PFDGB

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1. "real" role of pysch nurses

   PFDGB replied to Still_searching's topic in Psychiatric

2. 12 hour shifts too long?

   PFDGB replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

   I'm so glad that you had a great run the passed few shifts and that the patient's responded so well to your care. That is the greatest reward. Knowing that you have made a difference. How long have you been doing the 12 hr. shifts? I know that it m...

3. 12 hour shifts too long?

   PFDGB replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

   What you are saying is exactly what others have said to me in the area I live. There are a lot of new grads getting positions in various areas of nursing without having to go into an area that they do not desire to pursue. I was shocked two days ag...

4. Have I made a mistake?

   PFDGB replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Keep smiling - My response was made directly to a specific post by a specific user (who saw fit to psychoanalyze, criticize, and judge me without sufficient information and a medical degree in psych.) and not as a Genral Post ! It was both inappropr...

5. 12 hour shifts too long?

   PFDGB replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you so much for your kind response. I wasn't going to open the allnurses site given the response to me by others. But, I know that I would lose out on guidance and information from others that have a kinder and less judgemental way of offerin...

6. Have I made a mistake?

   PFDGB replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

   :rotfl: I appreciate all that you shared and many of it is true; however most of it is judgement based on very little information. I hope that you don't do that with your patients. Second of all you are incorrect about having to go the way most nur...

7. Have I made a mistake?

   PFDGB replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My original desire was and is psych nursing but I am being told that they don't take new grads. So how does one get started in psych. Even if I did med-surge 1st they will tell me that I have no experience in psych. My heart is in psych all the wa...

8. Have I made a mistake?

   PFDGB replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I too graduated last May and held off on the boards until January because I was in no hurry to go through what you have. I did not realize how bad it was out there (10-12 pt's per RN) until I was already in the thick of nursing school. I went on my...

9. 12 hour shifts too long?

   PFDGB replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

   Could you please guide me accordingly. I am a new grad just beginning to look for a job. I didn't have to read this thread to know just how hard it is to do those 12 hr shifts. I went on my 1st interview a few days ago and found that there is no o...

10. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    PFDGB replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    No! The RN's were not the ones who were behaving that way; it was the nursing assistants. They were the ones doing the VS on the pt's not the RN's. The RN's didn't have the time nor the inclinatiion to behave that way. As well, I don't understand w...

11. Crossing Over to Psych Nursing...advice please

    PFDGB replied to debRN0417's topic in Psychiatric

    I graduated in May 04, waited to sit for boards until Jan 05 because everyone kept telling me that I had to do med-surge first. I put everything off because I just couldn't bring myself to comit to something I really did not want to do. My interest...

12. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    PFDGB replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    For the students experiencing the game of "hidden BP equipment" check the bathrooms in unoccupied rooms, conference rooms perhaps at the end of the halls, and mostly those hidden behind the curtains at the pt's bedside. Also, if you approach the nur...

13. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    PFDGB replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Please educate me on how it is you take a BP on a pt. without a BP cuff? Is everyone referring to an electronic BP machine vs. BP cuff (ausculate)?? I graduated last May and I must say after I experienced the game of "hiding BP cuffs & machines ...

14. 12 hour shifts too long?

    PFDGB replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

    When you were a new grad how long did it take you to complete your work ? Did an 8 hr turn into 10-11 hrs etc...or 12 hrs into 14-15 ? Also, in your opinion if you know would it be better to work those kind of hours all in a row or broken up. Does...

15. 12 hour shifts too long?

    PFDGB replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

    New Grad.......I believe that the NY laws permit maximum of 4 hrs madation onto a 12 hr. shift. If someone knows different pease let me know...