danh3190

danh3190 has 4 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg, Cardiac.

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1. Question for people who made career change into nursing?

   danh3190 replied to gcc8's topic in General Nursing

   What was your previous career? Industrial Chemist What is your current position? Bedside RN in cardiac unit of large hospital How has your overall experience been as a nurse? Much more worthwhile than chemistry but much more physically demanding ...

2. How has becoming a nurse changed your life?

   danh3190 replied to Kylie53189's topic in General Nursing

   I've gained weight because I'm too tired to exercise after work and most of my meals are junk food out of machine. I don't do much with my life because all I can do on my day off is sleep. My house is a mess because all I can do on my day off is sl...

3. Older New Grad RNs Job Discrimination

   danh3190 replied to kathliz's topic in General Nursing

   I applied to most of the ERs in the area and several ICUs when I graduated at 55 y/o 4 years ago. I had a number of interviews but couldn't get hired. I have tons of prehospital experience but no luck. I may just be a lousy interviewee or it coul...

4. Male RN in maternity

   danh3190 replied to lilcampy310's topic in Men

   I never had any problems when I did my OB clinical. Unfortunately we had a pretty good size clincal group so only got to be at one vag birth and one C-section. The family was very nice for both of them.

5. Compensation for working in a Dedicated Education Unit

   danh3190 replied to Phil Boettcher's topic in General Nursing

   What is a Dedicated Education Unit?

6. "Alphabet Soup" After Nurses' Name?

   danh3190 replied to Arianna727's topic in General Nursing

   I think the alphabet soup is kind of funny on the floor although I think it certainly makes sense behind the name of an author or speaker on an article or program. I don't think the person being taken off the bedpan cares whether you have an MSN or ...

7. medsurg nurses, how many admits/discharges on a typical shift?

   danh3190 replied to pale_pilsen's topic in Med-Surg

   Yeah, I've had days when I discharged all 5 of my patients and got 5 new ones too, but that's not common. Today I discharged 1 and admitted none. Usually somewhere in between. We're cardiology with a lot of general med-surg patients too.

8. Scared of the docs!

   danh3190 replied to SweetseRN's topic in General Nursing

   As you get to know the physicians personally a lot of the intimidation will disappear, at least it did for me. The intelligent ones realize that we make their job a lot easier and are happy to hear from us and cut us some slack when we say something ...

9. Accommodations in nursing school- are they good?

   danh3190 replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

   I think the OP raises some valid points. If distractions and noise are a problem for you, you definitely shouldn't work on my floor. I was just wondering though whether the people with these problems might not be able to find some niche in the nurs...

10. An Interesting Thread: Productivity

    danh3190 replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    I certainly don't have much experience in nursing (3 years) and none in management, but I've been noticing that a lot of what stresses me out is stuff that we don't need nurses for, toileting etc. I was wondering what would happen if we hired a lot ...

11. Intraosseous Infusions- anyone using it yet?

    danh3190 replied to GinaCat's topic in General Nursing

    Paramedics in PA have been able to do IOs for some years now. Maybe about 5 years ago we got IO drills that allow us to put them in adults. Before that we had to put them in by hand and that pretty much limited us to kids with their softer bones. I'v...

12. Do you constantly worry?

    danh3190 replied to peppapig123's topic in General Nursing

    I do usually worry about making a mistake (or more precisely about missing some problem a patient is having). I also worry about whether my managers are happy with me and losing my job (being laid off once will tend to cause that type of worry). Fo...

13. Is it possible for a doctor to be as personal with patients as nurses are?

    danh3190 replied to redeemed77's topic in General Nursing

    Me too!

14. Giving meds crushed in applesauce

    danh3190 replied to anastasia158's topic in General Nursing

    I crush the meds separately. And I prioritize them, e.g. cardiac and BP meds before vitamins, and give them in that order. If a couple of the meds are very small so they can be given in one bite, I mix them. Sometimes the patient stops taking meds...

15. Backboards in the ED

    danh3190 replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

    EMS in our service area used to have a protocol that allowed us to not always collar and board patients in the field, but then they made protocols uniform statewide and we lost the protocol. I wish there was a way to not board unnecessarily in the fi...