All4NursingRN

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  1. Seasoned ICU Nurse Lacks Critical Thinking

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lol yes I guess you are right time isn't a remedy for incompetence. Still

  2. Seasoned ICU Nurse Lacks Critical Thinking

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in this icu for 2 years and she has always been like this. The culture of my facility is very lax and people just cover things up until something happens. At first I thought maybe she...

  3. Seasoned ICU Nurse Lacks Critical Thinking

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks Davey! She has admitted that the manager has spoken to her numerous times about her performance issues. She often leaves hours after her shift and the manager has told her she is too soft for...

  4. Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting

  5. Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh wow this is very similar to my situation except I don't know how my manager will react to me not taking his suggestion if "0" as the patients

  6. Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks!, at the time I did chart that the transfusion was not completed and the reason why in my documentation but I have a feeling my manager did not fully review the documentation, it does seem as...

  7. Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks texasholdem, the patient was extemely critical and it was explained to the family that he more than likely would not survive, he was on several vasopressors and had received about 13 liters of...

  8. Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the responses. It is the transfusion form of itself that the manager wants me to pull from medical records and alter. Also on our transfusion forms we have 4 check off boxes on the bottom...

  9. Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    He wanted me to chart that the patients vitals were "0", as in that the patient had no temperature, HR, or

  10. Alert & Oriented Patients Who Pee and Poop on Themselves

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    My co-workers and I are noticing a surge of young relatively healthy patient who are willfully incontinent. They have no structural bowel or bladder problems and are a & o x 3. We are a surgical...

  11. Alert & Oriented Patients Who Pee and Poop on Themselves

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    i believe the patient requested the diaper and the day shift RN put it on as she requested. The patient had a new ileostomy which was leaking from the bag down into the patients perineal area (as the...

  12. Why so many negative nurses in the field?

    All4NursingRN replied to Nursey916's topic in General Nursing

    Darn so much for me being a sweetie pie

  13. Sleepy Coworker... Patient Incident!

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a 10 bed mixed pretty much low acuity surgical stepdown/ SICU. My charge nurse at night who has been there for 30 years is literally no good for her self after about 11pm. After that point...

  14. Struggling with what goes on around me.

    All4NursingRN replied to jaicu's topic in Critical Care

    I have similar situations at my institution. I work at a small level 2 trauma hospital in the ED and now SICU. the amount of medical mistakes is ridiculous by both medicine and to the lesser extent...

  15. RN Who Wants To Become A Paramedic???

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Odd I know I know. But being in the ER seeing the paramedics bring us the critical/trauma patients and proceed to present the case to us and what was done on the field really exhilarates me. In fact...

  16. Facility Stopping & Searching Employees' Personal Belongings

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So my hospital has employed a stop and search policy for all employees exiting the building. They have set up a table in the lobby and have given security guards the right to stop and search any...

  17. Facility Stopping & Searching Employees' Personal Belongings

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Bw anyone can list any good lawyer websites that give

  18. Facility Stopping & Searching Employees' Personal Belongings

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    My point exactly, I'm sure only the blue collar workers are being stopped. I seriously question if any of the physicians or administrative staff will be stopped. Our last ceo was accused of embezzling...

  19. Facility Stopping & Searching Employees' Personal Belongings

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did contact our union rep who said the union was looking into the matter. After that I did not hear of the searches anymore and the memos posted on units disappeared, until a few weeks later which...

  20. Am I a bully?

    All4NursingRN replied to haron54's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    WELL

  21. Nurses Share 10 Critical Tips They Never Learned in Nursing School

    All4NursingRN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    These "tips" don't even crack the surface. Nursing school is a joke compared to real life practice. I personally believe nursing schools curriculum need major reform. Want some real life career tips...

  22. Major NYC Hospital Plans To Downsize

    All4NursingRN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    This is why I gave up working ED in nyc, the ratios are insane. 15:1, 20:1, and yes it can get higher. My last ED was a trauma 2 tiny 70k a year ED which felt like double the number almost every day ,...

  23. Major NYC Hospital Plans To Downsize

    All4NursingRN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Major things are going on here in NY health care. North Shore LIJ (now Northwell health) and NY Presbyterian are scooping up smaller hospitals left and right. I don't think hardly anyone is not part...

  24. Open confrontation with unit attending-advice?

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So this incident was not really even a comfrontation, more of a bizarre occurence. I was having a one on one discussion with a colleague regarding time off. I was telling her that I wanted to request...

  25. Displeased manager

    All4NursingRN replied to sea4lh's topic in General Nursing

    Seems as though you just hit a rough patch. We all get them. Your manager seems like she either likes to micro manage or is under some pressure to perform. I get that being back to work under new...