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I agree with a lot of what you say......thanks for the post!

The MICU that I work in is closed between 7am-9am, 3pm-4pm and 7pm-8pm (for shift change.) We allow 3 visitors at a time, children may only visit between 5pm-7pm. One support person may stay overnight from 9pm-7am. Does a more open visitation policy...

The nurse who passes the med is the one who is ultimately responsible for checking labs that pertain to that med.....what if the INR was 5 and they still gave the patient coumadin?

I go ring-less at work (not even my wedding ring.) It grosses me out that some minute microbe could plant itself within the ring's crevasses. Does anyone know about any research articles pertaining to the hygiene of wearing rings in our profession?

What program does your hospital use....we use Cerner. It's OK, but we still have paper charts that the doctors write their orders in. The charge nurse then puts the new orders into Cerner. We still have paper interdiciplinary plans of care, moors...

Has anyone had to use their personal liability insurance obtained through NSO? If so, did your policy provide you with eveything it stated? Did you have any problems..... Thanks a bunch from a new grad!

How far are you into your first year and how many times have you come home and cried? I've been off precepting for five weeks and have come home and cried three times....most of the time it's because I was so overwhelmed on the floor....once I almost...

In the past few weeks, I have made mental notes of the things that I do at my job that are not "on my list of job requirements" so to speak...... 1. Emptying trash in patient's rooms and cleaning up said rooms 2. Rearranging the room as to please t...

In my hospital, LPN's are no longer allowed to work in crital care nursing areas (step-down units, etc.) We lost an LPN who has worked at our facility as a critial care nurse for over 20 years. She had loads more experience and knowledge than most ...

I am a fairly new nurse....I just hit the 6 month mark not too long ago. I work on a busy step-down unit. I arrived at work yesterday at 3PM to four monitored patients and a new admission. The new admit was a SBO who was vomiting all over. I trie...

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I posted this in the California nurses forum but have not received any responses.... What type of floor/unit do you work on and what is your nurse/patient ratio? Has the mandated nurse to patient ratios increased or decrease the quality of patient ca...

I am a new nurse....this is my second week on my own (off of precepting.) I have been taking care of five patients on a busy step-down floor with no major complications...until yesterday. There is a nurse on our floor who is sometimes charge. This...

I'm trying to make my way for awhile before making too many waves....

Fortunately, another nurse on the floor was able to look in on my patients......she witnessed the pandemonium that I was going through. Most of the nurses on my floor are awesome team-players.....it's the few that aren't that negatively effect us al...

There is a nurse that I work with who I HATE giving report to. She shows up and expects me to give her ALL of the info about a patient. I go early so that I can write down the names, doctors, allergies, diet, activities, etc., etc., and she is too ...

Why are hospitals still stocking latex gloves? Are non-latex gloves more porous (or more expensive) than latex?? I think that I may be developing a latex allergy. My hands are becoming red and irritated lately. How many of you have developed a la...

If this organization truly cared about patient care, then they would be mandating SAFE nurse to patient ratios instead of harassing nursing staff about why there is a box of gloves propped on the handrail in the unit's hallway. JACHO is a bunch of b...

Home-health nursing Hospice nursing & Bedside nursing at a hospital..... Just curious! Thanks!

I work days....very busy, but I know that the night-shift nurses run their butts off too! I am so appriciative of them. They get the floor ready for the day shift (when they can) by stocking, cleaning, getting paper work organized, etc., etc., etc....

I am a new nurse....I will be done with precepting (out on my own) starting Monday. Already I am our unit's representative on the hospital's quality and research committee. Because of this position, I will also be attending our unit's shared decisi...

Thanks for posting this!!! I completed the poll and wrote my congress-people.

Everyone has done this....I would talk to an experienced nurse (that you have complete trust in) and ask what you should do. We use computer charting that does not allow us to modify information from the previous day. The experienced nurse will be ...

Recently, doctors at our hospital have started to require a patient's nurse to go with them to a procedure (if they are on a heart monitor.) This is called "nurse and monitor." I work on a step-down tele floor and have six patients to care for. Whe...

tirednurse.....do you work in the Stark county area or more towards the "big lake?"