Daliadreamer

I was about to post this same question! I'm lucky that my hospital provides free certification review courses from a company called Ed4Nurses, so that is what I am using to study now. I plan on taking the exam in about 2 months, but I have no idea wh...

My dad and I had a discussion about this the other day....he said that he never fills out surveys that are "excellent" because he feels like that leaves them with no room to improve. My response to that was " you probably got someone fired for those ...

We are actually having a contest at the hospital I work at called "The Sacred Cow Contest". We are to think of things that we always do without any real evidence base, or something that we "have always done" and don't really know why (like taking vit...

When I worked in LTC, we had special low beds for residents that were a high(er) fall risk than the others. We would also put mats down around the beds. The only problem with the beds that we had were the amount of beds available, and the side rails....

Hi everyone, I took care of a patient that had a PEG replaced the day before because his previous PEG was leaking. Patient was post CVA a few months ago and in the hospital now for hypoxia, non verbal. Everyone was going well with his feedings. When ...

CrossFit! I feel like this gives me the biggest bang for my buck- it's usually a full body workout that you can do just one or two times a week in between your running schedule, and it does not take a lot of time at all!

I usually just flush .5 to 1 ml (if I remember!) after pushing an IV med because some of the med is still in the hub. If you don't flush, sometimes you can get precipitate with incompatible meds you are pushing if you use the same hub/port.

This has happened at the facility I work at several times. I was surprised to hear, though, that your manager was not aware of the situation right away. Was the charge nurse taking on a full load as well? As a charge RN, it is my responsibility to ta...

It REALLY depends on whether or not they are on active chemo, where they are in their regimen, and the type of ca but I guess a simple answer is YES.

Get him a sitter for a shift. I know it goes against productivity, but at least you would find out if he was just lonely or playing games.

I LOVE putting on L'Occitane hand cream before I go to bed, especially the lavender scent :)

I use Lush Dream Cream...I bring it to work and leave it at the nurses station, and everyone uses it, even the MDs. A teeny tiny bit goes a long way, so the $20 it costs lasts forever, I have had it for over two years. It's wonderful and very soothin...

Don't you just love when that happens?? And it doesn't happen very often. I took care of a little confused lady yesterday...I had to irrigate her bladder several times, and it was extremely painful (I had to close the door because she was screaming s...

Just like the previous post, we also have to identify the tele box with the correct patient every shift, and enter it into the computer charting system so that this does not happen. I don't know how this could have been prevented otherwise.

This is the one issue that always gives me heartburn during the shift. I used to always take the patient if the nurses were busy, but then I was busy with this new patient for the remainder of the shift, instead of doing my charge nurse duties, and t...

One of our patients is constantly whining, very anxious and on his call light every 10 minutes. He has been with us for over a month now, so we keep rotating nurses that take care of him. For this particular patient though, it was a good thing that h...

We have a "No Pass Zone" on our unit. If a light is on, you are not allowed to pass it up, you have to go into the room and at least find out what the patient needs. The nurse has her phone number listed on the white board in the room, so whoever ans...

We only give it SC; I was not even aware it could be given IV. Most of the time, if our patients are inpatient, we give neupagen. Neulasta is given IV as an outpatient in the Cancer Care Clinic. This can only be given as an outpatient though, so some...

I was put in this situation...my manager was leaving and wanted me to step in as interim manager until the hospital found a replacement. I knew that I didn't want the postion permanantly though, as I only had 2 years of nursing experience. I had the ...

You can use a regular huber needle to access the port, but if the patient is to have any kind of CT scan, DO NOT USE IT. A power port needle is specifially made to withstand the pressure used to inject the CT dye. If the dye were to be injected into ...

Awesome!!!! Now how about an HCAHPS one?

Nope, it was a spectrum pump, not sigma. Sorry!

Now you have me thinking...I will have to go and check tomorrow when I go back to work. I have a pump locked up that I can look at when I get there.

Ours are going to be going live on June 14th. We are going to be training the staff next week. The super users have already gone through training. I wasn't aware of any recall though. That's interesting.

I know that I will be taking a pay cut...but when I was thinking about going for the position I did ask myself to take the money issue out of the equation and then make my decision. I don't want to do the job for the money, I really do enjoy what I a...