sugarwahine10 replied to BelDym's topic in Emergency
Unfortunately yes that does seem to be the state of hospital nursing. I had a very good friend that just finished several travel assignments in ER at several different hospitals in NY and he said the...
sugarwahine10 replied to Wedahayes's topic in General Nursing
Don't do LTACH unless you want the sickest long-term care patients(critical care nursing home patients basically)--majority will have trachs too (which is one of my few nursing tasks that makes me...
sugarwahine10 replied to Happynurse2222's topic in General Nursing
No matter where you work you will always encounter great hard-working co-workers and unfortunately plain lazy ones-- just barely doing what they need to do to get by. If you need help then ask for it...
If you are miserable there, then give notice. Life is way to short to stay at a job that makes you dread going in. You only have to give 2 weeks notice--most job's would like people to give a lot...
sugarwahine10 replied to Double Dunker's topic in General Nursing
Yeah where is this glorious place that is overstaffed?? We can't keep people at any of the big hospitals in this state--we have a lot of travelers on the different floors/units. Always
Yes I would definitely do an incident report, MAKE SURE YOU REPORT THIS TO THE DOCTOR that ordered it also that the nurse he gave the order to just never did and what the flimsy excuse was for not...
sugarwahine10 replied to miscangelious's topic in Medical-Surgical
Yeah when I worked on a telemetry/med surg floor we had cardizem gtts running on almost every other patient or amio, milirinone, integrelin, heparin. Blood going on one, foley irrigation on another,...
sugarwahine10 replied to almost_nurse's topic in General Nursing
You could relocate for a year or so if you really want a nursing job. Iowa hospitals in Des Moines are desperate for nurses right now--you could apply online at Mercy or Methodist--chronically...
Hi, I don't think is sounds like a step down unit necessarily. I worked on a telemetry floor for years and we did all those type of iv drips (cardiac tele just couldn't titrate the drips like we do in...
sugarwahine10 replied to ahud2015's topic in Pediatric
I think that is great that you are thinking about becoming a nurse, but I also have to say yes you would be nuts to quit a cushy job with great pay. The realities of nursing would burst your bubble....
sugarwahine10 replied to RNMeagz's topic in Critical Care
It sounds like you have a preceptor that doesn't have the patience to be one (she shouldn't be one) and you don't need to take her acting like a rude idiot to you to heart. The charge nurse being her...
sugarwahine10 replied to coolpeachrn's topic in Medical-Surgical
Two weeks notice is all that is required & if your manager is like that then that is all I would do--if the manager tries to say something about being short staffed & needs more time or...
sugarwahine10 replied to Sunshinexoxo1991's topic in General Students
I like the lavender color better between the two. I got the Littmann breast cancer month pink stethoscope a couple weeks ago & I really like it--nice deeper color pink & not a pale