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Not all ER's are as busy as yours. The day that I received my patient, that was actively dying, the ER only had 3 patients. The ER nurse dropped my patient off and he had a RR of 45 rpm.

I had the ER drop off an actively dying patient to me at the IMCU where I used to work. Pt died 6 hours later.

Someone call off and they told me that they tried to call people in. I did not say anything during the conversation with the nurse supervisor. when she was done speaking, I simple asked if I was in fact being mandated. she answered, "yes, you are being mandated". My next statement was " do you know I am scheduled to come in at 7 pm. she said "yes". I emailed the daylight nurse supervisor and asked her if I am required to come in for my 7 pm shift after working 16 straight hours. she said "yes you are required to come in if you are on the schedule.

thanks for clarifying this for us. I am surprised at the number of nurses that I work with that do not know Act 102.

"may" is the part where the overtime was "volunteer". If the overtime is "mandated", they are required to give you 10 hours between shift. I hope this clears this up for you.

"shall" receive ........ Reread the Act 102. I also called the Labor Department and they confirmed it appears the Act was in fact violated. They told me how to fill the paperwork out.

I have just experienced a blatant violation of Act 102. I was mandated to work 16 hours and come back in for another shift less than 10 hours later. While I was deciding to file a complaint with the Labor Department I just kept thinking of all the hard work other nurses have done to get this law passed. In the end, it was an easy decision to make to file the complaint. The last I have heard the Labor department is very slow at investigating these types of complaints. Has anyone filed a complaint for violating Act 102 and how did it work out for you?

Doing assignments by acuity and having to work 4 straight 12 hour shifts and only having one day off before having to return and doing a stretch of 8's.

I have had pt come to my floor without results from flu swab, later determined to be Pos. I have had pt come to my floor with a pulse of 150 and resp in the 50's. The other day I had to call the Nurse Supervisor the stop the ER from sending a pt to us until the flu swab results came back because the only bed left was with another pt. And get this, this pt was the only one in the ER at the time. You have to weigh each circumstance.

They were told it was from the entire staff. The flowers put a smile on all their faces and that the staff for thinking of them on mothers day and being in the hospital. Even the families thought it was very nice of the staff with being so thoughtful.

I had the same complaint. When I am about to end my shift and we get an admission, I at least do an ABCDE on them and then leave the rest for the next shift. Even at the very beginning of the shift at least do the ABCDE and then go back and do the full admission.

I decided to buy all our Female patients(13) flowers for Mothers Day. We screened all of them for allergies and then delivered the flowers. They loved them. It only cost me $140 which I thought was money well spent. Is this something that is out of line for a Nurse to do?

The people that think this is just a little mistake are the ones that need to be watched very carefully when wasting medications. Just saying.

they may still deny her admission but give her the option to withdrawn so that there is no record.

That might be smart advise because if she is not allowed into the program, d/t a positive result, she may have to divulge that when she applies to another program. If she drops out now, she won't have to say anything about taking illegal drugs.

an 18 or 19 year old should know better than to take a drug that is NOT prescribed to them.

I already know what the long-term solutions is but change is going to take a while (I have been working on it for over 6 months now). I wanted some gestures that may make the nurses feel like their appreciated. Back to the solutions. Scheduling is a biggie here and so is assignments by acuity. I have been gathering research papers and studies on both of these. I am going to make a presentation where they can't ignore facts. I have talked to every nurse that quit and the ones that are still there.

Do NOT email them, call them. If you email them or just don't say anything, forget about getting into that program.

Your best bet would be to contact the school and give them a heads up and tell them exactly what happened. Don't wait for them to get the results. They may appreciate your honesty and make you take another test. don't wait for them to get the results.

This may sound a little harsh, but you are NOT nursing material. You took a controlled substance without a prescription. And to top this off, your mother gave it to you.

I do not put up with that at the hospital I work at. I have already told an Aide to go and apologize to my patient. I told her that I did not care what was said just to go and apologize. When she did, I then told the patient that sometimes the staff gets busy and sometimes will loose their cool. But I have also been where I almost told the patient to apologize to the staff. She treated all the staff with such disrespect that I had a hard time not saying anything to her. When she was finally discharged is when I found out really how bad she was. There is a point when you need to start being a patient advocate.

Tele Nurse at a very small hospital. Our turnover rate is bad, very bad. Out length of stay for Nurses is less than 1.4 years experience. I am working on improving work schedule and the way they do assignments but that is going to be a very long process. My request to this forum is what can I recommend to management to improve nurse morale? I recommended to management to do something for our aides and they did but I need something for our nurses. What can be done to show us nurses that we appreciate what we do?

I have one better. I won't go into too much detail but I had a patient start to have hematuria and crashed right in front of me. Incubated, Central Line, EGD. 6mm varices need to get repaired. I had 7 different iv's going into this guy. He made it but the story was that I was only in the ICU covering because they were short staffed that day. I normally work in Tele. pH and CO2 will tell you when to intubate. Oh, and I was only a nurse for 9 months.

I was hired for a position that was posted as 0.5 FTE. When I got off orientation they started scheduling me 36 hours per week. It took me 6 months to get them to finally agree with me on what my hours are suppose to be. They were looking at it as a Part-Time when in fact I was hired at 0.5 FTE. So what that means is that they can not schedule me over 20 hours per week without asking me. I had to go to the top dog in the hospital to finally get things worked out. Stick to your guns.

Good question. I am going to take my test in the near future and wasn't expecting any pay increase.