KK92RN

Yep press-ganey is all we hear about also. We have to do pt and employee rounding ( to see how things are working, does anyone need to be recognized for excellent care or assistance ect...) So basically the charge nurses are doing some jobs of manage...

any nursing procedure book should have how to do it step by step and you really don't need a policy on a procedure unless its required by some certifying agency and i don[t believe that is.

crocs have the holes in the top of them so you have to be careful of body fluid spills or needles. my hospital actually is not going to allow them anymore

we call ours a clinical practice council. it is a way to include the clinical staff in some of the administrative decisions that affect the hospital and staff and always affect your patients. ours has 9 separate commitees that address different issue...

ok so is there an automatid referal to the dept of children to check on these children that are being born to these ladies..

Well i started class in aug 1997 due in october. Went to school on a monday morning cause we couldn't miss the hospital orientation spokesperson and me and a classmate sitting across the room from each other timing contractions. The instructor saw us...

most definately file the order now before you start school. it take about 4-6 months and you tell your side of the story when you turn in the paperwork. they may say they will give a probationary license but at least know before you start school.

I work in a busy ortho trauma floor so we get stuff all the time. what we usually do is if er calls report before 630 and brings them up then we accept them and get them settled. we give a brief report and then the oncoming shift picks it up. if for ...

I would think you would still be staffed like icu. and need the same equipment. my hospital has a stepdown unit but it is off of icu. they get vent pts and some other stuff. i work ortho/trauma and we get head injuries and the long term traumas but n...

i was taught in school that for any change you have to talk to the md. but if i know the doctor or it was a pt home med then you should be covered. I the doctor wrote specifically for that then i would call. some mds you can never tell what they will...

I have been in med surg for 6 years and prior to that i worked skilled nursing rehab in the same hospital. i have been on a ortho, neuro, trauma, ms unit for 2 years as a rn charge and pretty much love it. I am comfortable there now. took a while. bu...

I work on a 28 bed ortho, neuro, med-surg, trauma unit. We have split the floor so it works like this: staffing for the floor total. 2 charge 6 nurses on the floor and 2 pca. Each side has a charge and 3 nurses and 1 pca for 14 pts. now don't get me...

i have back problems to. i know when i need new shoes when my back starts to hurt. i have good luck with nike shoks. actually only took me 5 minutes to walk out with them and i usually take 3 hrs to find a good pair.

only one tech for 28 pts. doing own vs. pt goes into st 140 c/o cp and transferred to pcu. total care trauma head injury pt with trach. sx all day. pt going for craniotomy family dilema there. new p.o. amp. p.o vs. every one else behind at 730 pm so ...

Well i work on a 28 bed trauma, ortho, medsurg floor and we split the floor in to 2 parts. Each side has 14 pts and the staff is set up like this: 1 charge rn 3 lvns or rn's for pt care 1 patient care associate we also have 2 unit reps most of the ti...

My question is to anyone with experience with this particular problem. My employer is initiating randon drug screens ( which i thought they already had) and we have been told to check the over the counter supplements we take to see if any of them com...

well there was one nurse who was drinking a herbal tea and tested positive for barbituates and they compared her meds she was taking and the information on the herb tea did not say anything about it being excreted in the urine therefor it was conside...

well i understood it to be clamping when you get to 1000 to prevent the spasms. a lot of things tend to be nursing judgement now. i would clamp for 30-60 min then let it flow. thats all i know sorry...

We use toradol in our standing orders for post op hips, knees ect. I have never had any problems with it. With it being an NSAID then you would watch for contraindications automatically. It was wonderful when I had it for whiplash after a car acciden...

Well i guess i am an ortho nurse now after 5 yrs in med- surg. how long does it take to get used to it. i feel like i am just newly graduating. at my facility they combined a medsurg floor and its staff with the ortho/trauma floor and thier staff and...

before you even send in an application to the board with your fee the board will want a declaration from you. you can get it off the website and it was 150. for me to send it in and see if they would give me a license. the background check doesn't ma...

well i didn't get hypnotized but i did quit cold turkey. i kept 6 cigarettes within reach for about a week. even had them in my car because i thought if i got stressed out at work i would need one and if it wasn't there i would want it more. it has n...

ok well it depends on what part of the hospital you work in. every floor does it different and some do the previous shift makes the next assignment. i don;t know which one is better

my hospital er did that to my father in law. kept him in the er all day long then at 10 pm transfers him to hospice and he passes 30 minutes later. all because they didn't have a bed. but he had the one he was in.

acuity, lol. what is that. it doesn't matter if we change the pts acuity level or not on our computer system we always get the same thing. and management always says " call us if you need help" we call, do we get help, not until you threaten safe har...