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Once, to a new nurse. If you find your patient unresponsive, your first action should NOT be to come look for me. ???

Re: gswifty Can be? Used to be! I used to love it here! But over the years, I have seen this site go from being a helpful friendly place, where people used to freely share knowledge and help. But I've often seen posters get personally attacked like this poster. And yes I've seen it in other fourms, for instance, new nurses asking for guidance from us experienced nurses, and being knocked about, demeaned and then being told to 'Suck it up! Don't you know that we eat our young?'

The treatment of this poster is why I rarely come to this site anymore.

The staff at my son's doctor's office refers to their MA's as nurses. Drives me crazy. And I correct them every time. Having said that, the vet tech's at my Dog's vet, call themselves nurses also. I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

Not sure that this is an appropriate place to post this but I work on a very small med surg floor in a very small hospital. We have LPN students in twice a week. The instructor used to work here, I'm told, years ago. Recently, we were giving turnover at the nurses station. The patient rooms surround the nurses station. As report started, the instructor took it upon herself to close the doors on two rooms citing HIPPA. the nurse giving report stated that those rooms were both line of sight rooms, with one pt being a suicidal ideation pt and the other being a withdrawing ETOH/drug addict, and got up and reopened the door. Next time I came to work, we were told that report was now on to be conducted in the staff break room with doors closed and only one unlicensed personal at the nurses station. I feel that this is a risk to my license, though I can understand the HIPPA concerns. ( I mentioned this when I first started here and was told not to worry about it. !!!!) I would rather do walking rounds Thoughts and ideas please. Thanks!

Ok that's what I was thinking. I have been to see management twice. I am going to put things in writing to them. I am keeping notes. I have spoken to one of the preceptorship and she has told me to mind my own business. The other civilian nurses are on my side. Some have refused to work with him-that's how he ended up on my shift. And I will be calling my carrier on Monday. Thank you.

I am civilian, which adds to the problem because I am told over and over again that the military nurses cannot be sued, which I don't believe, but they do. Many times there are only 2 nurses on the floor. Many times I have had to correct things he has done or intervene,or feel that I should intervened or the safety of the patient. If something does go wrong, I may be the only recourse. Isn't my liability increased because he endangers patients?

II'll try to keep this concise. I work at a small military hospital-please don't move this thread! A new graduate nurse, smart, but cocky, has joined our ranks. He is not being precepted well. In fact, you could argue, not at all. He rarely goes into his patient's rooms, can't seem to prioritize, ("Hey! Would you go check on that patient of mine who's having chest pain?") Draws up meds incorrectly-25mg of phenergren into a 10ml saline syringe and gives half the volume for a 12.5 mg dose, and popped a pill into his hand to give in to the patient at the bedside-the patient complained to me. There is more- much, much more. I have been to management, but there is no plan to withdraw him from the floor. I feel my license is at risk. Advice? Feel free to message me

A Graduate Nurse puts patients back to bed without regard to personal safety. An experienced nurse calls the lift team. A lift team? Talk about a humorous thread! Lol!

If MY phone rings in MY house, I have a right to know WHO is calling. It's courtesy. Maybe I don't have caller ID and maybe YOU misdialed!

I had to go for a TB bleb test at the local 'Doctor's Clinic' branch. The MA that did the test was repeatedly referred to as 'Dr. Smith's nurse', by the office staff till I said "Oh! I thought she was a MA, not a nurse, to which the staff members twittered a bit then said, "oh, yeah she is, but she's HIS nurse". Now I get that the general public gets confused, but in a medical office? It annoys me to no end!

I'm at a new job at a small hospital. I previously have met some good docs, but some real drama queens too. A couple of weeks ago, I took a completed, ordered EKG down to the doc to look at and figured I would return later to pick it up and put it in the chart. After a few hours, I noticed that the EKG was back at the nurses station with a sticky note on it that said " THANKS!". Maybe it was just a small thing, but it made my day :)!

Some of the best nurses I ever worked with were LPN'S

I am alarmed at the nasty comments directed at the poster. She has not done anything wrong, is verbalizing her hurt and confusion, and asking for feedback. So many of you have jumped all over her (reminding me why I rarely get on this fourm anymore) and she has done NOTHING wrong, while giving her instructor a pass for bad behavior. Her instructor's role includes the position of mentor. It comes with the territory. Therefore: 1) The instructor should not have said that she was doing "very good" in clinicals if indeed she was not. This is called critical feedback. Feedback and a plan for improvement if needed is the instructor's job. Think of it as a careplan for students. I don't know if the poster's grades reflect a "very good" clinical component, but if they don't, then the term "good job" is being misused. 'Satisfactory' maybe is the term she should have used. 2) The instructor should not have told all the students that they could all expect a recommendation if it was NOT true. She should have said "If I am comfortable with your clinical performance, I will be glad to write you a letter." 3) If at the point that the poster sent the email, and the instructor was no longer willing to write a letter for her, the instructor should have contacted her and told her this. The poster deserves a timely response. To do otherwise, is to be rude. The instructor does not get a pass for being rude, just because she is the instructor. If as one response seemed to suggest, the instructor decided not to write the recommendation because of repeated emails from the poster, well that is rude on the part of the instructor as well. The student expects and deserves accurate and timely feedback, both negative and positive, from the instructor. It is unacceptable for an instructor to play 'hide and seek' with the student in this way. The student pays tuition and in return, can expect to receive the tools and information and feedback needed to master the course materials. It is the responsibility of the student to use this information to be successful. Now maybe the poster should speak in person to the instructor for clarification of the situation, and maybe she should chalk it up to a bad experience. Personally, I would love to work with this nurse some day because she cares about her performance on the job and wants to learn. She should not be criticized for trying to understand why her perception of the situation somehow differs from her instructor's.

I have done a few shifts so far just trying to pare down what exactly has to happen and what doesn't. It is difficult as I still think I should do more. I'm still struggling with a balance and I struggle with what others leave undone. For instance, we had a drug seeking patient, very animated, and one night, I took over care and she was very, very sleepy-though vitals WNL. There was a small bag on the table directly in front of the pt so I opened it and found PO dilaudid! I mean what was the admission nurse doing? (Pt had no visitors). I think this kind of stuff is pt safety, but often feel that I am in the minority on this.