cg6303

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1. Where do you nurse?

   cg6303 replied to beckymcrn's topic in General Nursing

   Level 2 trauma center- Approx 500 beds. I work on a pulmonary Stepdown unit with 8 beds

2. Nurses Physical and Mental Condition

   cg6303 replied to bigmomma's topic in General Nursing

   Stress eating!!!!!!!!! I absolutely love food now- especially since i work nights- I find trying to stay awake and focused that food and caffeine go a long way. But, nurses have to learn to balance themselves with exercise (which i have recently fou...

3. What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

   cg6303 replied to PMHNP10's topic in General Nursing

   I had such a wonderful experience in mother/baby and peds as an LPN student but when I did my RN (at a much larger facility) I saw so many children of drug addicted parents and I saw many of those same parents allowed to come in and hold those poor b...

4. eastern NC

   cg6303 replied to altomga's topic in North Carolina

   I bet you do love them babies in jacksonville- I am originally from there and its a baby factory!!!!!!!! although last time i was there the naval hosp. was giving OMH a run for their money!! Are things better now?????

5. Is it or Isnt it?

   cg6303 replied to sanakruz's topic in General Nursing

   My uncle was on Marinol for appetite stimulation when he was in the end stages of AIDS,and it worked for him. I definitly consider it a medicine. As for recereational use - I have yet to find statistics to prove that marijauna has serious side effec...

6. Morehead City

   cg6303 replied to wandernsoul's topic in North Carolina

   I have worked on 3rd floor at Carteret Hospital and my mom still does. I loved the small hospital feel of it and Morehead City is a wonderful town. The hospital is some what out dated on certain things but the atmosphere was great (when i was there t...

7. Introductions

   cg6303 replied to Brian's topic in North Carolina

   hey barefoot lady !!! If you like going barefoot you should come down to North Carolina - we have alot of WV people in Wilmington NC. Level 2 trauma center and we are in need of some good experienced nurses- plus we have the beautiful BEACHES!!!!! we...

8. Who transcribes med orders?

   cg6303 replied to AHarri66's topic in General Nursing

   I work on a medical tele/ stepdown unit in a fairly large Level 2 trauma center and the MD writes orders-secretary takes off orders and enters them into computer or faxes to pharmacy- but we have computerized MAR's that pharmacy sends out every eveni...

9. Introductions

   cg6303 replied to Brian's topic in North Carolina

   Hey fellow NC nurses: my name is Crissy and i am currently in Wilmington NC. I am a new RN but have been an LPN for 4 years. I work on a Stepdown unit at the local hospital - I absolutely love pulmonary nursing! I am also new to this website and s...

10. Nurse/patient ratios

    cg6303 replied to caregiver11's topic in General Nursing

    I work in North Carolina PCU/ medical tele floor. ratio is 1 nurse to 3 pts on PCU and 1 nurse to 5 pts on tele.

11. eastern NC

    cg6303 replied to altomga's topic in North Carolina

    I work in Wilmington on a stepdown unit . I love my vents!!!!

12. unhappy in north carolina

    cg6303 replied to cg6303's topic in Geriatric

    You are not wrong on the requirements of magnet status - we were interviewed and at that time we were very happy here, things didn't start changing until two months afterwards. I would love tosee magnet come back because we would surely lose our stat...

13. unhappy in north carolina

    cg6303 posted a topic in Geriatric

    I recently joined this site due to my frustration at work with so many new changes (for the worse) being thrown at us nurses. We recently recieved Magnet Status a few months back promising us better and brighter futures at this facility-but in the tw...