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1. How often to check Beta hcg?

   shape0fmyheart posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was just wondering if anyone could tell me how often they like to check quantitative hcg levels in the first trimester, specifically in the first few weeks of finding out? Thanks!

2. Pregnant but Negative Urine Preg?

   shape0fmyheart replied to RunnerRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I just saw that and deleted a bunch. Thanks.

3. Pregnant but Negative Urine Preg?

   shape0fmyheart replied to RunnerRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have been searching the internet for answers to my situation but finally decided who better to ask. I have had 5 positive hpt's... 3 were with the double lines and the 2nd line was always very faint, and 2 were digital which very clearly read "preg...

4. Does anybody work for CHS?

   shape0fmyheart replied to dekatn's topic in General Nursing

   Well I'd sure like to find one of those hospitals then.

5. Does anybody work for CHS?

   shape0fmyheart replied to dekatn's topic in General Nursing

   CHS is a monster corporation that owns something like 78 hospitals throughout the country. I am just getting ready to quit my job at a hospital owned by CHS, mostly because of my manager but also because I have just been fed up with the way they run ...

6. Newbie Hospice RN

   shape0fmyheart replied to jessica's topic in Hospice

   I work in Med/Surg but we are also the hospital's Oncology and inpatient Hospice floor. I have dealt with quite a bit of hospice/DNR/"comfort care" patients since I started last July and those are the patients that have truly made me feel important a...

7. Refusing unsafe RN:pt ratio

   shape0fmyheart replied to RN2B07's topic in Med-Surg

   Our normal load is 6-7, lately 7. A few nights some nurses have had to take 8 patients each. I have not been faced with that yet but I have said that I will refuse. It's MY license on the line and our patients are usually high maintenance, I barely f...

8. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   shape0fmyheart replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   Actually the patients that have driven me near insane have been nurses themselves, retired, but nurses nontheless. One of them kept ringing alllll night because her gas was painful. Meanwhile I have post-ops with low urine output and BPs crashing and...

9. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

   shape0fmyheart replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Humor

   The other night at work I had a NP and the supervisor of our heart station as a patient. I have been in nursing for about 10 months so I was extremely nervous, especially when her IV went bad and I had to start a new one. Well, that task went ok and ...

10. Burnout in the first year

    shape0fmyheart replied to yellow finch's topic in New Nurse

    Unfortunately, every night I go to work I feel the same exact way, and I can tell you that a good majority of my coworkers do as well... even ones who have been there for a long time. We have too many patients, too much work, and not enough staff.

11. Why do I always get the disaster patients?

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in New Nurse

    I am starting to really hate my job. Every night I have to go in I dread what disaster I will encounter this time. Even my fellow colleagues "joke" with me about how I always get the "bad" patients. Problems with BPs, pain med oversedation leading to...

12. Perfect job for me

    shape0fmyheart replied to JentheRN05's topic in New Nurse

    You will have to let me know how you like home health when you start, I've been considering that in the back of my mind but I also have a lot of fears about it as well. I will keep an eye out for your posts. When do you start?

13. first week of night shift over...

    shape0fmyheart replied to stn2003's topic in New Nurse

    I need to post a semi-rant here and see if this happens in any other hospitals between shifts. It seems as though dayshift thinks night shift nurses are lazy and sit on their butts all night long. When I don't know something in report and they ask me...

14. You are probably a med-surg nurse if.....

    shape0fmyheart replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Med-Surg

    Our ER nurses have recently gotten a kick-start (incentive pay) for getting pts out in a certain amount of time. It is GUARANTEED that we will get a call at 2300 with an admission. The ER will call at least 3 times from 2300-2330 to give report, desp...

15. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    shape0fmyheart replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

    He didn't ring the bell (this time) but I was in the room with bed 1 when bed 2 decides to yell out "Hello?!". I look around the curtain and say "Yes?" and he says "Oh, hi. I just wanted to say hi."