wooh BSN, RN

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    Should ICU get more pay than floor nursing?!?

    wooh replied to francoml's topic in MICU, SICU

    First, want to make med/surg pay at your hospital? Transfer. Only passed meds? Probably because they gave the inexperienced float nurse a cushy assignment. And if you were paid while you were...
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    Why do nurses "eat their young"?

    wooh replied to hope4ccns's topic in General Students

    Because it's a site for nurses. If you want to complain about nurses, perhaps you'd be better off going to student doctor dot
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    Why do nurses "eat their young"?

    wooh replied to hope4ccns's topic in General Students

    No it is NOT appalling. For the longest time I didn't mind teaching. But every single day more and more work is thrown at staff nurses. There comes a point where something has to give. And guess...
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    Accused of withholding pain medication

    wooh replied to trucol's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'd really like to hear what facilities REALLY do. Not their "policy," but reality. I remember my old facility changing to this, "Can't leave the floor to smoke without an MD order" policy and...
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    3/6 months... quitting the job...

    wooh replied to nichefinder's topic in First Year After Licensure

    No matter where you go in nursing, you'll have to deal with people not as "disciplined" as you think they should be. After all, if everyone had perfect health habits, the only nurses of us working...
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    vent about work assignment

    wooh replied to treeye's topic in General Nursing

    Then don't. But don't expect a paycheck. People with depression don't feel like getting out bed either. Should they get a cushy assignment
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    Am I the only one who hates 12 hour shifts?

    wooh replied to jdubs99's topic in General Nursing

    Oh goodness, people can't do med conversion math. Can you imagine if we had to do TIME
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    Am I the only one who hates 12 hour shifts?

    wooh replied to jdubs99's topic in General Nursing

    10s would be great. How do you recommend those happen without rotating shifts? I doubt the earth's rotation is going to be cut by 4 hours anytime soon, so we'll still be dealing with covering 24...
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    Am I the only one who hates 12 hour shifts?

    wooh replied to jdubs99's topic in General Nursing

    If I worked day 8s, I'd sit in about 30 more minutes of rush hour traffic each shift than working day 12s. Multiply that by 5, that's 2.5 hours I'd never get back. Add in the regular hour of commute...
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    IV administration

    wooh replied to booking1's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    In some states don't even need the IV
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    Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    wooh replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh Miss Ruby!!! I would drive many of you up the wall. I wasn't raised doing it, but working in a southern nursing home, you turn into a Waffle House waitress. I knew I'd lived here too long when I...
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    Very Unprofessional....

    wooh replied to Whoatemyburger's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's not like YOU had a patient in respiratory distress next door. You don't know what the previous nurses had in their other rooms. You don't know how the patient was behaving in the previous 72...
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    Very Unprofessional....

    wooh replied to Whoatemyburger's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Like I said, combative for a couple shifts, let him sleep for one, didn't have time for one. You can easily get to day 3. Perhaps he refused at some point (as patients have a right to do.) Maybe...
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    Very Unprofessional....

    wooh replied to Whoatemyburger's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Perhaps the patient was too combative prior to this to get him cleaned up? Or too combative and when finally not, the nurse had a few other patients acting a hot mess and wasn't able to get in there?...
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    The *EXPERT* Beginner

    wooh replied to Kelly_the_Great's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There's a difference between "weakness" and "not knowing everything." If I tell you to not show weakness, I basically mean, don't fall down into a puddle of tears because you get some criticism....
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    Nurse giving discontinue medications to other patients

    wooh replied to Nurse Amy Jolie's topic in Patient Medications

    At the very least, this shouldn't be a problem for OP, since they aren't a Medicaid facility. But still, when there's no alternative, what is the nurse to do? This is a SYSTEM problem and OP, being...
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    Nurse giving discontinue medications to other patients

    wooh replied to Nurse Amy Jolie's topic in Patient Medications

    Which is a foreseeable problem and the facility should have a planned solution. Such as an
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    RN New Hire - what would you expect them to do?

    wooh replied to chsc's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I wouldn't fire them. But I wouldn't question a manager that did fire someone for
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    Joint Commission's Staffing Standards for Hospitals

    wooh replied to hunnybeeRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If it's illegal, most hospitals are guilty. And just because Joint Commission would frown upon a practice (in this case, they don't actually frown upon it), that doesn't make it "illegal." Staffing...
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    Help, I'm stuck and unsure what to do??

    wooh replied to Lopezlvn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What she did is on her. But YOU should have asked if medications were given by the person still passing meds rather than assume they
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    Help, I'm stuck and unsure what to do??

    wooh replied to Lopezlvn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Just because "not documented" is "not done" doesn't mean it's NOT DONE. I always ask the person responsible for giving meds before I go and give their patient meds. Because it's prudent to double...
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    Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety & Quality Care Act

    wooh replied to j0yegan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Because in what hospital does a nursing supervisor with actual feet on the floor determine staffing? It's really all decided by corporate bean counters. And I've taken care of 8. It sucks. And...
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    Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety & Quality Care Act

    wooh replied to j0yegan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    HCA and other for-profits have better paid lobbyists and more money for bribery than
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    Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety & Quality Care Act

    wooh replied to j0yegan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    These are
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    Overtime dependent nurses

    wooh replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    While being overtime dependent isn't smart, why not be dependent on your differential if you plan to continue working that shift? If you work nights, your base pay is actually base+differential....