onarie

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1. A New Twist on a Familiar Complaint: Toxic EMPLOYEES

   onarie replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Relations

   Being new into lower management I love this post. As a staff nurse, I knew about the "bad folks" in management. It's strange, but those on the staff who complained the most about the administration are the ones who seem to have "issues" themselves....

2. Could you tell me about Med-Surg?

   onarie replied to BerthaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Like the others have said med-surg provides a variety of patient diagnosis. At the hospital I work for, I'm on a med-surg/telemetry unit. On our particular floor we have between 5-7 patients per nurse. We try to divide the assignments by the acqui...

3. Do Nurses have time...

   onarie replied to xjae's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, please make/take the time to use the bathroom and to eat your meal. I work on a med-surg/telemetry floor. We get a 30 minute meal break during our shift. I'm fortunate I work on a floor where we all are trying to work together as a team. We...

4. What are charge nurses like at your work place?

   onarie replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

   I happen to be a charge nurse on a 40-bed telemetry floor. Our day is split into 3 shifts. Each shift has 1-2 monitor tech since we monitor telemetry for 3 floors and an admissions/holding unit. Our patient load for day and evening shift is 5 -6 ...

5. Need Advice Regarding an Incompetent Nurse

   onarie replied to littleroxy79's topic in General Nursing

   First, I'm sorry that you are having to work with a nurse that you are so uncomfortable with. I am a new ANM on my floor and am learning some of the whys that you are asking. What I have learned so far is that if a nurse has been someplace for an e...

6. You know you work nights when.......

   onarie replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

   You ask your non-night shift friends to meet for breakfast instead of lunch so that you can sleep. When you leave work at 0730 you're telling everyone "Good Night" You're first questions when making appointments are "How early do you open" and "Wha...

7. Pleasing the "customer"

   onarie replied to magz53's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Okay so maybe it's not just the administration at my hospital that has it's priorities out of whack. I was so confused when they started to refer to my patients as "customers", I looked around to make sure that I was in the correct meeting. Sure, w...

8. money is evil (rant)

   onarie replied to cardsRN's topic in General Nursing

   Wow it sounds like you could be talking about a couple of patients that come to my hospital. They yell, fuss, and make all sorts of demands, keeping you from caring for the other patients. There is one in particular whose name we do not dare speak ...

9. Free Online CEUs

   onarie replied to LPN1974's topic in General Nursing

   LPN1974 I'm looking forward to checking out the link from your original post. I do am always wanting to be prepared. Thanks for taking the time to post. I really do appreciate it, and I'm sure there are others who do also that just haven't comment...

10. how do you introduce yourself to patients?

    onarie replied to panamama's topic in General Nursing

    When I enter a room, I do introduce myself. I usually say something like, Good Afternoon, my name is Angela and I will be your nurse until 11 this evening. I put my name and phone ext (we carry portable phones that the pt's can call us on) on the w...

11. How much did you start as a nurse and when.

    onarie replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    Graduated August 2005 - Licensure October - pay became $18.54/hr + shift diffs. I had worked at this hospital as an extern while in school receiving $12/hr + shift diff. When my anniversary as an extern came in November - they increased my RN pay to...

12. Macon State or Middle Ga Coll ASN's?

    onarie replied to jenniferd73's topic in Georgia

    My graduating class was small, because our class only started with 24 students. We were the first class to start in the spring semester and I they weren't real sure how it was going to work. Yes, that means less than 50% of us graduated; however, n...

13. MD orders, is this normal .......

    onarie replied to HyperRNRachel's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: And then when the second doctor says No - you have to call the first doctor back and let them know. Yesterday I ended up having to call 4 different doctors before I was able to assess all 7 of my patients - because the previous shift was ...

14. PEOPLE WHO TOOK THEIR NCLEX.....Question?

    onarie replied to Bspalacio's topic in NCLEX

    The day I took my NCLEX there were four of us from my class there. Two of us stopped at 75 questions and passed. The other two had 265 questions - one passed and one didn't.

15. Tele floor: what is you pt ratio?

    onarie replied to ZootRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a 32-bed telemetry unit. Now, not always are all our patient's actually on telemetry. We average between a 1:6 - 1:8 ration. During day shift there are also 4 CNA/NA/Tech's; evenings there are 2 or 3 CNA/NA/Tech's and on nights there ar...