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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 my less than one year there doesn't look stellar,...

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 to ICU. Even if the patient doesn't quite need it...

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 issue.

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 almost a year and I'm motivated to find other work bec...

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 about it. I simply displace the mess they make int...

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 stocked the syringes and needles too. Plus lets look at...

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 always bathe at least 1 patient, but I can't crea...

What do you mean by Pl?

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 the physicians okay so that patient A's HR of 50 ...

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 co-workers feel the same, but we have very little say...

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 many times the ED has called us with 30 mins till...

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 piles in corners, cords, lines, and cables that are ...

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 telemetry technicians do. We respond to all rapid respon...

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. That said, and I know it only holds so much weight...

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 nurses. Whats with that? The other side of the coin...

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 an ear-full or attitude is when I called about a 5...

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 reviewed nursing and medical literature published in ...

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 there is often no incentive to stay (No practice a...

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 technique how much would that raise the cost of healthc...

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 experience.

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 impact on patient outcomes. I'm not saying MRSA doesn'...

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 unless spoken to, and only answer the question being...

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 coincidence, and any and all stories are fantasy." But for re...

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 pressure off support I wouldn't have thought anyt...

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 doing it consistently. The only type of respect tha...