ladedah1

ladedah1 BSN, RN

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ladedah1 has 9 years experience as a BSN, RN.


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  1. This is simply not true. When a person has ADHD it is always a factor, even if well managed with medications. If we give a patient medication for pain, we expect pain management, not pain resolution. This same concept applies to ADHD. Making the ...
  2. Heparin drip disaster

    Sounds like a busy day! Hospitals are a 24 hour operation. It sounds like you did a lot to try to set the next shift up for success. The fact that they dropped the ball is not your fault. This is the kind of situation that makes me ...
  3. Hospitals charging nurses $100/month for parking?

    I guess it depends on which city. The hospital I work at is in a city and is right in the middle of the downtown area. It has a few of its own ramps, though, and has bought up a lot of parking in the immediate area. We don't pay for parking. ...
  4. Hospitals charging nurses $100/month for parking?

    Seems like free parking should be something that just comes with the job if you ask me. How do they expect you to get there? Teleport? Charging for parking - being that it is often a necessity when it comes to showing up to do your job - is a ...
  5. NPO: When It's OK To Take Meds vs. Not OK To Take Meds

    Depends on the reason for the order. If the patient failed their swallow, it is definitely not OK to provide oral meds. Sometimes I've seen newer doctors add exceptions for "sips with meds" on NPO orders for these types of patients (whether by ...
  6. I can actually summarize how my relationship has survived my nursing career in two hyphenated words: Part-Time. Seriously. Stress level is virtually nonexistent when you cut out just one shift a week. Energy recovers easily, too. I'm not sayi...
  7. Skills Education Ideas

    If it were me, I would send out an email to everyone who would typically be receiving the newsletter and ask them what they would like to see and / or think others may need to learn more about. You could also use a survey service such as Survey Monk...
  8. Words You Hate

    Definitely the O2 Stat... or, even worse, "statting" (as in "She's been statting at 95% since the RT increased her high flow"). Seriously? What do these people think their abbreviating? O2 staturation?? 🤣🤣🤣 If a person wants to sound like a r...
  9. Nurses Combating the Health Risks of Working Nights

    Absolutely agree! Been on nights my whole career (though, technically, I was a night owl to begin with) and have never had a problem. Everyone I know works around my schedule (and many are happy to know there is at least one person they can st...
  10. "Looming?" Where I work, it already feels like a crisis. My unit is 75% travel nurses and we're still consistently taking 2 more patients than our original (safe) ratios demand. We're magnet, yet still hemorrhaging staff like nobody's business. H...
  11. Hope for bullying?

    Hasn't ever really been a problem on my unit (we're definitely of the whole-unit only survives as one mentality), so I wouldn't really know. Heaven help the person who thinks that they can try to bully me or my fellow coworkers... as we're certainly...
  12. Bedside Report

    A couple years back, my unit was tracking both bedside report and overtime simultaneously. When we inevitably ended up with overtime, they would make rounds asking what factors we believe contributed and what changes could be made to help us get ...
  13. ETOHer...(and other slang)

    We have a lot of contract nurses where I work right now... that said, it's been a lot of fun learning all the interesting practice tips and terminology they bring with them from allover the country. I about died of laughter when I heard people calli...
  14. Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

    🤣🤣🤣 That's what I kept wondering! To me, it sounds like this is in reference to "travel" or "contract" nursing... and it reads a lot like a hokey sales pitch. Don't get me wrong - I love our travellers (where would we be without them?!)......
  15. Just for a little bit of fun: Share the funniest, weirdest, and / or most memorable responses you've received when answering a patient's call light / bell. For instance: RN: Your call light's on, how can I help you? Surgical Pt: We...