Dancer3
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Hi, I am a med-surg nurse who obtained a Master of Divinity and am doing a year-long chaplain residency at a Level I Trauma Center that includes a burn unit. I am developing a presentation entitled "Tools for Processing Grief for Burn Unit Staff." I am having trouble finding resources/models/clinical papers. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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I have to speak up for Southern Hills Medical Center. I went back to nursing after 20 years at home. I took a refresher course at Vanderbilt the summer of 2003. I applied several places in middle Tennessee, including Vanderbilt (at the time I was looking for part time work). No one was interested in me except Southern Hills. They gave me a new grad orientation when I agreed to a fulltime position. I have been there since November, 2003. The staff is very professional and there are many learning opportunities. I work days. After 18 months I rotated off weekends due to there being a regular weekend staff in place. The docs are great. Some nurses come to us from other hospitals and say our staff is like a family. I remember when I first began there one of the nurses said,"Welcome to the family!" I will never forget that. We do team nursing. Cay Lavender is our clinical coordinator and she is awesome. The charge nurses are all super. I was very nervous when I first returned and everyone did all they could to help me. It worked! It is definitely not a place where nurses eat their young - or their old and inexperienced! I am studying for a divinity degree and am able to be off every other Friday to attend classes. Dancer3
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Maybe I will like it better the more I get used to that and everything else. Dancer3
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I am in orientation in a hospital in Tennessee doing online documentation, MediTech. I have not worked in a hosptial in over 20 years. Back then we wrote everything with pen and paper. Thanks to my husband, I am used to the computer world. My observation, which is certainly slanted since I have one more week of orientation, is that it takes more time to document with the computer due to the numerous screens. I am still learning my way around, especially in regards to accessing information when required. We also have stinger carts to pass meds which requires scanning all meds after obtaining them from the accudose system. Then the patient's armband is scanned and recently asking the patient to self-identify was added. This does make is safer to pass meds without fearing one of the five rights is being violated, but it is very time consuming. It just shows how much things have changed in the hospitals in a quarter of a century. Dancer3