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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 oxygen are there for other issues that would have ho...

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 the union and getting an idea of what they do and ...

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 HIPAA violation. What if something changes last minute ...

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 change your job, your pay, and your benefits. What they...

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 about them since if they are in the “diapers” it is ...

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 there 6 years on day shift. I have had 6 pts for ...

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 (probably a lot more they could be doing to improve patien...

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 doable. I have preceptored a lot of staff and very ...

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 going bad. Advocate for them. Encourage them to do what ...

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, for example, odds are I already know what made you d...

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. Due to too many clogged toilets we have to specia...

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 don’t stop IV fluids. This doc also takes over an hour t...

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 or 65. Same with lunch/dinner so it gets way too ha...

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 but not us nor does it cause a decrease in your p...

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 staff get sick time. Which means as a full time staf...

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 survival and/or call your family and ask what they t...

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 - including all parts of the bed - and it takes abou...

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 and saves 50% is better off than someone who makes...

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 debate with Hilary pretty sure he would still refu...

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 a husband who is also a nurse and they have worke...

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 and to work those longer hours. That is a HUGE deal...

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 to be able to handle this patient when they have e...

This comment.....wow.

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 and they have other send us a bottle of ibuprofen f...

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 suppose to get 2 15 minute paid breaks if the day allows...