kateRN

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1. Change of shift report

   kateRN replied to angel333's topic in General Nursing

   We do a verbal report. I work in the ICU- there are 4 nurses assigned to each pod, and eight patients to a pod. We hear verbal report on all eight patients, and then decide amoung ourselves how to...

2. Care Plans an Exercise in FUTILITY??????

   kateRN replied to Destinystar's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Care plans are meaningless wastes of time. They don't mean anything, and their only purpose is to generate more points when JCAHO comes. :) I fill mine out everyday because we're supposed to, but...

3. Religion's Place in Nursing

   kateRN replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

   Most of the time i don't believe things that billy rants and raves about either, such as the "gay, jewish bashing", but i do believe in the resurrection of Jesus. I can believe in the Son of God...

4. brainstorming and help needed for itchy resident, no help yet

   kateRN replied to ilovetheelderly's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds like this COUld be exzema?? I had a really bad problem with this myself about a year ago. It popped up out of no where- I now think it was due to an allergic reaction to some scented lotions...

5. How Much Experience for Charge Nurse

   kateRN replied to CarVsTree's topic in Cardiac

   It seems that on our floor they wait until a person has about one year of experience before the orient them to charge. I was oriented to charge nurse after about 14 months of working. It's kind of...

6. Transporting Telemetry Patients off the unit

   kateRN replied to CV CNS CCRN's topic in Cardiac

   We actually just changed out policy. We used to have to send everyone on tele all the time for every test. Now, there is a list of criteria that states when a patient must travel with a monitor, and...

7. 1 1/2 years in and ? getting out

   kateRN replied to Liz'02RN's topic in Cardiac

   I also graduated in 2002, and began my career on a cardiac stepdown tele unit. I have had a lot of good experiences since I've started, but I'm also beginning to feel frustrated. I can definately...