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after 2 years of working in the icu… idk how much longer I could’ve done it. The constant “customer service” to families, hurting my back to pull patients up, cleaning up poop, purewicks not working, always being a comforting person for someone else, constant unpredictable stress, annoying type A nurses who have no life and make working in the ICU their entire personality (you guys suck, pls get a fucking hobby being a nurse shouldn’t be the coolest thing about you) I’m burnt out and that’s ok. Finally found my unicorn job… part time pacu, no call, full time benefits, inpatient pay with no weekends or holidays. God is good. Dreading my last 2 weeks in the icu though. So glad there’s an end in sight though. Mashallah 🙏 submitted by /u/NoSecret1857 [link] [comments]
Hi, New nurse here. Never worked in healthcare before. I'm about to be in my 5th week of orientation. I don't think this hospital is going to be a good fit for me. Does it look bad to quit in the middle of orientation? I also, don't want to waste their time either. submitted by /u/Fickle-Second9488 [link] [comments]
Be it educational or learning about a condition or learning more about patients' perspectives, etc. Obvious one: r/medicine submitted by /u/shatana [link] [comments]
Hi everyone. So I’ve been working in pediatric home health for about 8 months and I love it. (I’ve been a nurse almost 5 years). I love my company, and the kiddos and families I get to work with. The pay is great, and it’s super flexible. However, I have a safety concern. In my nursing career, safety has always been my number one priority. I’ve had to advocate in tough situations to protect my patients and my license. One of those situations is a recent patient I wanted to start working with. Please note, I have no vent experience and my job knows this. I told them in my interview when they asked. With our company, you take a virtual vent training class and that’s about the only knowledge I have under my belt. The shift I picked up was a baby that was coming home from the NICU that same day. It was never made clear to me that my company expected me to “orient” with a nurse for 2 hours, and work the entire shift with this baby alone. I was under the impression that I’d be training with
I’m so sick and tired of almost fainting every time I open my break room’s fridge. It’s so much bullshit in there, that it could literally be anything causing the smell of death inside it. I’m tempted to throw everything away one morning. Write up be damned 🙄 submitted by /u/AccomplishedGate2791 [link] [comments]
If it’s prescribed and the patients meet criteria we give it. That’s it. It’s the patient’s right. At least that’s how it goes in our facility. However, giving a narcotic every hour is mind numbing especially when some patients set alarms on their phones for it. I miss the ER. Med surg is NOT mentally stimulating. I barely feel like a nurse . submitted by /u/Somewhere32 [link] [comments]
I've been working at a new job in peds psych as a new grad for only a little bit now and I've loved it so far. There are days that are very heavy/stressful, but overall I'm happy to come into work. I'm not fully independent, so I'm aware I probably have those rose colored glasses on about enjoying this area of nursing, but... I wanna know how my seasoned peds psych nurses protect their peace and work through burnout. Sometimes it feels like some nurses have the view that it is inevitable to become burnt out and compassion fatigued with time, but is this just something I'll need to navigate when it 'inevitably' happens , or are there things I can do now to help myself not become bitter about my work and being a nurse in the future. Also, I'm not judging, because I know that this is a very emotionally draining specialty, and can even be physically dangerous. I'm just seeking advice so I can start off on the right foot :) submitted by /u/drpepperRN [link] [comments]
And apparently employees weren’t made aware of anything. After there was a shooting in the ER parking lot last month too. :) submitted by /u/violetluvr [link] [comments]
What is your favourite thing you’ve done with it? Were you able to work while completing it (and if so, did you work full/part time?) What other stuff were you juggling (ex did you have kids? Live at home and not pay rent?) How many hours do you average you spent on it per week, and how many years did it take you to complete? What do you think the future holds for doctorate prepared nurses? While I’d love to do a PhD now, I worry about the long term financial piece. Curious how others navigated if you’re open to sharing :) submitted by /u/ArchbishopNoodles [link] [comments]
