chef2rn

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1. I'm Lazy

   chef2rn replied to Tozz's topic in Male Students

   I'm female, but I highly recommend adderal or ritalin. that's what got me through. Also, sitting in the front row & having my textbooks open to the lecture material while the instructors were lecturing. My experience is that they lecture and tes...

2. How to get stool smell off of your hands?

   chef2rn replied to mickjordmoll's topic in General Nursing

   Scrub up to your elbows! I've had it happen where I washed my hands 3 or four times, but could still smell it. Found a tiny smear on my forearm.

3. LVN California HELP Job at risk!

   chef2rn replied to CaliforniaLVN's topic in California

   If you wanted to, would they support you while you bridged to RN? I realize it's probably hard to contemplate at this point in your career, but it seems to be the way CA hospitals are going. I'm sorry this is happening to you & hope your situatio...

4. peripheral IVs

   chef2rn replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

   If I have a hep lock that flushes easily & there is no pain or sign of infiltration I use it.

5. ICU or ED -trying to decide

   chef2rn replied to audreyhepburn's topic in General Nursing

   Hmmm, well, I spend most of the time in ICU. I like the continuity & seeing what happens with my patients. I've just learned CRRT & want to do more of it--fun! I like being able to focus on 1 or 2 patients. I don't see quite as much of the ps...

6. ICU or ED -trying to decide

   chef2rn replied to audreyhepburn's topic in General Nursing

   I started in ICU a few years ago as a kind of stepping stone to ED, and I sometimes float there. After I had a baby last year a couple things changed: I realized that I was going to have a really hard time seeing babies & kids in bad situations. ...

7. Jobs with the most germs we rank 4th

   chef2rn replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   I'm glad they put that bit in about Purell, et al. In the ICU where I work, we all share phones, computers, clipboards & plenty of other fomites without having outbreaks. We practice universal precautions & have healthy immune systems. I wish...

8. RNs in Vermont

   chef2rn posted a topic in Vermont

   I am an ICU RN in Northern California considering moving back to Vermont to be closer to family in New England. I am an ADN prepared RN with a liberal arts bachelor's. I have worked in a small community teaching hospital (200 beds, but ICU has 16) f...

9. Pt autonomy vs competetent nursing care

   chef2rn posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'll try to make a long story short. Our med-surg unit is the 2nd home to a chronically, congenitally ill woman in her early twenties. She has a complicated medical history and multiple problems including renal failure, gastroparesis (she has a g-tu...

10. "but doctors are better than nurses"

    chef2rn replied to AussieJack's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a teaching hospital where the residents and experienced MDs depend on my ongoing assessments of our patients. We're a team. I do see my self as a medical professional. As nurses are expected to do more and more, and with expanding Advanc...

11. Telemetry nightmare

    chef2rn replied to shortsteph12's topic in New Nurse

    ADVICE & A BIT OF VENTING Hey, I'm a New Grad (well 6 months out--RN II next pay period, God help us!) on a mixed Med-Surg/Tele Unit. On my unit we can't take tele patients unless we are ACLS certified. Take the time to do it ASAP--it's invalu...