I had an interview for a hospital RN job today and I'm just so confounded and anxious about it that I can't sleep, so here I am on AllNurses to get it out of my system. I tend to be longwinded when I...
I think it is more of an issue that a warm body on the floor is better than a vacant job opening. We are so severely short-staffed.
I feel like I've got one foot out the door already. I've posted...
I wish I had said that to the nurse that left her phone at the desk. I told her she wasn't to do it again. Patient abandonment was certainly at the forefront of my mind.
It is fairly common...
I know both of them know how to do this, because that is how I trained them. Unfortunately, it isn't policy at my hospital. Charge can get in trouble for not clearing the room after a discharge in a...
I have a love/hate relationship with bedside shift report.
Positives: Patient is involved in their care plan and its a good way to involve them in their goals for the day. They can also answer...
I think there are two facets here. As LovingLife stated, there's likely a misunderstanding of hospital flow and these nurses chose to protect themselves from getting admits by hiding their discharges....
I have had a similar experience being charge. I wrote about my ambivalence with being charge for the first time here: I don't want to be Charge!
Being charge with a 1/2 patient load or no...
Ioreth replied to TryingtoThriveRN's topic in General Nursing
I LOVE working 12s. Sometimes I toy with the idea of working a clinic or public health job that would have me working 8s. I just don't think I would like doing it since I would much rather work my 3...
Ioreth replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing
Things I've seen firings for:
Not rounding on patients.
CNA falsifying vital signs.
Altered mental status while working then leaving hospital campus midshift without notifying anyone....
Wow. Thank you all for the excellent advice, especially on not using the scan overrides. I'm already a bit leary of pulling meds at all on an override since that one big case this year with an RN...
I wanted to add a few things that didn't really fit above.
I also found the other noncommunicative nurse's phone at the charge station when I came back after discharging my patient. She had gone...
I'm trying to process a situation I was in recently and would appreciate feedback. Sorry for the book.
TLDR: Floor RNs hiding from Charge that patients discharged. Poor patient flow ensues,...
I came here to write about what I think is a nurse bullying incident I'm facing on my own unit, which I will shortly. I'm also an older in age but newish nurse. It has come and go on my unit, and most...
Thank you for the info about reporting to JCHO. It will be helpful as I figure out how to report this.
We just finished our monthly staff meeting and I brought up my concerns yet again. "We've...
Since I have a locker, my bag is just a large, simple purse. There's a zippered pocket for my keys and wallet. Everything else goes in the middle: lunch, drink, extra mask, pens.
I really don't...