Long story short, I'm looking for new apartments. I don't have the best credit score because I got in a car accident and by the time the insurance paid me the total loss it messed up my whole credit, plus some student loans, etc. so that made my application look not too good but, I was talking to two potential property managers about these concerns one was like “Ya but you’re nice and you’re a nurse so I can work something out with them”. Then the place that I wanted and got even though my credit report was not the best said “Well you’re a nurse and this and that, I respect you guys its hard work, I talked to the office and explained the situation and the good work you do” It feels great to finally be respected by somebody lol, as we all know most of the times in our workplace the patients and management are not super appreciative all the time… Edit: I don't understand so many people saying they've gotten out of speeding tickets which seems illogical? ok you're a nurse but you're still
So I was having an interview and they asked me ‘what would I do when having to do boring jobs such as admin work’. Well if it’s a part of my job I would just do it? So I said ‘if it’s a part of my job description I would just get it done’ then they just looked at each other as if I had given the worse answer ever 🤣 What else could I have said?? Did they want me to get up and perform a tap dance musical about how excited I would be to do admin work?? What else could anyone say other than I would get the job done regardless? At least I didn’t say if it’s boring I wouldn’t do it. But if the job needs doing and it’s my responsibility then I’ll get it done. I’m honestly not sure what answer they would have wanted from me. Anyone know the answer to this question? submitted by /u/Middle-Asparagus-802 [link] [comments]
Hi nurses. First of all, thanks for all you do. I hope this type of post is allowed. My friend recently got back into dating and has met someone who feels like a good match. They used to be a nurse but told my friend they lost their license due to sexual misconduct because they "checked the full body of a patient who complained of a rash." The way they have explained, it seems as though they believe they were checking the full body out of medical necessity. The documentation online says otherwise. The document basically says: this patient was not actually this nurses patient, nurse asked another employee if they could observe them taking vitals and check the rash, they entered the room several times without direction to do so, asked patient if rash was in certain areas (breast, genitals, buttocks), the patient showed the rash that ended on their stomach, then nurse asked to see all the above mentioned areas, grabbed waistband of pants to look down them, and examined/touched all above m
I’ve been a nurse for 6 years but in the NICU (level III) for four months. I still feel pretty new to the unit and am still learning all things newborn. On shift yesterday, there were approximately 15 nurses for 44 babies. Yesterday, I had an assignment with four babies: Baby A was 2 days old, had D10 going in a PIV, was on a CPAP of 6, and had several bili lights. Parents were there to help but needed to be coached through some things. Ate by NG. Q8 sugars. PIV went bad so had to be replaced. Labs due once per shift. Baby B was a chronic BPD baby on 1L. Very fussy. Mom was there for two sets of cares. Ate by NG. Had six meds throughout the day. Desats often. Baby C was 34 week old that spelled seven times the day before, but otherwise not on O2 or fluids. Doc increased his caffeine dose so he only spelled once for me on that shift. Ate by NG. Two meds. No parents. Medication and food were an hour late once due to replacing IV for baby A and no one else around to help. Baby D was being
Hi everyone, I’ve been accepted into both an ADN nursing program and a Radiologic Technology program, and I have to choose one. I’m 43 years old, so I want to make the right decision because this will probably be my last career change. I already have a bachelor’s degree, and all of my prerequisites were A’s, so I’m not worried about handling the coursework. I’m drawn to nursing because of the career growth, variety, and job opportunities. But I’m also concerned about burnout and how difficult the first couple of years can be as a new nurse. Radiologic Technology also interests me. It seems like students get a lot of clinical experience and are well prepared when they graduate. My only concern is that the long-term career growth seems more limited, with advancement mostly coming from moving into different modalities like CT, MRI, IR, Cath Lab, or EP Lab. If you were in my position, which would you choose and why? I’d really appreciate any advice from people who have worked in either fie
