OldnurseRN

OldnurseRN

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  1. How to deal with those family members who are "nurses"?

    OldnurseRN replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guilty of recapping needles everytime I use a filter needle to draw lido out of a lido amp. I need to put the smaller needle on the syringe for the doctor to inject that lido and I'm NOT going to...

  2. IPPB

    OldnurseRN replied to snowmaiden2005's topic in General Nursing

    Having been a respiratory therapist in the 70's IPPB was what a respiratory treatment was. We used a Bird respirator, we set the pressure at 15 and the treatment lasted 20 minures. IPPB translate into...

  3. Employment question for experienced nurses

    OldnurseRN replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    Is the "small community hospital" a critical access hospital? That could be one of the deciding factors. Critical access hospitals, while they have acute patients, are mostly skilled beds for patients...

  4. Horrible 14 1/2 hr shift.

    OldnurseRN replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Break open an ammonia amp and bring her around a time or two, lol. Some people really enjoy their illnesses ( my mother is one example ) and it's frustrating. I guess, difficult as it is to accept,...

  5. Educational nightmare

    OldnurseRN replied to shadow1100's topic in General Nursing

    We have a designated skills day, which is fine and dandy. We have on-going education at each nurses meeting. What I HATE is unannounced "mock codes". Nothing is worse than a team of management showing...

  6. Beginning Nursing Question

    OldnurseRN replied to Johnny B's topic in General Nursing

    Associate degree or bachelor degree ...both take the same nursing boards and both result in RN after your

  7. Would you have done this differently?

    OldnurseRN replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    In our hospital an incident report is a tool (yes it does make an error part of a record) but it's purpose is to teach and cause one to see what caused the error and more importantly, how to avoid it...

  8. Potential employer wants to talk to CURRENT boss as reference

    OldnurseRN replied to ajaxgirl's topic in General Nursing

    I always reply my current employer can be contacted AFTER a job offer is

  9. If you have rec' d the H1N1 vaccine - please report

    OldnurseRN replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Got the injection 2 weeks ago. No problem. Was sore for 4 hours. The regular flu shot was

  10. Ativan IM?

    OldnurseRN replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    I agree whispera. Trying to find that big muscle among the 10 to 12 RTAs holding that patient down got too be just too much and THAT is why I left the state mental

  11. We are a small rural hospital looking at different EMR systems to initiate.

    OldnurseRN replied to MelGW's topic in General Nursing

    We are also a rural Critical Access hospital. We use CPSI for inpatients and EMAP in the ED. I guess CPSI is

  12. How many would consider leaving nursing if they had a similar or slightly higher pay.

    OldnurseRN replied to jean36's topic in General Nursing

    Most

  13. Have they gotten rid of Respiratory Therapists where you work, also?

    OldnurseRN replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow okankhe you are a most dedicated nurse. My hats off to you!! (Thank goodness hats are no longer required,

  14. Do You Wear Your Colors To Work?

    OldnurseRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in the State mental hospital we wore street clothes because a study showed that patient finds staff in white to be more "unapproachable". Wonder if that includes medical patients or just...

  15. To use a headhunter or not?

    OldnurseRN replied to PureLifeRN's topic in General Nursing

    My one and only experience was 18 years ago and a disaster. I left my job of 11 years for a position that was NOT a good fit. He hard-sold me to them and vice versa. On my 90th day, I was let go and...

  16. Have they gotten rid of Respiratory Therapists where you work, also?

    OldnurseRN replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    We have RTs on the day shift weekdays only. If they have a scheduled sleep study then of course, they aren't there during the day and nurses do their work. I work the overnight shift and in the ED we...

  17. Do You Wear Your Colors To Work?

    OldnurseRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    We are required to wear white but lots of the nurses wear either a colored (or print) top or jacket. I wear red on Friday, regardless, in support of out

  18. wrong route phenergan?

    OldnurseRN replied to cybernurse614's topic in Patient Medications

    We never give phenergan IVP. It is always mixed in a 25 ml or 50 ml bag of NaCl and

  19. How often do EMS crews show up to your dept unannounced?

    OldnurseRN replied to Larry77's topic in Emergency

    From most of the posts it's easy to see that most of you are in big EDs. We are a critical access hospital with 2 ED beds and 2 PACU beds that we can fill and 1 procedure room. We have 3 nurses on...

  20. Transcription Policies

    OldnurseRN replied to hamartin1515's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    One nurse transcribes our orders. A second nurse verifies they are entered correctly and the one verifying is the one who actually notes the

  21. "Star System"

    OldnurseRN replied to imasharm's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I worked as a psych nurse at the State Mental institution we were subjected to mandatory overtime to cover the following shift for a nurse who called in. There was an actual rotation roster for...

  22. Heparin safety

    OldnurseRN replied to mgaynor's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our facility requires two signatures on heparin but only one has to be the RN. We don't always have a second RN but our LPNs can

  23. Infection control problems using single use vials?

    OldnurseRN replied to greenterra's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We routinely swab all newly opened vials, single use or multi-use. In fact, in the ED we don't ever use what remains in the multi-dose vials on anyone else. Not only was I taught this years ago our...

  24. Hourly Rounding

    OldnurseRN replied to Erianne1074's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We implemented the hourly rouding in our facility and it's a joke. The nurses who don't do it keep their "Sorry I Missed You" card by their computer, write the times in and drop the card off in the...