canoehead BSN, RN

there's no reason at all that a nonskilled phone answering/restocking/sitter job could not be created in every SNF unit. Not answering the phone is a administration problem, not a nursing issue.

When I worked pediatrics, the admission consent included all the meds the doctor ordered. If the doctor ordered something the parents told them not to, thats on the physician.

I, for one, would be interested in seeing that attempt.

They will pay you as little as they can, it all depends on what you will put up with. As a staff nurse I was making less with 30 years experience than when I was a new grad, when I compared todays prices with 30 years ago. I was able to switch to tra...

I bring up the mandation issue during my interview. I can volunteer to help in a crisis, and have, but being mandated is not acceptable. After 12 hours, it's up to me if I can or will continue, and I'll make my own assignment choices too! the adminis...

I have for a death in the family, or being unable to stop vomiting. Twice in thirty years. Early in my career I had anxiety attacks regularly but would go in the bathroom, organize my brain, or cry, and come out and try again. Sometimes I'd go to a s...

When staff that are trying to advocate for better patient care get written up for logicless offenses, and sometimes fired. Your typing habits gave you away (roll eyes)

I think it's a waste of time and money. It will lower handwashing, and who can get gloves on wet hands? What are the emotional implications of children hospitalized for weeks or months and never being touched normally? I know Covid masks gave u...

Usually, they need to yell, and I'm the one in front of them. It could be anxiety, aftereffects of an adrenaline rush, the situation, conflict with someone else, nervous energy from a wait...you name it. some people are very on/off with anger, no mid...

I really think four weeks is much too soon to draw any conclusions. You know where the bathroom, med room and utility rooms are. You can do an assessment head to toe? I'd be good with just that right now as a preceptor, as long as you were still aski...

Im in Biddeford, the same hospital system as Portland, and we don't have EMS in the ER. I've worked where they are used in the ER, and they did a great job.

That sounds like it would be painful postop. I have chronic Achilles tendonitis, and I'm certain it would cause problems for me.

Docs I've worked with would listen if I had an idea of what might be happening, but they aren't so open to hearing they need to look further, without other ideas.

Jump in and do it. You need a change, so try it for 6 months, and start applying elsewhere if you want to try something else. If you don't make the change, you'll be unhappy and start reapplying elsewhere, and you'll get a reputation for being flakey...

I think anyone that takes a medication that changes their level of alertness cannot plan on working until it wears off. That would mean skipping meds for OP, and it sounds like call lasts a week at a time. Missing a week of nighttime meds might be de...

I don't want anyone to take my photo without my permission, and I certainly don't want to be on film. If asked beforehand, probably would be fine with being filmed when I'm teaching a skill. I'd even be OK with video setup in a patients room for thei...

I'm with OP, I don't do well in a kneeling position for an hour, however, if someone was down and needed CPR I'd be ready to go for two minutes of compressions. In reality, since I hit my fifties there are tons of younger and stronger folk lined up t...

I was overwhelmed by my work and feeling unsafe/anxious about it. I ended up in another job, and amazingly, the workload here is manageable. It wasn't me, and it wasn't that every hospital is in crisis so there's nothing that can be done....nope, it ...

Definitely, on the changing policies. We must work at the same place. I've looked up policies multiple times and found nothing, and had the nurse manager pull something up saying she searched a different word and found I wasn't compliant. The OR vrs ...

OP, I am also a "just do it, dammit" nurse. But then I realized that the same issues that make me feel overwhelmed are what piss me off when someone asks if they can help. If I had the mental resources to think about what I need someone to do, I'd ha...

Since my last post my administration has reported me to the Board three times, two were dismissed without investigation, still waiting for word on the third. Locally I've been blackballed, would get a great interview, or even get the job, but once th...

We've lost about 75% of our experienced RNs, so most have less than 5 years experience. They work hard, but they just don't have the experience. Now we're having shifts with no charge nurse (no experienced nurses means no one has charge experience). ...

I want to shame you for doing that when you suspected a heart attack, but... Last Summer I tried to bring the raft in, and lifted a 100lb anchor, but couldn't get it over the side, just up to the edge. I got a sudden sharp head splitting headache, wi...

If anyone thought a coverup would work, they have a lower IQ than average. There's no way family wouldn't find out. I can see the nurses wanting to make the baby look as good as possible for the family, but why are they just holding up the body? Fami...

Hail to everyone that graduated before the century turned over. I graduated in 1989, and have newbies scrunching their faces up about the years before disposable gloves, or IV pumps only in the ICU. more education is always a good idea, and thin...