dharlow replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing
I was an Indian Health Service scholarship recipient way back when and I had to do my payback at an IHS hospital/clinic. This was in the mid-late-90s. I found stuff that had been expired from when I...
NO Kidding! Bad enough that you rarely get a break let alone a full uninterrupted meal! Where is the house supervisor? I transported plenty of times when the ED, ICU and M/S were being
I took over a M/S unit years back after being the house sup for the hospital. I was overloaded with LPNs (19) and 3.5 RNs for a 34-bed unit. I was a working manager. I started with surgeons yelling at...
Yeah, I'm with you there. Or if the call lights are going off and it wasn't a particular nurse's patient it would get ignored even if it was just to get some fresh water. God forbid they answer it...
As a former Risk Manager, one of my first days in that role was shadowing my preceptor and she had a med error Incident Report she was following up on and the poor ED nurse had way overdosed a baby on...
So if they float you to peds - have they ever pulled you back to OB for any reason? I ask this because if you are being floated to peds and take care of sick kiddos and then they pull you to OB, I...
Agree. M/S was my bread and butter for a lot of years both as staff and manager but have worked ED as well so I can identify with you. I briefly returned to work M/S PRN while I was in grad school but...
Sorry for your rough night. Been there many times as m/s/t floor nurse, charge nurse and manager. Early in my career I took report on a patient that was a hospice patient but family couldn't bear...
Med/Surg isn't easy. Believe me, I know. Most of my career (20+) has been as a M/S nurse and I'm proud of that fact! I even managed M/S for several years. The one thing I tell newbies is go get your...
Worthless. Took the course with a friend because she wanted to do legal. I had already been a paralegal before becoming a RN but went for the heck of it. Complete waste of money IMO. ALL I studied was...
dharlow replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing
Rigging your own version of a mist tent for a pedi patient using wire coat hangers and clear plastic (because you were RT at night and on holidays all day!) Setting up bili lights and using surgical...
I was privileged to retire a nurse in 2005 who graduated from a diploma program in 1956. She still wore her cap and everyone loved and respected her. I managed to secretly get her spare cap and had a...
Dialysis is VERY busy! I worked at a Davita briefly and found it was not a good fit for me. I was up at 0300, drove 30 minutes to work, and from the time I entered the building I was setting up...
LOL, I hadn't been an RN for maybe 2 years and I had a male patient that when I went to insert a foley cath I couldn't maintain a grip on his member - I went to one of the older nurses who had been...