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  1. Let the next shift deal with it...

    night owl posted a topic in General Nursing

    Often wondered if this has happened to other nurses and if so, how was it handled? You come to work get report make rounds and find a pt very dyspneic, or spiking a high temp, or crashing or even...

  2. Application of Lidocaine cream before dialysis

    night owl posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    As long as I've been in nursing, when the dinosaur roamed the earth, I've never had any dealings with dialysis until recently. I have a few questions. They're probably dumb, but please bear with me....

  3. sleeping staff

    night owl posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It's incredible! just went down stairs to use their xerox machine and everyone of their staff members is sound asleep, all wrapped up in blankets and "Mouth Wide Open." They just don't care about why...

  4. needleless needles

    night owl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'll be darned, I never knew this kind of injection system existed. The rep came this morning to give us an inservice and when he pushed the plunger all the way in as far as it would go, the needle...

  5. Giving report in LTC

    night owl posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am very curious on how everyone gives report. DO you all sit with the kardex and read off the names of course, age, diagnosis etc. etc. etc for each resident??? For our 60 residents, this takes us...

  6. Where are you located VA nurses?

    night owl posted a topic in Government, Military

    Just wondering where you all are located and what VISN are you in? I'm located at the NJ Health Care Systems in East Orange/Lyons, NJ, VISN

  7. Ontario, CA student nurse video

    night owl replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    WOW! That was mighty powerful and it made me sad too. If I knew how to make one of those videos, I'd use the exact same song only set the pace to Long Term Care showing the old folk lying in bed with...

  8. Thoughtful Supervisor - Not!

    night owl replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you just love these people? My NM has a doctorate in nursing, but most of the time she doesn't have a bit of sense and it's always her way or no way. One time I said to her, "Don't you feel like...

  9. I'm not "WIPING BUTTS"

    night owl replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    When my mom was hospitalized with CHF and after receiving IM Lasix, she needed the bed pan so badly and asked the med nurse to hand her the bedpan from her bedside cabinet. The nurse said, "It's not...

  10. lost panties

    night owl replied to nrsbetrn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Call the "pantie police", they'll know what to

  11. Resigned Nurse Manager position today...

    night owl replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    :icon_hug: I'm happy for you too. Best

  12. breakfast

    night owl replied to Schmoo1022's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    At our facility on nights, our UM expects 75% of the residents washed dressed and OOB for breakfast by 0645-0700 and are all expected to be fed by the time day shift arrives at 0730. Our census is 60...

  13. How is this fair?

    night owl replied to hhrhrn41's topic in General Nursing

    :yelclap: THANK YOU!

  14. Drug seeker t-shirt?

    night owl replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    These are absolutely brilliant! Thank

  15. fear of vomit?

    night owl replied to maggijo's topic in General Nursing

    I've always had a fear of vomit. In my 30 years in nursing, it has never gotten any better. My biggest fear is having a noro virus run through my facility. It happened about 4 years ago and I'll tell...

  16. med carts/control freaks

    night owl replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My new pet peeve...people pouring lactulose or any syrupy med over the computer keyboard! When you go to type in your code to log on it looks like this...BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB because the keys stick! I...

  17. LTC big dogs at the top

    night owl replied to groovetta's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Some do get incentive awards if they keep the budget down... nice big fat bonus checks! But to get them for not providing basic comfort needs??? I will silence myself before it's too

  18. LTC big dogs at the top

    night owl replied to groovetta's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That's criminal!!! These people should be locked up! God bless the staff...they are truly angels of

  19. Are you paid when you clock out, or end of shift?

    night owl replied to lovemylab's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm, I KNOW we need time clocks at our facility. We just might be the last place on earth who doesn't have them and I know it would solve many of our problems. Too many problems with people leaving...

  20. Rn not giving scheduled meds

    night owl replied to tinkle's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I sure agree to this. Where is the

  21. Sleeping on the job..acceptable or not?

    night owl replied to travelnurse63's topic in General Nursing

    We had a CNA that would sleep every night, snoring louder than any pt. The supervisor who seek him out to ask him if he could do overtime never saying anything to him about the sleeping. Finally she...

  22. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    night owl replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That's why I love the Bar Code medication Administration which is all computerized. We always complained about it, but it really is the best system. The pt's wrist band is scanned to make sure they...

  23. Giving report in LTC

    night owl replied to night owl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It seems that our facility thinks Jacho wants us to use the kardex and go through each pt, one by one with age, Dx's blah, blah, blah which is absolutely crazy. I can understand doing this in a...

  24. ANOTHER new CMS guideline

    night owl replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    This IS funny. The other day after the residents had breakfast, they were sitting in their geri-chairs/w/cs and snoozing. I said to the lady standing next to me, "Look at them all sleeping like...

  25. I got fired!

    night owl replied to zoeintx's topic in General Nursing

    And you weren't able to explain anything to them? Or they just didn't want to hear it? To me that's just crazy. You should have at least been given a chance to speak; you have that right or don't we...