Hospitals....

There is truth in this joke:

A sweet grandmother telephoned (your nearest) Hospital. She timidly
asked, "Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient
is doing?"
The operator said "I'll be glad to help, Dear. What's the name and
room number?"
The grandmother in her weak tremulous voice said, "Ms. Patient, Room 302."
The Operator replied, "Let me place you on hold while I check with
her nurse." After a few minutes the Operator returned to the phone, "Oh,
Good news. Her nurse has told me that that Ms. Patient is doing very well. Her
blood pressure is fine; her blood work just came back as normal and her
Physician, Dr. Sensitive, has scheduled her to be discharged Tuesday."
The Grandmother said, "Thank you. That's wonderful! I was so
worried! God bless you for the good news."
The operator replied, "You're more than welcome. Is the patient your
daughter?"
The Grandmother said, "No, I'm Ms. Patient in 302. No one tells me SHIT!

:rofl:

Hostpitals are either overwhelming you with too much information about the obvious, or withholding from you stuff you're desperately crious about.

"hospitals" aren't usually allowed to give information because of HIPAA

Nurses aren't usually (exceptions include practitioners and advanced practice nurses of course, and sometimes physicians allow it to occur, but technically only the person who orders the lab is the one to give the results to the patient) allowed to give patients information about their lab work etc

Doctors spend less time with patients in the office than they used to and even less time than that in the hospital generally.

so patients aren't really getting information they are curious about unless the physician tells them.

and if a person called and the nurse gave them the information in the joke

$25K fine could be put on that person for EVERY PIECE of information that was PHI to someone not authorized to receive that information.

when I started nursing I used to get in trouble for telling people their bps, temps. "They can't understand it" was the explanation. That made me spend a bit more time and explain to each patient what it meant. Knowledge is power.

:banghead: when do i get to quit?

:banghead:

now please

:hug:

are you stuck in a hospital environment? I mostly worked clinics, home health, now self employed doing nursing/massage therapy which is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice. Minimal politics, no one dies or vomits. Responsibility is much less also which is way nice.

either that or go back in the family business...

Lots of people, multi-tasking, being able to have more or lessish reasonably regular hours. Night shift, blech. What's family business?

:banghead: was in the biz for 15 years, have been out now for 15...think i can stomach it again. it would be more my brother and his wife...dad has finally taken a back seat...i think i can deal:shrug:

I got in and out of nursing several times, did other things (janitor, paid better, better benefits, less stress, boring), keep your license current though. If you want to get back in may need to do an update course, but keep license current would be my only advice. Nice to get a break sometimes.

Ideas of other ways to use nursing license. Do you live in a large enough area to do something like work for a lawyer? They (used to) use nurses to read charts, etc, for legal cases as we understood the lingo and could tell if something looked "off". I thought of doing this once but didn't. Then there is always working as a contractor for insurance companies, doing pre-insurance exams (visit person, ask personal questions, get blood/urine samples). How about occupational nurse, work for a big company sort of like a school nurse for adults.

I've been there, wondering what to do. Actually am back there again. I like my work but too much competition where I live makes it not very financially viable.

wait for someone to die--if you know what i mean...the medical field is frustrating.

came back to small rural area to find no jobs. No school nurse, minimal public health, etc etc. I could commute to a larger hospital, could work in local small hospital (except no recent experience + lots of nurses=hahaha), pain in the butt.