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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

  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,...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  9. Secretaries who believe they rule the unit or hospital

    kay91 replied to DesiDani's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  10. What does CNA do, exactly?

    kay91 replied to KittyKatKorner's topic in Medical Assistant, 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...

  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...

  12. Understaffed with a heavy patient load

    kay91 replied to ashleesini's topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...

  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

  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...

  15. Accidently took home a patients' insulin!

    kay91 replied to iliket0fuu's topic in Patient 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...

  16. Isopropyl Alcohol for Nausea (Protocol Info Needed)

    kay91 replied to mtcorias's topic in General Nursing

    One day I was getting a patient back from PACU after a lithotripsy and when the nurse brought the patient up, she used an alcohol wipe under the nose. It was the first time I had seen it done. It...

  17. Hospital etiquette

    kay91 replied to WanderingWilder's topic in General Nursing

    Call light first if not emergent. So many people will come up to the main nurse's station and ask questions about patients or how they are doing. If the primary nurse isn't there, the secretary or...

  18. One nurse on unit...

    kay91 replied to bassadict69's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work (a hospital), there is to be 2 nurses on all floors at all times. Now our psych floor has to have two nurses or more but they both don't have to be psych nurses. I was floated there once...

  19. 15 minutes to give report + no time clock

    kay91 replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

    Basically, when we do all we are supposed to do, it can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. We have huddles where we go over the floor and that can take 15 minutes to 20 when people use it as a...

  20. What's your favorite floor

    kay91 replied to guitargirl88's topic in General Nursing

    I like working medical floors the most. I have floated to the cardiac floor, our psych floor (we tech basically if floated there), and the surgical floor, and I definitely prefer our med floors. Now...

  21. Unprepared interviewer

    kay91 replied to armygirlabn's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    From my own experience, my manager asks me if I can do a peer interview and I have no notice. I also have my own group of patients and may even be charge that day. The first time I did one, I didn't...

  22. Our units acuity is at an all time high.

    kay91 replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I also have to add that I wish we could staff by acuity. It would make things so much

  23. Our units acuity is at an all time high.

    kay91 replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Our acuity has been very high too. The way we have to split the assignment each day is crazy. Every nurse pretty much has to walk the whole hallway as one end of the hallway has a very high acuity....

  24. Patient to nurse ratios

    kay91 replied to kgirl1872's topic in General Nursing

    Our ratio can go up to to 6 patients on day shift.Typically neither shift will go above 6, but there have been a few times where someone has gone up to 7 patients on nights. I work a med/onco floor...