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My DON has 9 months of floor experience. My nurse manager I think has less.

We've had admissions on all holidays and I have them on the overnight shift fairly often. Our admissions nurse and management never help with admissions anyway so really it's no different. Other than the crappy pharmacy always tries to refuse to deliver the meds on holidays and tries to ask if we really need them.

Nothing because I have yet to be provided one.

I'm getting one mask to use until "contaminated" (not N95). Real safe. Or not. Reusing ppe room to room. Definitely not how learned in nursing school.

I'd go with the ER. My husband had similar symptoms once and it turned out to be epiglottitis.

It takes longer for Nursys to update. Your license number will appear on the Iowa BON first. I took mine on a Friday and had a license number by Monday. The actual license came in the mail later that week.

Sometimes you have to. I had a resident who wanted me to get her ice water. An aide stuck her head in the door and told me quietly that another resident was on the floor. I told the resident that wanted the ice water that I would get back to her as soon as possible, because I had an emergency with another resident.

I was 37 when I got my RN. Definitely not too old.

More than I'll get which is absolutely nothing.

Had a new patient who was concerned about her insulin dose being too high and asked me to wake her up and check her blood sugar again at 2 am. When I did, it was well over 300. Her response, "Well, it might have been the chocolate bunny I ate."

Where I live I am paid MORE at the LTC/rehab facility I work at than I would be at a hospital. I remember your previous posts. Clearly you still have a lot of growing up to do.

At our facility we have a policy dictating that we have to use a vanderlift to transfer a patient after a fall. If someone has an obvious serious injury like a potential hip fracture, the paramedics transfer the patient off the floor.

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Is this homework? If so, how do you know for certain the people responding are nurses in an anonymous internet format?

At my facility it is the night nurse's responsibility to verify orders. We have a similar system of writing telephone orders in a binder. Our problem is that the day nurses don't always write down the phone orders. Then the order goes unverified.