AbakRN

I never made a med error for the first six years as a nurse.... Then I decided to take a job in a new facility and made two right off the bat.... Both had to do with misprogramming the infusion pump.... I was pretty devastated.... Do errors happen to everyone???? Yes..... But we should be vigilant in preventing errors as much as possible ....

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee no sleep coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee ice cream.... A whole tub at a time.... I don't buy it because I will literally eat the whole thing In One sitting.... Im not using the term literal inappropriately either.... I mean I will eat the whole thing no matter what size....

Hospital administration is mostly comprised of business majors who are trained to generate profit and have no practical healthcare knowledge,... It's about numbers for them.... During orientation the ceo of our hospital said "I could never do what u people do." Yea understatement of the year.... And he makes six figures and we get what??? A free pen???? I felt like it was really ironic for him to say that.... And the other hospital in our community is the same way... I've also been told, by nurses who have worked in other sates, that the healthcare in my particular state is severely lacking due to the aging population and lack of healthcare resources to accommodate .... All the more reason to ensure the staff has administrative support... How can we change the culture in our hospitals? How do we make them see our side?

I have this re occurring dream that I can't get out of my house to go to work.... Like my kids take a long time to get dressed or my car isn't in the driveway... One time I dreamed a delivery man kept knocking on my door and I had to keep answering it.... But I never get a call from work looking for me even if I end up still trying to leave my house by the afternoon .... I also had a dream when my youngest was a baby that I had to hang an iv piggyback with a baby food jar attached to it instead of those antibiotic vials... You know the mini bag that reconstitutes the medicine easily.... I could hear the infusion pump beeping in my sleep and I was trying to get up so I could get this baby food jar and hang it...

if there is an impending code the and all the nurses on the unit know it than it's impractical for the physician to leave the bedside.... That particular doc needed to call the cardiologist himself and notify him of the severity of the situation.... The code itself could have been prevented in the first place....

Have u ever met a surgeon? They think they are invincible.... U have to be pretty confident to do what they do... Even bad surgeons think they're gods gift to surgery.... Especially cardio thoracic guys

I just want to say that in the cath lab it is best if we all work as a team .... I hate how sometimes nurses and rcis and rad techs argue over who's job it is to do one thing or another . Like the scrub tech doesn't think he or she should do the "nurse's job" (connecting and disconnecting patients from the monitor or picking up the patient from the outpatient or inpatient area). Also nurses will say things like I'm the nurse so I'll set the room up the way I want to.... As if he or she is more important than the tech... It's also difficult because my facility uses a lot of travel staff ... It is insulting to both of our educations and years of clinical experience to dog each other.

Another good idea.... Don't post anything about work or your patients..... Obviously it's a privacy violation.... And don't contact them on social media... It's not a good idea.... I have always felt it was best to avoid social media all together... I have a friend who is a teacher and when she started interning she decided to delete her face book account too.... For those same reasons....

This is very well said... Hospital administration feels we are replaceable.... Experience and education means nothing.... I'm a good nurse and I do good work for them so why don't I get market raises and compensation for higher education and certification? Or I get something insulting like 1% of my base rate... Meanwhile I'm babysitting doctors... Telling them what should be ordered.... They try to rush off the phone and I have to tell them not to hang up on me because I'm not finished discussing the patient... They mark all of the patients home medications without even looking.... Metoprolol for someone who has a pressure of 60/40???? Really? and on top of all the technical knowledge and skills we possess we are spit on, peed and pooped on..... We works long hours without eating, drinking, using the bathroom..... And we have to continually add to our knowledge base.... If we don't chart this the government won't pay.... You need to learn new equipment and new charting systems.... Your education needs to be updated and you must talk to customers using a script and thank them for letting you take care of them.... All of which we comply with so they can make money. but we don't deserve to be compensated because we should be satisfied with the way things are? At least we have a good job? So what if all of a sudden hospitals decide to pay less???? Or hire new grads for less and weed the experienced nurses out? Can we complain then? Why can't I say I'm worth more than what I make? i can honestly say I still love my job... But I'm a good nurse.... I have a good education and a good degree.... I have years of experience.... Why don't I get raises like my husband does every year? I don't know why so many people disagree with the OP... That's probably part of the problem.