Say that you find posts in an online group that seem to hint that the writer will attempt suicide. My question is, as a nurse are you legally obligated to report it (i.e. have the authorities perform a safety check) as a mandated reporter? Would this...
sandyfeet replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn
I am 37 weeks pregnant and on maternity leave, but still wanting to flex my nurse brain by reading AN. Your article made me decide to give the L&D nurses who will take care of me catered SANDWICHES! Great article!
YES. Also say "I guess you will be paying me overtime while you find another nurse to take report, because Nurse A refused to take report". That will get a manager's attention!
I think this would only help you if you were planning a career in academia. If you are hoping to end up in public health, clinics or long-term care, you should seek out internships in those areas. It also does sound like A LOT of work on top of your ...
My ED is constantly full. I get where OP is coming from. While I am treating your chronic pain that your PCP/pain management doc has not adequately managed, Grandma with a broken hip is waiting in the ambulance bay for an open bed. Baby with a histor...
Yes, this happened to me for a nurse aid position. The recruiter said that there were budget cuts. I was bawling over the phone but it's not in my nature to be rude so I just tried my best to keep it together and remain polite. THEN...I got a call ba...
sandyfeet replied to Nurse131382's topic in Nursing
This is the real issue here. If OP crashes her car because she fell asleep, miscalculates a pediatric dose, gives a med to the wrong patient, or doesn't catch that her patient is crashing until it's too late, it's all on her. Sleep deprivation makes ...
I believe some nursing student sins are forgivable. Before I started my pre-reqs I ran a red light with a camera, and got a ticket. Went to traffic school and got it all taken care of. When I applied for NCLEX I had to declare that I'd had a traffic ...
This is always a hot topic. It would be interesting to include in your research the acuity of patients waiting in the ER lobby for an open room...also at risk of worsening symptoms. When we have over a 2 hour wait in the ER lobby, the entire hospit...
I am in your target demographic; I just passed 2 years this summer. I am starting to get more involved by doing clinical ladder. The people I started with (also mostly new grads) are starting to do Triage because of a shortage of triage nurses on n...
sandyfeet replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency
I had a patient on a 5150 who threatened to call the news because we were holding her against her will. Luckily her husband was able to take her phone away from her. I always wondered what the news would do in a situation like that- would they repo...
sandyfeet replied to mellowman's topic in Emergency
So interesting! After I read your post, I used my school access to look up "iodine allergy" and found an article from the journal Allergy and Asthma Proceedings that talked about iodine allergy and the prevalence of iodine in our diet (salt, eggs, b...
sandyfeet replied to tarotale's topic in Emergency
Couple of tips... Does meditech have something like 'acronym expansion'? I use SCM and will use the acronym $discharged that the system writes out as "Patient AOx4, respirations even and unlabored. Patient states pain level tolerable to leave facil...
sandyfeet replied to RNdynamic's topic in Relations
Ancillary is the correct term, because it means someone who provides support. It's not diminutive. I had only one serious problem with an US tech in my two years so far as a nurse. I had a pregnant patient in police custody because she was using dr...
The problem with leaving a shoe or a purse in the backseat (or a diaper bag in the front) is that the parent has to have the foresight to arrange it that way. Excluding negligent parents, the problem with forgetting your child in the car seems to be...
