Some nurses make you sick!!!

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hello everyone!! so here is my vent!!!:angryfire, i work at this lovely ltc , anyway i just got off working 11-7 shift, the supervisor calls me as i am goin home and tells me that the day nurse called her and complained about a resident whos feeding is beeping and the bottle is empty, this resident gets 600 ml every 12 hours and the feeding is supposed to start at 2am, so at 2 a.m i go to start the feeding but there is 400ml in the bottle from the previous feeding,which finished at 12mn the feed is diabetic resource which comes in a 1000ml bottlet! this unit has 40 residents about 8 feedings, so while i'm doing other tasks i wait for the feedings to beep so i knowmy next moves, the day nurse comes in and starts complaining about how heavy the floor is and the feedings. i give report and leave i am expecting that the feed is still running!seeing that i started it at 2am and my shift ends at 7am, anyway she calls the supervisor on me and the supervisor calls me on my cell phone, couldnt the day nurse have spoken to me first?? if the feed ends 15 min after my shift ends am i still liable?? why did she have to call the supervisor to report me vs. starting a new feed and giving the 200ml balance that would complete the 600!

Specializes in LTC.

What I want to know is whether the feeding is continuous for 24 hours or just 12. Even so, if there were 400cc up at 2am, there should have been enough for 8 more hours. I'm wondering if the rate was set correctly on the pump in this case. Or if it's just a 12 hours/day feed, that bag may have just been sitting there since the feeding was stopped at 2pm. In that case I would've hung a new bag/bottle with new tubing, etc.

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

What I want to know is:

Is The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side?

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The answer is 42.

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
The answer is 42.

According to this website, The scarecrow was wrong

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I used to work on a LTC unit where I had nine tube feeders. Some were bolus feeds, and some were continuous. Some continuous ones were ordered as ml/hr, others were ordered as total amount in 24hrs, and the nurses did the math.

For continous pts, no more than 400 ml could be in a bag at one time for reasons of infection control.

All got an entirely new set-up of equipment q 24 hrs, on nocs

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

I'm confused.:uhoh21:

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

i can't really say much about the feeding tube amounts, i no longer give patient feeds and trying to get my head around it makes my head hurt.

back to the original question........

gt4everpn-i don't really agree that the other person should have called your supervisor. if you have done the wrong thing ( and i'm confused about whose right or wrong, dont' think it matters here anyway) then running straight to the supervisor isn't the way to go about showing support to a new grad and building teamwork.

instead you are now feeling angry and i think that the situation should have been dealt with in a less intimidating manner, rather then being blown out of proportion.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

gt4everpn-i don't really agree that the other person should have called your supervisor. if you have done the wrong thing ( and i'm confused about whose right or wrong, dont' think it matters here anyway) then running straight to the supervisor isn't the way to go about showing support to a new grad and building teamwork.

i'd agree if it were an isolated incident, but what if she's been making mistake after mistake? i'm happy to help where i can, and i hope when i'm experienced, i'll be able to take new grads under my wing. but if someone's really struggling and making a lot of mistakes, i'd probably say something. it would be up to the supervisor to figure out how to handle it most constructively.

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

[i'd agree if it were an isolated incident, but what if she's been making mistake after mistake? i'm happy to help where i can, and i hope when i'm experienced, i'll be able to take new grads under my wing. but if someone's really struggling and making a lot of mistakes, i'd probably say something. it would be up to the supervisor to figure out how to handle it most constructively.]

why assume that gt4everpn is making mistake after mistake? i didn't see anything in the post to suggest that they are incompetent.

and if they were then yes it would need to be reported to the supervisor and i would hope that the hcf would take positive action such as a preceptorship program, or something similar. calling someone after a busy shift on to tell them off doesn't really seem the best way to go about it.

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ah never mind... don't really care lol

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Tele, Vascular, Plastics.
ah never mind... don't really care lol

I agree w/ Ms. Goldstein

SERIOUSLY!!! ... I am so over this thread

By the time we figure out what really happened, it will be Christmas.

ENOUGH OF THIS DAMN THREAD ALREADY!

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Just put it down to experience. It'll not be the last time you'll conflict with a workmate so dont stress about it. Just learn from it. Stay cool x

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