rngolfer53

rngolfer53

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  1. something need to be changed

    I must work with you. It's better now, but for a few weeks we had a "shortage of the day" of commonly used supplies. Very frustrating to have to go on a scavenger hunt at least once a shift to find...
  2. Excessive smoke breaks

    Sorry, I wasn't clear about documenting. I meant it to include reporting to mgmt the excessive breaks. Too often managers are poorly prepared for supervision, and think they have to build...
  3. Excessive smoke breaks

    If they don't smoke when the bosses are around, they're just lazy. It has little to nothing to do with the need for nicotine. About all you can do is build a carefully documented record, so when they...
  4. This just gripes the crud out of me...

    If there are lawyers involved, lying will be involved in short
  5. Personal info was shared -HIPPA violation?

    One thing I would put in the pot of my deliberations on whether to follow up or drop the matter is the probability that the RN in question has done this before, and will again if not shown the error...
  6. Can this put MY license at risk?

    Sorry to be crude, but is this LPN sleeping with the Dr or the clinical manager? Or both? Or does she have pictures of one or both doing something illicit or illegal? Rather difficult to understand...
  7. The weekly addition to the workload...

    That's an example of the magical thinking that two-year-olds, politicians, and too many managers use to avoid having to address the eternal problem of scarce
  8. improving staff responsiveness

    This is the flip side of managers' magical thinking that doesn't recognize the scarcity of the resource of nursing and CNA time. Yes, we can all say better staffing will cure all problems (and it...
  9. I'd disagree about it being a waste of your time. You learned that you don't want to work there after all, not if that's the kind of supervisors they employ. You learned a lot about lousy interview...
  10. Is it me or is hiring at Kaiser Permanente a joke?

    Trust me, HR departments are the same the world over, and not just the nursing world either. The one you ran up against is just par for the course. Another rule of thumb is the bigger the...
  11. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

    Yes, people do have free will, but choices have, or should have consequences. Otherwise, it's not really autonomy we're asking them to exercise. Continuing to spend thousands on exacerbations of COPD...
  12. was i unprofessional? (quick story)

    Being a professional in terms of interaction with fellow employees is not limited to nursing. Carpenters do it, too, and perhaps better as a group than nurses. I came to nursing after a couple decades...
  13. Problems with prefilled NS syringes?

    I've had one Pt c/o being able to taste the saline when flushing a PICC. However that was with a drawn up flush. Sooooo, the mystery lives
  14. Nurse pressing charges

    Yes, it certainly can be devastating to get news that you have CA. But, from the OP's post this escalated from verbal to physical abuse. That says to me the Pt continued to pursue the course of...
  15. Blood on my hands

    Unless you live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else, the chances of finding the outcome of a Pt is low. As mentioned, you can read the newspaper local sections, and check out local TV...
  16. There are a few families who just refuse to consider a FH before death, and then want to wait 18 hours for Uncle Fred to drive in from Podunk before deciding. That's when I dream about being Luca...
  17. As you say, emergencies always happen when the pharmacies are closed, and there's usually a $50 or so "emergency" delivery charge for rousting a pharmacist and driver to get out meds that should have...
  18. That happened over a year ago with our pharmacy. I moved to IPU shortly after, so I don't know the current practice. All part of the wondrous govt crackdown on pain meds. Expect even tighter...
  19. So that's where my pens keep
  20. Comments about personal appearance

    My response would probably be: Well your lifestyle has you in the hospital, while mine allows me to take care of you. Which one would you say is more likely to be
  21. Whoever invented scrubs, standup!

    Alcohol wipe? L pocket on the scrub top. Scrubs are comfortable, and where I work (hospice) only solid colors are
  22. Nurses receiving poor care....

    Careful with that attorney talk.......you might get an "air bolus" thru your central line some
  23. Emphasis added. I think we do harm as providers when we allow patients/families to regress unchallenged to childhood. Where is the dignity in acting like a toddler? Yes, people are stressed (though...
  24. Please help me, I'm in trouble.

    Shelly, I would talk to an attorney and no one else at your former workplace or the BON. You could possibly make the case against you stronger--it seems pretty weak right now--by an inadvertent...
  25. My Spidey Senses Say 'be careful'

    Thirteen patients seems too small to be a viable, independent organization, given the Medicare hospice per diem. Corners will have to be cut somewhere. Sounds to me like "desperate times call for...