BlueBug

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1. ACLS requires a doctor's order?

   BlueBug replied to BUNightingale's topic in Critical

   I have never heard of anything like that before! Start checking with some outside sources, Nursing board, Joint Commission, American Heart Association, ACLS instructors. Have you talked to your director about this, or is it a rumor on the grapevine?

2. Evenings vs Days on Med-Surg floors?

   BlueBug replied to MiaLyse's topic in Med-Surg

   On evenings where I am, we almost never have a CNA or any help, so that means total patient care for all patients. I have had from 4-6 patients, usually 4 patients and 2 empty beds which leaves me praying for no new admits. After 11pm we have no un...

3. HOTEL OR HOSPITAL?????

   BlueBug replied to rn4babies63's topic in General Nursing

   When I was at a major children's hospital it was common for parents to sleep in the hospital beds with the kids. Why are you so offended that some moms want to cuddle and have their husbands very close? Just because the way dad curls up around mom r...

4. If you breastpumped at work, were your coworkers supportive?

   BlueBug replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

   Breast feeding works on a supply-and-demand system, which means you can't just not pump or go longer between pumping without messing up your supply. If a mom needs to pump every 4 hours, she can't stretch it to 6, it just doesn't work that way. The b...

5. Can I become a nurse with only a G.E.D?

   BlueBug replied to jetles's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I did it. I had my GED, now I also have my BSN,RN... Good Luck! ~BlueBug

6. Why is hand-off reporting to so hard?

   BlueBug replied to shabbychic23's topic in General Nursing

   See if your place has a standardized form to use, at least to organize yourself. My place has one, but nobody uses it. I think I might start using it to give myself an outline so I can be organized. I will either use theirs or make one myself that...

7. No Nursing Care?

   BlueBug replied to CNA_Timmy's topic in General Nursing

   Keep at it, advancing your education and becoming an RN will be worth it. Nurses do provide care, even if it is at a different level than what you are used to as a CNA. I have my BSN and work in a med/tele unit and provide alot of the 1 on 1 patient ...

8. New Nurse In TEARS...

   BlueBug replied to NightNurse0711's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with the above posts. Getting some rest should help alot. When other people freak out like the patient's daughter and the doctor did, it usually has very little to do with you and alot to do with something else the person cannot deal with. ...

9. IV starts help!

   BlueBug replied to DIVA_NURSE405's topic in General Nursing

   Hey there, practicing, often, really does make a difference. No matter how good you get, you won't get all of them, and then the ones you miss are not always the hardest looking all the time. What looks like a sure thing can turn into mission impossi...

10. Concorde Kansas City

    BlueBug replied to cjroan's topic in Missouri

    I don't know anything about Concorde, but make sure they are accreditated and that you will be able to sit for boards after you graduate. I have seen funky programs which promise the world, but don't deliver. I also remember when I took my Kaplan r...

11. Is This Ethical?

    BlueBug replied to WorriedinPA's topic in Safety

    If Stepmom comes back again... You sounded pretty upset about what the kids mother had done, and seeing that you were informed by the kids about the injections, they probably picked up on your feelings of anger and distrust about their mother. Mayb...

12. Can't get hired

    BlueBug replied to 2001nurse's topic in Missouri

    I was trying to be nice the first time I posted, but I have to agree with what the other posters have said, your grammar really is awful. And no, nobody said a word about LPNs being lazy except for you. I am wondering if English is not your first l...

13. Reading Tele Monitors in Medsurg?

    BlueBug replied to sandiegonursecocoa's topic in Med-Surg

    The above post sounds like my unit, and all beds are med/tele. We have no med/surg beds, all are up for tele if needed. We all are required to have ACLS within a certain time frame of being hired, and all are required to have basic rhythms classes...

14. Doctors getting angry??

    BlueBug replied to emtj's topic in Relations

    A friend of mine was yelled at and humiliated for asking a doctor a question. Chairs flung across the nurses station, calling pharmacy and declaring the "stupid nurse" had a question, throwing everything in his pockets across the romm while attempt...

15. Having children while getting education

    BlueBug replied to littleoleme's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah... I was offended by that above comment to. The idea that children can only be well taken care of by a stay at home parent is just not true. Babysitters and daycare are not mindless, cold, heartless, warehouseing of children. I also think the id...