RNforLongTime

RNforLongTime

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  1. Hospital Food

    RNforLongTime replied to RNKitty's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital recently hired a chef to oversee the nutrition department. I can't tell if the food has gotten any better cause I work night shift now, but the food looked pretty decent before they hired...

  2. Patients on suicide precautions-what is your facility's policy?

    RNforLongTime replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    In my hospital, since our in patient Psych unit closed in May, we have been seeing a lot of OD suicide attempt patients on my unit. We have a policy that says the patient is a 1:1 observation until...

  3. Taping IV Catheters

    RNforLongTime replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I believe that the Infusion Nurses Society reccommends that only Sterile tape be placed under the transparent dressing of a peripheral IV. The IV start kits that our facility uses has a little roll...

  4. How does your hospital/unit handle call ins?

    RNforLongTime replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital, we are required to call in 2 hours before the start of our scheduled shift. IF it's a weekend, there is a policy that says that the hospital can require you to work on you regular...

  5. Was anyone ever a floor nurse?

    RNforLongTime replied to askater11's topic in MICU, SICU

    I have been debating on whether or not I want to transfer to our ICU. I work in a 226 bed small hospital so we have only one ICU--6 beds and 1 code bed(for a floor patient that codes)--it is equipped...

  6. Help on Med Surg from OB dept.

    RNforLongTime replied to Ekaye's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    In the midst of the Severe Nursing shortage--my small hospital does not "float out" the OB nurses. Our OB unit is rather small and those nurses do it all--L&D, PP and Nursery. And as far as I...

  7. Stethoscopes

    RNforLongTime replied to Lisa32's topic in General Nursing

    I say invest the money now and buy yourself a Littmann Cardiology III. They run about 120 bucks. The cheapest place to get one is from either budget hospital supply or redding medical supply. They...

  8. Ever feel like the med/surg unit is the hospital dumping ground?

    RNforLongTime replied to deespoohbear's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'd have a prob with giving Primacor on a gen med/surg unit. Do they plan to put that person on telemetry while the drug is infusing? Are the staff trained in reading telemetry strips? This is big...

  9. How to get rid of the hiccups?

    RNforLongTime replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Brian, Whoever made the suggestion about drinking from the opposite side of a cup is right! It really does work as I have tried it before! Good Luck,

  10. Nurses now responsible for unplugging toilets on their floors!!

    RNforLongTime replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital, we don't even have toilet plungers on the floor anywhere. On the off shifts, you'll never guess who plunges the

  11. Color Coding Nurses

    RNforLongTime replied to BrandyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital, the Nursing staff and ancillary staff are allowed to wear pretty much whatever we like as long as they are scrubs. I can wear pink, blue, green, red, black, yellow...etc...etc..etc....

  12. How is code blue announced at your facility?

    RNforLongTime replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital, we announced codes by "Code Blue" and whatever unit the Code is occuring-1 North, 2 North,2 South,OB, ICU,ER etc--It was the same at the last hospital that I worked

  13. Nurses.... Our Own Worst Enemies??

    RNforLongTime replied to MaineNurse67's topic in General Nursing

    Well, Tim, First of all welcome to the BB. This is by far the best site on the web for nurses and nursing students alike. I have made many new friends from different parts of the country and in...

  14. allnurses chat

    RNforLongTime replied to canoehead's topic in General Nursing

    I too have ICQ and chat with folks through that. Right now I am working 3-11 shift but in 2 weeks I'll be switching to night shift by choice. Mine not theirs so will probably be around then after 8...

  15. Listen, Nurse

    RNforLongTime replied to panda_181's topic in General Nursing

    I was angered by schoolnu's respons to the posters(myself included) who don't have the time for the little extra's. Tonight for example, I started 3-1130 shift with 7 patients, one of which was a...

  16. need advice desperately!!!

    RNforLongTime replied to Nytenurse's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a new grad, I accepted a job on a Progressive Care Center, basically an in-hospital nursing home environment. The Administrator must not have liked me very much as I kept getting written...

  17. Listen, Nurse

    RNforLongTime replied to panda_181's topic in General Nursing

    Fiestynurse. I couldn't have said it any better than your above poem. WELL

  18. Listen, Nurse

    RNforLongTime replied to panda_181's topic in General Nursing

    This is a very nice poem, but as an RN for 4 years--you are never in a patients room for just a "minute". I would love to be able to spend time just talking to my patients but today's healthcare...

  19. How do you deal with lazy co-workers?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the great food bbqchick! I am off today, labor day but only because I requested off. We do not get paid holidays at my facility. IF you work the holiday, you get paid time and a half,...

  20. Precepting

    RNforLongTime replied to Jen S's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mind precepting--In fact--I ws supposed to precept one of the new grads that was hired on my unit but she quit before I got the opportunity. Got a job in OB/LD at another facility. My...

  21. Do you mix your own IV's?

    RNforLongTime replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I work in a hospital that doesn't have a 24 hr Pharmacy--ours is open till 10pm on weekdays and only till 5pm on the weekends--not enough Pharmacists. When I first started in Nursing 4 years ago, I...

  22. Hospitals with IV, or Vascular Access Teams

    RNforLongTime replied to Daniel1115's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    IV teams are a great resource! The last hospital I worked at had an IV team 24/7. Us regular floor RN's were not permitted to do IV starts unless you worked in ICU, ER, L&D or peds. While I...

  23. How do you deal with lazy co-workers?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all for their support! On evening shift at my place--there is NO charge nurse. Only the house nursing supervisor. Over this past weekend we again got bombarded with admissions and I...

  24. Do you/ did you have a Nurses Cap? Pin?

    RNforLongTime replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I never had a cap! Our School stooped requiring them about 2 years before I started at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. I do however have a pin. It is 10 K gold and cost me 110 bucks back in...

  25. How do you deal with lazy co-workers?

    RNforLongTime replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone for their input. I just got home about a half hour ago from an Extremely busy evening shift. We started out the shift with 17 going to 19 pts. There were 3 RN's assigned to...