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  1. Whats your typical pt load?

    hospicemom replied to hospicemom's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Boy, that really stinks...even with 4-5 pts I am working overtime just to get the paperwork done...mostly with admissions. I am such a freak with the paperwork, I dont want the day to come when I am...

  2. How Do You Make Patient Assignments on Your Unit?

    hospicemom replied to RN-PA's topic in Medical-Surgical

    There are problems alike with the mesh system I use. We have what we call "swingbed" pts. once they are in the hospital for so long and would be ready for discharge we will "swing" them for reasons...

  3. How Do You Make Patient Assignments on Your Unit?

    hospicemom replied to RN-PA's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Charge nurses dont really matter in the Mesh system.....I am working tomorrow and will get a copy of it.....Ill post it up here tomorrow evening for

  4. I need an answer please

    hospicemom posted a topic in Operating Room

    i am a floor RN and have a question for all you OR nurses. Is it normal to not fully recover patients before sending them back up to the floor? I understand its the weekend or whatever..but to not...

  5. how do you tell people their loved one is near death?

    hospicemom replied to Purple Princess's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    As a CNA You cannot tell the patients family anything regarding the pt status...all questions should be referred to the RN. Aides are an important role in patient care and in the hospice setting it is...

  6. Playing The Waiting Game After The Nclex

    hospicemom replied to MoonChild RN's topic in General Nursing

    CONGRATS MOONCHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now ,the FUN begins...your an

  7. question for LPN to RN's

    hospicemom replied to MQ Edna's topic in LPN to RN

    Where I went to school we already knew who the LPNs were when coming into 2nd year. We didnt treat them any differently.....second year proved to be even harder for the LPNs than for the rest of us...

  8. Anyone here of this disease and any info????

    hospicemom posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    My dad was DX with buergers disease.....I cant find much on this and was looking for a little help...I know its a smoking disease...PVD...but thats all I can find...no outcomes or

  9. Anyone here of this disease and any info????

    hospicemom replied to hospicemom's topic in Medical-Surgical

    [email protected] SO MUCH EVERYONE !!!!!! and NO he didnt quit yet....its funny how he puts his cig out really quick when his finger turns white

  10. doctors order

    hospicemom replied to ytoni's topic in Medical-Surgical

    always ALWAYS read back..the doc will just have to deal with it...if he has a prob with it, politly say...excuse me doc so and so, but I would like to read this back to you to avoid having to call you...

  11. covering a npo pt

    hospicemom replied to milicarr's topic in Medical-Surgical

    there are usually guidlines to call the doc if over 250...with a 300 I would call either way....definatly if pt is

  12. Sickle Cell Crisis question

    hospicemom replied to memphispanda's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I would have as well done 15L NRB, until sats climbed......28% is

  13. challenging the rn board

    hospicemom replied to milicarr's topic in Medical-Surgical

    are you talking about challenging nclex...or challenging nursing school......and dont testify to anything...regardless......its all about you..even if she is a good

  14. JP drains

    hospicemom replied to Cleopatra's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I believe we are allowed to in WI, however the doc usually does

  15. How Do You Make Patient Assignments on Your Unit?

    hospicemom replied to RN-PA's topic in Medical-Surgical

    at my hospital we run it by the MESH system...we classify each patient witha number...for example a new surgical may be a 3....someone who does everything for himself and requires little nursing...

  16. What is it about Med-Surg?

    hospicemom replied to Mint Julip's topic in Medical-Surgical

    shaddow the unit...yes...talk to the staff...I dont know. I think you need to make the judgement for yourself, which unfortunaltly isnt going to happen just shaddowing the unit. Qualities needed for...

  17. What is it about Med-Surg?

    hospicemom replied to Mint Julip's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I have been on med surg for 2 years. I have dabbled in hospice and home health....done the outside staffing agency thing....all of this. Med surg is by far the most difficult I have worked in. Dont...

  18. I need an answer please

    hospicemom replied to hospicemom's topic in Operating Room

    And I finally feel like I have somewhere to go for

  19. I need an answer please

    hospicemom replied to hospicemom's topic in Operating Room

    I work in the med surg area and yes it does happen more often then it should. since I have read what all of you have wrote I have stopped accepting pts who are not recovered fully. That has become the...

  20. IV in AC

    hospicemom replied to webbiedebbie's topic in General Nursing

    I also cant stand the AC sites wehn they come to my floor, however I can see in an emergent situation when you take the biggest juicist vein. Another pet peave is when they dont put the J-loops on...

  21. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

    hospicemom replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Believe me, I am a floor RN and even though the money is great..I am truely thinking about the money for about 30 seconsds every 2 weeks.....I live and breath the hospital, I am overworked,...

  22. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    hospicemom replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I am a floor RN And I can say that we would NOT have the shortage at the hospital in the way we do if it wasnt for cutting costs. They take the number of patients, the acuity level and then put it all...