nursemols ADN, BSN, RN

I went on light duty at 25 weeks due to medical issues related to my pregnancy. Essentially I’m used as a huc or a monitor tech. I’m just glad my hospital does accommodate me for my needs. It’s kept me working and kept me from using what little mater...

It’s the same here in Arizona. We are double bunking covid positive patients in both the pcu covid floor and in our ICU. I haven’t gone a shift without at least two code blues and multiple rapid response calls in a couple weeks. We are understaffed a...

It’s getting pretty messy here in Phoenix AZ. We went from one covid unit plus two icus to four covid units and two icus pretty quickly.

At first we were low census..but now in Arizona we have become overwhelmed. Went from one covid unit and two icus to two full covid units two rule out covid units plus three icus counting our ICU overflow within the last two weeks

Yes I’m in the west valley and I too was racking up mad amounts of overtime..would not have signed an extension if I knew low census was coming

Yea I do travel contracts for a health system instead of an agency so I get benefits of staff and travel nursing. I just signed an extension too and now it’s all low census. My manager said I could pick up shifts at other facilities but I I wish I h...

Census is so low most of us are worried about having a job and are job hunting...

I worked on a ortho med surge floor. We had the same problem. First summer I was there I used all of my pto just to pay bills. I ended up transferring to the telemetry step down unit. Haven't been called off since. But now my hospital is upset they c...

I typically just use a foley kit..more often then not if I get 1000cc or more out then the provider wants to kept he foley in instead of doing multiple i/o Cathy anyhow

Recently had a pt admitted for svt and cdiff. Patient is known drug user and upon admission did not test positive for anything out of the ordinary. Two nights later I witnessed some weird behavior and md order a drug screen which tested positive for ...

We use them at my facility as well. They work well for my stroke patients who are completely down on one side or for hip fractures. That said if the patient is having diarrhea than purewick is. Or an option for that patient..otherwise it's a nifty th...

I work on a telemetry/neuron floor with m/s overflow. We are capped at six patients..which can be really difficult sometimes and other times not so much depending on the acuity

For my current unit this is an unfortunate common occurrence. It's been bad enough that they have started closing our unit on the weekend. I have since accepted a transfer to a different unit that does not close on weekends and tends to be a bit busi...