concerned1738
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Nope, we don't even have a security officer. We have to somehow make it to the nurses station at the front of the unit and call the other end of the hospital for help. Sometimes they run down and sometimes they take their sweet time. I don't really know what I would do if I got stuck in a patients room. There would be no way to call for help.
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Breaks? Are you kidding me? They take 30 minutes off my time automatically and I can not leave the unit. They say if you get to set at the desk and eat then you had lunch. It's crazy. But they also let the RN's leave the aids by themselves so that they can go grab something from the cafeteria. I will not leave the unit so I just send my CNA
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I think that this is absolutely rediculous. If there is not legislation that restricts this, there should be. I have searched the web but am unable to find anything. If you have any suggestions please let me know. I really feel like both the patients and myself are in danger with this situation. I too have been told that if I need to I can call to the med surge unit of the hospital, but there is a long hall between here and there and there are also NO phones in pt rooms. We had a code one day and thank God there was an aid here or I would've been in a world of trouble.
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Okay I am a new nurse and I am working in a gero-psych unit in Oklahoma. There is only one RN (me) and an aid (if we have more than one patient). At times we have some pretty crazy patients. So, does anyone know the laws regarding staffing a psych facility? I would think that there would have to be at least an RN and an aid at all times. I know it is a gero unit, but we have had patients as young as 25 and alot of our patients are between 40 and 60 and are schiziphrenic. If I only have one patient the administration tells me that we can't show a need for more than one person(the RN). Also, we do telemedicine and I have to go into the room with the DR before the patient does, this leaves the patient alone in the hall. I refuse to do this. At night there is almost always only the RN and no aid. HELP!!