Steffy44

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  1. ER rushing patients to the floor

    Steffy44 replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing

    Amen. Our hospital requires ALL septic patients go to either PCCU or CCU depending on how septic. Our problem has been our hospital closing one med surg floor to enhance productivity (make them more...

  2. Nurses Fight Back! Why Some Hospitals are Despicable

    Steffy44 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    #5 & 6 will be the biggest two reasons that will make me

  3. Nurse stealing narcs advice

    Steffy44 replied to Nursenicole1's topic in General Nursing

    at my hospital you can give regular meds +/-1 but pain meds can be given no earlier than 10 minutes early. It'd be pretty easy to pocket meds for a patient if you wanted. Grab, scan and put them in...

  4. New nursing student going into MedSurg. Any advice?

    Steffy44 replied to Nursingblue's topic in General Students

    find a new school. I can't even begin to imagine self-taught nurses grasping enough to pass

  5. Yacker Tracker in the NICU ???

    Steffy44 replied to Bezoars's topic in General Nursing

    My floor is HORRIBLE for alarms. With tele and bed alarms I find by the end of shift you are deaf to it. I'm not sure what the answer is since we have so many who need to be on bed alarms and tele. My...

  6. Yacker Tracker in the NICU ???

    Steffy44 replied to Bezoars's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital used these stupid things for about 3 months. They were horrible. They put ours within 2 feet of the tele monitor on our floor and in PCCU...wanna guess how many times an hour ours hit...

  7. "Nurse" arrested for using stolen license

    Steffy44 replied to NurseQT's topic in Nursing News

    Wow I work on a med surg floor and our LPNs are assigned

  8. Mistakes Are Inevitable: No One Is Perfect.

    Steffy44 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I do the same thing with partial packages. If it's a pill I split and dispose. If it's a iv or other push I scan it last and draw it up immediately. I've been interrupted far too many times during med...

  9. Oncology nurse but my heart is not in it.

    Steffy44 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Having the same problem. I'm coming up on my 2 years on an ortho floor so they are pimping me to become certified. I am holding them off for now because I'm working on my BSN. I have zero desire to be...

  10. Patients wants a back rub

    Steffy44 replied to Oceanpacific's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We learned to do them in CNA school. However, as a nurse I rarely have time to do massages. If someone asks if I can rub a certain part I do but in between my starting load and discharges, admits and...

  11. Gun Owning Nurses

    Steffy44 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a nurse. We own 3 guns in my house. We're retired Air Force. We have a few nurses who are constantly getting trashed at bars or at home...can I judge that as not nurse like because I don't

  12. Thinking about leaving nursing school

    Steffy44 replied to Student1713's topic in General Students

    i have a very good friend who started out as a psych nurse and is now a NP in psych. It takes a special breed to do that job. Why not combine your passions. Work as a psych nurse while acquiring your...

  13. Nurses Eating Their Young

    Steffy44 replied to Doc Lori, R.N.'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thankfully no one ever treated me horrible when I started as an RN almost 2 years ago. Everyone at my hospital is kind and willing to help. Seems this isn't the norm. Some of the experienced nurses...

  14. Survival of the Fittest - Resilience

    Steffy44 replied to traumaRUs's topic in Health, Stress Management

    The way I see it life is one long road filled with many forks. What makes one take one fork over the other is unknown to me. What makes one resilient and another not is beyond me. I lost my father in...

  15. Scanning in the supply room

    Steffy44 replied to elizabeast7's topic in General Nursing

    Our pricey items are pulled out of a machine called a Pyxis. Much like our meds. You sign in under your name to access the system and choose the pt. You are supposed to select the item before you...

  16. When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    Steffy44 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    You do at my hospital. All scrubs are color coded. Nurses in navy, CNAs in maroon, resp in black, lab in teal, housekeeping has a woodland top, X-ray in light blue, docs are the only ones in white...

  17. Anxiety following patient death

    Steffy44 replied to Hockeynursing's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that you did anything wrong. I remember my first death vividly...probably because it was only a few months back. She transferred up at 0730 from post on room air with sats in the 90s. At...

  18. Nursing Admissions: A Frustrated Student's Manifesto

    Steffy44 replied to medicapoetica's topic in General Nursing

    One thing that instantly leapt into my mind...entitled. Welcome to trying to get into nursing school. It is my experience that academically challenged do not apply or get in. This means you're...

  19. Do grades mean much?

    Steffy44 replied to Zooey72's topic in General Students

    I pulled Bs throughout nursing school and was thrilled. I had to enter my grades into the computer system to get into my BSN program but I don't think it mattered as long as they weren't all Cs. As...

  20. Enrolling in online RN to BSN after NCLEX: Should I work?

    Steffy44 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Very true. I started my BSN program 5 months after I started my first RN job. I couldn't imagine contributing a lot to the class with zero real nursing experience. It's hard enough with only a few...

  21. Enrolling in online RN to BSN after NCLEX: Should I work?

    Steffy44 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Get a job! Graduated from an ADN program in May and took NCLEX in August and passed. I then took the fall off to watch my son play his senior year of football and to finally take a break since I took...

  22. Solutions for Tired, Achy Feet

    Steffy44 replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I also use athletic tape each shift. By taping my feet I've helped alleviate some of the pain. Now they don't hurt until the last couple of hours. I also wear a splint at night. That's helped a lot....

  23. Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Steffy44 replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    I know exactly where you're coming from ref the charge nurse. When I worked nights everyone ended up being charge regardless of experience. There were only 3 experienced nurses assigned to night shift...

  24. dealing with rude doctors?

    Steffy44 replied to 2016New's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At least your doc responded. We have one that picks and chooses IF he will even call back. Not fun if your ortho doc decides he's not going to call back on your little 80 yo lady with a hip fracture...

  25. New Nurse Exhausted from Extremely Long Shifts? Help?

    Steffy44 replied to KellySpencer800's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Just say NO! I've only been a nurse for nearly 2 years. My brain is pudding by day 3...by 4 I'd be unsafe. By everyone agreeing to cover all the time they won't hire people like they obviously need to...