shortsteph12

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1. Most RN's first borns?

   shortsteph12 replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

   oldest child with an abusive father I have a cousin who is the oldest and a RN and another cousin who was an only child and an RN although my baby sis is a RN

2. Telemetry Monitoring

   shortsteph12 replied to ccurn1's topic in CCU

   I work on a 32 bed tele floor. We do get many med surg patients who have some cardiac history also. Our ratio is 5:1 max. ( the last time we had 6 patients was the day I had my "telemetry nightmare.") since that day we are not allowed to have 6. We d...

3. Do patients/families that are hostile, rude affect your morale?

   shortsteph12 replied to smartynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Just yesterday I had a son of one of my patients come up to the nurses station and very rudely yelled at me because the doctor was not there yet to discharge his father and he had been waiting for two hours and he was sick of waiting. Then stormed of...

4. EKG strip

   shortsteph12 replied to Nikkik163's topic in Cardiac

   I bought a guide while a student there is a book at Barnes and Nobles Ekgs made easy. First look at the rr interval is it regular? Then measure your pr interval see is there a p wave? If the patient has a pacemaker is there pacer spikes? Then look at...

5. Opinions please--Did I do the right thing?

   shortsteph12 replied to RN-TO-BE's topic in New Nurse

   Yes the family is wrong to threaton each Rn with suing. I hate when people treat nurses like crap that way... You did the right thing and hopefully will not to have to take care of that pt again

6. Telemetry nightmare

   shortsteph12 replied to shortsteph12's topic in New Nurse

   yes the nurses on our floor do pull pacer wires. I thought thats all I need is a patient to cardiac tamponade or go into torsades... The docs always come up right before change of shift and order us to pull pacer wires and chest tubes. I will take AC...

7. Telemetry nightmare

   shortsteph12 replied to shortsteph12's topic in New Nurse

   thanks to everyone for replying. I am considering switching to the ortho/bariatric floor if possible. Yesterday I worked and it wasnt too bad in fact word got around that " one of the new nurses had a really bad day." one of the night nurses said "I ...

8. Telemetry nightmare

   shortsteph12 replied to shortsteph12's topic in New Nurse

   I was on orientation for 12 weeks. My preceptor would leave me alone quite a bit, I ended up trying to figure things out for myself. My manager was in the room during the code and she did help me set up for the cardioversion and stayed in the room du...

9. Telemetry nightmare

   shortsteph12 posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi I am a new grad and have been working on the tele floor for about 4.5 mos. The other day ER sent up a patient with COPD exacab., who was on nonrebreather 100% 02. patients heart rate was 120's at admission to our floor. 02 sats were ok 93% but you...

10. Am I Cut Out For This?

    shortsteph12 replied to Nutrix_de_Volcano's topic in New Nurse

    I am working on a tele floor, and I am up to 6 patients. I have been on orientation for about 10 weeks now. I know exactly how you feel. My preceptor sometimes keeps me over to go over my charting and we don't leave until she sees something wrong. On...

11. Telemetry unit

    shortsteph12 replied to Woman_in_love's topic in New Nurse

    I am a new grad and have started on a tele floor. We do get all sorts of patients besides the cardiac ones. Sometimes it can be quite overwhelming althought I feel that I am learning alot. Some times it seems more like a step down unit with the acuit...

12. Did anyone else have their fingerprints rejected by FBI?

    shortsteph12 replied to Toni LPN's topic in Ohio

    I live in Illinois we also have to be fingerprinted by the FBI. Good luck to you I know how you feel about having to work as a tech. You want to go ahead with your career. Hopefully it will not take too long Good luck to you!

13. Let's introduce ourselves...

    shortsteph12 replied to pedi-RN's topic in New Nurse

    I graduated July 8th and will be taking my boards on Aug 31st. I am starting my job on Aug 8th. I will be working PT evenings due to not wanting to leave my kids 5 days a week. ( my youngest is almost 3 and has never been to daycare other than grandm...

14. I had orientation today...

    shortsteph12 replied to mlcord121's topic in General Students

    Teachers can be tough about abscenses. Althrough nursing school I missed one clinical and class day because of the flu ( which struck almost the whole class) and the second year I missed a day of clinical due to my mom dying. Which they excused. They...

15. Illinois ADN programs

    shortsteph12 replied to prenault's topic in General Students

    I just graduated from Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove. After finishing my prereq's I applied to start in the fall and got right in. Just recently have students had to wait maybe a semester. We have smaller classes but students start the pr...