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My husband has been told he has to furnish proof of a future Dr's appointment in order to get the time off for appointment. Is this not a breach of Hipaa? Say you have an appointment with a psychiatrist. Or some other specialist for a condition that ...

Make time to use the the bathroom or leak a little urine when you sneeze, cough or laugh. The choice is yours.

Do your patients like you? Are you responsive to their needs and health problems. That's what you're their for. Not your crabby complaining critical co-workers. But, it's really a good idea to get along with the people you work with. Just keep at it...

Our old fire policy was to pull the alarm 1st, and then to rescue pts.that were at risk. The reason made sense because, if we became overcome by smoke or injury, things could become worse. No one would know there was a fire. Pulling the alarm 1st wou...

We are also short on supplies, and short on people who will put them in proper place. We have all new cabinets and drawers for storing supplies. Whenever we request gloves or sterile water,etc. it is always brought to unit. It is never put away. I al...

We had a elderly female patient die last night. While she was dying of course she was not wearing her dentures but her family requested that we put her dentures in after she had died. Question- put them in or give them to funeral director to put in? ...

We just had a pulmonary inservice. We have been told that we are to stay with the patient the whole time they are recieving their neb tx. Sorry no resp therapist. Just me giving meds to 20- to 40 pts. I always tell pt that neb will take 5-7 min depen...

Of course not, in fact more documenatation to prove that said breathing tx was effective with VS and sats before and after. " oh wait a min dear pt, before you can have this tx that you are needing, I need to get your o2 sat level." And where the hec...

It is so difficult to keep bored and dementia related pts content. Many have had busy full lives and here they are with nothing to do and confused about it all. I have given ladies towels to fold, and that works sometimes. One lady laughed at me when...

The other as night as I was working, a nurse from another floor came to me and asked if I had any extra bottles of 325mg tylenol, I went and looked I had no unopened bottles in my stock supply for my floor. I gave her my supply from one of the med ca...

We have been experiencing the same lack of respect where I work. We have new management and an even newer DON that has made that threat to many of my coworkers, and she has made 'good' on that threat, too. Many of my coworkers are gone. I got into tr...

I guess I could call and ask if there are medical supplies I could pick up at the drugstore/walmart before I come in.

How frequently do you, based on laws, replace a patients o2 tubing. I thought it was q 7 days but a new nurse at our facility says it is q 3 days. I just looked it up online and all I could find was 'every 7 days or when visably soiled' Have there be...

When I became a nurse, I was told by a superior that most of my days as a nurse were going to be disheartening, but every once in awhile you would go home feeling you made a difference. Be kind, be patient, and try to be the best you can be. To erro...

Recently a pt of mine started to severely desat (40's-50's) on 4L o2, and I notified my SV, she assessed the pt, who happened to be on hospice. She contacted the MD for orders and got an order to send to the hospital for eval. She discussed the fact ...

Nascar, this sounds great. I like your "Praise in public" theory. We hardly ever hear praise, and I have seen nurses crying while they were being lectured in front of others. 2-3 nurses/aides are being let go almost every month. I am a nurse and I h...

Thank you again for your help, I honestly thought my superviser called the family. We have paperwork that is sent to the hospital and I never saw it. The chart was taken and the transfer papers prepared somewhere else. I stayed with the patient unti...

I goofed up, but I did not realize it until after. I never sent a hospice patient to the hospital. I have been punished and educated. Thank you for your comments.

Maybe you are really hungry.

We are still having a problem with management not removing narcotics that dc'd pts had. I counted 26 blister packs dated back to August. Mngmt. does not care if we are hanging onto these narcs as long as we watch over them. They even gave us more sp...

Bloodsugar checks ac and hs, and coverage given only at ac. Have you ever seen how some orders are written? All nurses can read, all nurses are crazy busy, and all nurses are human.

I know what you are talking about, tx written in the medex and meds written in the tx book. Too many people making too many changes and things not getting checked to make sure they are correct and match. The first of the month comes around and then t...

The idea that nurses are supposed to be perfect. Hey- we are only human.

And a refreshing shower to wake up your mind and body. Never underestimate the power of water!

Hospitals and(or) Health care facilities: Do your patients still recieve water pitchers, with ice and fresh water? If so who delivers them? Nursing or some other department?