JZ_RN

JZ_RN

Oncology

Member

  • Content

    590

  • Visitors

    15,904

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    29

All Content by JZ_RN

  1. Critical care: When nurses steal drugs on job

    JZ_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yikes. I am happy to say I do not do drugs and have NEVER diverted narcotics. I don't want or need them. I always count and lock up all narcotics when I am working. My patients have pain and I want to...

  2. Are nurses forced to assist abortions?

    JZ_RN replied to lookingintoRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No one forces you to do anything. If you work someplace that provides abortions, and you don't want to participate, you are free to go work someplace else. If you disagree with it, that's fine. It's...

  3. Your Most Maddening Patient/Patient's Family Situation

    JZ_RN replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Had a middle aged guy dying from AIDS one time who refused to tell his family the dx, including his wife and kids. I called the ethics committee at the hospital but left before any outcome was reached...

  4. Need examples of medically complex nursing home patients

    JZ_RN replied to ovnerati's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    indwelling permanent foleys or suprapubics, brittle DM patients, tube feeds, trachs, dysphagic, constant falls, fractures, osteoporosis, uncontrolled HTN, HF, ulcers and wounds, glaucoma, dialysis,...

  5. Alzhiemers

    JZ_RN replied to tsmason's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't condone "drugging" people but when they cannot be rationalized with or controlled for safety of themselves and others, talk to the doctor about getting some behavioral meds. I have the same...

  6. Chronically late patients...

    JZ_RN replied to tlackey's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    There should be a late policy, but then again, if they have to wait when they show up on time... I see both sides. I'd make them wait an irritating amount of time one day, then go in and say, oh,...

  7. Behaviors and Failing to Chart Them

    JZ_RN replied to Tired_Mommy's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The only thing I WILL stay after work to complete charting on is behaviors. My job won't pay me to work off the clock, but I always protect myself by charting on behaviors. I chart every act of...

  8. Will I ever get out of LTC or am I doomed?

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Where I work they are making profit, and they spend money on frivolous things like it is going out of style. And I know expired meds are bad for state surveys and can harm patients, I'm not an idiot,...

  9. Leaving one job for another

    JZ_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Situation: Leaving a LTC job with ridiculous ratios and no assistance or backup on 12 hour nights. perk of this job- 12 hours allows me 3 days off in a row every week/every other week. However, I work...

  10. Leaving one job for another

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks guys, all good advice. I am excited to work with A+O patients at least

  11. Will I ever get out of LTC or am I doomed?

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If anything, I feel guilty that I cannot spend time with them because I do care about them, but with 50 people and constant med pass, angry families who don't know what's going on, and admissions who...

  12. Will I ever get out of LTC or am I doomed?

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am not annoyed with the patients, though their behaviors can be frustrating. I am annoyed that I have 50 patients and no assistance and am always the whipping post for the doctor who refuses to...

  13. Are nurse patient ratio's safe with the numbers rising away?

    JZ_RN replied to Aubrianna's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Where I am working now I have 53:1, with 2 or 3 NAs. It's a

  14. Documenting on patient falls or what looks like one in LTC

    JZ_RN replied to lumbarpain's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If management didn't want me to put "found on floor" they'd give me enough staff so I could always have someone around every group of rooms, so if someone fell they would be seen/heard and helped...

  15. Will I ever get out of LTC or am I doomed?

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Iceprincess492- I love each and every one of my residents, it's the work environment I despise, so get off your high horse and stick your judgment where the sun doesn't

  16. Would U hav time for meh?

    JZ_RN replied to kameera's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I don't have time for anyone who uses "u" as a word and doesn't use English properly in the

  17. Nurses please try to look a little more polished at work

    JZ_RN replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in General Nursing

    Even XS scrubs are too long for me, and I'm certainly not spending my days off hemming them. They don't drag the floor but if they sag (no belt loops, no matter how tight I pull the them they...

  18. At my boiling point...you are NOT a Nurse...of ANY kind!!!!

    JZ_RN replied to nursehunnie's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If you don't have a license from passing NCLEX, you're NOT A

  19. Interview with a family clinic?

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Sorry to hear you didn't get the job. I have not had a call back, either. And I thought it went quite

  20. Interview with a family clinic?

    JZ_RN posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Patients of all ages, YAY! Day shift and no weekends, plus most holidays off yay! Plus an unsafe assignment is not my only choice, yay! What are the questions they might ask? What will the job be...

  21. Sitters: A Thing of the Past?

    JZ_RN replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    My facility is too cheap for sitters. We barely have the staff to change their depends. We also are not allowed to chemically restrain. So we have constant falls. Sorry but I can't be in the rooms of...

  22. Pre-Pour medication: to do or not to do

    JZ_RN replied to Do_Good's topic in Patient Medications

    Why would you prepour? I mean I organize the pill boxes so that all the pills for my regular night med pass are in line, then Am med pass are all grouped together, just to save time.... but I don't...

  23. Overwhelmed

    JZ_RN replied to butterfly_kisses9188's topic in General Nursing

    Good luck in whatever you do. It's hard to leave a job when there's not another guaranteed, but if I don't get another job soon I am going to have to do the same for my health and mental sanity. I...

  24. Overwhelmed

    JZ_RN replied to butterfly_kisses9188's topic in General Nursing

    I feel the same. I cannot leave me job because of the financial situation, but frankly, some days I would rather jump off a bridge than go to my work. Walking on eggshells, working with incompetent...

  25. Does your supervisor call & text you at all hours?

    JZ_RN replied to CrazyGoonRN's topic in General Nursing

    lol work will never get anything but my voicemail. And no I won't come in on 3 hours sleep. No I won't do 20 hour shifts, NO I won't work day then have a day off then do night, then day, then night......