RescueNinjaKy

If the oncoming nurse was in the room, how the heck was that your fault?

On my unit when we have those really difficult patients, personality wise, noncompliant wise, or simply too heavy a load (total cares/bat poop demented) we don't have much issue with reassigning it to another nurse. Most of the time the new nurse won...

Well if there hasn't been any repercussions for violating the policy then of course no one is gonna be phased. If you're not following up, what's the point of having that policy. You need to follow up with documented verbal warning. Then a written le...

Take what? Patients cursing at you, yelling at you, spitting at you, sexually harassing you? Those all things that we, as nurses, do not have to take. Eye rolling? Who's cares, no big deal. But the above is something that I, and no other nurses, or a...

While I agree that we as nurses shouldn't have to take crap from patients but we are the professionals. We don't have to stand there and take it but we can inform them that their behavior is inappropriate, that we are trying to help them, and that wh...

I'm gonna go with what windsurfer said. While it was delivered in a harsh manner, there are some truth to it. If you're afraid of taking Non nursing classes wait till you're in the nursing program. You can't avoid those classes. There will be hard cl...

At first I jumped to diverting as a conclusion but now I'm wondering if this person is taking unused syringes and putting the patients label of those that's she's taking care of onto the syringe as some sort of memorabilia of all her patients in her ...

RNs and lpns should not be doing the same job. At my area of practice, lpns are not allowed to push certain medications, nor are they allowed to do the first assessment or care plan initiation. My 2 cents is that if the hospital is requiring their nu...

Just look up companies that ship cars. Or trade in your car and get one in Bismarck

I think the norm in my cicu is that they train for crrt at around 1 and 1/2 year

That's why I said critical thinking and looking at the whole picture. If it says asystole assess your patient. Does the patient have a pulse? Breathing? Yes? Then looking at the whole picture where the monitor says asystole and the patient clearly is...

Address the issue at the spot, document, report to upper management. Goes no where? Then move up to the next chain. You have documentation and charts are easily reviewed to see what the ratios were. That or look for another job. I would not want to ...

It sounds to me that this attending was just trying to make small talk in a very socially awkward manner. Inappropriate? Perhaps, but I don't think it was anything to report based on what you shared, but rather a moment to walk away or say to him tha...

Do we eat the banana suggestively or what. Cause that's just a waste of a banana if we use it for peeling purposes only.

My simple way of thinking is that in a cardiac arrest the brain and other vital organs aren't getting enough oxygenation so some sort of ischemic damage is happening. Hypothermia reduce the oxygenation demand of these organs and allows the organs to ...

How about just "Look at the whole clinical picture and do some critical thinking". Patient assessment is important and so are the data we get from machines but what we do with it is the most important. You're busy so an aide grabs vitals for you. Th...

You could always say "nope no monkeys here, but you could stop being a donkey"

You just have to know when to take charge. As a nurse you are the leader in your patients care. You are the one that is delegating to the nurses aid. You are the one that brings together the interdisciplinary teams. You advocate to the doctor what yo...

Well you're probably gonna take at least 4 years to do your bsn. Then you need to find a job with your bsn to get some icu experience, typically 2 years or more I think. New grads are finding it hard to find employment right out of school and more so...

I don't know but if it's like the ccrn or pccn you need to have a certain amount of hours worked in that speciality in order to qualify to sit for the exam I believe.

OP this is just my opinion but from the read I got it almost sounds like there were some professional boundaries that were crossed and for futures occurrences you might want to ask for a switch in assignments for the patients sake. Just the way you ...

Thanks. Super helpful

The coding patient takes priority. Your charge nurse and co workers should be helping you with your other patients during this time. Medications will be late for the other patients if your co workers aren't able to pass it for you but they should at ...

It sounds more like the nurse is having a cna chart under their login. Kind of like a dictation. Which is all sorts of wrong.

This is a completely different situation. If you're a cna in the room and a nurse is doing the admission assessment you shouldn't be charting it. Lpns can't do initial/admission assessments in most places let alone a cna. Whoever the nurse is that's ...