Accolay

Accolay

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  1. to break contract or to not?

    Accolay replied to ilovenursingsomuch's topic in General Nursing

    Did the contract you signed incur some kind of financial incentive? What's the catch? If so, would you have to pay money back? So, starting NP school in January but would like to move to another job...

  2. Best bra for nurses

    Accolay replied to iamalagirl's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Not sure why I'm here. But as others have mentioned, get measured. Many women usually go a long time without having a proper sizing. (I worked in retail once) Bra size -

  3. Help I made a huge med error!!

    Accolay replied to Ccn2556's topic in Patient Medications

    So you signed out a controlled substance, something happened with another patient, which happens, and you left the narc there. But then what happened to the narc? Did it disappear? Did they have video...

  4. Dealing with Students in Clinicals: What would you like to see?

    Accolay replied to bsf312's topic in General Nursing

    Just don't be doing anything with patients that you shouldn't or without asking your instructor or the patient's nurse. Some nurses are pretty crabby when it comes to students in general. Don't take...

  5. How do you work your three days/nights ?

    Accolay replied to Hershell's topic in General Nursing

    I try to get all my days or nights grouped up = longer time off stretches for me. As mentioned by Card, an on, off, on night schedule will rob you of more days than doing them back to back such as:...

  6. Nursing school at 38?

    Accolay replied to Elle7745's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Straight up: *grabs Elle's shoulders and shakes her* snap out of it, sister! Stop this negativity! That was harsh, I know :) But people do this all the time (not the shaking, but going back to school-...

  7. Pay cuts

    Accolay replied to KSjo88's topic in General Nursing

    For all the complaining about unions and their dues.... this is an example of what one could

  8. How to approach this situation from management standpoint?

    Accolay replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Regardless if the dressing truly requires an every shift dressing change, if you really want to know what's going on: be a manager and do an audit on your staff's work. Easy peasy. No need to even...

  9. Midlife Crisis

    Accolay replied to SpookyRN764's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Take a breath. It's easy to see that you're stressed out and overwhelmed. It sounds like you don't have a lot of wiggle room. Anything going forward for a while will seem like an impossible task. One...

  10. Banana bag krider

    Accolay replied to Moralesrn's topic in Patient Medications

    Banana bag?

  11. Does the exhaustion go away?

    Accolay replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I wont hold punches here: your commute is nuts. You're going to have to suck up your current problem or make a choice to move to where a job is closer. How much are you spending on your monthly...

  12. Reportable BRN incidents

    Accolay replied to Wrestler133's topic in General Nursing

    Making a medication error sucks. If it makes you feel any better, giving a patient 5mg extra methadone probably wouldn't have affected them much. But making a medication error, then falsifying the...

  13. Second needlestick in 2 weeks

    Accolay replied to Dreamer323's topic in General Nursing

    What JKL said. I don't know if you would be fired, but it would give your manager pause- you learned nothing from your first needle stick injury and exposure. And now you didn't do the right thing and...

  14. So confused about IVPB

    Accolay replied to AbigailJo's topic in Patient Medications

    If your hospital doesn't have medication orders that come with IV rates, then I'd say it's behind the times- this is how accidents happen. If you're getting rates that are incorrect, that's an Event...

  15. Nursing as a twenty one year old hispanic male

    Accolay replied to gabe55605's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm not a Hispanic nurse, nor did I start at a young age. What I think of when I hear "Man's Job" is you show up on time, work hard, do your job well, bring home the bacon and take care of your...

  16. What to do when a patient doesn't listen?

    Accolay replied to cc290133's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yell harder? :) The cynical side of me says that you only have a small amount of time with each pt and even if you make your time count, it's usually not enough. I also believe that motivation comes...

  17. Giving insulin late patient request

    Accolay replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    I would say that you wouldn't be in "trouble" per se. As others suggested, make sure you document and talk about it with your patent. Sometimes it's because they know their body. Other times it's...

  18. Worried sick that I may have caught MRSA?

    Accolay replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah. Anyone raise your hand if your hospital has swabbed your nose to test? I didn't think

  19. Where Were You...9/11

    Accolay replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I was stationed on the USS SoandSo. We were in the middle of a deployment, back in port for a week of maintenance. I was in the engine control room helping a buddy troubleshoot a circuit when he came...

  20. Hot Cheetos are a public health menace

    Accolay replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Well, those hot cheetos are hot! You would definitely need a pepsi to cool it

  21. Can I please get a Parking Spot!

    Accolay replied to ArrowRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think free parking is a cross to die on either. Oh the humanity of... parking? I think the only person who has a designated spot is the CEO. Our contract pay parking is actually fairly...

  22. Med carts with no drawers

    Accolay replied to Astral Walker's topic in Patient Medications

    What? You guys get carts? What a concept! If it had locking drawers I can imagine filling it up at the start of my AM med/surg shift and then going to town. We actually have computers in each room,...

  23. MY UNIT IS IN CHAOS

    Accolay replied to kiowasteph's topic in General Nursing

    Man, only five quit in a year? I can't believe any nurse manager stays beyond a week! I wouldn't take a NM job to save my soul for all the crap those guys have to put up with. They don't even get to...

  24. mixing pain medications with a flush

    Accolay replied to painmeds's topic in General Nursing

    I have some confusion over this. I had an inservice with a company that makes PICC lines and they said that we should not use anything smaller than 10mL syringe to flush a PICC, due to the increased...

  25. mixing pain medications with a flush

    Accolay replied to painmeds's topic in General Nursing

    I dilute medications if the given dose is a small amount and they are to be given over a specific time period and especially if going straight into an access and not an access with maintenance being...