Coverage of the Massachusetts nursing strike and the corporate entities that run it. An excerpt, "For 24 consecutive years, America has ranked nursing as its most trusted profession. Our reward? Becoming one of the most relentlessly exploited workforces in the country. America loves nurses, at least in theory. But admiration is cheap, and it costs the wealthy hospital systems in America absolutely nothing. Right now, over 4,000 nurses from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts are in the news for being on strike. The media will report on the strike, but they will never — ever —highlight the nurses. Instead, they lean heavily on statements from hospital leadership. Over 18 nursing strikes have happened this year, with seven more authorized before the end of 2026. In every single one, the nurses sound the same alarm, safe staffing. But you won’t hear about that part. The nurses become the subject of the story; the hospitals get to tell it. It gets framed as a wage dispute, or sim
Hi, baby NICU nurse here of 5 months, but I previously worked in Adult Stepdown for two years. Today I worked with an RT I have not worked with at all since finishing orientation, and our interactions were very concerning to me. Not only was she extremely critical of me in every care time with our baby (from when I should change my gloves to how I should place an NG), but I felt that she overstepped and did several things that were outside her scope of practice. She removed an NG I was in the middle of placing because she said it was in the trachea (it was not), started trying to do my cares early without me present (as early as 45 minutes while I was feeding another baby) and even went as far as to draw my am labs (not ABG: a bili, bmp and NBS.) I understand I do not have near as much experience as she does (8 years in NICU) and there’s plenty she could teach me, but this feels like a legal issue to me. I do not feel comfortable charting an assessment that I did not personally do, nor
I am just now driving home from one of the most exhausting nights I’ve had in awhile. 13 hours of truly non-stop movement and high stress situations. I work Mother/Baby and was on by myself as Stork so I attended all the deliveries. Our Postpartum rooms are maxed out so every delivery I also had to keep the baby and round on them. This also means we ran out of certain items for each baby (cribs, security tags, etc) I ended up delivering 7 babies and so in addition to helping deliver each new baby (prep paperwork, enter in preferences, deliver, footprints, admit, orders, bands, full assessments, medications, 3x vitals, education, complete paperwork and charting) I also had to do rounds on my existing babies and tend to their needs, medications, blood sugars checks, assisting with breastfeeding etc. And eventually making the call to send one to NICU. I am hurting and tired and hungry. I didn’t realize how stressed I was until I found myself having to take several deep breaths and try to
Hello my friends! Medical Laboratory Scientist here! So, as the title suggests, I am curious as to if you, as nurses, ever approach the providers with concern regarding essentially useless/redundant testing. By that, I mean testing that doesn't change how you approach or care for the patient or is just blatantly wasteful. The lab is expensive, and waste aside, I feel like we harm patients with frivolous or careless testing. I feel like it's partially my duty to watch out for our patients where I can, but my hands are tied. Who am I to question a physician/ provider? Let me give you a really simple example: ESR The patient comes into the ED and gets an ESR as part of diagnostic testing. The patient is admitted. The hospitalist orders an ESR 3 hours later - the same value. 3 additional hours later, routine labs come around, and the provider(hospitalist) has ordered yet another ESR. Guess what, same value. An elevated ESR is clinically an elevated ESR. How are we changing patient care wit
