magnoliophyte

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1. Getting med/surg exp after 2 years psych

   magnoliophyte replied to ali9802's topic in Med-Surg

   I'm also a psych nurse, have been for a year now. I'm also looking in to getting in to med/surg as I've realized that I'm never going to build good assessment skills until I've done so. Luckily I work for a large organization that does both medical...

2. Suggestions for rounding out my skillset?

   magnoliophyte posted a topic in Career Support

   Hello. I'm a relatively new nurse, I've been active for 7 months now. I work in an involuntary lockdown psych unit. What I'm looking for in the future is to round out my skills and keep things I learned in school. I -do- get to deal with some me...

3. Haldol and Ativan cocktail IV

   magnoliophyte replied to TRAMA1RN's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in a lockdown involuntary setting, and we favor 5 haldol, 2 ativan, 50 diphenhydramine. We actually RARELY have to do this. Most people, when I tell them I work in involuntary lock-down psych imagine that we shoot everyone full of the cockta...

4. 2010-2011 AZBN new grad survey

   magnoliophyte replied to boru's topic in Arizona

   Thanks for posting this... it's very interesting to see the situation finally quantified this way. I'm one of the lucky ones I guess, since I was able to find full-time employment with an ADN after maybe 4-5 months of searching. I also had a coupl...

5. Fecal Transplants- What do you think about this?

   magnoliophyte replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   I've never seen the big deal. There's a lot of things people don't like psychologically that are going to be reality for us as humans at some point or another -- like drinking treated waste water for instance.

6. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

   magnoliophyte replied to Bklyn_RN's topic in COVID

   Since you can still get mildly ill and transmit flu even if you've been vaccinated (I believe you can be contagious even before prodrome) that this has less to do with safety to patients, but more to do with hospitals not wanting to have to deal as m...

7. concerns about new grad psych position

   magnoliophyte replied to Blue4me2's topic in General Nursing

   I'm also a new grad working in psych... I was given about 4 weeks of orientation. It's not really that bad in psych because, as mentioned, they're medically stable and we give a *lot* of the same drugs to patients. It felt like more than enough tim...

8. How do I get started?

   magnoliophyte replied to Brittany_love34's topic in Ob/Gyn

   You need to first look at schools around you that actually offer a nursing program. There's usually 3 basic options... a diploma, an associates, or bachelors. Most people from what I understand get the associates (2 year program) or bachelors (4). Y...

9. Do you prefer 8 or 12 hours shifts?

   magnoliophyte replied to Studentnurse143's topic in General Nursing

   I like my 5-days a week 8 hour shifts. When I did 12's in my preceptoring, the extra days off barely even registered with me because the first one was always just taken up by me sleeping off the tiredness from the previous back-to-back shifts. The ...

10. Video on the Nursing Shortage

    magnoliophyte replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291111.htm#nat What sort of slight of hand? As far as I've read the 2% is derived from this set of data. 2% can be a pretty big number when dealing with millions of nurses. I'd be curious to know why you believe t...

11. Video on the Nursing Shortage

    magnoliophyte replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    As a new-grad who has full-time RN employment, and also as someone who closely follows economic news and issues, I'll try to field this for you as best I can. What's the scoop, seasoned nurses and new grads? . . . The low-down is that yes, it is diff...

12. Unemployed & inexperienced New RNs. Vent it out!

    magnoliophyte replied to captain byakuya's topic in Job Hunt

    congratulations! :anpom: And yes, don't give up new grads. Unemployment rates for RN's is very low compared to other professions (around 2% last I checked) so just be persistent.

13. Is pounding the pavement worth the effort?

    magnoliophyte replied to 3bellesdad's topic in Career Support

    Why not give it a try at least? What's the worst that can happen -- they say no, and so you're back where you started. Networking and meeting in real-life is how I got my job as a new-grad... it works.

14. New Grad Resume

    magnoliophyte replied to nums's topic in Job Hunt

    For awhile on my new-grad resume I just had it broken down under a bullet point of School Clinical Experience -Med/Surg, 160 hours at St. Whatshisface Memorial so on and so forth... eventually I took it all out though and only mentioned my precepto...

15. Who are all these people dying in your arms?

    magnoliophyte replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    You pose a philosophical question. Sometimes you can find clear reasoning through these sorts of questions by simply asking another. Ask yourself, what would happen to med-surg patients if nurses were not there? I really doubt that hospital mortalit...