explorereb96 ADN, BSN

A patient with ICP would most likely be in the ICU. I don't know many ICU's that utilize PCTs and if they do those PCTs are specially trained AND take report with us nurses. Either way, with the knowledge of this person with ICP should not be place...

Our hospital literally has NO tools. We have NO Hoyer lift. The only slideboard we have is for transfer. so we have Chux pads and a draw sheet and beds that can go into Trendelenburg. So if a patient slides down to the end of the bed, and is 200 ...

you answered your own question. IF you have the staff to "lift" a patient over 200 lbs without sliding them, more power to you. We all aren't so lucky.

Well to be fair common sense cannot be taught. You either have it or you don't. You can teach ways to aquire common sense and critical thinking but I believe experience is the only real teacher. It's simple physics. I am sorry for the patient, ...

In our EMR (Cerner) on admission, there is a Suicide risk assessment area in which we fill out. OK fine, but do we really have to chart the suicide risk assessment on every patient every shift? It seems ridiculous to me. Yes, if we identify someone ...

Well I think for at least 6 months we should ALL do it and do it like they want us to, When it starts costing them exorbitant amounts of money in overtime they will b*tch about it. Then we can all chime in together to say, "well, lets just INVESTI...

Octreotide ugghh I'll stick to Sandostatin

It sounds pessimistic but I have never completely trusted anyone. Sounds like you need to brush up on Labor Law and harassment. They don't deserve your tears. Start by going into HR and asking that the write up be rescinded, that you felt pressure...

Well to be fair....if the nurse received bare minimum PPE you can bet that they didn't make ANY available to the other staff at all. The management of that facility is foremost at fault. If that facility was accepting OVID positive patients, they s...

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Excuse me.... but there are plenty of ******** in nursing. I have seen much in my 37 years that warrant worse than being called a *****. She has earned her title and should either wear it proudly or change her crappy attitude. If I was a patient...

Your supervisor would be the first person to talk to. Tell them your problem, accept the assignment so she can bear witness. She may have the patient reassigned to another nurse to see if it's "a patient problem" or "a nurse problem." Difficult pat...

We have SBAR faxed to the floor after bed control and charge agree on the room. Fine, if the SBAR had more than a name on it. And, if the charge nurse actually tells the assigned receiving nurse that the patient is coming. It makes for a cluster**...

All we get from the ER is an SBAR which really is just basic. The GOOD ER nurses will at least put in their admitting diagnosis, small synopsis of why they came in, their IV site and any fluids rec'd, last vital signs, their monitor info, meds they...

Learn something new everyday!

New admit Tele patient with Schizophrenia who has been off his meds for 4 days (says mom). Notes tele box and says the voices in the box are telling him that "they" are coming to take him away. Mom states she will stay with him until one on one ar...

A Code Brown all over the room.

I was singing "Hit me with your best shot." Not "Hit me with your best cough."

The paranoid schizophrenic that thinks his Tele monitor has someone inside telling him that "they are coming to get him" ...somehow finds and pushes the code button ....yells to me "see!!! I told you they were coming to get me." as everyone rushes i...

This happened to me some years ago at a well known nursing facility chain. i was told many times that they could fight me with all the lawyers they had. The EEOC understands this. The Human Relations (or Employee Relations depending on your state)...

They had been doing this for years in Pennsylvania but only in Assisted Living and Personal Care Homes.

Thank You!!! I have tried to tell that to many of my cohorts and they insist that the instructor's license is what they are working under. (They looked at me like I was crazy for wanting to become a clinical instructor).

Ive been an LPN for 30 years. 2 years ago i started the prereqs for RN as well as what was needed for BSN. I will be graduating in December. Im 51 years old. Nope..you are NOT too old.

The first time. TEAS. 84. GPA 3.75

Well now, how about we let hospitals only hire people who look healthy and beautiful on the outside? You know, we can't blame them ( I am being sarcastic here). My father was always slim and had a healthy looking physique. He smoked for 20 years and ...