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They are just that good! [emoji23] I too love Grey's but watching it with me is bound to be accompanied by a slew of expletives and explanations as to what would really happen and why what they did would never happen ever. Same with House and Nurse Jackie. Ummm why does Princeton PMC (House) have like 3 nurses in the ICU and they are generally incompetent and doing nothing? And the patients travel several times a day for procedures sans RRT or nursing accompanying. And no nurses in cath lab....really the list goes on.

This sounds horrific.

Thanks for the responses guys. It's pretty much as I expected. We have pretty excellent education for parents/families and pretty good preceptor program that they just changed to a 1 year nurse residency after I completed my preceptorship. I definitely do not want mandatory scrubs. And I don't see that going over well. Actually, I know it won't. Every few months the units like to design screen print t-shirts based on their specialty and we have the option to wear those with scrub pants in all sorts of colors (peds). I'm not excited for this dog and pony show [emoji19]

I just found out my hospital will be beginning the journey toward trying to gain Magnet status. My question is for nurses that work at Magnet hospitals, is it better or worse for employees? How so? How about for patients?

I would get with your unit's PTs about them. I know ours are so strict on how things are used with the babies. Freddy froggies are really heavy compared to the babies so they absolutely can't be on top of them. That's like rule #1. We basically use them as a positional tool. But I am in CVICU so we get the little bit bigger babes.

We must work at the same facility [emoji19][emoji19]

That certainly is "mission impossible" *snort* [emoji19]

My SIL just left a floor that could be described exactly that way after a year and a half. Good luck to you. Get to know anti rejection meds, lactulose (!), s/sx of encephalopathy, rejection. That's all I can think of since I am not from that world.

In my ICU we do a bed bath with actual washcloths and then do the CHG wipes daily. And obviously pre-op.

Usually it's medical assistants working in these types of roles in doctors offices. And if they are chaperoning the provider (Doctor, NP, PA) then they are 1. Providing assistance with supplies and 2. Being a second set of professional eyes in case there is an accusation of inappropriate conduct. If the MA stands where she can't visualize what the provider is doing she can't very well give an accurate statement that the provider did no wrong during the exam, after all, they didn't witness it. Just a side note: since when do nursing programs do externships at doctors offices? This sounds more like a MA program. Just my 2 cents.

My peds CVICU/PICU/NICU is 1:1 or 1:2. Step down and heme/onc is 1:3. The floor is 1:4

Please PLEASE tell me the "I fell off my bike Saturday afternoon and my mom thinks my arm is broken" is an exaggeration [emoji52]

Today I learned I'm glad I live in the desert! Yowza!

We strip chest tubes on my floor. You hold the top of it firmly then squeeze whatever is in the proximal tube down to the first junction. It increases the pressure in the chest causing more fluid/clots to come. I guess we are also doing a study to decide if we will continue this practice.

Emptying an over distended bladder too quickly can cause bladder spasms.