BGgirl

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  1. Best hospitals in the Detroit area

    BGgirl posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

    I'm relocating from Ohio to the Detroit area and am wondering if anyone can give some insight into the hospitals around Detroit. I'm leaning towards Henry Ford but I don't know anyone that currently...

  2. Nurses "on-call" related to low census; Am I rightfully angry?

    BGgirl replied to inthesky's topic in General Nursing

    We are ALWAYS putting nurses on call now. I'm a charge nurse and even after a call in and taking our float to another floor I had to put one nurse off and 3 on call. It's not fun but they have an...

  3. discharged a patient wearing telemetry

    BGgirl replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    I know ours cost a few thousand dollars. We had a pt leave AMA with one of our tele boxes and didn't seem inclined to return it. We told out security dept about it and they have a unit that will...

  4. assertiveness/confidence?

    BGgirl replied to mashamontago's topic in General Nursing

    I think with experience comes assertiveness and confidence. At least with me that's how it is. I was very timid in nursing school but I really can't say that about me anymore in regards to

  5. Floor nursing without techs/aides

    BGgirl replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    1. What kind of floor? tele step-down and m/s pulmonary 2. Ratio patient:nurse?4:1 on nights on tele and 5:1 on m/s 3. Is it functional? depends on what day you're talking about. Both floors can be...

  6. switching to bedside report

    BGgirl replied to justjRN's topic in General Nursing

    We call ours bedside handoff and we basically still do a written/verbal report at the nurses station and then both the oncoming and outgoing nurse go to the pts room and introduce the new nurse, and...

  7. How long were you held before being allowed to transfer?

    BGgirl replied to Jean1313's topic in General Nursing

    We can be held for a max of 45 days which is usually how long everyone is held for. My manager takes every transfer personally so she likes to keep holding onto you as long as she

  8. Colour-coded hospital bracelets

    BGgirl replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

  9. We need visiting hours!! Does anybody have them?

    BGgirl replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    We have visiting hours that usually end at 8p and they are announced overhead. I normally let people stay a little longer if they are not in my way and are not being overbearing. Otherwise I tend to...

  10. Home Med Documentation?

    BGgirl replied to core34's topic in General Nursing

    We usually encourage pts to either have their families take home their meds or we lock them up with security if they're

  11. Nursing Unions

    BGgirl replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I agree. I'm a union nurse and I feel at least some security with my job having a union in place. Some of the bad things include union dues every pay and it is MUCH harder to fire bad nurses. They...

  12. Working the Holiday

    BGgirl replied to Looking4Seaglass's topic in Emergency

    We work either the holiday or the eve. I worked Christmas Day and had the eve off. I work New Year's eve but get New Years Day off. I also had to work the day after Christmas. My night at work was...

  13. So sick of people running to management and telling lies.

    BGgirl replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Do we work at the same place? We have this same exact problem. In fact, it has come down to people on days assigning baths to the night shift. It's rediculous. I'm a nurse, I can tell when someone...

  14. When should I start applying for jobs?

    BGgirl replied to luvmyguys's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I would apply early because by the time I started applying, the only jobs left were med-surg jobs. If you want a specific area, do it before everyone else. I was hired before I graduated. Of course...

  15. Do you wear your seatbelt

    BGgirl replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in Emergency

    I practice what I preach so yes I always wear a seatbelt. I've neve been on a motorcycle but I would absolutely wear a helmet if I was one one. I see a of traumas just working on the floor and some...

  16. Where's the nursing museum?

    BGgirl replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    If you're ever in London, there actually is a Florence Nightingale Museum. I was too late getting there and it had already closed. I really wanted to see what it was all about. In DC there is a...

  17. Your patient fell? You need to be disciplined!

    BGgirl replied to casperx875x's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, my hospital doesn't even employ sitters. The only time we can get someone to sit in a room and watch a pt is when their suicidal. And of course half the time, you find the person who is...

  18. WET to Dry

    BGgirl replied to EJSRN's topic in General Nursing

    I find that while we use wound vacs when possible, we also do a lot of wet to dry dressings on my

  19. questions to telemetry nurses

    BGgirl replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I do agree that a lot of our pts should be in ICU. I feel like we are the ICU half the time. It is a very stressful environment. I'm lucky enough (if I can say that) to really have a pt ratio of...

  20. questions to telemetry nurses

    BGgirl replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've only worked on a tele unit and I've learned so much! We take everything from surgical pts to your simple chest painers. We take a ton of gtts so you can learn a lot about those too. I feel...

  21. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    BGgirl replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    I can't remember what drug this pt claimed to be allergic to but when we asked her what it did to her she said it made her curl up into the fetal position.

  22. This is not my job?!?

    BGgirl replied to Ally0981's topic in General Nursing

    I usually end up cleaning things like blood, poop, etc up myself because if we don't get the majority of it up, our housekeeping staff won't mop it up. Housekeeping has refused in the past to clean...

  23. Has anyone taken the ecco course from AACN?

    BGgirl replied to Eirene's topic in General Nursing

    I took the class several years ago and it was painful to say the least. It goes above and beyond what you need to actually know. My hospital used to have a class on it before they did it only online...

  24. Frustrated with Interns who can't (or won't) treat pain!

    BGgirl replied to NewWayofLife's topic in General Nursing

    wow, and I thought only our interns were scared to death to order any pain meds. I've encountered this many times before. They must drill into their head that any pain meds cause resp. depression...

  25. Crazy things patients say.....

    BGgirl replied to RS0302's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt once who kept asking for delilah. Come to find out, he just didn't know how to pronounce dilaudid. Another pt was proud to tell me his mother worked as a CNA but pronounced it seena. He...