teacupRN

Wow... I have worked two doubles after posting this, so I was not able to get back to Allnurses. I regularly work close to 55 hours a week and I don't live and breathe message boards, I try to do other things with what little time off I have. I used to be here under a different user name. I remember now why I left. Nurses here don't care about the real issues, such as the lack of support for those on the "front lines". I am sure most nurses at the bedside either know of someone who has been attacked by a patient ( and not a "sundowning" patient), or has been attacked themselves. I personally have been choked, punched and shoved on different occasions; and I will never go back to bedside nursing because of this. I have had a prison guard drop a gun on my foot because it was not secured, luckily the prisoner was not within reach of the gun and shackled to the bed. I know a nurse that was stabbed while at work. I posted this to hopefully engage a meaningful conversation about the violence against healthcare workers. I know that I do not post a lot, but this is a topic that is relevant and concerns ALL healthcare workers. It is not a serious crime to attack healthcare workers in most states, and we cannot defend ourselves meaningfully. Anyways, it doesn't matter. I will let allnurses go back to it's regularly scheduled programming of "my coworkers are so mean" and "nurses eat their young".

I don't know if it has been posted, I did not find a thread when I searched, but if there is one please merge [h=1]Deputy ran and hid after inmate stole weapon, took hostages at hospital: lawsuit[/h]Deputy ran and hid after inmate stole weapon, took hostages at hospital: lawsuit - Aurora Beacon-News So basically the nurses were tortured and raped because the guard did not follow policy and procedure.

When you are work acute dialysis and assigned ICU for the day. You have an assignment of 3 patients on CVVHD, have 3 add ons, your tech is sitting a 8 hour SLED on an acidotic vented patient. You get told that there is a tylenol OD that needs a 12 hour SLED stat. A coworker assigned med surg dialysis gets that started ( leaving med surg dialysis short), and then find out that life flight is bringing in an cardiovascularly unstable pt with a potassium of 7.5 that needs a SLED, but every dialysis machine in the hospital has a patient on it, and the ED has a patient in volume overload on Bipap who needs urgent dialysis also.

Good morning all, I don't post very often, and I do not work in L&D. However this morning I read a Dear Abby that left me speechless. The second question for her was a man who was asking for advice regarding his wife's social induction of labor at 36 weeks. Per Abby, the father is outvoted by the wife and OB/GYN and does not have a say. I know that this can be a touchy subject in regards to a woman's right to her body, but I don't feel that the risks of an early social induction were addressed at all by Abby. Your thoughts?

At my facility, the head nephrologist considers any catheter accessed by the ED or the floor as "contaminated." Also we pack with 1000unit/ml heparin for inpatient, but the outpatient clinics still use 5000unit/ml heparin.