I was a LVN for 21 years, got my ADN in 2023 and BSN in 2024. I have been working in a pediatric outpatient office/clinic for the past 18 years. Since finishing my BSN I’ve been trying to move to a hospital position. I’d love PACu but I’m willing to start med/surg. The problem is I keep getting rejections because I don’t have hospital experience. The few interviews I’ve actually landed did not equate to offers. Please give advice on how I transition to a hospital position. I’m just getting super discouraged.😞 submitted by /u/justryin_2survive [link] [comments]
A few years ago there was a fire on my ward. I got a patient who couldn’t move herself out of the room and put out the fire at the same time. Then I finished my shift, because other patients still needed me. My hands were shaking. But I functioned. And what still gets to me isn’t the fire. It’s that no one asked me afterward how I was doing. Not that day. Not that week. Never. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. how we’re trained to absorb everything and process none of it. Does anyone else have a moment like this that nobody ever followed up on? submitted by /u/No-Shoe4245 [link] [comments]
Hello. I have been a nurse for one year. Anytime something emergent is happening with my patient I just draw blanks. Don't remember whats going on or important details other staff should know about. Or even what do at the time. Just complete and utter blanks. Couldn't even tell my charge what was going on when she asked. What's going on? Literally said I don't know. Any advice to how to prevent this or get better with this. I grabbed another nurse to help me and her logic behind what she was doing was just so organized and she knew exactly what to do. I wish I could be like her. And so calm too. I'm a hot chaotic mess in these scenarios. No, stopping and taking a deep breath does not help me. I'm not sure I will get constant experience and exposure in this area to where I could get used to it since these situations aren't common in the tiny community hospital I work at. I've just gotten lucky over the past few weeks having gotten three of them. Thank you in advance. submitted by /u/non
Took care of an L&D patient recently post op c-section was having eclampsia, 3 seizures in ER and when I asked my charge why she’s in ICU and she couldn’t really give me a good reason. This isn’t the first time this happened either. 1 month out of orientation had to admit a post op c-section who had HELLP syndrome and the only reason she came to ICU was due to a critical platelet count. She was perfectly stable but needed a unit of platelets which was very well within the abilities of any inpatient hospital nurse you would think but no I’m the one suddenly having to learn on the fly their assessments and order sets with no prior OB experience of any kind. Mind you I’ve had to transfuse for a critical platelet count on medsurg before. This is among other weird things about the place I currently work but I wanna know if it’s like this in other places too. submitted by /u/Tropicana_Abundance [link] [comments]
I have accepted a position in a 2 year masters in speech pathology program starting this fall, but I can't stop thinking about nursing. I've had experiences in both fields and think I could excel in both careers but am worried that I won't enjoy speech as much, and there is less growth within the profession. I'm scared that I am making the wrong decision with speech and will eventually pivot to nursing anyways. I am going to have to take out around 70k for my upcoming speech program which seems like an insane amount of money, but if I switched to nursing I would do an ABSN program which also looks expensive. Any advice/guidance? submitted by /u/No-Pack-1331 [link] [comments]
Anyone else feeling tired of nursing but not sure what other job to take ? I have an orientation on Monday for a new bedside position but i’m honestly like … I don’t even want to do bedside anymore . My mind and body are tired of the bedside crap. I don’t want to work in a 9-5 clinic either . So I feel stuck . I used to be able to push through and keep my head up and go to work brushing off negative feelings but my brain won’t let me anymore . Like … I quit . submitted by /u/pinkunicorn31 [link] [comments]
I'm a new grad RN and have heard that nursing 20 and more years ago was very different. How has it changed? I'm in Canada, so would love to hear Canadian perspectives. What has been made easier? What has become broadened? How have developments in technology (from IV pumps to EHR) improved or worsened nursing? Is nursing still the same? Is there a role now that you would say is more similar to nursing 20 years ago? Tell me the good, the bad, and the ugly! Has there been any changes that you wish didn't happen? What do you wish new grads knew? submitted by /u/KalikoBlack [link] [comments]
