Val_998

Val_998 BSN, RN

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About Val_998

Val_998 has 13 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Research.


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  1. heparin or lovenox 24 hours before surgery?

    Perfect answer. The thought process is concerning.
  2. I really hope you're not insinuating a comparison to concentration camp victims. That's disgusting.
  3. Explaining Absence During Colleague's Vacation

    I logged in after like a year just to comment on this having received this in the Allnurses email sendout. I honestly cannot believe you would even consider calling out as an option being that your staff, patients and Co manager depend on you. ...
  4. Smoking and Oxygen policy

    You are not looking at this from the perspective that the OP is asking. This isn't about some ethical dilemma or hypothetical situations (pt's don't hold their faces up to flaming stoves while wearing cannula) I had a pt once who smoked at home, and ...
  5. I literally hate my job

    I know how you feel, I also cannot stand bedside nursing. My patience level is not what it could be and interaction with people drains energy from me faster than physical activity ever could. I've had several different jobs and the one I enjoyed most...
  6. How to deal with a bully patient?

    Msmoe16, not all places make assignments this way, but it does happen, charge nurses would rather avoid making their own people the dumping ground. However, as I said, it does make you a stronger nurse so I feel they are doing their own nurses a diss...
  7. How to deal with a bully patient?

    I've only gotten fired twice by patients, and they were aggressive, threatening and verbally abusive. Both times my managers were on my side and aware as these patients had been making hell for the other nurses prior to me coming along. I was pissed ...
  8. New grad to infusion nursing?

    IV therapy isn't quite the same as phlebotomy. There are also a lot of factors that go into placing a line and managing it, knowing what medications will do to the veins. I think outpatient infusion would be a good place to start especially if they a...
  9. PICC RN Career Advice Needed

    Perhaps you could try to reach your goal from a different angle? As a hospice RN, you have great experience with oncology, symptom management, and working with vascular access as often patients will have PICC or ports. What if you try outpatient infu...
  10. Frequency of changing IV tubing

    In a few places that I've worked, any trauma line or field line must be replaced no later than 48hrs and all tubing changed. They are considered "dirty".
  11. On-call or cancelled? That is the question!

    Our policy is very similar, except I believe 4.50 is the on call pay. On top of that, I'm in the float pool so I'm scheduled more than I end up working, I'm on call pretty often. I've gotten called in as late as 230 am with a 1hr time to make it in. ...
  12. regretting nursing school??

    @pneumothorax- i agree with you on basically everything that you said. that is exactly why two years ago when i got into clinicals that i felt i would never be able to handle the "changing oozing purulent wounds, emptying bedpans full of waste and wi...
  13. regretting nursing school??

    Thanks miss jamie, i am very excited, as soon as i get my 1-2 years of experience im hoping to be a travel nurse somewhere awesome like hawaii or california, another great perk of nursing :)
  14. regretting nursing school??

    PS forgot to add, I'm still not a 'soft and squishy' nurse, BUT I did have my senior internship in the emergency room and it was the best clinical I had! I think I'm going to aim for critical care nursing, and I definitely do not want L and D or psyc...
  15. regretting nursing school??

    Hey everyone! I guess I never realized that I had so many helpful responses to my post, or that I was the only one who felt that way about nursing.... Life has a funny way of working out though, 2 years, LOTS of hard work, clinicals, blood/sweat/tear...