RNKPCE

RNKPCE

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  1. Home Med Documentation?

    RNKPCE replied to core34's topic in General Nursing

    We prefer that the family take them home unless we don't carry it. Then it gets sent to pharmacy for verification and we keep them in the pyxis, if they are controlled drugs in a pie wedge of the...

  2. ER Nurses- Do You Access Mediports?

    RNKPCE replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    On the floors we never access these we get someone trained to do it. Here is a good reason to only have an expert do it. Someone once accessed a medi port for a dopamine drip and it wasn't accessed...

  3. Questions regarding mandated overtime and being "called off"

    RNKPCE replied to Pepperlady's topic in General Nursing

    At my union hospital per diem are called off before travelers. But regular full time and part times staff are not. Now if the census is really low and there are 5 people to be called off for one...

  4. Your a nurse--You should know better!!

    RNKPCE replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    My kids are older but at their elemen. school they had bars. They were overhead bars and they could cross from one side to another or sometimes try to skip bars. That is how my kids came home with...

  5. What things do your family members do that drive the nurse in you nuts?

    RNKPCE replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    1. Took MIL to ER for chest pain, triage asked her if she had any health problems she said no, I guess the 2 pills she takes for HTN don't count. 2. Dad would check blood sugar and if okay then eat...

  6. Objectivity welcomed ...

    RNKPCE replied to ltrnkoczydeux's topic in General Nursing

    Are you the charge nurse? Or do you have a patient assignment? Is this a rare thing or is this how the staffing is from night to night? If this is how it is all the time I wouldn't be comfortable. I...

  7. Either Give Me A Lunch Break Or Pay Me!!

    RNKPCE replied to cradlecrewer's topic in General Nursing

    10 years, this complaint is way over due. During your 30 min unpaid lunch break you should be able to leave the facility, twiddle your thumbs, read, eat, walk, stretch. This is way illegal. I would...

  8. New Telemetry nurse needs advice...

    RNKPCE replied to parrot07's topic in General Nursing

    Every unit is run differently. Do you have a monitor technician or do you watch your own monitors? If you have a monitor tech, ask your manager which one is the strongest as far as rhythms goes and...

  9. Weird Question about Breath Smell

    RNKPCE replied to MrsMommaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I knew someone who had horrible breath even from 3 ft away. Just being in the car together you could smell it. He had some infection and/or peridontal disease and had to have all his teeth pulled and...

  10. What's in your sharps container?

    RNKPCE replied to dontwakeme's topic in General Nursing

    Mybiggest pet peeve and dangerous too is the person who takes out an IV or Saline lock and puts the opsite, tape and catheter(which isn't sharp) in the sharps. Then the tape sticks to the flap and it...

  11. Am I too sensitive - new charge

    RNKPCE replied to cherokeesummer's topic in General Nursing

    Our ratios are 4 patients per nurse so if a nurse has 3 patients they pretty much know they are up for an admit. I try to give them a warning, such as " Sandra just got an admit the next one will be...

  12. Help Me Please

    RNKPCE replied to ICURNIAM's topic in General Nursing

    Just the opposite might happen at my hospital. They have really been policing to make sure that 2 patient identifiers are used when giving any med. Therefore a med given to the wrong patient implies...

  13. Anyone else frustrated with 12 hour shifts?

    RNKPCE replied to TexasNurseEducator's topic in General Nursing

    We don't have a very high turnover on 3-11. We recently added 12's and very few staff on 3-11 volunteered to take those positions. Most came from days and nights. Now however we have a lot more work...

  14. Have you ever NOT shown up when you were scheduled to work?

    RNKPCE replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    Once in 20 years. My co-worker and I usually get to work quite early and she saw I was on the schedule but not there yet and I also I said on the phone to her that I wasn't working til much later in...

  15. questions to telemetry nurses

    RNKPCE replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I work tele as a new grad and it was a good stepping stone to move to a lot of other places. We also have had at least 2 subacute nurses come to our floor and they adjusted just fine. You will get a...

  16. Low census input help

    RNKPCE replied to litlamp's topic in General Nursing

    I work at a union hospital so is it spelled out. During low census staff can sign up for the day off. They are called one hour before start of shift. The staff member with the least amount of called...

  17. juggling motherhood and nursing

    RNKPCE replied to kgmiller1's topic in General Nursing

    Despite weekends and holidays nursing is a lot more flexible than other profession. Most professions that pay well it is full time or nothing. Ever since I had kids I worked the evening shift. I...

  18. Inconsiderate co workers

    RNKPCE replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

    What do these people put on their time card as their starting time? We don't have a time clock we hand write our time cards and our late people still put 7pm even if they arrive at 7:15p. This is...

  19. A Flutter with RVR

    RNKPCE replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    So sorry you didn't get the support you needed from the supervisor. He was hemodynamically unstable and he wasn't improving with what you were doing on your unit. I agree he should have been in ICU....

  20. Not taking 0xygen Saturation on patients...???

    RNKPCE replied to RN2B123's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago when hand held O2 sat monitors were only in the hands of respiratory therapists at my hospital I asked one of them to check a sat on a patient I was worried about and the low 02 sat was...

  21. Intramuscular injections- drawing back

    RNKPCE replied to minnimouse's topic in General Nursing

    More than 20 years

  22. Intramuscular injections- drawing back

    RNKPCE replied to minnimouse's topic in General Nursing

    It was SQ. I was taught in nursing school to aspirate on insulin

  23. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    RNKPCE replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    I think patients often have side effects not allergies. My strangest one was a patient who said he was allergic to oxygen. He was having surgery and did not want the anesthesiologist to use oxygen....

  24. Intramuscular injections- drawing back

    RNKPCE replied to minnimouse's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse for over 15 years. I was giving insulin about a month ago and drew back as usual and got blood. I have never had that happen before. I was kind of shocked. Needless to say I...

  25. How does working major holidays go at your hospital?

    RNKPCE replied to HappyPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    We rate Thanksgiving, Xmas eve, Xmas, New years eve and New years day on a 1-5 scale, 1 being first choice. They try to give everyone their first two choices off. If there is a problem seniority...