joslina

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1. Discussing medication side effects

   joslina replied to joslina's topic in Cardiac

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2. Discussing medication side effects

   joslina posted a topic in Cardiac

   I'm wondering what other hospitals are doing to improve your nurses consistency in describing side effects to patients for their new meds? We are struggling a little trying to figure out how to...

3. Motivating the staff

   joslina replied to joslina's topic in General Nursing

   We have a system in our hospital that allows the people doing the work to have a say in the decisions being made which creates a feeling of great support. The decisions are not made from the top down...

4. Motivating the staff

   joslina replied to joslina's topic in General Nursing

   We work on a step down cardiology unit with 37 beds. Our staffing model follows a team leader structure. This means that we have two RN team leaders who support 4 nurses with 4 patients each. The...

5. Fall initiative

   joslina posted a topic in General Nursing

   We have been looking at our ate of falls on our floor and are developing a program to help prevent them. We have taken the morse fall scores of the patients and assigned them with different...

6. Motivating the staff

   joslina posted a topic in General Nursing

   Recently we have had a large turnover of our staff, which is discouraging me! Not only do we spend dollars but also time to orient them only for them to put their two years in and move on, but it...

7. My orientee gave the wrong narcotic

   joslina replied to JohnD91's topic in General Nursing

   Do you have any system for checking meds before administered? At our hospital, we have care admin which is a scanner. We scan the pts wristband and every med if they don't match you wouldn't give...

8. How long did it take to find your niche?

   joslina replied to bankssarn's topic in General Nursing

   im in cardiac now, and have been for 7 years. i think you know you found what u r supposed to be doing when you actually enjoy going to work and things make sense!! it takes a few years to...

9. cath lab flow

   joslina posted a topic in Cardiac

   wondering how your hospital deals with the inpatient and outpatients? how many cath labs do you have? at ours we have two cath labs and the cardiologists rotate from week to week they will...

10. ED to Cardiac Cath???

    joslina replied to Ryan RN's topic in Cardiac

    wondering how your hospital deals with the inpatient and outpatients? how many cath labs do you have? at ours we have two cath labs and the cardiologists rotate from week to week they will...

11. Blood clot questions...

    joslina replied to aachavez's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    some people have factor V lieden witch is a clotting disorder and may need to have a filter placed in their groin to prevent clots from traveling to vital organs. in that case and others people...

12. I HATE my job! HELP!

    joslina replied to mamabb's topic in General Nursing

    i agree with nurse 2033 sometimes if you have a negative attitude going into it it is hard to change that. with that said...having patients with lines in and still having 5 or 6 other patients is...

13. nursing structure????

    joslina posted a topic in General Nursing

    wondering how the structure is on other hospitals floors? i work on a cardiac floor with 37 beds we have recently adopted a team concept where we have a team leader (me, an rn with no patient...

14. Calling the Nurse Manager...what are your opinions?

    joslina replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in General Nursing

    i would definatly call!!! it shows you are really interested. she doesnt know if your husbands co-worker gave you her name or the lady at switchboard did! go for