debtor11

Thank you for the replies. We work in home health, my argument was there is something wrong with her thermometer. She initially said the temp was oral but when I said that was not a normal temp, she said it was axillary. I told her axillary temps can be inaccurate by up to a degree and she said the elderly are normally in that range (95.4-95.9).

Do you document the temp you got and say it's axillary or do you add a degree and record? I know axillary is inaccurate but I'm auditing charts where a nurse documents really low temps and says that is normal (95.4) for elderly pts.

We are currently having issues with cath lab patients. Do you all recover patients from the Cath Lab? We hate it because they stay 4-6+ hours and our OR census has recently increased. We also do radiology patients and sometimes L&D. We stagger the schedule but we are still struggling with too many hours and administration doesn't seem to care. There are a lot of nurses that are unhappy and leaving.....I am worried as this will just increase the workload on the nurses still trying to hang in there.

I worked in Med/Surg for 4 years, did about a year in the ER and have done float pool (tele, peds, mother/baby) and am presently working in the ICU/MICU. I would love to work in recovery! Anyone work there? Do you like it? I'm thinking of doing PRN right now as I just had a baby 2 months ago and need extra money. What do you like/dislike about PACU? Okay, more questions.....Does anyone do 12 hour shifts in the PACU? How often are you on call? Are you alone when you do call?