sharann

I am considering hospice nursing as well. I have been nursing 8 years and need a change and hospice keeps coming to my mind. My dad had hospice in his last 6 weeks and it was such a wonderful experience(As much as his death could be obviously). I know he was pain free and died with dignity at home with my mom because of hospice. What kind of training should we expect? Should we have a certain # of "ride alongs"? Thanks

You can get hit by a bus crossing the street but I bet you will still do it. You can get MRSA outside of the hospital as well. At least you have access to gloves and such in the hospital vs at school or at any job or in a movie theater. Wash your hand alot, keep them out of your face and just be careful rather than fearful. Good luck in school, don't let people scare you with media induced hysteria!

Well, former is the key word here thankfully.

Antibiotics, antinausea, antidiarrheals, advil(for you too!). Get all your shots. Bless you and good luck on your quest

Hilarious!

You should see my notes to my kid. "Hi hon, mom out @ SM(supermarket) b/at 1400.Love2U.

Oh I surely will. I told them this earlier too and they said "oh we have had complaints like yours many times" I guess thats my answer!

Hi, Well, I don't know if you recall I had quite a lively thread going about nurses where I started working a few months ago speaking in a language other than English, constantly on the unit. Well after consideration I have decided that I had 2 options. 1.) Ignore the insulting behavior 2.) Leave the facility I chose #2. I am not able to tolerate it anymore. I think these nurses know who they are and others who do this as well should really think hard about how hurtful your talk is to others around you, your co-nurses, your patients. It is sad. This is a shame because aside from this these are terrific skilled nurses. What a waste. Fortunately I have a position to go back to where this is not occuring and wouldn't be tolerated for a sec. Thanks to all for the food for thought. I have been so depressed and angry and tearful for 2 weeks now. I will be resigning soon. Take care everyone and be good to eachother. We are all we have, to work united as nurses in alliance. Thanks

The DON must be on drugs! Keep wearing gloves and for heaven sakes do not shake the DON's hand, who know where she is putting them! Crazy, crazy nuts.

They DO know English. Really they do, and speak it fluently and beautifully. Oh well. It is not against the law but it is against hospital policy, it is written down apparently according to management.

I have no idea what you mean either. Can you elaborate? Thanks

So Sorry to dissapoint you, but this is poor treatment, especially when they have been hounding me to go to full-time status. I don't give a hoot is they have been there longer. What makes you think she will outlast me, I was in my last posistion for 9 years, permanent staff, not per diem, RNPerdiem. Thank you very much for your opinion,next time I will make sure they are trying to poison me instead so I will be justified in complaining.

There are know it all's in all areas. You can usually find them quickly as you know!

I didn't say the language was Tagalog. I don't care what language it is btw. We have nurses who speak English, Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Tagalog, Korean..... I believe that they should be more conscious of how they are acting. They NEVER do this in front of managers or the admins. Why is horizontal bad behavior ok? She speaks excellent English also, better than many who were born here. Thanks for the different perspectives. I will not let it rule me, nor will I move jobs(it exists in many places here). I especially will not learn that language, they know English! I DO think it would be funny as you said lpn if I DID know that language(but alas, I don't have 2 years to waste learning a language that is not supposed to be spoken in the workplace)

Exactly! You will have many things thrown at you but not like this piddly stuff. Good luck!

Hi, So I recently changed facilities and I am working in my specialty and am doing fine getting along with people in general, BUT for one nurse in particular who constantly is talking to other staff in a non-English language. This is at the nursing station and in front of patients and other staff who do not speak that language. This is in California. I have nothing, nothing against this persons culture but I am fed up with the constant talk and the disrespect and bad feelings it is causing. Are they talking about the weather, their kids, the patient, me? How would I know!!! This is against hospital policy(except on breaks and non patient areas). I went along with 3 other new employees(one of whom speaks that language by the way) to management to discuss how to handle this. They said that she has been warned and counseled about this many times and has been to classes etc. So my question is why does it continue? Am I so wrong to feel offended by this? This wouldn't fly if I was working in a foreign hosptial would it? Please no attacks on how we Americans are too sensetive and that I hate non Americans becasue both my parents were from other countries(2 different ones) and I was raised on English since they couldn't speak one anothers language:) Thanks, I am very upset becasue I believe that this is being tolerated and is not nice in general. We work together, why leave your co-wokrers out of your conversations on the job?

Break it down. IF you have 1000cc's to sart with...take the rate per hour which is 150cc's/hr. Then figure out with basic math what 150 X 6 is (it is 900cc's right?) So you really are being asked to multiply right now. The decreased rate part is to throw you off and to let you know you have less than 1 hour of fluid left before changing the bag(in real practice). Hope this helps!

I am guessing you are talking about PACU maybe?

Viva' America! This is yucky and a big no no. Report them yourself if needed.

That is very interesting. Do you really think they are doing subliminal stuff there? I think you are correct. All I know is WE ARE COMMITTED TO VERY GOOD CARE at that radiology dept!!!

When we say "Take that patient down" we mean to unhook their monitors and ready them for transport. In the ER or Psych that means something else altogether!

As if nurses do not already do enough and have enough liablity you want us to intubate as well? Well, of course flight nurses should but in the hospital I would go with the physicians and in some places Respiratory therapist who do it every dingle day and are practiced at it. Intubation is a skill that leaves very little room for error, sometimes you get one shot at it. If a pt goes bad enough they need intubation there is already likely airway compromise and swelling. One could do alot of damage with those rigid tubes. I have heard that some ER nurses can intubate and I believe if they have the need for it and are able to get certified in it by their hospitals they should be allowed to..but I would not want to be them. I can get sued for anything already thank you.

Thanks. I bet we have them too written somewhere so when something goes wrong we can be accused of not following policy. I will check into it. Would a GI lab or Cath lab nurse work alone during or after a procedure? They always seem to be in pairs right?

20 people read this but no opinions? I don't believe it. Nurses ALWAYS have opinions:coollook:

Ok, what do you all think about the common practice (more like Mal-practice) of one RN being in PACU with a patient. This of course is usually on a weekend or at night when resources are at the most minimal. How do you justify this in court when it comes up which we all hope it never does. Doesn't anyone worry about their patients or their OWN safety. We recently had an RN alone with a patient who was assaulted. She didn't even write an incident report. Dumb yes. We are discouraged by peer pressure to not make an issue of working alone with critical and noncritical phase I patients. Kind of a "don't call me if I am 2nd call unless you have a dang good reason". Any opinions/thoughts/advice? Thank you