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I didn't think I should get into my personal reasons for not being able to sleep. Plus I did say I was up sick due to something I ate. But thanks for the input.

I should have added that I had fallen asleep around 10 but woke up with GI issues around 12 that didn't allow me to sleep. I was thinking I might be able to work thru the GI issues but the lack of sleep they caused was my major concern. I have never had this issue before and I've called in once in the past 2 years. Any who I did end up calling in due to being on the can every 30 minutes after I posted this.

On Friday I was scheduled a 12 hour shift that went to 3:30am. The Monday after I am scheduled to work at 0700. I had one night to try and totally change my sleep schedule. That being said it's 3am and I haven't slept a wink. I need at least 5 hours of sleep to function and that obviously isn't going to happen. Is it acceptable to call in because you haven't slept?

For some reason at my hospital when an IV is locked we say it's IIVD. I never really thought about this but what the heck does it mean? Is there a different term I should use?

Take a deep breath. You are being way too hard on yourself. Some of these mistakes could be anxiety, but you're also new. Give yourself a break and time to learn the swing of things!

A hot chest and chronic fatigue x 1 year do not sound like repercussions of the TB test. Nursing is an art and a science. If you don't believe in the science part for your own health (ie vaccines) then you should not become a nurse in my brutally honest opinion.

The hospital I work at is considered a smaller hospital. Our patients discharge by noon and beds are usually cleaned within the hour. If this happened every once in awhile it wouldn't be a big deal but it happens every single day. It isn't much better when a patient comes to the floor and due to shift change isn't seen for an hour. The er at my hospital is rarely at capacity. If it was a large and busy ED I wouldn't even question when admissions come. I was just curious on if anyone knew if there was research pointing to the potential danger of this. Again this is not A floor nurse versus ED nurse type of thing. If this is believed to be dangerous what so you guys think are some ways we could fix it for both patient safety and satisfaction?

I was discussing with a coworker the other day the prevalence of change of shift admissions. At our hospital it seems like the ED holds onto the admissions until shift change. Think I'm being dramatic? Nearly everyday we get 5 admits between 1500 and 1600 and at leaSt 3 between 1830 and 1930. Besides how frustrating this is I am wondering if there is any research on if it is dangerous? It increases time in the start of patient treatment and care. During this time we start caring for 4 patients as well as taking on a brand new one. I did not find any research directly related this but was curious if anyone else has? Thanks! (Also please don't make this ED vs. Inpatient unit type of thing.)

$5 to the hospital cafeteria, a scavenger hunt (who has time for that at work?), and some sort of stair climb event...

Meth, alcohol, antidepressant and anxiolytic abuse, opioid abuse. Midwest here, usually when they come in it's a combination of several of those.

Just a little background to my question: I have worked on the same floor for 5 years. 3.75 as a PCT and the other 1.25 as a nurse. I started on overnights and finally decided i had enough so I applied for a day evening position that I was not given. It was given to a nurse who had just started 4 months prior. OK whatever. I end up with a different day evening position 40 hrs a week so 2 8 and 2 12 hour shifts. Here is my concern or question. Everyone else who has been hired day evening works strictly days because they requested to. They are all married or have kids or both. I am the only nurse who works day evening who is expected to work straight evenings. I am not married and don't have children. I feel like this is my boss playing favorites due to circumstances. I asked for some days over the summer even saying I would still work 2 evenings each week but I was told "you're my only evening person". I'm not sure what to do. I feel it's unfair that I am expected to cover all evenings and that I can't even get a couple day shifts. Because of this I also can't get my vacation approved because there is "no one" else to work evenings. I'm considering applying elsewhere due to this nonsense but was wondering if there are any other suggestions on how to handle this. Thanks!

I don't typically request time off but when I have it doesn't get "accepted" or denied officially with notice. We find out once our schedule comes out. Our maternity leaves are not covered by temp positions they just expect the rest of the staff to fill in the holes. I've been pretty burnt out and really was looking forward to the week off. I will speak with HR and see what the official policy and rules are. It's interesting to hear how other hospitals handle it. And I work 2 8s and 2 12s. Not even on the shift that the pregnant nurses are from which is making me extra frustrated.

Unfortunately my request has been denied I was informed today due to the other employees being on maternity leave. I have the vacation planned and paid for so I'm not really sure what to do next.

Does anyone else have issues with vacation time being approved when others are expected to be on maternity leave? I put a request in 5 months ago and since then 2 employees have started and will be taking maternity leave June/July/August and I requested a week in June off. Does anyone else struggle with this? What have you done to get the time off or have you just not taken it? Thanks

I work on a busy cardiac floor and most of our PCT's don't make hourly observations in the EHR. However we have one who does and it is riddled with spelling and grammar errors. It also doesn't include what I perceive as important information that needs to be charted. For example "patient sitting in chair eating a piece of candy, does not like what is on TV and says the hospital food is gross ". Is this something that should be corrected or is it just a matter of opinion on what is good vs. Bad documentation.