Elaken

Elaken

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  1. COVID: I'm ready to leave the hospital until the end of the pandemic guilt

    Elaken replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don’t buy this either. If your system was this corrupt you would have seen it a long time before on other issues. I work at multiple hospitals - on Covid units - and the only patients not needing...

  2. Alarming conditions of a job offer letter

    Elaken replied to guest1107684's topic in General Nursing

    Sadly I have never worked in a union. But usually it just guarantees a lot more worker rights because the union has so much more power as compared to a solitary employee. It might be worth talking to...

  3. What’s with “researching” patients before clocking in?! Is this a standard?

    Elaken replied to NurseOrBust13's topic in General Nursing

    Never ever do this. First of all it is most likely illegal because it probably counts as working off the clock. Secondly you are accessing patient’s information off the clock and that would be a...

  4. Alarming conditions of a job offer letter

    Elaken replied to guest1107684's topic in General Nursing

    I am just going to say this - what they wrote down is legally the reality of working in right to work states. Any job you don’t have a contract for (which contracts aren’t common) can completely...

  5. Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    Elaken replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    At my work we tend to call the pull-ups briefs and the ones that have the sticky tabs diapers. Otherwise you have to use a lot more words to ask what you need. I am not often talking to the patient...

  6. I can’t get past orientation and want to be an aid instead

    Elaken replied to Bjessica's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe look for a magnet hospital? Those require a certain level of nurse satisfaction so I would be surprised if ratios were ever that high. I work for a non-profit hospital network in AZ. I have been...

  7. Why are some RNs rarely busy, while others are always busy

    Elaken replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    As people have pointed out is too varied to know. It is suspect anyone who is always busy (some nurses honestly would be hectic if they had even just one patient) or always having an easy day...

  8. Fired

    Elaken replied to Lilynelo's topic in General Nursing

    I am float pool for my hospital network. Our new employees get 2 days and many of them are floating to 5 different hospitals that are all a little different. It is quick but, honestly, it is really...

  9. When Nurses Say the Wrong Thing: 4 Ways to Improve

    Elaken replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    I agree KalipsoRed. I am so tired of this “you need to make a connection” attitude. Why? Why is this my job? I am there to medicate a patient. Clean them up. Assess them and catch if things are...

  10. I Was Fired...for Being Abrasive and Having Attitude

    Elaken replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am mostly echoing what others have said here but I definitely think needing to explain your reasoning can be pretty exhausting to the other nurses. If I tell you a charting was done incorrectly,...

  11. Cleaning patients after bowel movements.

    Elaken replied to Kidsrablast's topic in General Nursing

    If a patient is at the toilet and I am just making sure they are clean I use toilet paper. If they are excessively dirty, on bedpan, or incontinent we use wash clothes with foam soap 99% of the time....

  12. Surgeons - ugh!

    Elaken replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    The problem I have with this is it is really hard to say something should be known or is inconsequential. We have a doctor who will think you are the dumbest nurse alive if you have high BP and...

  13. Questions about morning blood sugars/insulin

    Elaken replied to Logracia's topic in General Nursing

    My facilities really struggle with this. Patient’s can order whenever they want. Which means someone might be eating breakfast at 0700 and another at 0930. And they might have 20 carbs on that tray...

  14. Med-Surg v. Telemetry/Step-down

    Elaken replied to Guest1033582's topic in Medical-Surgical

    As someone above said when interviewing get specific on what a unit takes and ratios. At my hospital every unit takes insulin drips (I know at some this is considered ICU because of the hourly checks...

  15. Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    Elaken replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    My state recently made it a law that you get one hour sick time for every 30 you work (up to 40 a year - company can do more if they want) and you can’t be penalized for taking it. So now even PRN...

  16. As a RN, which would you choose?

    Elaken replied to GenieToBe's topic in General Nursing

    So many of you give the same answers that I find frustrating in patients. "Well I only want CPR if there is a good chance I'll recover." Uh, we can't sit around and debate the chances of your code...

  17. Facility does not provide breaks - What can we do?

    Elaken replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Nursing Career

    I am flabbergasted that a room can properly be cleaned in 10 minutes. I am going to go out on a limb and say it can't be properly sanitized in that time. Our housekeeping wipes down *every* surface -...

  18. 2 full-time jobs?

    Elaken replied to anna225's topic in General Nursing

    The absolute, single best thing you can do, is learn to live frugally. When it comes to paying down debt and saving for retirement the biggest thing is how much you save. Someone who makes 50k a year...

  19. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    Elaken replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    If you are told by multiple people that you are domineering than the odds are very good that you are domineering. Somehow I think your viewing of the tape was biased. If you showed Trump video of his...

  20. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    Elaken replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    The only reason I am for special efforts to bring men into the field is I have heard from tons of older nurses that salary *only* went up once men started coming into the field. Although one nurse has...

  21. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    Elaken replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Oh come on don't come in here acting like you are bringing wisdom. First of all you completely ignore the barriers in place and social constructs that make it harder for women to go into STEM fields...

  22. RN as Patient Sitter?

    Elaken replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Or you have to put the patient on the most sensitive bed alarm and are running in there every 15 minutes because the patient shifted. Talk about alarm fatigue. Plus how is the SNF even remotely going...

  23. Eating the patients' food?

    Elaken replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

    This

  24. Eating the patients' food?

    Elaken replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

    But no manager I know has a problem with staff using a bandaid if they need it. Or making a few copies at work or using the fax machine for personal use. Heck, if we have a headache we call pharmacy...

  25. Eating the patients' food?

    Elaken replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

    Out of the galley I probably will have maybe a peanut butter and one or two graham crackers every couple of weeks and I have no guilt about it. I don't think of it as stealing. Technically I am...