PhantomRN

I have seen this as well. When someone codes and they think there is little chance to bring them back the docs will try anything they can.

i am not mngt but i dont think it is fair or even a good idea to have them come in and work to fill holes in the schedule. at my last place our manager would do that rarely, but it had been such a long time since she had worked the floor that she ha...

well, the solution is simple....tell all the patients they must pack their little bags and go home at 5:00 on friday and they can't come back until monday at 8:00 am. does that work for everyone? why do we insist on fighting about this? we are al...

SleepyEyes I am with you. I look at the salaries that I could make as agency and am very tempted. It is only a matter of time before I do it as well. Flo1216, I too am amazed at the amount of money CNAs can make. I just say an ad in the paper a few w...

Now that I am done ranting, I will offer a few solutions from a night persons perspective. 1. If you have rotators or PT, Give NIGHTS their preferred schedule. 2. Have a night person do the scheduling she or he will know the staff better than a day p...

I agree with tnnurse2002, when I worked nights l liked them. They gave us a decent diff...2.75 for nights, that was okay. But I left nights because of two reasons: 1. the schedule....when the girl would make the schedule she would put me on for 3-4 ...

Not everywhere in the country is hiring. I know of a hospital that just laid of a couple hundred people, some where nurses, and now they have a hiring freeze. Natuarly they are trying to keep it very quiet. I am sure there are other hospitals out t...

Mngt is mngt, we really cant expect alot of help from them. Some , not all, of them took their jobs to get off of the floors and away from the chaos. Besides when they took that job their roles and functions changed. I would rather have the manager ...

I have worked agency and as a whole I was treated well. They always seemed to ask If I "worked a regular staff job as well"...and as it turned out I was working staff and supplementing my pay with agency.

You just have to decide if its worth the aggravation. Many people have said to stick it out etc. I am of the vein.....If you try it and dont like it move on. It will be their loss. Just try to get in 6 months experience first.

Nursing is what you make of it. Yes, it can be difficult but so can other professions. I was talking to my spouse just the other day about changing careers and he asked what I would do if I did not work somewhere in the field of nursing. I said I co...

Yep the ones that drive me crazy: Can you fix my bed....as I stand here and not only watch but tell you how to do it. Can you fluff my pillow and tuck me in......while the family members are standing there telling the patient "that is what nurses are...

I spent two yrs on a med/surg floor before doing specialty and I the amount of information I was able to imass in that time was immeasurable. The only reason I left was due to the incredible patient loads.

Stormy, So if your Part-timers want hours why dont they go full-time? Could it be that they want to work 24 hours and get time and half for anything over that...while at the same time we have many nurses doing 40---all on straight time.

The stereotype is if you are book smart you cant be a good bedside nurse. How absurd. Have that instructor put her money where her mouth and produce this "research."

I think the QA piece would be interesting to get into. How were you able to get into QA/QI?

Dress clothes.

TID is as the others have described three times a day. What we would do is 6-7 am, 1 pm and 7-8 pm

Oh I left off staffing. Unit normal 1:2 ratio. Renal floor days 6:1, nights 8-10:1 Tele 4:1 days, 8:1 nights

Where I used to work it went like this. We did ativan, heparin Insulin if necessary. Insulin drips went to tele or renal floor....Q2-3 hr sugars. If it was Q1 hr it was supposed to go to the unit......but hey you know how that goes. Ativan drips to o...

There are different shades of OT. By making nurses stay beyond their designated shifts is suicide. If one is scheduled for an 8 hour shift, they should be out in a reasonable time frame. You could always try voluntary OT, but of course the catch is ...

thisnurse............I just absolutely love you........Whenever I see that you have started a thread I know I am guarenteed a big laugh. Next time I will stop eating the dove bar before reading. Ageless...read more of thisnurses stuff if you want to ...

When I worked bedside care I never got a break, Now I take them faithfully. I just go in the lunch room and stare at the wall......haha

My thing is this if you need a mental health day by all means take it, but have the decency to schedule it. That is what I do. We use earned time at my place, so when I am writing my next months schedule if I want a mental health day, I pick a day a...

And people wonder why there is a nursing shortage. That is such crap to throw someone out for touching the sheet. And hey guess what I dont care if you realized it or not that you touched the sheet that is not even that important (yes, I know about i...