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Oh and one last little comment, how about the clinical staff that work with you that doesn't really see the benefit of getting those all important measurements for you because it doesn't have anything to do with her paperwork???? Arrrggghhhh:banghead:

Andre, You made my day, my week and my month with your post and your banging heads!!!! I loved it!!! We rolled our new paperwork out on the 30th of November; my boss announced at 9 am on the 1st of December that I had to have all 21 of my patients completely transitioned over by the next day's IDT meeting. This meant med sheets, IDT care plan grid and all new care plans. I thought that one of us had lost our minds and soon realized that it must have been me! Slowly but surely, I am getting it. Can't stand the new stuff - haven't shaken the lost in the headlights deer look and wonder if my patients notice that I have been missing in action for days. Thanks for your humor.

I am just coming back to this forum after a long break; I've been doing hospice nursing for two years and loving the field of palliative nursing for longer than that. I have to say that I completely agree with the above posts; the passing of each and every patient is so special, so sacred and so incredible that you can't properly articulate with the rest of the world in order to give it's proper honor. Some times I am so overcome with grief that I can't even speak about the death so I write about them; I eventually will have enough that I will publish a book. While I've been in graduate school, a fellow student in Florida has asked if I would co-author with him. I'm actually considering it. What a privilege and honor we have each day as we serve this population of patient and family; there are days when I want to shriek with frustration and pull my hair out but most of the time, I wouldn't trade it for anything. Thanks for such a great thread - I too understand the need to talk but also to keep private.

Been reading these forums for several years but hardly ever post because the answers are always so good already!! First off, let me say to Sunshine Sweetheart that I find your post very refreshing. Keep up your positive, upbeat and awesome attitude. Your patients and employers will be very lucky to have you!!! I felt compelled to jump into this one though; I've seen many EDs both as a medic bringing them in and the nurse receiving them. From my humble perspective, there seems to be "one" cranky type in every ED. Now, this may not be the correct behavior but I personally have learned to steer clear and sweet talk the heck of that person. Sometimes, they can be infectious and the whole staff will have that sort of attitude for a shift or two and then other times, if you have a really upbeat charge person or something like that, the "negative nancy" is pretty ineffective. What I've learned in nursing is that it's really tough out there; we all put on our scrubs each day meaning to do well that shift. No one means to go to work and create havoc. Tolerance, patience, boldness to call each other on yucky behavior, and a general good attitude can get most of us through even the worst of shifts. Oh yeah, some pizza and diet coke!!! Thanks for tolerating me as a very new poster!!

I came from a community hospital in CA where our 30 bed Med/Surg Unit was 7.3 hppd. I am now in Wy where my 55 bed unit averages about 12.0 and I am shooting for 10.0 Quorum wants us to be at 8.0 I am not sure we'll get there. HTH