dbabz

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1. Not being paid anything for overtime hours worked during orientation. Is this legal?

   dbabz replied to GbabyNurse's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a relatively new nurse myself and I haven't run into this, but, if this happened to me during orientation, I'd just chalk it up to experience and view the extra time as beneficial to me and my education as a nurse. I feel like orientation is very...

2. Should I take a patient tech position at dream facility?

   dbabz replied to dbabz's topic in General Specialties

   Thanks!

3. Should I take a patient tech position at dream facility?

   dbabz replied to dbabz's topic in General Specialties

   Hey All, Thanks for the replies. Quick update. I did apply and they interviewed me for a nurse job which hadn't yet been posted, and...I got it. This is my dream job at my dream hospital so I'm absolutely thrilled.

4. Should I take a patient tech position at dream facility?

   dbabz replied to dbabz's topic in General Specialties

   Thank you. I did apply; just waiting to hear back.

5. Should I take a patient tech position at dream facility?

   dbabz posted a topic in General Specialties

   Hello All, I'm a fairly recent grad working at a small psychiatric facility. I've been here less than a year. My passion is all things brain-related and I came across an opening for a PCT at a world-class facility here in my hometown. This organizati...

6. Nclex Wait time is killing me

   dbabz replied to apmarquez's topic in NCLEX

   When I was in school preparing for NCLEX, I just scoffed at the people who said it was the longest 48 hours of their lives. I was thinking that if I finished after 75 questions, no problem. Hah! I let my mind wander to all of the far-off possibilitie...

7. Regular accuchecks for patients on atypical antipsychotics?

   dbabz replied to dbabz's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks!

8. Regular accuchecks for patients on atypical antipsychotics?

   dbabz replied to dbabz's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks all. Interestingly, I never did mention it, but the medical doc has been ordering b.i.d checks for some of the patients. Haven't had any need for insulin yet.

9. Regular accuchecks for patients on atypical antipsychotics?

   dbabz replied to dbabz's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks. Does this include patients on metformin? And, I'd agree, A1c more appropriate if only done @ three month mark and annually.

10. Patients Say the Darnedest Things Nurses Week Contest

    dbabz replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

    Told discharging patient he had script for abx d/t syphillis. Pt: "What's that?" Me: "A sexually transmitted disease." Pt: "How do you get it? Do you get it from a girl, because..." (Pt stares off into space clearly trying to calculate last time he w...

11. Does anyone here actually like nursing?

    dbabz replied to Sumdaymurse's topic in General Nursing

    I would also add that it may seem like people are miserable because this is where we come to "vent." This site is kind of like a safety valve. I think fewer people post when things are going really well.

12. I hate fake call outs.

    dbabz replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

    And setting up GoFundMe accounts.

13. Stupid hurts.

    dbabz replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Nursing

    And poppers and lube.

14. I hate fake call outs.

    dbabz replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Many years ago, I had a friend and coworker who called in sick at the drop of a hat (I was in the securities industry at the time.) When admonished by management for it, she complained to the rest of us that "it isn't my fault that I'm the kind of pe...

15. Stupid hurts.

    dbabz replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Nursing

    Sat on it by accident.