kay91

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1. How many patients you guys take on your duty?

   kay91 replied to Seong40's topic in General Nursing

   USA Anywhere up to 6 on medical/onco. 4 to 5 is usual. Granted, we also don't always have a tech. I've had 5 to myself before.

2. Step down ratios

   kay91 replied to Meeshie's topic in General Nursing

   I work a fulltime job and a prn job at two different hospitals in med/onco. At both places, it is typically a 4 to 6 ratio with 4 being more typical. On one of my floors, chemo is hung frequently, patients go to PET scans, and patients often go to ra...

3. Are they exaggerating on sepsis or am i wrong?

   kay91 replied to stepbystep12's topic in General Nursing

   Sepsis is definitely a word used a lot more frequently where I work. But it's mainly related to the MEWs vitals that we do. If someone's vitals are off to a certain extent, we fill out a sepsis screening tool and take vitals every 2 hours and the nur...

4. What do you call the tracking device nurses sometimes wear?

   kay91 replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Is it bad that I have worn one for almost 3 years and don't know the name of it?! I am trying to figure it out. For ius, it has one color on when a nurse is in the room and another for the hcts. It flashes the colors outside the door when someone hit...

5. Subtle deterioration on the floor

   kay91 replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

   I feel like the Modified early Warning Score is a very helpful tool. We have to get our own shift vitals where I work and use it as part of our assessments. It is calculated using MEWs. This intervention has assisted me and others with catching that ...

6. Admissions!

   kay91 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

   Usually myself and a tech a bedside at time of admit. Sometimes, it's just me and transportation. Other nurses may come in if patient cannot walk and we have to slide patient over. Admit process takes around half an hour. Takes doctors sometimes up t...

7. Nurses Humilated - Illinois

   kay91 replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

   That exercise just sounds awful. That is not how you treat your nurses. I can say though that I do know a few people who work at this hospital. They have all said actually how well staffed the units are (well the med-surg units anyways) and seem to...

8. What is the Registered Nurse Patient Ratio at your hospital?

   kay91 replied to LinenP's topic in General Nursing

   Illinois hospital I work on a medical/oncology unit and we take 4 to 6 patients. We never take more than 6 patients at a time. It is the same for the cardiac, surgical, and rehab units. PCU can have up to 3 patients I believe. ICU is 1 or 2 patien...

9. Secretaries who believe they rule the unit or hospital

   kay91 replied to DesiDani's topic in Relations

   I am very grateful for the unit secretaries I work with. The main ones I work with also were techs on the floor before moving to the desk so they also know the floor very well in all ways. They assist with making the assignment, faxing the assignment...

10. What does CNA do, exactly?

    kay91 replied to KittyKatKorner's topic in CNA/MA

    Depends on where you work. I don't have personal experience as a cna. But this is a typical day for ours in the daytime (I have had a few days where I tasked and was essentially the tech If we were short one -baths and linen changes in the mornings -...

11. Never Have I Ever Done That Before

    kay91 replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in General Nursing

    In a little over 2 years of being a nurse, I have never done cpr. I have been part of a code, but was thrown into recording which was interesting for a first experience. I have never placed an ng tube either. We get them every so often, but I have ne...

12. Understaffed with a heavy patient load

    kay91 replied to ashleesini's topic in Med-Surg

    I swear that sounds exactly like my floor. Usually we have 4 nurses and 1 or 2 techs for 18 patients (which is fully if we don't have the staff to double up rooms),but lately we have had 3:1:1. It is hard to get to everything done even for myself as ...

13. Admit/Discharge RN?

    kay91 replied to jessimee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh and the ones we had would help with iv starts and nursing tasks too if they had time. It's a lot more about doing the charting than anything else, but you still get some skills.

14. Admit/Discharge RN?

    kay91 replied to jessimee's topic in General Nursing

    We had an admission and discharge nurse for like 6 months and it was amazing. One day, I picked up an extra shift after they did away with it and did admits/dcs (we were very admit happy that day)for 5 hours and did like 12 admits in that time betwee...

15. Accidently took home a patients' insulin!

    kay91 replied to iliket0fuu's topic in Medications

    I once made it home after working 12 hours, was sitting around talking to my roommates, and about four hours later I was getting ready for bed. It is 11:30 at night and something in me made me check my scrubs before putting them in the laundry. What ...