EdieRN

I love all of these stories. I have to think of some of my own to tell.

At my hospital, we usually don't get a location for a patient until just before shift change. We hold admissions for up to 6 hours because our nursing supervisor is placing cath lab patients, open heart cases, direct admissions, and any other patient. Emergency patients come last.

Again, I was asking about allowing someone who does not have a graduate license to start iv's and assess patients. He is technically considered a nursing aide until he does pass. Our department has never had someone fail their boards before so this is new to us. I have been looking for info from Pennsylvania's BON in regards to this - not much I can go by yet. One of my co-workers told one of our supervisors that she wasn't comfortable with this and they just shrugged their shoulders.

I guess I should have made what we are upset about a little more clear. It is not that he failed his boards, it is because we are being asked to sign off for the iv's and assessment. I was wondering if anyone else had this happen.

I was curious if anyone here has worked with a GN that failed their nursing boards and is still on a nursing orientation. I work in a Emergency Dept that hired 6 GN's this past year. One of them failed his boards and is technically considered nurses aide, but our nurse manager has him following a RN so that he will get nursing experience. She has said that it is ok he start IV's and assess the patient with the nurse in the patient's room and the nurse is to sign it off. A few of my co-worker's and I are upset about this. Has this happened with anyone else?