Nenja

Nenja

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  1. Relationships with floor nurses?

    I'm a floor nurse, no ED experience beyond floating a few shifts. I honestly don't think anything either party does will entirely "stop" it. Y'all think we get snarky, we think y'all get snarky...and both do. We all have rough, demanding jobs and wan...
  2. You may find yourself surprised. Nursing is so varied that even similar units at different facilities can bring an entirely different experience. I went through school hating the areas of my clinicals. I wanted nothing to do with adults. Ever. I knew...
  3. IV catheter changes..

    I'm in Peds and we don't have that policy. If it ain't broke...don't fix it! :) Rarely would it last that long anyway though for a lot of our kiddos.
  4. Holiday Scheduling - how to make it fair

    One place I worked we did team A and B and we worked whatever holidays were for that team...next year it switched. We were typically able to swap around and even sometimes split the shift in half to make it work for whatever we had going on with our ...
  5. New Grad and my stress level is at a MAX!!! Help

    I'm in the same boat, but as an RN. I graduated in May...I can pass my meds but woah they never had us do any of the million pages of paperwork and orders in school. I'm clueless.
  6. I graduated in May and got an RN job at an LTACH where I had been working as an aide for just over a year. Thrilled about it, no, but it was the only offer I had and I knew the facility, patients and coworkers. It has always been explained to me as m...
  7. Nursing Shortage?

    I disagree with that a whole lot. I graduated Friday from BGSU and will be an RN after my boards...the UT/BGSU consortium is now graduating nurses three times a year, plus there is Lourdes, Owens, Mercy, Terra, Firelands, etc. all in the area. Our ar...
  8. leading group

    I am a nursing student doing my psych rotation. A partner and I have to lead a group session on an inpatient unit next week. We've been rotating through our clinical group and we are running out of ideas (I know, there are tons out there). Any sugges...
  9. i'd like some opinions please

    I was hired at a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital in June. I am in my last year of my BSN but this is my first aide job. It is basically an ICU...most on vents, many with tube feeds. It has been a great learning tool in that and just more patient and st...
  10. Third Shift Blues

    Question about the melatonin. I will only be working overnight Fri & Sat nights...if I take the melatonin to help me sleep for those shifts, is my body still going to hate me the rest of the week when I try to have a normal life?
  11. Ah thank you, I was wondering too. I will be starting a third-shift soon at a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital and my interviewer said that it is mostly like an ICU...lots of vents and such. Anyone with night experience - any tips for sleep schedules? ...
  12. Moving to Toledo

    I don't know anything about working at Toledo Hospital because I'm still a student and don't intend on working in this area. As for looking where to live - like the other reply said, South Toledo is pretty good, East is bad. The area around the hospi...
  13. Maumee, Ohio / I am moving there soon

    I am a 3rd year nursing student (U of Toledo) and currently live in Maumee (ever need a sitter? lol). I just completed my women's health clinical at St Luke's and it is my favorite hospital I've been at for clinical so far (others are Toledo Children...
  14. Medication References

    I just started my OB rotation. (LOVE it, BTW) We are to look up (purpose, route, dosage, etc...) the most commonly used meds on the floor and I was able to find most in the drug books I purchased for Pharm & Peds except things like Tucks, America...
  15. Peds - Teaching Project

    I know I've seen topics about this a while ago, but nothing came up in the search. I'm in Peds this semester and for half the semester I am in a preschool classroom with typical and atypical developing kids. We are to do a little teaching project fo...