FlowerbuddRN

FlowerbuddRN has 4 years experience and specializes in med-surg,Ortho, Peds, LTAC, renal, ICU.

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1. I'm working TWO full time jobs, crazy??

   FlowerbuddRN replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

   I am about to start two jobs too. I work FT at one hospital that I worked at for 3 yrs with my LPN in renal, which though busy is for the most part easy and routine for me since I know all the paperwork and everything, I start the 15th at the other h...

2. Are you content at LVN level?

   FlowerbuddRN replied to 53Kalypso's topic in LPN/LVN

   I never intended on staying an LPN. My brother who is a NP advised me to get my LPN so I could work as a nurse ( as long as it was in a hospital) while I went to school, then bridge, and then do my BSN online. I am grateful I have taken his advice be...

3. How does your own PCP treat you?

   FlowerbuddRN replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

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4. IM Injection Tips

   FlowerbuddRN replied to netgeek's topic in General Nursing

   from what a clinical preceptor showed me- have the pt dorsal/pedal flex while you feel approx where you expect the muscles to be.. now you can't do a thigh on a lil old skinny lady.. you've got to have someone who has a muscle there, and then i gras...

5. IM Injection Tips

   FlowerbuddRN replied to netgeek's topic in General Nursing

   i hate rocephin, working on peds at my main job.. we always use the thigh on our lil ones, and it goes smoothly, except i hate how hard it is to push.. but it is mixed with lidocaine. I have a prn job with adults however, and have always used the de...

6. IM Injection Tips

   FlowerbuddRN replied to netgeek's topic in General Nursing

   giving IM's into anywhere but the deltoid, or Vastus lateralis make's me nervous, because most of the people I had in clinicals were very overweight, and we were unable to palp the bony landmarks, and just went by where the preceptor showed us. Any ...

7. The Most Beautiful Curls I'd Ever Seen

   FlowerbuddRN replied to kessadawn's topic in General Nursing

   That's such a beautiful, sad story. One of my biggest fears about working on peds too. You obviously are the best kind of nurse, the one who genuinely cares, and I'd be glad to have you taking care of any of my kids.

8. From Nurse to Physician

   FlowerbuddRN replied to meghun503's topic in General Nursing

   I had always been on the track to do FNP, and then DNP when I learned about it... but after looking more into the D.O, and working with them I realized that a D.O is the philosophy I was hoping to implement as a FNP. (where i grew up D.O's were not v...