BedsideNurse

BedsideNurse

Member

  • Content

    171

  • Visitors

    5,197

  • Followers

    1

  • Likes

    43

All Content by BedsideNurse

  1. New grad nurse wondering if I made a mistake choosing this career

    BedsideNurse replied to ddrn97's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It is true. I was walking out of the hospital one morning after a 12 hour tele shift and a doctor I'd talked to overnight about a patient was leaving out the door at the same time says *Hello again,...

  2. Hot Cheetos are a public health menace

    BedsideNurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    LOL. It doesn't sound

  3. Swastikas & Nursing | Refusing care based upon moral objection?

    BedsideNurse replied to guest042302019's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses do judge, I do, and we all make "judgments" all the time whether we want to admit it or not. At the very least common sense, experience, and safety come into play. That being said, I give...

  4. Removed from Nurse Residency Program-Should I Try Psych?

    BedsideNurse replied to dbabz's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A trauma SICU is a difficult jump for nurses with experience, so I wouldn't be hard on yourself for it not working out. They knew you were brand new, so I'm wondering what they expected, especially...

  5. Mandatory Uniforms

    BedsideNurse replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    You are right about the color coding. If nurses are relegated to all white the older patients seem to know who the nurses are, but aside from that, patients and families still don't know who is who....

  6. Dropped Pill - Do you give it?

    BedsideNurse replied to applesxoranges's topic in General Nursing

    I've dropped pills on the floor, and once I dusted it off and gave it. One time in 20 years and I still feel kinda bad about it. I was desperately busy but...(sigh). I know it's not

  7. Patient-Nurse Culture Matching

    BedsideNurse replied to perfexion's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, so, the answer would be to...what?. From the suburbs--not allowed to work in inner city hospitals, German immigrant--automatically unfit for practice in the U.S., Chinese--to work in...

  8. Nurse Staffing Ratios - Going before Massachusetts voters in November

    BedsideNurse replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here's the "what planet are you on" non endorsement of nurse patient ratios by the MA ANA: "This is the wrong path for Massachusetts, for patients and for nurses," said Diane Hanley, President of the...

  9. MD vs DO

    BedsideNurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    All other things being equal, if I had to choose between an MD or a DO I would pick the

  10. Mistake on orientation..please help

    BedsideNurse replied to MommyRN89's topic in Patient Medications

    Well, that's a bummer. You didn't reschedule right and she didn't pay attention. I'm sure you'll be more careful when reschuduling meds and she'll be more careful looking over last doses and...

  11. Nurse pay in France equivalent to CNA pay here

    BedsideNurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure about France, but staff nurses in England and Ireland make much less than the U.S., and the patient ratios are generally worse, so 14-15 pounds/hr for an experienced nurse was the typical...

  12. Right med but suspended

    BedsideNurse replied to CJ2121's topic in General Nursing

    I'd been fired 100x over. If I can't scan something because pharmacy hasn't "put it in yet" and I need to give it, or it just won't scan for some reason, or I've accidentally torn the bar code, I...

  13. Inadequate Staffing: Patient Safety in Today's Healthcare Marketplace- A Four Part Series

    BedsideNurse replied to Damion Jenkins's topic in General Nursing

    Just a warning about ratios: hospitals are using bogus acuity tools to undermine the ratio laws. So, since your patient doesn't have certain qualifiers, they aren't that sick or shouldn't take up...

  14. Finding a CVICU position

    BedsideNurse replied to pamiesuejt27's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I would just apply and see what happens, as Ruby Vee said. If you can't get in that way, you could find a hospital with an open heart program, work in ICU or cath lab there, then put in for a...

  15. Do you trust the organ donation process (after recovery of 'brain dead' boy)?

    BedsideNurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I've always checked the donor box on my drivers license and told my loved ones that's what I wanted. However, regardless of what happened in the news story, after being inundated with donor patients...

  16. Nurses' Week - Upended.

    BedsideNurse replied to evilolive07's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mean to sound ingrateful but I am not interested in trinkets or disingenuous blather from hospital admin, thanking nurses for all they do, putting patients first, whatever. If they truly...

  17. How did you get the big pay raise?

    BedsideNurse replied to Nurse3242's topic in General Nursing

    When I graduated there were too many nurses where I lived and you had to beg for work and take what you could get, with terrible pay. I worked there for about 2 years and moved out of state & got...

  18. Universal Deathcare.

    BedsideNurse replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of things, nearly anything coming from The Guardian is false until proven otherwise. Lol. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but they have a perspective that makes me question their numbers...

  19. Universal Deathcare.

    BedsideNurse replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    The NHS costs a fortune. Importantly, it is "free at the point of service," not free. A 21% VAT tax on almost everything you buy means it seriously impacts what you spend every day. That...

  20. Workplace Sayings

    BedsideNurse replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Overhead at the bedside of an impending emergency: "Oh no. Here comes Dr. Don't Just Do Something Stand

  21. Coworker problem

    BedsideNurse replied to Nurse071094's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient was stable enough to wait until the next shift, okay to wait for your preliminary rounds, + get cleaned up, packed up and medicated, you probably didn't need a physician

  22. Why Do We Continue to Harm Patients?

    BedsideNurse replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Agreed...Nursing programs, especially BSN programs, need a total

  23. Patient Ratio 1:8 and no tech!

    BedsideNurse replied to newgradamy's topic in Travel

    It's not just southern non union hospitals that have crappy staffing. I've worked in northern union hospitals where the ratios sucked too. Legalized ratios seem to be working in CA. It was great...

  24. Why Do We Continue to Harm Patients?

    BedsideNurse replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Errors arise from the absolute panic nurses are in trying to get everything done. Often units have no secretary, and there are one to two techs for an entire tele or med-surg floor, and one of them...

  25. No alcohol. NONE

    BedsideNurse replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You could just tell them you're trying to get healthier and decided cutting out alcohol was a good place to start. You could throw in something about trying to eat better or exercise too. Usually...