Steffy44

Of course they can. If the other floor is desperate for help and you're qualified, they can float you at any time. It's about the patient and not our feelings. As much as it stinks, sometimes it's a necessity.

Be open and honest. I interviewed the year my son was graduating high school. I respectfully told them me taking the job was dependent on me being allowed to attend. My boss actually worked it so I was done precepting on day shift before the event and started precepting on nights after. Honestly usually works well.

I've called out twice this week. I have only called in 3 times since I started in March 2015. I have also never been this sick before. I drug myself in to work yesterday but was only functioning at 50% at best. Whatever demon has invaded my body needs to leave. If you're a threat to your patients...call in.

If you want to fix attitudes then address and try to fix the problems. I'm tired of being made to feel like I need to be Pollyanna when there is a dumpster fire on my floor every day I work.

It's a HUGE HIPAA violation and I'd turn him in. If he'll go through your charts with you standing right there who else's records does he go through. If I need to give a med for a busy nurse I can slip a note in the chart starting this so if there is an audit they will see why I was there.

See it all the time. Our midlevel boss was up for a job to be floor supervisor. She'd been doing it pretty much before the other floor sup was fired. Did she get it...nope. An external hire got it. She was BFFs with the head of the hospital nurse. She's a horrible boss. I'm not sure after a year that she even knows my name. She worked at this hospital a long time ago and all the older nurses said she couldn't nurse her way out of a paper bag. 🤷🏻*♀️

Everyone is running away! It's the surest sign you need to lace up the sneakers and run too. Yikes!!!

Med surg/tele/ortho/urology/no one will take me because of my psych issues and I want to torture you for 3 months... used to be 4:1 on days but lately has been 5-6:1 with no care to acuity or crazy. Nights started out the other night with 8:1. An accident or catastrophic error waiting to happen.

All of the school nurse jobs in my area require 5 years of nursing experience.

Yep...in my state you have to have a BSN for almost all of them. Plus many years of experience.

Stupidest stuff ever. Just hire a robot. We're supposed to do bedside report too with the magic script. You sound like an idiot. If I know the nurse I will probably talk her up but if not...nope. I will NEVER wake my patient up if I don't have to. My place is adding electronic rounding. You have to go into the room, ask the same 5-6 scripted questions and log onto a computer to chart it. Computer garbage is more important than patient care. Incredibly frustrating.

You can keep my not for profit. Constant short staffing and figuring out ways to cut like having no spare TP on the floor so you can restock the pt bathroom or visitor bathroom. Putting one change of linen in the closet because we pay by the pound to clean. 2 washcloths and 2 hand towels in the closet for bathing. Linen stocked in the room once a week. Cutting unit secretaries and then never any CNAs on the floor. Staff burnout is high on my floor.

Oh darling I assure you we do NOT get extra money for our DEU time. We don't get a choice to even do it. You just get assigned. Until you walk in this nurses shoes you should stop judging. If you're so offended by this nurse yelling (I don't condone but totally understand) you're going to love some doctors who take great pride dressing you down in front of patients, families and your co-workers. I had clinical with a very cold nurse. Today I work with her. I didn't let her attitude affect me. Now that I work with her I can see she provides better patient care than ANY nurse on our floor. Her attitude is still poor but I'll take 10 of her over any perky nurse who can't see her patient is about to crash.

Nope. You did the right thing. It's one thing to give a med for a nurse when it's in the system. No way I'm going to enter an order and give a narc with NO information.

You did the right thing. You used your critical thinking skills and saw the pt was genuinely in pain. She may be a drug seeker but the disease causes lots of pain. Perhaps she should experience it to appreciate the level of pain. Nurse needs a new attitude.