each shift has unique challenges to face and anyone who says pts sleep all night has never worked a night shift what we really need is to stop the in-fighting and team up together to fight for what...
you'd think I would have all that ratios memorized by now! But there is only so much info my poor little brain will absorb our numbers are based nothing on acuity (the charge is suppose to break up...
Hello I work on an inpt medical oncology floor. We recently moved from a crappy old 44 bed unit (compleate with 4 bed wards and mold in the ceiling) to a spiffy new 29-bed unit that is all private...
Cancer is rarely the only medical problem in the pts I see. So all that other stuff they throw at you is very useful! Plus chemo can do some very nasty things to a variety of organ systems so knowing...
The other nurses are pitching in, but many are rather scared for their jobs. I am too, but I'd rather loose my job fighting for the right thing then keep my job and let my patients suffer. We do have...