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  1. Advise about med pass & CBG's

    makes needs known replied to lcarlson3355's topic in General Nursing

    What time is breakfast? Most of our am glucoscan checks get done 30 min before breakfast. Is this using a sliding scale or is a maintenance dose of insulin being given by the oncoming

  2. Water Pitchers

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

    oh and for 6 months we did not even have an ice machine on our

  3. Water Pitchers

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

    Interesting. In my facility, in the past the dietary dept. has done it. 3 floors, and on only our floor dietary does not deliver pitchers anymore. Our floor cna's are responsible for giving pitchers...

  4. Selecting syringes

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

    Skinny people get the shorter

  5. I might have forgotten to give a medication.

    makes needs known replied to sojsc11's topic in General Nursing

    You gave

  6. I have your meds, please take them:)

    makes needs known posted a topic in General Nursing

    A good friend of mine at work got fired yesterday. She had been warned about leaving pills at a patients bedside and not making sure they took them. They warned her that they were watching her and it...

  7. I have your meds, please take them:)

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

    'If you have not witnessed the patient taking his medicine, you have no idea what happened to it once you left the room. He could have taken it, dumped into his lunch tray, thrown it down the toilet,...

  8. Should I tell my NM or not???

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

    Is the patient alright? Lots of times I am critical of myself. Perhaps she is also looking at her action. And wondering if she she pushed it too fast. Nursing is a worrisome

  9. time clock question

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

    When you punch out you leave. I have had coworkers who do punch out and then sit and finish their charting. That is crazy. What if there is an emergency and you respond to it. Your not even supposed...

  10. Anxiety after leaving work!

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

    Too many responsibilities. If you have checked and found out that you did everything correctly, relax. Separate yourself from work, like someone else mentioned. Even if you do overlook something, you...

  11. Med Error

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

    Let it

  12. 24 hour facility

    makes needs known posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work on a subacute unit rehab/LTC. We are told that we work in a 24 hour facility and that the responsibilities belong to all of us. Does your facility allow or punish you, if you ask the next...

  13. 24 hour facility

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

    Last night I asked the 11-7 charge nurse if she could help me finish up some tx. I was tired and asking for help. She gave me a blank look. We have asked this same charge nurse to complete tasks we...

  14. Mandatory Overtime?

    makes needs known replied to ALH2004's topic in General Nursing

    In NYS there is a new law that requires that management has to try to get coverage, and they have to have documentation to prove that they have attempted to cover that empty spot. If this is to cover...

  15. Time to read the chart, MD notes?

    makes needs known replied to stellaRN1983's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like there is never time to read the chart, and no private, quiet area where you can read it without being interupted to get a box of kleenex. I like to read the chart, sometimes when I ask...

  16. My shift got better.....Staff Massage's

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

    You know April 1 is not until Friday, right? This sounds like a dream come true. Can you get foot massages,too?

  17. Inept Supervisors

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

    I just read an article by Patricia A Rowell, PhD,RN about lateral violence. It was very interesting. There is alot of stress in nursing, and that brings out the worst in us. I can not control how...

  18. Discontinued Narcotics

    makes needs known posted a topic in New York Nursing

    I work on a very busy sub acute rehab floor with a pretty steady turnover of patients. We keep our narcotics locked in a lock box and count them at the change of q shift. We currently have alot of...

  19. Sigh. Is this really how we are graded?

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

    I got a phone call from our DON this morning letting me know that I was receiving a deficiency because I did not put a 2nd pillow under a pts arm. She had 1 good pillow under her elbow fx, her arm and...

  20. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    makes needs known replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am an LPN in NYS, and in the past, some of the RN's in our facility told us to do assessments and that they would cosign them. This practice was discovered during a mock state survey we had. Our...

  21. calmoseptine

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

    We have a meeting this week about the calmoseptine, etc. Our new management has been implementing alot of changes that are very upsetting and making it hard to get it all done. Thanks

  22. calmoseptine

    makes needs known posted a topic in General Nursing

    In your LTC facility, are cna's legally allowed to apply barrier creams? We use calmoseptine and have just been informed that because of ingredients in it, it needs to be applied by the nurse. I was a...

  23. calmoseptine

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

    Hi thanks for all your responses. Our management has told us we could lose our jobs/ license, if we allow aides to apply calmoseptine and then sign off on it in the TARS without doing it ourselves....

  24. Overwhelmed, is it too much work or just me?

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

    Our cna's always make sure they get a lunch break and 2 ten minute breaks. I on the otherhand have many nights worked without stop, because there is no one to relieve me, and the needs are never...

  25. What do you fear most on the job?

    makes needs known replied to tiroka03's topic in General Nursing

    Getting a phone call the day after I worked a 3-11 shift, asking me "what the heck happened last