cdsavannah59

I'm a PCT, As I was taking a patient's blood pressure she asked me "Do you like my nurse". I was surprised by her question but knew I had to answer it professionally so I said yes I like her. The patient then replied " My nurse is very book smart and good at her job but she lackes empathy, she's cold as ice and I think she's in the wrong profession" After I left the patient's room I thought to myself that girl just hit the nail on the head with that comment. The nurse she was referring to was as cold acting to staff that weren't part of her circle of friends and although she is smart she has no social personality. It's hard to determine why your patient's feel the way they do, but it may be how you relate to them. Patient's just want know that you actually do care how about their health issues etc and not a act like a human machine just doing her job.

I'm shocked actually and I'm not a nurse lol. I'm a PCT who has known a few Nurse Tech's that didn't pass the first or maybe second try at NCLEX, but those few Nurse Techs did eventually pass the exam. I would think it's a totally illegal practice to hire a Nurse Tech to cover a RN position. It seems your facility hasn't taken into account any future court case that may arise from a patient, your name is attached to documentation and it could eventually cost you your license.

The patient still has a right to quality care by medical staff. Searching the internet for this mans personal background is the same as you opening a medical record that is none of your business. It's a ankle monitor and parole office will contact the hospital if they feel it's necessary. Let the hospital management determine what information should be placed in his chart if they are contacted by parole. Years ago I worked at a doctors office and we found out through a news paper article that one of our patients was a sex offender. He had recently had surgery with our doctor and required follow up care. Our doctor stated that regardless of our feelings about the man, we could not let it impact the care he received for his medical issue. The doctor stated however that when the man came in for his appointments we were to immediately place him in a exam room instead of having him sit in the waiting room just in case any children came into our office with their parents.

It depends on your area/state. As proven from all the posts on this subject here on AN. I work as a PCT in state that don't pay much at our local hospitals. During school for PCT I had been hearing and reading CNA/PCT is good paying job, well I learned that's not always true , not in the State I live in as I quickly learned upon hire. Also where I work raises are given to everyone at same time at the hospital I work at. as cost of living increase so I've only earned about 35 cent more then my starting wages almost 3 years ago. I made better money as a waitress and had pocket money at the end of shifts. Do your research before becoming a CNA, high cost of living areas earn more, etc.

I agree. I work in the mother/baby unit as the only PCT on shift. It is very repetitive and routine. Same every day, Vitals on both mom and baby, 25 doors to knock on to get vitals= 125 sets a vitals a day since nurse is first to do baby vitals. Seems to take forever to get all the vitals done and we are required to do vitals every four hours, or three times a shift So many things slow you down when you enter patients room. Vitals on both patients while mom is breastfeeding can take longer then others who have already fed baby. Baby's being fussy, mom on cell phone, getting supplies they ask for, putting ice in cups, time passes quickly and before you know it it took 2-21/2 hours just to do vitals which seems like a endless routine. When done with vitals, giving babies their first bath in patient room is time consuming and before you know it its vitals time again. I usually put in 6-8 miles per shift on my health app because of all the patient rooms we have. I think I would rather have 10-12 rooms with in another unit that is less repetitive but harder work.

I told my boss I wanted to transfer units because the application asks if your current boss is aware you want transfer, I still haven't got a reply from any unit I applied to, makes me wonder if my boss isn't approving it if she's been contacted just so I have to stay where I'm at.

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I did read a article online that on some urine testing a blue dye is added to toilet water to prevent a urine sample from being diluted with water.

Oh I agree, do not go back there. Also agree that you should stand up for and protect what you worked so long and hard to for, your license.

Why 3-5 days on results, at my job you get your results right there after they collect urine sample before your sent back to your work unit. Sending you home and saying they will contact you sounds fishy to me, they should of known the results before they even told you you were going home. Maybe I'm wrong but I've always got same day results right at testing site if I was tested while on the clock. In my opinion for them to go several days without giving you results could possibly leave you with no proof to any legal council that the drugs weren't actually in you system if that drug only stays in system short time after taking it and you retest a week or two later for your own documentation and test negative. Maybe that was their motive for waiting so long to give results to you, that you would have no proof the test was incorrect.

First off, what substance would they need to add to the water? My advice only and just my opinion but send them an email telling them you have hired an attorney ( even if you haven't) who will request copy of drug screen and what the substance was that was added to the water. Also go to your doctor in the morning on walk in basis or see if you can do a drug screening test or call a urgent care center to see if they offer it. You must get tested as close to the time frame of the one the employer took to help prove that your test results are altered somehow. If your innocent of taking these drugs, it's pathetic that someone is out to get your licensed suspended based on lies.

I work with a wonderful group of nurses and I've never had/seen this issue. But I do know many employees within the hospital system in various job fields that would agree that many nurses eat their young and are not as compassionate or just plain rude to their coworkers, that one nurse tries to be superior to the other coworkers when working their unit but display a different professional happy compassionate attitude once they walk into a patient's room, leaving a few to comment that behind the hospital doors many nurses turn into competitive mean and jealous women to their coworkers. Although I do not agree at all with these coworkers that make the statements I described, it is common talk at the hospital about lack of compassion among some nurses that an individual not working in healthcare field would be shocked to learn about in a occupation they thought was only about compassion.

Organized Chaos, you seem like a cool nurse to work for. I'm a CNA/PCT and I know better then to step outside my job description.

No actually I find you very entertaining tonight:) anyhow good luck on your job searches.

This post is why you have people commenting on you stepping out of the scope of your practice, you started the debate.