BlueLightRN

How do you manage disrespect from medical assistants who are older than you or have more tenure at a place than you do? As in, ignoring you when you speak to them, arguing anytime you ask them to do something, or practicing as if they were a nurse d...

Where I live the apartment market rent is about as high as the mortgage on my husband and I's house. I could afford a house alone but it wouldn't be as nice or in as good a neighborhood, or I could live in a cheaper (aka more in a bad neighborhood) a...

I did an ASN program so I could work in the field to afford a BSN program. As an ADN I got zero respect and had to work the worst jobs. No one wanted to hire an ADN in a hospital and I was treated badly. I just completed my BSN and hope to get a bett...

You didn't search in it to get information, and yes, it is technically a HIPAA violation but they will be able to tell you were only in the chart 2 seconds and you weren't being malicious and I doubt you'll get in trouble. You are human and electron...

In LTC it depends on the patient specifically. I could have maybe a max of 20 if they were walky-talky, non-fall risks, etc. If they're needy or have machines or are a fall risk, have to be toileted by staff, max of 10. When I worked LTC though they ...

I find myself being called to the front desk 30 times a day for someone who "just wants to talk to a nurse" and oftentimes for a question that the front desk could have answered or a problem they could solve without making me walk all the way up ther...

That's so true and very good advice. Thank you!

LOL well I guess you're right haha

Unfortunately I think my manager is on the way out too, none of the upper management is happy with her because she has no ability to crack down on bad behavior and lets crazy stuff happen with no discipline. :/

Interesting. I've never heard that that kind of program even exists!

Is there someone that the oncoming nurse can call to get new meds immediately? If not, then the nurse who left the meds elsewhere needs to be trained or disciplined, it's not the other nurse's fault.

If the patient comes up to the front desk and says "I have a question" or "My medicine" or "I was wondering" the lazy useless secretary automatically says, oh, hold on, you have to talk to the nurse about that" and calls me. I'm like, well who is it?...

I know the office charges for INR fingersticks because of the supplies, same for DM fingersticks or for pregnancy tests or NSTs. They charge for supplies and the service, but not for the nurse's time. However, 99.9999999% of our patients have no insu...

It is a toxic workplace and I am trying to get out. Only RN, least senior employee though, every other nurse is an LPN there and they treat me like I am an idiot yet don't know why potassium is given with lasix...

MS programs do not prepare you for nurse licensure. You'll probably have to do another BS in nursing. If you don't have the basics you can't be a good MS nurse for research/management, etc. A nurse who can't/could never have worked the floor is a nur...

I worked in a LTC ALF facility and had to do this a few times. D/C patients still had full vials of insulin in the fridge, unopened. Pharmacy wasn't delivering any meds for new admit for 10 more hours and the new admit needed insulin. I switched out ...

My time is worth nothing I guess. I just am so tired. Tired of running. Tired of questions that the secretary could answer, and tired of requests I can't oblige.

How many attempts do you take to call a patient to get them scheduled or rescheduled? If they don't answer my call 2 times (over a few days) and don't respond to a letter, I close the referral and document. Anyone else have other protocol?

Oh, I do, every phone call, voicemail, disconnected number, and letter sent. A lot of times I get them because they'll call in needing something and I strike the bargain- if you come in to talk to me about your DM/HTN whatever I'll see if we don't ha...

Unfortunately where I work even the nurse's visits (which we do have a schedule for) are free and most of our patients uninsured or medicaid so there is no charge. But the system is that the schedule is totally full already and they still call for wa...

I get sugar diabeetus all the time. High blood.. Yeast "affection." My all time favorite was "coochie box" for a woman's privates, and the woman who said this was about 75.

I'm not doing anything state/insurance wise. It's chronic disease management, If the patient opts out the only problem is that they are hurting themselves by declining.

As an RN I plan the care for the patient. I take responsibility, I do the assessment, and it's me who answers if something is wrong, not the LPN. The RN.

Point being- unless you live in an area where nursing is more lucrative, you're not likely to pull down 190k, or 100k, or even 75k. Nursing is a mediocre salary for the most part for a very high stress, hard work job.

Crappy flat nipples lolololol.