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No one I know uses gloves unless they are working with chemo.

I would have done the same, You did an amazing job.

Number one nearly got me out of nursing. The facility you work in can make all the difference. Try moving, maybe from rural to urban, or vice versa.

Anyone have photos?

KateMI That sounds appropriate, but what were you thinking should have been done differently? I’m missing the error.

I see the point OP, but sometimes people have moments and say stupid things. I have a huge bias against NeoNazis and might say something nasty about them online, but if one came in I would still care for them in accordance with current standards. I wouldn’t be asking them if they wanted a coffee just to be nice, but the nursing care would be fine. I actually was part of a team that saved a serial child molester, we ran through the protocols, got him transferred out, and then it hit me that we had just saved his life. I don’t think an expressed hatred rules her out as a competent nurse for that group. BUT if she’s a borderline nurse to begin with, her care will show it.

I’m in Canada, and the healthcare system gets its money from the government. That’s resulted in conflicts of interest in the past, government passes laws removing union powers because contract talks aren’t going well. They don’t hold back because of ethics. One of our nursing home complexes is overrun with COVID patients, and positive staff are off work so they have a staffing shortage. They were looking for volunteers to come from out of town to staff the nursing home, offering accommodation and travel expenses, Apparently that didn’t work out, and they’ve mandated a unit of the local acute care hospital to go to the nursing home on their regular shifts. The province is under a state of emergency, so they use that power to send nurses to an entirely different facility and specialty. I’m furious. They could have offered extra pay to people and they would have gotten volunteers... didn’t even try.

Probably. I was thinking more if the paperwork wasn’t filled out right.

With your PICU experience, I think you’d take great care of that patient, because you had the ICU RN to call about questions. The lack of orientation to the floor is concerning, but they ought to forgive you any errors, so long as the patient is well cared for.

Most RNs have graduated from university these days, so not comprehending English is an argument easily rebutted. You might get a faster answer by reaching out to local nursing schools. A lot of us have been told to chart that way, but darned if I remember why.

There’s only one actual program I’ve found, but I expected there were a lot more, and I was hoping to make contact with more than one. From my research, peer support is more used in substance abuse, rather than mental health. Feedback from ER nurses actually using the programs would help too. But making some phone calls is definitely in the cards.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/wounded-healers-how-peer-support-workers-help-patients-in-crisis-1.4439694 https://hospitalnews.com/a-peer-support-program-with-time-for-compassion/ http://peersupportcanada.ca/ Like this.

We were thinking a volunteer contacted through the local homeless shelter to sit with a patient while they are waiting in the ER. It can take hours, and someone acting as a buffer could help everyone. I could have sworn I’d seen a program like this in Toronto somewhere...maybe BC. It would help to see policies from other hospitals that have tried this. But good or bad points of the idea would help too. I expect the volunteers would, at minimum, get oriented to the ER, and go through a nonviolent crisis intervention course. At minimum, we’d need consent from the patient, and an ok from the ER to stay with the patient.

I’m volunteering with a shelter/resource centre for the homeless, and they want to hook up with the ER by providing companions for mental health patients in the ER while they wait. Does anyone have a program like that in their hospital? I imagine peer counselling would be the closest comparison. Any, ANY information on the program, like education before volunteering and hospital policies would be helpful. How did you roll it out? Any contact numbers for existing programs would be wonderful too.