Whats up yall! I am a recently licensed RN in Ny. I am also of North African descent, and in my early 20s. My family supported me becoming an RN, but I am occasionally getting comments about it. Recently they have been asking me to find someone to marry, but they are saying things like "you need to advance your education, not many women want to marry a nurse." This deeply troubled me. I think I am a successful young man with a 6 figure salary, and pension. I understand that I am in a female-dominated profession, but like really? I hope I did not mess with my ability to get married by becoming an RN. Sorry if this is a stupid post, not sure if other nurses from an ethnic background have gotten similar comments. submitted by /u/Mysterious_Truck2086 [link] [comments]
On a stretch of nights, I woke up today and ate a bit and then got this horrible nausea and dizziness, so I called in. The charge nurse was upset saying he’ll have to “close beds” and that I can’t call in so late. It was 5:30pm and shift start is 7pm. I know it was short notice but I really don’t feel well and can’t focus when I’m so nauseous. Anyways I’m just having major anxiety about it now and wish I just went into work sick because I’m worried the charge will talk shit about me for calling in late. For clarification my unit does not have a sick policy or time restriction for calling in submitted by /u/Pretty-Security1353 [link] [comments]
If you are an RN working remotely and make over 6 figures, what job are you working? submitted by /u/NecessaryTea4730 [link] [comments]
I finished my sixth consecutive night shift and left work yesterday at 8:00 AM. Before sleeping, I cleaned my house and went to a doctor’s appointment. I finally went to bed around 3:30 PM. I woke up once around 6:30 AM to use the bathroom, then went back to sleep and finally got up at 2:30 PM today. Now I’m already back at work for another night shift. This has been my routine since April 2025. I know it sounds extreme, but after multiple consecutive night shifts, my body sometimes just crashes. I’m grateful I was able to recover. To everyone else working nights take care of yourselves. I feel completely refreshed after this long sleep. Sometimes our bodies know exactly what they need submitted by /u/Strikelight72 [link] [comments]
The second career fantasy thread got me thinking about this more seriously than I expected. Not in a dramatic way, just genuinely curious what people would actually do if they walked away. For me it would probably be something with my hands, maybe carpentry or some kind of trade work. There is something appealing about a job where you finish your shift and you can physically see what you built or fixed. No charting about it. No one calls you at 2am to ask if you documented it. Nursing skills transfer more than people give credit for. The critical thinking, staying calm when everything is going sideways, managing difficult personalities all day. None of that maps cleanly onto a resume outside of healthcare though. I think a lot of us end up staying not because we have no other options but because leaving feels like throwing away years of hardearned knowledge and a tolerance for chaos that most people couldn't handle for a single shift. Curious what people have actually thought about or
I work in LTC and have for years, so I’ve had hundreds of hospice patients at this point and have seen many of them die. I have absolutely no issue giving comfort meds, I think they are absolutely necessary for a peaceful death in a lot of cases. However, this one has made me question a lot. I currently have a resident who has been on hospice for a few months now. They are definitely making a decline and had a really bad week this week, but they weren’t declared to be actively dying. They are receiving more hospice visits though. Yesterday this resident seemed to be normal and baseline. They have dementia and are normally a wanderer so that’s what they were doing. They fall quite often, but they have for the whole year they have been here and years before when they were at home. In LTC the resident has a right to fall, so no restraints are allowed. The hospice nurse asked me if I had given them any meds yet that day, and I hadn’t because he wasn’t agitated or didn’t seem to be in pain.
