zoopnever

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1. Patients falling

   zoopnever posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, our floor has been deemed the highest fall risk floor in the hospital. Seems our patients are on the floor more than their beds, usually on their way to the bathroom. My question to you is, how do you yourselves, go about preventing falls? I've r...

2. Patient wants to split doses of pain meds

   zoopnever replied to Cobweb's topic in General Nursing

   We can give less than the prescribed pain meds, up to the prescribed dose. for instance the order is for Dilaudid one mg every 2 hours. I can give you a half mg now and a half mg in an hour, for a total of one mg in that 2 hour time frame. I just can...

3. Possible Pedo patient and underage visitor

   zoopnever posted a topic in General Nursing

   Here's one we haven't seen before. There's an HIV positive patient here, about 35 years old. He has had a visitor in the room (private) all day, identifies him as his son. They have been in the bed together almost cuddling, and the RN and Social Work...

4. Anyone else have low census? Chronic?

   zoopnever replied to zoopnever's topic in California

   " CHW has its share of problems as well." CHW is the last place I worked, and indeed, nurses were getting called off due to low census. It was in San Bernardino. Poor area. CHW was also trying to dump their San Bernardino hospitals at the time for l...

5. Anyone else have low census? Chronic?

   zoopnever replied to zoopnever's topic in California

   Try to stay away from the hospitals around poor areas, they drain funds out of the system and the companies try to dump them. AMMC is not the only one doing that. If I may say, try the Catholic hospitals, or University hospitals, they're usually well...

6. Anyone else have low census? Chronic?

   zoopnever replied to zoopnever's topic in California

   That's it all right. We've all been putting up with it for so long even though all the administration bailed months ago. Nurses for some reason put up with a lot and try to believe the good stuff is around the corner. Time to be more realistic. Thank...

7. Anyone else have low census? Chronic?

   zoopnever posted a topic in California

   I'm in the OC and we've been down to about 2/3 capacity since the beginning of May. It's gone down to half capacity a few times. As a result nurses are getting called off left and right, and now, after almost 6 months of this, the staff is getting an...

8. My great problem is not that I cannot pass the interview but that I do not get any in

   zoopnever replied to romantic's topic in California

   I have a similar problem and I've been an RN for 9 years. I've gone to walk-in interviews, I've called the unit and spoke with the Director, I've filled in apps online to the hospital, I've faxed my app to HR. I'm beginning to wonder if there's somet...

9. Nursing Superstitions!

   zoopnever replied to codebluechic's topic in Humor

   Tie the right lower corner of the bedsheet in a knot, and the patient won't die on your shift. After a patient does die, go into the room and ask the corpse for a wish. He will ask God for you.

10. Reported to Manager; What do I do

    zoopnever replied to nelcoy4's topic in General Nursing

    First, I think your manager mishandled this by saying one of your coworkers complained (that you're not doing someone else's work). The issue sounds like it lies with the complainer and she should have been dealt with, not you. However: If I may be ...

11. Hourly rounding... I have the time

    zoopnever replied to DebRN06's topic in General Nursing

    The patients are the ones sending their complaints to management, about the nurse never coming in the door. I personally don't think most management is that far removed --although a lot are!

12. ESRD and constipation

    zoopnever posted a topic in General Nursing

    Someone asked me and I can't answer, but I knew where to go: an End Stage Renal patient on dialysis with chronic constipation and stool like rocks, always backed up. What food can he be given to get that stuff moving, maybe soften it up as well? Tha...

13. Best Holiday Gift Given by Your Hospital

    zoopnever posted a topic in General Nursing

    Holidays approaching, and the signup list is already in the lounge. Last year we got $10 grocery cards, I think, and the year before we got $10 gas cards. No, really, I think that's all we really got, not to sound greedy. What are the best gifts your...

14. Recognized by coworkers on AllNurses.com?

    zoopnever replied to medsurgrnco's topic in General Nursing

    I try to reply to the issue and not the poster, but sometimes, well... hospital management is an enormously difficult job. When the floor nurse punches out on a difficult patient and goes home, the issues are still there: the lawsuit threats, the sta...