JadeEclypse replied to Nurse131382's topic in General Nursing
While it isn't an ideal reason to be calling in you have to take into consideration what it is you actually do for a living. This isn't the kind of job that you just sit behind a cash register or do...
JadeEclypse replied to Lakeshore18's topic in General Nursing
If your hospitals are anything like mine I'm sure your manager doesn't care about paying overtime because you're so short-staffed that it evens out in the end. I work on a unit it supposed to have a...
JadeEclypse replied to Lakeshore18's topic in General Nursing
That's exactly what the articles I listed cited. Because we don't treat them like patients any more. We're even encouraged to call them "clients" now days. And the client gets, what the client wants,...
JadeEclypse replied to Lakeshore18's topic in General Nursing
Right? I mean yes I guess in a way higher patient satisfaction is linked to lower readmissions because it's hard to come back in when, like what could have happened to the gentleman in my scenario,...
While it isn't discrimination if her employer is anything like my employer there is a list and those names are put on a list and you transfer to the shift of your choice based off of that list. Being...
I'm sure that your friend is probably egging your family on a little bit and that's partly why they're giving you so much crap about it. Pictures that you shouldn't have to put yourself laugh just to...
JadeEclypse replied to Lakeshore18's topic in General Nursing
We do a bedside report, it's a new JCAHO standard so it's pretty much being phased into most hospitals. But thus far they haven't been so bold as to give us an actual script of what to say, only the...
The general consensus on the first post of this was that the OP was the rude and inappropriate one. Did you expect that opinion to change? Yes assignments should be based on Acuity not numbers, why...
I really don't see how asking someone how many patients they have that is inappropriate, it sounds to me like the nurse that asked this question a little too sensitive and maybe you should consider...
We had a guy hooked up to the EEG equipment for seizure monitoring that kept setting off his seizure alert. I finally asked him why he was hitting it so frequently and he looked me bold in the face...