JadeEclypse

JadeEclypse has 11 years experience and specializes in Neurosciences Stroke Nurse.

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1. Calling in for no sleep

   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 simple repetitive things over and over again. You'r...

2. Is this reasonable or just over the top?

   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 ratio of 10 nurses and 4 CNAs for 34 patients and w...

3. Is this reasonable or just over the top?

   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, even when it's not what they need. Even when you ...

4. Is this reasonable or just over the top?

   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, you choke on the turkey sandwich you were told you w...

5. Discrimination for being a new mom?

   JadeEclypse replied to Karn88's topic in General Nursing

   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 out for maternity leave or illness doesn't take yo...

6. Am I wrong from refusing to help a friend?

   JadeEclypse replied to Neywel120's topic in General Students

   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 get her first, I'm sorry but nursing requires a lo...

7. Is this reasonable or just over the top?

   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 highlights of what we're to go over and give the pa...

8. Inappropriate nurses?

   JadeEclypse replied to hgraves64's topic in Relations

   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 does he need to know you ask? Maybe he was curious,...

9. Inappropriate nurses?

   JadeEclypse replied to hgraves64's topic in Relations

   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 his/her own approach to things? Making conversation ...

10. Reasons patients turn on their call light

    JadeEclypse replied to diamondp17's topic in Relations

    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 and said, "It gets people here a lot quicker than us...