wildcherry

Sanacruz, I'm sorry that you're going through what you are. Is this at a long-term care facility......are you full-time, etc....? The responses you've gotten from your superiors stink! At my facility, you must fill out "unusual occurance" or "incident report" forms and have counciling when needle-sticks occur. I assume you've done that. Plesae follow through with this. It can only help in the long-term. As for the DON's response....ignore her/him. If you want to quit, then hand in your papers and be done with it. Good luck!

Have I got this right? 6 RNs for 6 pts?? 4 RNs for 8 pts???? That is heaven! Where in NY do you work.........I wanna sign up :chuckle At my hospital it's usually 4-6 pts per RN, usually covering a SrLPN for 1 or 2 folks....on days. Lucky when we have 3 techs for VS, BGs, baths, foleys.....usually we have 2. Eves the ratio is 7-8 pts to RN, nights the same. Good luck to us all!

Hey, thanks for that link.....it's seems quite good.

I agree totally with you, oh Cheerful one. I've worked over 20 yrs. and if I call in.....I NEED too.

We use corvert for chemical cv...sometimes two doses repeated one after the other. If no success....then electrical cv. We do it in any private room on our unit. Anesthesiologist is present..uses propophenol IV. This produces immediate sleep and totally no recall of the event. Pt wakes up anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on age/ wgt. Very safe procedure. Sustaining SR has somewhere from 75 to 90% success for anywhere from 1-5 yrs. hope things go well!

Chenoaspirit....so sorry about that day/night from hell! I agree....with what's been said already....keep going up the chain until someone listens to you. And start looking for a safer place to work. Remember that it's your license on the line, no one elses. Seriously........start looking elsewhere for a job.

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I was helping a coworker clean up an old fellow who'd been incontinent of loose stool........he also had alot of scrotal edema and was red as a beet. Well as I was gently (or I thought so) wiping his bottom off, he yells out, "OW! MY NUTS" , drawing out the "NUTS". We got more than a few comments from the docs who heard it all from the nurses station. :chuckle :chuckle :roll :roll

Rest assured to all who post on this thread......it happens EVERYWHERE! Neither department is aware of what's happening in the other and everyone is stressed. Our hospital recently started using an "admission team" to help. Well it's actually only 2 nurses strong right now....but it helps out with the whole admission process. They meet the pt in ER and do the nursing admission paperwork (12 or so pages long at my hospital) and it helps ALOT! We all know that admissions take time....and this "team" frees us up to take our admission, as well as continue with the pts we already have on the floor. Does anyone else use something similar?

Male or female...the comment was funny and I think humor should be expected during codes. Actually, I'd be a little afraid if the comment was made by a female. :roll

Hey guys! We're in upstate Ny....cardiac/tele unit. Full census-32...day shift RNs get 4to5 pts and covers a senior LPN for 2 more....a PCT/CNA for 16 pts for VS, baths. So as long as there are no codes or acute MIs, we've got it pretty good.

Checking a pts. bottom I said, you have two open areas down here....the elderly woman replied, " yes ,I do. Don't you young lady?", then she turned to me and winked. :)