Yup, they gotta work a few weeks a year. That leaves lots of extra free time to whine about not getting their handouts that they're entitled to.
Nurses report being exhausted
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Don't know how the hrs work there.......but in BC Nurses get a 2 hr break during the twelve hrs.
Personally I don't like it............ as the risk of fatigue related mistakes increase The quality of care can be affected.
It used to be 8 hr shifts and that was hard enough.
Personally I don't like it............ as the risk of fatigue related mistakes increase The quality of care can be affected.
It used to be 8 hr shifts and that was hard enough.
I think there's a given two hours total for 'breaks' - ie lunch and supper or supper and breakfast - plus two fifteen minute breaks here in NB but during the day sometimes you can't get those breaks, depending on patient count and how busy it is. At night it's a little easier, but not much. Sometimes they don't get breaks at all, or a few short ones several times over the night as they can get them.
What's the ratio of the # of nurses covering the night shift compared to the day shift?
Good thing city workers don't run the emergency room. It is the Patients that are supposed to have 'the good days'. If the heath services was any good at their job the hospitals should almost be empty.
Perhaps patients just don't get tired of finding new way to mess with the health professionals.
Perhaps patients just don't get tired of finding new way to mess with the health professionals.
You could probably use air in place of hydraulics in many applications however if that was feasible and cheaper it would be in common use .
ROFLMFAO. Best whopper yet. You really should learn at least the basics of a subject before you post stupid.
At the hospital I work at, we have one 'floor' that caters to in patients, which varies from recovery to observations to long term stays (waiting for nursing homes/other permanent stay situations), detox and other stuff. It's a 21 bed hospital, with 1 overflow on the floor.
So during the day, optimum nurses for a full house, as it were, is 4-5 nurses. Night shifts 3-4. There IS an 8 hour shift during the day in there but I'm not sure if it's full time or part time.
A lot of the time, there isn't that many nurses. It's more likely to see 3-4 during the day and 2-3 at night.
Also, we have Emerg where the nurses there are supposed to come relieve the floor RN's at night, but that doesn't happen much at all.
With that, sometimes because it's needed, we have three beds in Emerg that are designated 'overflow' as well. Normally that's for patients who are waiting to go to the floor, but if the floor is full, then they stay until someone is discharged. They don't stay there long and I can only remember once or twice where someone stayed longer than a day. The problem with that is those beds are now taken from Emerg use, and nurses there have to answer bells for those in patients, as well as deal with normal Emerg patients. Staffing there during the day, from 7 to 4 is maximum 3 nurses (with one doing clinicals and helping when not busy) and from 1900 to 7, two nurses. The ward clerks there can help a little - our ward clerks do more in our facility than in, say, Moncton - but they're only there for the two 8 hour day shifts. There's no clerk at night (though I can do some of their duties). We also do Day Surgeries at our place and if it's a horrible staffing day, sometimes a nurse will be pulled from there once the last case is done to work in Emerg to cover.
How much work is done by nurses that could be done by people with lesser training given a change in rules?
I don’t disagree . Just stating that air rams do some functions hydraulics do .
Even strictly grain is a year round job. There is always something to do in any market driven commodity.
Missing a news report can cost a fortune.
You can't tell me having to listen to GX94 everyday to keep informed isn't an unpleasant task that must be done no matter how agonizing.
It's work.
An RN is pretty much the foreman of a team of LPNs and aid staff who do the leg work.
Depends on what you mean by nurses.
In NB, LPN's cannot be legally thought of as 'nurses' on the same scale as RN's are. In other places in Canada, from what I understand, they are considered nurses but NB hasn't made that shift yet, and likely won't due to issues that'd come up with it with the RN association and the government.
That said...
In our hospital, RN's and LPN's can do nearly the same jobs with a few limited differences - mostly admin type differences.
PCW's do a lot of the 'scut work' that LPN's used to do.
In the end, there's still not enough staff to cover for all the shifts, and it's not just in nursing. Even security is seriously lacking and IMO they are not paid enough to make up for the shyte they end up dealing with.
As entertaining as Petros' pretend knowledge is, let's deal with reality
https://www.nursinglicensure.org/articles/lpn-versus-rn.html
https://www.nursinglicensure.org/articles/lpn-versus-rn.html