*trigger warning- bugs* Charge RN in medical ICU here- we found maggots in one of our patients mouths today and I’m wondering what the likelihood is of the eggs originating from our unit (I.e did one of these fucking flies lay eggs in our patients mouths????) Patient admitted 6/28 for sepsis and was intubated 7/5. Maxed on 4 pressors now. ENT came to evaluate and ultimately said nothing they could do because pt is obviously too unstable for OR. But they made a comment saying that the maggots have been there for a while due to the amount of them. Upon further research it seems like the eggs are layed and hatched with a day. So we are all paranoid that these flies on our unit actually caused this. Does anyone have any experience with this? submitted by /u/cjd5081 [link] [comments]
Found these relics at a local town museum in Maine. I am uncertain when these bedpans and urinals were made but the building itself is from 1810 and became a museum in 1987. submitted by /u/ChemicalEcho [link] [comments]
RNs complain about CNAs and Clerk, CNAs complain about RNs and Clerk, Clerks complain about RNs and CNAs. It’s just non stop complaining and no one wants to (or can) do anything to make it better. As a clerk I have seen bad RNs, CNAs, and Clerks. I try to get along with everyone but it feels like a test of patience and professionalism. Call bells going off and RNs running in to help patients use the bathroom when the CNAs are sitting playing with their phones. RNs yelling at CNAs for having questions. Clerks literally just sitting there doing nothing. No one communicates professionally or acts professionally at all. I don’t expect anyone to be corporate but at least have some professionalism. Working as a clerk wasn’t my calling it was just the only job I could get and I plan to transfer to a job I like within my hospital. But seeing all this BS really makes me want to transfer out quicker. submitted by /u/LuckyVirus4781 [link] [comments]
I’m an LPN, I work in med-surg. And I’m sure many of you can guess, based on the title, what company I work for. Every day, I’m terrified for the well being of my patients, and I’m terrified for my license. Each nurse has 7 patients, and each PCT has 20+ patients. We recently had several nurses quit with no replacement staff being hired. Nurses have been fired for trying to unionize, management regularly documents that we clocked out for lunch even when we didn’t. Nurses feel pressured to clock out for lunch but work through their lunch so they don’t have to stay late. I have a year before I’m an RN. My employment options are limited. Idk what to do. submitted by /u/sparkplug-nightmare [link] [comments]
Wonder if it has any anxiolytic properties. submitted by /u/Ok_Dimension2197 [link] [comments]
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Or both? This person lives or stays with someone at my apartment complex. It's kind of giving "my job is my only personality trait" but at the same time I kinda want to meet them, because only people in healthcare would know what that is, so maybe that's the point. Then again I may already know them, since we're less than 10 minutes drive from the hospital. What we thinking? ICU? submitted by /u/Far-Spread-6108 [link] [comments]
I just started working in an emergency department that has a locked psych unit. I'm new to the ED but I knew I would have to rotate through this unit. What wasn't clear to me was that I would be assigned to the psych unit once every three shifts. I honestly don't know if I can handle it. I'm not the worst at handling psych/behavioral/mental health crisis type of stuff but it's definitely not my thing. The amount of psych/behavioral issues we deal with in the regular ED is enough for me. I'm not easily spooked but I genuinely feel on edge regarding my physical safety there. ED nurses, what do we think about this? submitted by /u/calypsoorchid [link] [comments]
I would really appreciate any form of advice or encouragement. I have two years of nursing under my belt, and started on a new unit five months ago. This week I had a complete mental breakdown at work. Snot, chest grabbing, hyperventilating breakdown. It happened in front of my coworkers and I’ve honestly never been so embarrassed in my life. I feel like I’ve spent the last five months giving absolutely everything I have to this job, and despite that I still ended up getting in trouble with management due to a patient complaint. The complaint was filled with false accusations yet i still had to take time out of my shift to practically beg for their forgiveness. It feels like no matter how hard I work or how much I care, it’s never enough. I genuinely do not remember why I chose this career to begin with. Financially, I am unable to take time off yet the thought of stepping back onto that unit makes me want to puke. I’m starting to wonder if I need to leave nursing altogether because I
I keep hearing stories about nurses getting fired, sued, or having their licence taken away. I am really afraid this may happen to me because I am a very "scatterbrained." I am not a nurse yet, but I am in school. What should I do to prevent this from happening. What should I do/not do when I am a nurse. Also is it really that common? submitted by /u/Previous-Answer-1853 [link] [comments]
