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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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 thoughtf...

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 ...

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.

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 p...

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...

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 resu...

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 sta...

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 ...

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...

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