Laney123

Laney123 has 11 years experience and specializes in M/S, ICU, ER, PACU.

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1. What is it REALLY like for new grads right now?

   Laney123 replied to JamieA0321's topic in Colorado

   I too echo the sentiments of the above posters. Nursing is a wonderful career for those who love nursing. I think alot of people enter the profession for the touted job stability, financial worth and flexibility. It is definitely a hard profession bu...

2. Are we experiencing mass burnout in healthcare?

   Laney123 replied to SheaTab's topic in Activism

   I think there are so many things wrong with nursing that I don't know where to start. I think unfortunately many people see nursing as a stable entity and enter the profession for the wrong reasons. It is not an easy career and one must absolutlely L...

3. Dear preceptor

   Laney123 replied to Ivanna_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   UGH.... this type of thing gets me so mad. There is no reason that a fellow nurse should treat another nurse as she has treated you. I am sorry for her attitude. What I have learned working with such people as you have described is that for the most ...

4. follow-up phone calls after daystay discharge from PACU

   Laney123 replied to bmcdeb's topic in PACU

   Hi there, We too do post op follow up calls. We are not always able to get to the calls the next day, although that is the ideal. We have upto 72 hours to call patients. We do only one call for each patient.

5. Small, rural hospital: OR RN's recovering their own patients

   Laney123 replied to wilbur1's topic in PACU

   OH MY... I agree with JoPACU.... BIG mistake having OR RN's with no pacu experience recover PACU patients. There are so many things you need to watch for and be prepared to act on. Good Luck

6. PACU Dress Code

   Laney123 replied to Charity's topic in PACU

   We are allowed to wear either our own scrubs or the ceil blue surgical suite scrubs. We too are attached to our OR. We mostly wear the blue scrubs though.

7. Who is GENERALLY more of a "PAIN"?: Co-workers OR Patients?

   Laney123 replied to Di Deanna's topic in General Nursing

   I have to agree with the vote for the co-workers. I have a strong work ethic and although I know we are not all cut from the same mold, I can't stand sub-standard care either. There are a couple who think coming in on time means within a half hour of...

8. Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

   Laney123 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

   After several times saying good morning to a doc and never receiving a response, a glance or any acknowledgement that I had even spoken, I stepped into his path and said "Why didn't you tell me"? He looked at me in shock, wide eyed and said "Tell yo...

9. LUCKY! to have a job

   Laney123 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   From what I understand,when a perspective employer contacts a former employer, only concrete objective questions can be asked. Questions about tardiness for work, number of sick days used, how long the person was at the job, their salary etc. They ar...

10. LUCKY! to have a job

    Laney123 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Lucky to have a job? I am so sick of hearing this. Although jobs are not as plentiful as they were a mere 5 years ago, there are many jobs available for competent, compassionate and flexible nurses. When told by the vice president of nursing that we ...

11. Patient assignments

    Laney123 replied to Laney123's topic in PACU

    Hey there, thanks so much. I think that just may work. I really like that idea. We too do phase 1 and 2 in the same area.

12. Patient assignments

    Laney123 replied to Laney123's topic in General Nursing

    Hi there, Thanks for your reply. I don't have a problem with the surgeons, but rather some of the nurses always seem to take the easy cases and the same ones always end up with the train wrecks... I am just trying to figure out a way to spread it out...

13. Patient assignments

    Laney123 posted a topic in PACU

    Hi, I work in an 8 bed Phase I pacu at a community hospital. I have a question for you seasoned PACU nurses. How do you do your patient assignments. This is my first PACU job, which I have been at for 2 years now. I have done ICU and ER previously. I...

14. Patient assignments

    Laney123 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi Everyone, Im new to this website and to posting on it. I have a question and really hoped some of you can offere suggestions. I work in an 8 bed PACU at a community hospital. I have been there 2 years and it seems our way of making assignments or ...