ladedah1 BSN, RN

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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 ...

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...

🤣🤣🤣 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?!)......

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...

No. I didn't mean everyone hospital-wide, just everyone in OR and PACU. If they're not testing pt's pre-op, then sending them up to the floor without testing (yet testing all other admissions), the only logical reason why pre-op wouldn't care if the...

Right! If we don't test them, they're not positive is a really horrible stance to take when every procedure is going to be aerosol-generating. You would think that's the one situation in which everyone would need to be tested... or everyone wo...

I never understood why having so many specifics about IVs is such a thing for so many nurses. All I ever care about is: 1) Do they have one? 2) Is it running anything? If it's a central, I may ask if they know off hand how many lumens...

Yes! I don't know if I could ever go back to some variation of 9-5, working five days a week! Cram the hours in and get em' done!!

Maybe if you started calling them in the middle of the night, they would start paying more attention to how they're writing them in the first place ? Wait! Totally missed the "written up" thing. Written up for calling a doctor? Seriously?

I totally agree! My hospital has been giving out bonuses for extra shifts, but that doesn't really say a lot by way of appreciation. Nor does it amount to enough to decently motivate people. My unit was transformed into the primary covid unit ...

I'm so sorry that this happened to you (and your patient). We all make mistakes. I don't think you mentioned how long you've been in nursing, but I do know that the clinical experiences and new RN orientations have been suboptimal during this pand...

For the longest time, I've wondered why on earth people who work in Healthcare are offered such crappy medical and RX coverage. Sure seems a bit hypocritical if you ask me ?

I'm glad that you didn't listen to your instructor! Sometimes I don't think that instructors realize how much of an impact one single comment can have... nor do they realize how long those comments can stick with a person. By the point that st...

I definitely agree that it would be worth checking with the attending... maybe they actually ordered the vitals and assessment, maybe not. If they did, many docs are willing to make some kind of compromise to support patient sleep... and if the pati...