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When I work I always seem to be singing " If I only had a brain" from the wizard of Oz. Go figure, DUH!:nuke:

Which way to the elevators. New building/units.:imbar

Can you clear up exactly what your job is? In our hospital there are phlebotomists who were hired off the street, given some training on drawing blood and let loose on the patients, many of them have no skill. These are the ones the nursing staff d...

A degree in Health Care Admin is not a nursing degree, nor is it "the same as". She still must have either a diploma, an associate degree in Nursing or a Bachelors degree in nursing. Here anyone claiming to be a nurse, who isn't can be prosecuted. ...

Sassyredhead-You cannot control what a "competent" patient will do or not do. Remember no matter how correct a physician order is the patient has a right to accept that order or reject it, do some of it or do it sometimes only. It is always the pat...

:yeah: RN/Writer said so well and so clearly! I have to comment about nurses who try to take away the snacks of these types of patients, they feel justified in taking the offending food because it is not allowed. Usually nothing happens when a nu...

EMT's and EMT_P's are not allowed to give meds in our, that includes hanging IV fluids. In an ambulance the practice off of the medical director's license when doing meds or other invasive procedures. In the hospital they are part of Nursing servic...

You can't force a pateint to follow the diet oredered and you can't touch thier personal belongings unless they are trying to do something that would be harmful to others, trying to torch the curtains for instance. I think you'd be safe taking away ...

I fyou don't want a big city there are a lot of possibilities for you. Along I-35 from Dallas to south of San Antonio there is a wide variety of towns and cities with hospitals. There are private hospitals in Waco, Teaching Hospital in Temple, Smal...

In our hospital we use mandatory OT only in weather emergencies, ice storms hit us usually once a year. Much of our staff live out of town. No one leave thier work station until the unit is staffed for the next shift. If enough don't make it in to...

If I ran fast enough to get to a "target zone" I'd need that code team and probably a back board and Ccollar and a lot of strong good looking men to pick me up off the floor.

Several years ago a hospital I worked for did Mandt training. It was pretty good, especially the restraint holds. Don't know if it is still being taught.

Like others have said, fininsh up your first year then try some other areas. Find out what you do best and what you like most about Nursing. Then find your niche. I have worked many different areas over the years and have no regrets. I am getting...

:yeahthat: I agree with Tazzi. Don't make a bad situation worse. There are so many things that affect staffing, there is no one issue that needs to be fixed. People calling in because it's payday or it's the weekend and they would rather not wor...

I had trouble keeping my sugars down because of my work schedule, I am sometimes on all three thifst in a weeks time. I was put on Lantus and that helped tremendoulsy. My HgbA1C's are WNL. I alos take Avandia to make my body more receptive to the ...

bagladyrn-You might want to consult the ADA and see what information they may have for you to help with your diet. They have a magazine called Diabetes Forcast you can get if you join the ADA, I think it cost 25 a year. Good magazine, you may be abl...

If you were just diagnosed you probably haven't had your Nutrition consult yet. You will be given your calorie count for the day as well as how many grams of carbs and protein you should consume with meals. After working nights, if I want to stay u...

Check with your state board, you may have to enroll in a refresher course to be able to go back to work. After that you should be able to choose an area you would feel more comfortable in. Have you considered home care/private duty? There are a lo...

What a wonderful experience. Those kinds of Nursing situations is what makes it all worthwhile.:smilecoffeecup:

If our lab has blood we can test without patient permission. Your GF needs to find out what the patients history is, is there anything that makes him high risk. That is not fool proof but generally is accurate. We don't offer drugs to staff unless...

And you can't use your hands to move body parts around/out of the way!

RUN WENDY! RUN! Any hospital that takes a licensed nurse off of orientation to work as an aide has major problems! What are they thinking!?

I don't know about other states but go to the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners and look at the past newsletters, they list the nurse imposters and what they did and how they represented themselves. There are usually severa per year.

Yeah, what they said! FYI you should never be the only licensed nurse assigned to a unit, not safe. By the way, you don't let the PACU nurse go, she can stay with her patient until you can take over, the K won't be reduced rapidly, it needs priori...

Try texas, we have most anything you want. Along the I -35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin and Dallas you can find small, medium and large hospitals. you can live in the big city, a small town, small city or medium city. Do you want to own ...