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My facility gives $1 more per hour to BSN nurses. Highway robbery comes when you try to get more money for your MSN. Because I believe it's $2 for a freaking masters

Our ice machines are not available to patients families. There is a key code on the door to our kitchen. And we don't use reusable pitchers only styrofoam cups that are single use only. They don't leave the patients rooms. If they need a refill the o...

I think it's weird nurses can not start IVs. Every person with RN behind their name can start one at my facility because of issues like this. All this policy does is delay care and make RN incompetent of a task that is fully within their scope.

We are not required to clock out for lunch. If we do not take a lunch we write it in a book and get 30 minutes of time for it. I take lunch everyday and work a 36 bed med surg unit with 5-6 patients. I make sure my patients needs are taken care of an...

Wait I should add my facility uses PICCs that are approved for smaller barrel syringes. I wasn't thinking that this might not be the case for every facility. Never mind answered my own question.

So why dilute if it's not required to dilute? I mean you can use a 3 ml syringe on a PICC and flush behind it. And it's just fine.

Our epic care plan are hospital templates developed by lovely education department. So you type in COPD and a list pops up with check boxes beside it. Check the ones that apply. Bam done. After that you should chart progressing or complete daily but ...

Each patient has their own vial of sliding scale or 70/30. And pharmacy sends up lantus. Our unit is a 40 bed GI/ diabetic floor at a medium sized hospital. We give so much insulin a multi dose shared bottle isn't realistic. We'd be ordering a new b...

I've had several speeding tickets and one was doing 60 in a 35 when I was 18. I think at one point I had 5/7 points on my license. None of them have hindered me in becoming a nurse. My insurance was high as heck until they fell off my record though.

I agree I worked nights for over a year and we re in the rooms a lot at night. I also hate waking that sleeping dementia patient to do something. I perfected my ninja nursing skills in those rooms.

Tried to quote but my phone would not let me. She never said the patient was stuck 8 times only that he had 8 IV meds back to back. I think another point of frustration for the patient is that he already had a working IV so the extra stick for the s...

Ok so what was the point? If you've understood the history or diagnoses of a patient and it is an abnormal finding so you reported it to your instructor. You have done your due diligence. The responsibility falls on the primary nurse. The S3 you have...

I went to Augusta tech ADN program and graduated in December 2014. They are not NLN accredited. That accreditation is a voluntary one. As long as the school you are in is regionally accredited you can transfer those credits. I am now getting my maste...

Ok First let me commend you on obviously doing research and being knowledgeable about your patients condition. Ok an S3 is abnormal, yes. Kudos on hearing that lub dub dub. What interventions should have been in place? Had the patient had an echo? W...

I don't believe there is a culture of blame at my employer. We have a QARM reporting system. It's used after every fall, medication error, sentinel event or any error. There was a situation where a doctor ordered a heparin drip on the wrong patient. ...

Yes always initiate compressions. Would kinda suck if you thought oh well she'll come back and she doesn't and you delayed care because of that thought. The doctor was doing nothing more than speculating

Hospital in central Savannah river area in Georgia. Medical, neuro ICU-1:1, 1:2, rarely 1:3 Step down max 1:4 MeDsurg- 1:6 sometimes 1:5 if needed like trach patients or large dressings chest tubes ect. 3 cNa on days 2 at night. 2 CNA's take 18 pt a...

Yea no you don't have to take clothes off. I can hear breath sounds just fine through one layer of clothing. That's ridiculous.

Our education and care plan section of charting requires the nurses to still do this! Granted a lot of it is point and click and no one uses that huge book but they have to apply

I just get a guilt trip if I call in. Last time I called in I was in a wreck that totaled my truck and before my manager asked if I was ok she goes, " you know we only have 4 nurses tonight right" then she proceed to ask if she could pick me up. Don'...

Not a fantasy. I am actually going to PRN soon. Large incentives to do so and you can work full time hours if you want. $10 more dollars an hour. Catch is they can float you anywhere within your experience so I can go to any med surg floor.

We have set ratios in all areas. My hospital is a non-profit magnet hospital if that makes a difference. Medsurg is 1:6 max. Intermediate/PCU is 1:4 max and ICU's are 1:2. ED is 1:4. We have a very large float pool and PRN's that Will come in at 11...

They are phasing out LPN's in the area hospitals around me . (CSRA) that is not to say you cannot find work. There are plenty of LTACH or LTC facilities that rely on LPN's. There is one magnet hospital that will not hire LPN's for floor nursing but ...

So I guess the scene can only be two minutes long or it will be interrupted by the annoying beep beep beep I hear all night long. Lol

Georgia med surg floor then burn intermediate/stepdown unit looking to go to burn ICU after 6months - 1 year in intermediate Edited to say I graduated December 2014