nightshiftnut

Been there, done that many times!

time for the oh' so cute baby dance! :dncgbby::lttang: " a baby is god's gift that the world should go on"

hmmmm. how about, dr. phil, dr. pepper, dr. dre, dr. who, dr. oz. hey, dr. seuss or dr. ruth. rug doctor sounds good! then, theres dr. atkins, dr. scholl's and the doctor i would most like to be......dr. demento! have a great day!:heartbeat

Are you being serious? If you are, your fortunate.

We used to give verbal report to the oncoming nurse, then it changed to taped report. Now, we are going to start reporting at bedside with the oncoming nurse and discuss the patients condition, look over iv sites, dressings, make sure iv bags are ful, etc.. Anyone out there familiar with this process. I would greatly appreciate positive and negative feedback with your experience. What about HIPPA violation. Sure, I'd love for my roomate to know that I'm scheduled for a bowel resection due to cancer, or that I have frequent watery green bm's, please let them know about my stage 4 pressure ulcer while your at it, etc,etc. :imbar

Oh, lets see. It can be scary at times. I have my multi-colored pen (green,red,blue,black), yellow highlighter, black sharpie, scissors, penlight,pack of gum, rolled up paper towel with phone numbers on it (from an admission), couple of post-it notes, tore up orange fall risk band(patient ripped up), infamous alcohol wipes. Oh, yes. If I look further down in my pocket, I see something else (no, it's not lint.) I see a snack bar, a potty, and a water fountain, and a new pair of legs to carry me through the rest of the 16 hour shift.

Nightshift here! I love working nightshift because I feel that I can give my patients a "little extra". No dealing with Social Workers, PCM, blah, blah, blah. On my unit, we usually care for 7-8 at night-Oncology/Med-Surg. Lots of FFP, Platelets and PRBC's on night. Not unusual to be running on three patients.

Just wanted to add my thoughts. I'm an RN and have worked with many LPN's on a very busy fast paced 31 bed med/surg unit. I have absolutely no problems working with LPN's. In my opinion, we are both equal nurses who have the same goal of providing quality patient care. Sure, I understand that I will have to push all their IV meds, start blood or tpn, etc. The LPN's apoligize to me because I have to do this for them when I have my own team of patients. No apoligies required! We work as a team. If I am doing something for their patient they will in turn hang an antibiotic for mine or pass meds for me. I have the utmost respect for all LPN's. :redbeathe

shave your head...problem solved.

Oh, the sad point is you can end up having a heavier load with a high acuity and the other nurse has a cake walk. I sincerely believe in using a acuity tool. I used it as a charge nurse on a previous 31 bed unit before. Works well.

Days is usually 5 patients and 1-2 nursing assistants. Evenings 5-6 w/one aide. Night shift (oh,glorious nightshift) is 8 patients with one aide. Forget about your pee break! Med/Surg/Oncology Unit.

My heart is really speaking to me to initiate this program where I work. I would have never known that their was such a program if you hadn't posted. Thanks!

I wish our hospital would adopt this into their system. Being a Hospice/Oncology nurse I try my best to be in the room as much as possible when a patient (with no family) is actively dying. My heart aches when I know that a patient passed away without someone holding their hand or providing comforting words.

I would pretty much agree with the above post. Self care deficits, dysphagia, some expressive aphasia. My Dad started having seizures and horrible headaches in the 70's. At that point the AVM was inoperable. He was in his 30's at that point. Over the years his vision declined to the point of tunnel vision. For 40 years the AVM loomed. Two years ago they suggested Gamma-Knife, but were unable to perform. He had mass effect and steriods were initiated without success. It was absolutley terrible for my Dad in the end. I visit on a Friday and he's eating gumdrops and talking about the newest book he had just finished. Two days later, he cannot walk, generalized weakness, unable to swallow or care for himself, his brain had a mass effect and 7 weeks later he passed.

Look! It's a bird, it's a plane, NO! it's NURSEGOODBODY and her sidekick CAPTAIN URINAL! She's able to leap over the combative patient in a single bound ! She's quicker than exploding diarrhea. With her magic stethoscope she can restrain the psychotic patient with the flick of her wrist. "snicker"