So yesterday, I an ER nurse brought a patient to ICU with just respiratory and me. Which is fine. When I get up to ICU the director is waiting for me, and yelling at me for having levophed and NS with...
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She's a staff member recently appointed to management. She was out at the nurses station when I arrived and just came in to help transfe the patient from the stretcher to the bed. Ive never had a...
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Answer 1b: The nurses in an ICU know this. We couldn't do our jobs without knowing this. Maybe if it was just one newbie berating you, we could chalk it up to a mistake on her part, but not a whole...
Hello all! I am currently a nurse manager of a busy 32 bed telemetry unit. I am unhappy and want out. I am tired of working 60+hours and only getting paid for 40, I am tired of them forcing me to use...
I am fairly new in to my position (6 months) I am a nurse manager of a floor, with a director over me. The director has been there for 32 years. One of the charge nurses on my floor is absolutely...
So last night I found a blank prescription pad that was signed and had a doctors DEA # on it as I was walking out the door. I handed it to a nurse that he had been talking to and told her, please keep...
The pads are kept in the pyxis on the unit. What my director told me I should have done was to tell him "I kept this SAFE for you since it has your number on it" and hand it back to him, and that...