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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...