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  1. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient read me the riot act recently because she was ordered q4hr CK draws to monitor rhabdomyolosis. Not only did she refer to me as a "vampire" (even though I wasn't the one drawing her...

  2. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Sometimes I wish credentials were required to join this site, such as your license number, or your RN/BSN program

  3. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    And here's where the nurse who directed you to this place is wrong. This place doesn't exist for patients or lay persons to gain answers to their questions about the hospital. We get enough of that...

  4. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    Ah-men. And I'd like to add that none of the aforementioned goingson factors in what happens when a patient suddenly becomes unstable and the chaos that surrounds

  5. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

  6. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    With all due respect, it isn't the same sort of stress. Or really even

  7. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    No hurt feelings, just some feathers ruffled. It's difficult to give credence to an opinion coming from someone who has never, ever spent a day in our

  8. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't that simple. The A/C is a large vein and is most useful in specific situations where large volumes must be infused. On presentation to the ER, most people have an IV placed on arrival, and...

  9. Calling in sick, boss harassing me.

    nynursey_ replied to swweetipie's topic in General Nursing

    #1 If it's an FMLA issue, your employee handbook should state as such, and your supervisor should be notifying you to get into contact with HR. They should not be questioning you directly regarding...

  10. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    > Please choose one family member to call and receive information regarding your condition, and note that said family member can update additional family members. When I have to field 1,000 phone...

  11. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    Perspective, perspective, perspective. What you deem as "the little things," someone else may align more importance to, and vice versa. Simply because you don't place the things the OP finds...

  12. What are some of the most ridiculous requests you have heard?

    nynursey_ replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Can you save those dressings so I can prove to my mother just how gross my leg

  13. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    My response? Bye,

  14. could get fired!

    nynursey_ replied to RNmoms's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm more focused on the fact that she took an exam for someone else. Regardless of whether or not she will be fired for using another person's password, she helped someone essentially

  15. Board certification

    nynursey_ replied to DannieGirl's topic in General Nursing

    I took it to mean for a total of the length of time a 40-hour work week would add up to over the period of 2-years. For example, if you worked full-time for 2-years, your hours worked would be 2,080...

  16. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

    nynursey_ replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    This is so true. I find that no matter how many hours I am spot on with my 4 "P's," I will inevitably hear a call bell go off within 10-20 minutes of my having left the

  17. 12 hr shift makeup routine

    nynursey_ replied to RN_srs's topic in General Nursing

    You may just need a red cancelling primer. Clinique makes a great one. And anything blue-based as

  18. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    It's always interesting when a patient feels as if they need to out-do the nurse simply because they're the one in the vulnerable

  19. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    nynursey_ replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    I SO wish this could be posted on the wall next to The Patient's Bill of

  20. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

    nynursey_ replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    What you're describing is how bedside report ought go. The reality at many facilities is management following bedside nurses during 0700 report to ensure total compliance with ALL report being given...

  21. What are the rules of what we can tell patients?

    nynursey_ replied to NursingInChaos's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure what your angle is here. My example, while not blatant, is clearly in reference to a patient asking about the result of a diagnostic test. Confirming or denying opens the door for the...

  22. What are the rules of what we can tell patients?

    nynursey_ replied to NursingInChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Also, people usually respond well when you say this: "As a Registered Nurse, per my NPA, I am not authorized to diagnose a medical condition or interpret diagnostic testing. That is something the...

  23. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

    nynursey_ replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Yet another example of a patient not appropriate for bedside report. Do you honestly want your first task of the morning to be an argument with a patient about whether or not they were compliant?

  24. The Flip Side - When you're the patient/family

    nynursey_ replied to jennaolds's topic in General Nursing

    To address your question as to what to do, my advice is to move up the chain of command, starting with the charge RN, and then asking to speak to the NM (if they aren't one in the same person). If...

  25. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

    nynursey_ replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    This. My mind is constantly blown by how little bedside nurses are allowed to use their clinical judgment in deciding what is or is not appropriate for a patient given their condition and outlined...