plans

    makes needs known replied to makes needs known's topic in New York Nursing

    Could you explain this comment a little better?

  3. Nervous over possible termination

    makes needs known replied to funsizedliv's topic in General Nursing

    Tell your Don if the NP, MD or PA wants VS and all kinds of questions answered she needs to come and assist, because you have med pass to

  4. 1st nursing job, new grad LPN, 1st shift, already a serious error!!

    makes needs known replied to NHCVTturnedLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Did you get any orientation? It is difficult when you are new, and you don't know the pts. Everyone makes errors and everyone make a narcotic error occasionally. Do the pts wear name bands? Are...

  5. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    makes needs known replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    Customer service is a really big issue for us and I think that they consider the family as customers, too. I work in ltc and some of our pts have been with us for weeks or months and sometime years....

  6. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    makes needs known replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    Our dietary department prepares a cart of coffee and donuts for families of patients who are dying. That frees up nursing to do nursing. Seems to me that a coffee cart is a small thing to offer for a...

  7. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    makes needs known replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    I used to not take a break when I thought I had too much to do. Now our management takes out a 30 min even if you work right through the whole shift. So I take my full 30 min break. By not taking a...

  8. music in the nsg home

    makes needs known replied to travel50's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Ha Ha Ha, get off of my blue suede shoes, and don't be cruel, he's a hunk of burning love entertainer. All of the ladies really like listening to him. They like it when I sing while I'm passing meds,...

  9. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    makes needs known replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    "Have you seen the elderly lady who can't settle down and relax?" She is always wanting to do something, fix something, make something better, sometimes you can't figure out want it is that she needs...

  10. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    makes needs known replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    In NY state laws entitle employees to a lunch break after working 6

  11. music in the nsg home

    makes needs known replied to travel50's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Elvis visits us! The patients and the staff love

  12. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    makes needs known replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    Stop!!! We have to stop this. We call in when we are sick and we take our breaks. And everything goes on. If you get used to working without taking care of yourself you will suffer. You already are....

  13. Unit Secretary....Answer the call light for pete's sake!!!

    makes needs known replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, this has happened where I work. A patient will have their own telephone, they will call the facility telephone number, ask for the sv, or the nurses desk on their floor to let them know that their...

  14. Unit Secretary....Answer the call light for pete's sake!!!

    makes needs known replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    The facility I work at also keeps track of how long a call light is on. We have had pts state that their call light was on for 30 min. and nobody answered it. Well, in the main offices we have the...

  15. The Emergency Nurse Guide to Dealing with Early Pregnancy Loss

    makes needs known replied to Aneroo's topic in Emergency

    This was wonderful and thoughtful advice. I have three grown kids, but I remember the terrible anguish I felt when I had a miscarriage. I was four monthes along. I cried, all the time. In the grocery...

  16. How to file a complaint against Charge Nurse?

    makes needs known replied to BerryHappy's topic in General Nursing

    Be anonymous. Sometimes the charge RNs and DON/ADON talk to each other. Don't let this come back to you, or you might be the one getting yelled at (or worse). But have lots of facts when you confront...

  17. Unit Secretary....Answer the call light for pete's sake!!!

    makes needs known replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    What about bed alarms and chair alarms? ANYONE can intercept that patient when they are trying to get out of bed or standing up to walk about in there room. I don't care what your job is. All staff...

  18. Customer Service, Very Busy Day

    makes needs known replied to RN1020's topic in General Nursing

    This is your independent patient? Is he going to stay with you, or is someone from hosp going to come to his house and was his face for him? What a selfish jerk. Don't fret, just smile, say I'm sorry,...

  19. Should Personal Internet Use be Banned During Nursing Shifts?

    makes needs known replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    3-11 shift upper nys, my ltc facility is currently looking over employee productivity. Positions are being cut and people are having their hours reduced. The computors belong to the company and are...

  20. Should Personal Internet Use be Banned During Nursing Shifts?

    makes needs known replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    When there is nothing to do? There is always something to do when you are at work. Getting on the internet is different than reading a

  21. very nervous: Narc missing!!

    makes needs known replied to Ms.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If the pharmacy delivered these narcs to your facility then they should have signature from the person that they delivered them to. If they have that information then, there must be a problem...

  22. help! Harriet Houdini lives

    makes needs known replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    She sounds pretty tough!! Like the ones who won't let you take a b/p. Ha! Ha! Gotta love that

  23. Sick time and confidentiality

    makes needs known replied to riverkinz's topic in General Nursing

    Wow you sound like some of the people I work with. I see alot of people who are not kind to each other, even when they working right next to them. We are so mean and uncaring to each other. It would...

  24. Sick time and confidentiality

    makes needs known replied to riverkinz's topic in General Nursing

    But they could be kinder when you call in, after all they call in when they are sick too. But because they are a little higher on the ladder no says anything about what a hardship they are causing...

  25. Sick time and confidentiality

    makes needs known replied to riverkinz's topic in General Nursing

    When I call in sick, they always ask why, and they want to know the specifics. It's not that they care and I don't think it's any of their business. They always downplay your illness and attempt to...