WVStarFish

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  1. I don't work in a hospital, the MI pts I see live in the community and walk in to our center, kind of like a doctors office. Or we use our vehicles to transport them ourselves. Our pts are the same small group, so we know them very well. For the most...
  2. After sitting for almost an hour using a sharpie to black out names on pharmacy bottles, I'm wondering if there is a better way to dispose of patients medicine bottles with their names on them. Where I work, I only deal with their bottles, and the l...
  3. I was wondering what area of nursing tends to have the happiest nurses? Surely there's been a study on it? And in contrast, I wonder what area of nursing tends to hold the most unhappy nurses? I know that all areas will have each kind ...
  4. Wow, you new nurses !

    As for myself, most of my stress as a new nurse comes from not getting any kind of orientation/mentor, just got thrown out on the floor, and worrying about that license I worked so hard to get. But MOSTLY, during nursing school, we are taught to do t...
  5. Well, the person who hired me actually IS the person doing the urine collecting. I don't know why I'm embarrased, I guess because it's proof I'm not as awesome as I appear to be. hahaha But I really AM worried that the person hiring me/collecting t...
  6. I am assuming I was just offered a job, pending background check and drug screening. That's what a background and urine usually mean, I hear. Both checks will be fine, but two of the meds I take are going to show up on my drug screen. I am prescribe...
  7. How do I learn "charge nurse" skills???

    I've only been a nurse a couple of months and took a job in LTC, hence I'm a "charge nurse". My nursing school was excellent but we werent taught ANY leadership skills. I'm not assertive, and I'm being taken advantage of. My orientation, uh, there w...
  8. In short, I'm a new nurse and just had to stay up all night to work. Anytime in my life, staying up all night or not getting more than a few hours sleep, I am so sick and it takes the whole next day to recoup. I am sweating, my heart pounds out of ...
  9. I have talked to two different people in the DONS. Ya think anything has happened? Nope. And I had no idea we could write up CNA's. Now, I just need to "grow some" and do it. Oh, I finished the shift w/o sleep and everyone survived. I'm still not re...
  10. The thing with calling off, every single day for the past few weeks, SOMEONE is mandated on a shift. Then they call off or quit. Hence, a cycle. Because the call off isnt in due time, agency doesnt get called in. We've lost three nurses in two weeks...
  11. Just wanted to add that I have done doubles and such before w/o any difficulty, I can work sun up to sun down and be just fine ....but forcing myself to stay awake all night when my body is used to a midnight bedtime...it's really messing with me.
  12. my biggest problem is how do I tell a crazy lazy psycho CNA that she needs to prioritize, she cant be leaving the floor all the time, she needs to not up the O2, she ... oh hell, I jsut dont know how to tell this one very experienced CNA that she nee...
  13. What/How do I delegate to the CNA?

    I get along great with them, I'm just not used to being "in charge" of anything. And I have no idea what to expect from them. But as for getting to know everyone, we all get along great for the most part.
  14. What/How do I delegate to the CNA?

    I have only been a nurse a couple of months and work in a LTC home. I've had basicly no training there, but hey, I can pass meds like crazy. I absolutely dont know what I am to expect from the CNA's. And the one time I did ask a CNA to do something, ...
  15. I'm a brand new nurse and I keep reading and hearing things like "I'm not going to work in a place that's going to make me lose my license" Also, how can what the CNA's do affect my license? I've been told that if they mess up badly, it's on me??? I ...