brookorrn

brookorrn specializes in med-surg/or/ambulatory/geriatric psyc.

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1. Is it normal to feel inadequate?

   brookorrn posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am a fairly new RN and I have been working ambulatory surgery since August of 2008. I have been training in OR off and on ever since (probably a total of 6 cases-observing). Is it normal to feel inadequate and like I am totally stupid? I try so ...

2. CRNA Hates me

   brookorrn posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am a new grad (graduated and got rn in july), but I worked on the floor as an LPN for a year. My love has been OR ever since I was about 6 years old. Now I have been working in Amb Surg since August and have recently started training in OR on day...

3. Traveling as a psych nurse-the need-please respond if you know

   brookorrn replied to brookorrn's topic in Travel

   I am hopefully going to be working in a facility that works with geriatric psych patients with Alzheimer's and dementia. This facility takes them in for approximately two months at a time, tweaks their medications, gives them diagnosis, etc. It is ...

4. I think my clinical instructor must be out to get me or something.

   brookorrn replied to lemonaidangel's topic in General Students

   Unfortunately, you have to start somewhere......and once you start working as a nurse, you will find that the experience you gain from cleaning up the icky stuff will be priceless, because that is what nursing is all about! Hang in there.....it will...

5. Traveling as a psych nurse-the need-please respond if you know

   brookorrn posted a topic in Travel

   My true love is alzheimer's and dementia, but any psych medicine would fulfill that desire.........how big of need is there for traveling psych nurses and what kind of experience is needed?

6. Shorted $800 on my first check as a GN

   brookorrn replied to brookorrn's topic in General Nursing

   This hospital is very small, approx 33 med-surg beds, so I am not sure about human resources, but I am going in tomorrow to find someone to talk to about it. I just do not want to be labled a "trouble-maker", I need this job. I have typed a letter ...

7. Shorted $800 on my first check as a GN

   brookorrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Well, I just got my first GN check, and it was $800 short. I was guaranteed PRN wages as a "scheduled" PRN, but when I recieved my check, I got the same pay as though I was getting benefits, but with no benefits. When I called my DON, she stated th...

8. didn't pass second semester

   brookorrn replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

   Some of the best nurses I know did not make it through school the first time. I believe that it is because they had to study harder than everyone else and because a lot of the information they learned twice instead of just once. Kudos to you for yo...

9. How to handle an abusive surgeon?

   brookorrn replied to aquarius1's topic in Relations

   I do not work in OR yet, but I did clinicals in one the other and when the surgeon walked in the door, the first thing he said was "I didn't know they let short, black women scrub in for surgery" and then he kicked me out of his OR room because he is...

10. Need Ostomy help please...Ileostomy? Colostomy? Can patients have both?

    brookorrn replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Wound

    i forgot to mention that i have a colostomy, but i still have an anal opening that i produce "mucous plugs" out of. if the anal opening is closed off, then a double barrel ostomy is made so that one opening produces the feces from the all attached i...

11. Need Ostomy help please...Ileostomy? Colostomy? Can patients have both?

    brookorrn replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Wound

    could the place where the 4x4 is be a second ostomy (such as from a double ostomy for draining mucous)? I know that when the rectum and anus is sewn shut, a second opening is needed for the mucous drainage that the "left-over" intestines need as the...

12. BON wants my adoption decree!

    brookorrn replied to brookorrn's topic in General Nursing

    well, i got my lpn license, now i am going to be in the process of trying to get my rn. do ya think i will have the same trouble?..........lol

13. Am I crazy? Looking into traveling with husband, 2 kids, and dog.

    brookorrn replied to spiritdancer's topic in Travel

    What traveling agency do you use? My husband and I would like to start traveling in 2009 after I get a year experience as an RN in med-surg. We have a 13 year old (who will be 15) and a 10 year old (who will be 12) and we want to have then do onlin...

14. VA Hopeful

    brookorrn replied to IIIseeyaa's topic in General Nursing

    I found that calling whoever interviewed you and aksing if they have everything they need and letting them know you are still interested, works also. I did that when I got my job at the VA. The guy who interviewed me, actually had thought he had ca...

15. Which nursing skills do you dread?

    brookorrn replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    Ostomy care does not bother me either and some day I want to specialize in it due to having a colostomy myself. But I have to agree with those who do not like brushing dentures and suctioning trachs........those two tasks make it to where I struggle...