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  1. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Scroll89 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    I really wish this was the case, its really that its just a small market for those positions and they fill either internally or through direct recruitment (nursing students -> RN -> hired). Sure...

  2. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    Scroll89 replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At my hospital, the ICU nurses lead the rapid response teams and the doctors may or may not show up. We are able to order tests, imaging, give certain medications under protocols, and transfer / admit...

  3. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    Scroll89 replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Any decreased LOC is an appropriate time to check a bed side blood glucose. The number "123" was simply given to indicate that it was not what was causing the

  4. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Scroll89 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an ICU nurse, and it was my first position in nursing. I'm actively looking for a position in my town (I drive an hour to work) and I can't get an interview. Mind you i've only been there for...

  5. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Meh, "immature" isn't quite the word I would use considering the mess is just getting re-cycled from the patients rooms to other areas. Day shift has an equal part and management doesn't want to hear...

  6. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    I sleep well at night knowing that day shift had the same level of inconvenience that they placed on me, plus I'm in complete and total compliance with the medication. Remember, they could have...

  7. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    I have quite a few issues with baths during the morning myself. The day shift nurses consistently complain that we aren't giving our patients baths and we aren't getting our patients up. I pretty much...

  8. Leaving Nursing for Another Career

    Scroll89 replied to cocoa_puff's topic in General Nursing

    What do you mean by

  9. "I work in the medical field"

    Scroll89 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    If family silences an alarm, they get asked VERY sternly to never do it again. If they do it again, they are removed from the ICU until we deem it safe to have them again. We edit the alarm values per...

  10. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately the day shifters are, and will forever be, the golden children. They are the ones that "have it so bad" and doctors "hover over them unlike night shift"... Yeah right.. All the night...

  11. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    If you look at our policies, it says that within 2 hours of end of shift we only have to do the admission vitals and a physical exam and the oncoming shift has to finish the rest. I can't tell you how...

  12. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    Scroll89 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't read through the entire thread, but I have to say that as night shift I'm often times the one who gets to clean up after day shift. It drives me nuts too because its simple things like linen...

  13. Low census--what do you do?

    Scroll89 replied to compassionresearcher's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a smaller ICU and when we do not have patients we simply take over telemetry and stay at the hospital. We are considered "essential personnel" so we never get called off, but the poor...

  14. New RN-Licensed: How to enter CC nursing?

    Scroll89 replied to crome's topic in Critical Care

    Couple different sides to it to think about.... I was directly hired into an ICU position straight out of school. It has been awesome, mainly because the staff was supportive and taught me very well....

  15. Anxious about job market

    Scroll89 replied to julesjameson3333's topic in General Nursing

    Just read this, seems like nursing schools need to quit pumping out students. It seems absurd the amount of excess nursing staff, here's looking at you Ohio with your projected 75K+ abundance of new...

  16. dealing with rude doctors?

    Scroll89 replied to 2016New's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work night shift and there are just two doctors that we can't ever impress. Unless they are already up admitting the patient, calling them is sure to have disastrous results. Only time I didn't get...

  17. I&D...sterile procedure?

    Scroll89 replied to deefizzle's topic in General Nursing

    Ha, if you call that hostile you have a much different view of hostility than most people do. And disagreeing with what? Your opinion? Opinions mean nothing. There are people that have linked peer...

  18. Anxious about job market

    Scroll89 replied to julesjameson3333's topic in General Nursing

    This is totally my opinion but mental health nurses are indeed in high demand, but the pay is just fine.. some places the pay is far better than hospital nursing.. But they are in high demand because...

  19. I&D...sterile procedure?

    Scroll89 replied to deefizzle's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing against you wanting sterile procedure over clean, but something to consider: With all of the I&D that are being performed daily throughout the US, if we had to switch to 100% sterile...

  20. I&D...sterile procedure?

    Scroll89 replied to deefizzle's topic in General Nursing

    Haha, please tell me your kidding? An NP vs a new grad with no experience outside of a clinical rotation? Pretty sure an opinion pales in comparison to years of real

  21. I&D...sterile procedure?

    Scroll89 replied to deefizzle's topic in General Nursing

    Nobody touched on it yet but MRSA colonization on skin is extremely common. In fact we stopped swabbing nares to test for MRSA because it is A: extremely common, and B: usually has no significant...

  22. Journaling

    Scroll89 replied to CaICURN's topic in General Nursing

    I would seriously hope that someone wouldn't be dim-witted enough as to readily give up info like that, but I'm guessing it happens pretty frequently. Golden rule about law proceedings: don't speak...

  23. Journaling

    Scroll89 replied to CaICURN's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly just write somewhere in the front of the journal that "All writings in this are factitious works of art and are not to be taken seriously. Any likeness to any individual is purely...

  24. How do you deal with unexpected death in the ICU?

    Scroll89 replied to YP CVSICUnurse's topic in Critical Care

    Wonder why the chest tubes didn't show anything that would have given the hint of a hemothorax. Honestly with an ABG showing no hypoxia, clear head CT, no excessive drainage in the Atriums, and decent...

  25. New nurse: I get no respect

    Scroll89 replied to Nurse326's topic in Emergency

    I just wish that the others in this thread would have the same view. Trust =/= respect. I respect people for being human and attempting to do their best. I trust people for showing me their best and...