miss_vtRN

miss_vtRN has 2 years experience.

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1. New ER RN job/ worried because of my random hypoglycemia.

   miss_vtRN replied to jdion's topic in Emergency

   I have the same problem! I keep a little stash next to my computer: water bottle, 2-3 energy bars and a banana or clementine. They are my emergency snacks! Kidz Clif bars and LARABARS seem to work best for correcting my blood sugar- both a packed wit...

2. Magnet Designation

   miss_vtRN replied to Fribblet's topic in General Nursing

3. Oxygen Question

   miss_vtRN replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in General Nursing

   Honestly, I've found that nighttime is often a tough time to start titrating O2 down. A patient might be find on 3 L during the day when they are alert but at night can drop quite a bit and require more O2 to maintain sats. (lying down, partial tongu...

4. Advice needed. Crna vs MD

   miss_vtRN replied to ConfusedxRN's topic in General Nursing

   Just to play devil's advocate here: I know plenty of nurses with awful schedules who feel worked to the bone; I am continually amazed that even nurses with years of seniority are still forced to work every other weekend! And I know several MDs who ...

5. Advice needed. Crna vs MD

   miss_vtRN replied to ConfusedxRN's topic in General Nursing

   If you are questioning this at all, I say go for MD! I am in the exact same boat, taking my MCAT in a few weeks and applying to DO schools. RN friends are questioning "Why not NP?" but I really want the depth of scientific background I have always cr...

6. IMs and aspirating blood

   miss_vtRN replied to soxfan80's topic in General Nursing

   So glad to find this discussion! As an EMT-I, I was taught to always aspirate IM's and was shocked to find this not being taught in nursing school because I had always understood it to be very important...I actually stopped aspirating because the cli...

7. Fictional-Hospital Scrubs for Real-Life Nurses

   miss_vtRN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

   Hehe...Scrubs scrubs! Love that show. Try Koi : Koi - The home of designer scrubs. If you find 'em on sale they are pretty reasonable...and super cute!

8. Fictional-Hospital Scrubs for Real-Life Nurses

   miss_vtRN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

   The NYT author could have gone far worse places with this topic!! What about grown women walking around in hot pink crocs and disney scrubs?? I see some nurses wearing pretty ridiculous outfits around my hospital (no peds floor either, that's the ex...

9. Looooong narrative notes

   miss_vtRN replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

   As far as I've heard, charting by exception is a lawyer's worst nightmare...they prefer having proof that you actually did something, in WRITING, not just a check mark...so sounds like your new nurses are just trying to cover their butt, whether or n...

10. Why just part time?

    miss_vtRN replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

    I've been seeing the same thing in my hospital...our NM has been splitting open full-time positions on all shifts into two or three part-time positions. I think it's probably to increase the available floor labor pool so that (costly) float and per-d...

11. Policy on draining Peritoneal Dialysis to toilet?

    miss_vtRN posted a topic in Urology

    We have a patient at work right now on overnight peritoneal dialysis, something we do not routinely see on my floor. The patient complained that one nurse had him drain into the toilet instead of a collection bag! Always leery of germs and according...

12. Nurse who needs an EMT-B cert. questions

    miss_vtRN replied to StudyinginCT's topic in Emergency

    Are you sure that you need EMT-B and not Outdoor Emergency Care certification? When I ski patrolled before nursing school I needed to be OEC certified, and they let me challenge the exam as an EMT-I, so I can't imagine they would have a problem with ...

13. New grad as per diem?

    miss_vtRN replied to Threnody's topic in New Nurse

    Rehabilitation medical unit @ a medium-sized city hospital. I previously CNA floated at an inpatient rehab hospital...not really what I want to do but I'm so happy to have a job after six months of looking! If I didn't have that CNA experience I don'...

14. New grad as per diem?

    miss_vtRN replied to Threnody's topic in New Nurse

    Like the above poster, I am a new grad who just got a per-diem job. I was hired partly because i had previous CNA experience in the same type of nursing...but they are willing to give me a full new-grad-type training experience. Even though I am a pe...

15. Oh no! What are employers going to think of this?

    miss_vtRN replied to nkenn04's topic in General Nursing

    You can list you BLS, and list all of your clinical experience. I just finished an ADN program and my list of clinical time actually ended up looking kind of impressive for a two-yr program. That said, still haven't found a job AND I have lots of wor...