lissyrn

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1. dazed and confused....and worried

   lissyrn replied to lissyrn's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the encouraging words. My facility is a small rural hospital with a good union, and pretty cool mgrs, as mgrs go. I think what bothers me the most is...what exactly happened? It's unlikely that those meds had been sitting there for the pri...

2. dazed and confused....and worried

   lissyrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   The other night, I got a phone call at home from the evening shift saying that Mrs. F's unopened am meds were on the bedside table, not given. The eve nurse asked me, "did Mrs. F get her meds this morning"...and I was so flustered and surprised that...

3. Scrub tops that don't shrink to your armpits; anyone know of any?

   lissyrn replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   sassyscrubs.com. Available on the web only. No paper catalogue or stores. Really cool prints, and they fit great!! Nice and roomy, don't shrink..nice big pockets. A little more expensive than some others, but worth it...

4. Bad reference cost me a job

   lissyrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   The DON at my last job loved me and promised me a great reference. But the nurse recruiter where I applied insisted on calling the charge nurse on the unit (said it's "their policy"). Well, this charge nurse never liked me and is an unsophisticated...

5. shift change is killing us, Help!

   lissyrn replied to kelluvanurse's topic in Urology

   I'm an RN in a large clininc (50 chairs divided into 2 nursing stations). Usually get an assignment of 3 or 4 patients. The "on-times" are supposedly staggered, but it makes no difference--0the "on-times" really appear to be irrelevent. Patients just...

6. Bad Eyesight

   lissyrn replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

   ps in answer to ?--can't wear contacts. Have a condition called "steep corneas"..Contacts hurt like @#$^****

7. Bad Eyesight

   lissyrn replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

   Get this--yesterday she watched me draw meds. I stupidly forced myself to wear my new bifocals-(which I can't get used to al all) and held the syringe 4-5 inches from my eye...what a disaster!! Made a complete fool of myself. Tonight I made a deci...

8. Bad Eyesight

   lissyrn replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the support. I need it. I work in an ambulatory area. DON says that patients will see me holding things up close to my face, they will be worried about my vision and not want me taking care of them. The thing is--when I hold small-pri...

9. Bad Eyesight

   lissyrn replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

   Have always functioned just fine despite being VERY nearsighte. Never had trouble reading drug inserts or syringes, but often have to hold things up close and toward my better eye (right). Well, new DON called me in and said that she was concerned a...

10. Doctor in your next life?

    lissyrn replied to Hopegirl's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely wish I had gone to med school. More autonomy, more respect. My interest as a doc would have been in research; probably medical genetics or oncology. I don't like bedside pt care. That's why I don't like nursing.

11. any ithaca nurses

    lissyrn replied to dwag's topic in New York

    Hi. I live in the Syracuse area. I am new here, too--I think it's about a 90 minute drive to Ithaca. Wanted to live in Ithaca, but Cayuga is the only hospital there and I did not get an offer. Unfortunately, Cornell has it's medical center in NYC...

12. Incident reports

    lissyrn replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric

    I'm in New York state. The incident report itself is 2 pages, but then we have to go back 3 shifts prior (including current shift, so that's 4 shifts total) and have everyone who was on the unit sign a statement. So it ends up looking like a phone...

13. RN or busperson?

    lissyrn posted a topic in Geriatric

    We have NO feeding assistants at my facility. Feeding patients is one thing (not my favorite thing, but understand it's part of the job - there just aren't enough CNA's and the LPN is passing meds)---but lately I've been busing the tables!!!!!!!!!!!...

14. Anyone from Syracuse NY?

    lissyrn replied to SyracuseNY's topic in General Nursing

    :balloons: give I'm new to Syracuse too. Your post is from last July--where did you end up working? I started at Crouse--had a bad experience there...moved on to LTC which is boring me to death and I am losing all my skills.

15. Question for Syracuse area nurses....

    lissyrn posted a topic in New York

    Hi...need info....anyone work/have ever worked/know anything about A.E. Lee Memorial in Fulton, NY (north of Syracuse). Currently working in LTC, want to go back to acute care(getting BORED) and losing my skills, and sick of being treated like a mo...