Recovering alcoholic here. I was in the ER about once a month for a year stretch due to extreme withdrawals. Each time, even in the complete turmoil of my physical and mental state, I had an acute sense of the disappointment in your faces, or maybe just the pure sadness of having to watch someone continuously do this to themselves. I’m still in early sobriety, a little over a year, but I want you to know how much I appreciate you and that your efforts aren’t in vain. Addiction is a lifelong battle so never say never but I hope you know some of us do crawl out of that abyss you find us in, and it’s thanks to you submitted by /u/Professional_Bike467 [link] [comments]
She fights the rest of us when it’s time for lights to go off (usually between 9-10pm, and obviously they’re not OFF off just dimmed). She skips around at 4:30 am and cranks the lights back on. No warning, just flips them all on and prances off. I’ve tried politely addressing it with her and even provided a personal sunlamp for her to use. Others have also spoken to her. But it hasn’t mitigated the issue and I’m personally nearing my boiling point with her. So what would you do/say? Unfortunately this is not her only annoying quality but I’m trying to pick my battles 😂 Edit to clarify: This chick is also a night shift nurse and refuses to go to days. I’ve already tried getting our manager to offer her a day position. 😭 submitted by /u/Jinxicatt [link] [comments]
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The other night the nurse I worked with was complaining to the supervisor about how hard the day shift nurse was on him during report. Supervisor asked why and he explained she was upset because he didn’t do the q4 bladder scan ordered. Supervisor of course asks why he didn’t do it if it’s ordered that way. Because of course the following nurse would be aggravated and now she’s aggravated because he just told her. He starts arguing with her that she’s wrong too because, “I asked ChatGPT and it said I didn’t have to do it if the patient was sleeping”. Supervisor tells him ChatGPT didn’t write the order so if doesn’t allot for sleep, then it still has to be done. He hits her with, and I do indeed quote, “ChatGPT has all the knowledge in the world, it knows more than every doctor in the world, I’ll trust it first” I’m not shocked healthcare workers are using chatGPT, there’s always dumb apples, but what a wild statement. And over something so small. As the kids say, we’re cooked, chat. 🙃
Hi fellow nurses, last night I had a very violent, aggressive patient who spat and kicked one of the CNAs very hard when she was trying to take vitals. This patient was brand new to our unit (a transfer) and because it was shift change, I barely had a moment to sit down and read through all of the notes thoroughly, but the few things that I did read is that this patient has always had a sitter/in q2h bilat wrist restraints (we were too short staffed last night for a sitter so we had him on careview monitoring), and the other thing was the family specifically stated they do not want their spouse on any antipsychotic medications. After my CNA notified me she had been assaulted, I immediately messaged the Provider to get oral Zyprexa added as a 1x dose. Before administering, I wanted to be courteous and to let the spouse know that I would be giving this medication because of the patient assaulting staff, and an anti-psychotic would be necessary. The wife initially agreed. I gave the patie
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What’s something that when you hear it, it’s like hearing nails on a chalkboard? Obviously, the code blue alarm is a big one, so something else not so obvious. It could be anything. For me, it’s when I hear a patient asking for something simple, like “Can you push my tray table closer to me?” or “Can you dial this number for me?” and the person that’s with the patient says, “Let me go get your nurse for you”.. I honestly can’t stand it when I hear someone say this, because 9 times out of 10, it’s something that doesn’t require a nursing license to do. I’m getting older too, and I’m becoming quite petty when this happens. I be sure to take the person back with me and show them step by step how to do the super hard task that they just HAD to get the nurse for. “Oh, here. Let me show you how to call EVS on YOUR Vocera to let them know that the hand sanitizer is empty outside of room 412!” submitted by /u/Efficient_Pizza4739 [link] [comments]
Mine lets patients leave for 30 minutes. Go smoke a cig, walk over to the store down the road, whatever. I don't have say in if they're not stable enough to be going on adventures to the parking lot. They just roll their heparin, pca, fluids, and antibiotics onto the elevator. Like if they're not too sick to walk, they must be good? I do love that I don't get smokers having nicotine withdrawal fueled meltdowns anymore submitted by /u/Enayleoni [link] [comments]