NurseeTee

Hi everyone, I also graduated from St. Vincent's a few years ago. Now I work in New Haven on a surgical floor and I love it!

I have a patient right now who also uses a Shiley #6 Extended. They are disposable and should not be washed and reused. As for policy, we change the inner cannula once a shift, which is once every 12 hours. Obviously if the patient has a lot of sec...

We have profit sharing that coincides with Christmas, so we get a check in the amount of 1-3% of our yearly salary about the 2nd week of December. The amount depends on patient satisfaction, discharge cost, etc. It's not technically a holiday bonus...

I work on a trauma floor where we utilize float pool nurses and aides frequently. They ALWAYS say they are dumped on, but it's simply not true. The whole entire floor is heavy and the assignments are evenly distributed for isolation, acuity, etc.

That's funny. I have had people refuse Reglan because it makes their stomach rumble too much, but one person who refused said to go ahead and give her Ativan because it eases her abdominal pain

I work at Yale and I LOVE it. There's tons of opportunity, the benefits are great, and there are multiple locations within the health system if you wanted a change of pace.

If I called a code for a pt with a low blood sugar, I think that would get me in more trouble than bottoming out the sugar in the first place! Codes where I work are for respiratory or cardiac arrest only (or someone who is darn close), so to pictur...

My story is from when I was working on my current floor, but I was a nursing student working an evening shift. Our actual floor was having a new call bell system installed, so they moved us to another floor in another wing of the hospital while the w...

While I can't find exact figures, it seems the standard number is that 80% of all lung cancers come from the person smoking. Other factors can include second-hand smoke, asbestos or other toxic exposure, or even just bad genetics. While I admittedly...

Why is that? Have you made errors in the past that required you being checked?

I personally would report it, and here's why. When errors of any kind are reported, they are also compiled, and the hospital (or any facility) can make improvements based on those errors. Maybe others have made your same mistake and they can suggest...

I would never ever give something that someone said they were allergic to. I don't need that over my head IF something were to go wrong. Better safe than sorry - if they say they are allergic, it's up to the doctors to order something appropriate. ...

What I find amazing is that people are still spelling it HIPPA instead of the correct HIPAA even after someone pointed out the error. No one can claim to be an expert or "police" on the subject if they don't even know what it stands for.

Just curious why the OR floor would have call bells?

Bottom line is, nurse managers are there for a reason. They have specialized management training and skills, as well as resources and knowledge of certain policies, procedures and laws that us "floor" nurses don't necessarily know about. The least y...

I tend to think it's an institution policy that would dictate...? I would assume that the MD performed the procedure which enough was alone for documentation purposes. And if you did nothing outside your scope of practice, then it doesn't seem to me ...

Sometimes they just don't work well for us where I work. Occasionally you can get it work by moving the line and/or the patient's position around a little. As long as it flushes OK, then the line is still fine for infusions, you just have to poke the...

I dunno...I think that what I learned in nursing school - all of it - was a critical foundation that may not have been the most exciting string of lessons, but I need(ed) to know all of it in order to make my decisions now as a nurse. The critical t...

Just like any other group of people. They are just that - people - and there will be some you love and some you don't. The ones I work with, they all have their strengths and their weaknesses, just as we RNs do. One thing I have learned very quick...

Let's see...I had to wait about...two weeks :). I walked into the Admissions office of my school one day and started classes within a few weeks. That was four years ago, I understand they have a wait list now, but it's not that bad...maybe a semeste...

Even though the issue has been resolved, I will tell you that just last week I cared for a patient on our floor. He had two arms, but one of them was completely useless (an attacker had stabbed him several times and ruined nerves). He also, as a re...

Yes, that is true that no ovulation and no period with these pills. I don't need the pill either, but I started these just to have less periods!