nerdynurse08 replied to RuralNurseRN's topic in Management
I'm in the process of finding a better system as well. I've looked into Kanban boards, Scrum boards, or similar systems for my office white board. I haven't found exactly what I want, but mostly because I'm too busy on all these dang projects!
nerdynurse08 replied to Missie Hannie's topic in NICU
I also have to say that I agree with the awkwardness when it concerns staff members friending each other. As a supervisor, I don't request to friend anyone but if someone friends me I will usually accept just so they don't feel awkward but to decreas...
nerdynurse08 replied to Missie Hannie's topic in NICU
I've had families find me and request to be my friend but I ignore or decline the request because we didn't have a close NICU relationship like the one I have with the family I mentioned above. I think if the connection is made AFTER discharge it is ...
nerdynurse08 replied to Missie Hannie's topic in NICU
While our hospital policy does not forbid the practice, I strongly caution against any of the nurses on my unit (I am a NICU supervisor) from friending families of current patients and I certainly never would. I don't have a problem with nurses who f...
If you have volunteers come to your NICU, what do you have them do? My hospital's volunteer services has 5-6 people who want to volunteer in our NICU (we already have 3-4 regular volunteers). (21 NICU beds, 8 step down bed unit). Right now, our volu...
nerdynurse08 replied to nerdynurse08's topic in NICU
Our Healthcare Assistants do not do patient care ever. Of course, even if our HCAs did, we would never let volunteers do medical tasks. They do a lot of stocking, laundry, putting together admit packets, emptying hampers, cleaning, etc.