MissHaleyDawn

MissHaleyDawn

Nephrology, Oncology

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About MissHaleyDawn

MissHaleyDawn has 4 years experience and specializes in Nephrology, Oncology.


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  1. Advice on becoming a Nurse

    Why did you choose nursing? My mother passed when I was 15, I watched my father struggle with pancreatic cancer from the time I was 17 until he passed away when I was 19. I was inspired by the wonderful care provided to my parents. What school did yo...
  2. What Else Can I Do For A Living?

    I'm in the same boat. I've been a nurse for 4 years. While I do like the nursing aspects of things, I did not sign up for all the drama between management and pettiness of staff and favoritism. This isn't high school, yet everyone sure acts like it. ...
  3. What to expect the first semester of nursing school

    Congratulations! I've been out of school for 4 years now but I remember nursing school so clearly. For the first day we didn't have any lectures, just going through mounds of paperwork, getting know the expectations of the course, and doing introdu...
  4. 84 hours = Full Time?

    I understand that it would be less stressful having an employee committed to that 4th shift but being able to call them off. Two things stick out to me though, even though I'd personally never want to work 4 shifts in the same week on a regular basi...
  5. 84 hours = Full Time?

    So my hospital is starting something that sounds very strange to me. Every so often I look at the jobs page of my hospital because why not? Full time hours used to list 72 hours in the job details (we are paid bi-weekly, so 3 shifts x 12 hours x 2 we...
  6. WHY do so many people hate nursing? Sigh.

    For me I am burntout due to staffing issues and general lack of support from administration. Those two things are a recipe for disaster no matter what field you're in. It's a vicious cycle that just feeds itself. Plain and simple, I'm tired. I've o...
  7. Why did you want to be a nurse.

    When I was 15 my mom became very ill very suddenly without president or a cardiac history. She died within a week of being admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit. She was in such unstable condition that she required a nurse dedicated to her 24 hou...
  8. My first med error (Rant)

    I need a little support. I'm a fairly new nurse, just under a year and I made my first error on my shift last night. At my hospital, the nurses aide will collect vital signs and blood glucose values. The glucose meters are supposed to dock and downl...
  9. Why are new nurses treated poorly?

    Adding to what another poster said about the type of meds a patient will be on depending in valve type, I imagine that info would come in handy if a patient was ever ordered an MRI? I had a patient once ordered an MRI but the doc didn't realize she ...
  10. Stabbed in the Back? Nursing Culture?

    Sounds like you work with a bunch of class-A buttholes. While some gossip I would expect (it's human nature to just talk/people to run their mouths), what you're having to deal with is ridiculous. Did you voice what happened during your orientation p...
  11. First night on my own. (Long vent)

    Thank you all for your replies! I was so hyped up from that shift, my mind was going in circles. I'm on call tonight, and bummed. Worried I won't get enough clinical experience being hired part-time, and now on call for my second night to boot.
  12. First night on my own. (Long vent)

    I survived, somehow. I had 5 patients (D/c'd one but picked up another right after). For a while I thought I was doing really well...2000 & 2100 meds were all passed on time, patients were settled in, I had three of five chart checks done and was...
  13. New RN starting 1st job

    Hi all! I think this is in the correct forum? I graduated this May 2012 and passed boards at the end of June. Before taking boards I had been extended a job offer for a new RN grad position at an area hospital. I'll be cross trained between an adult...
  14. Decision Tree

    I didn't use the decision tree religiously. Rather, I developed my own style from it. The tree is meant to get you in the habit of looking at first the question systematically, and then each answer (one by one) systematically. I first figure out wha...
  15. Do you have to be above passing or just passing standard?

    I believe if you go all the way to 265 in the amount of testing time (6h) it doesn't matter if you get the last question wrong or correct -- it has to be a passing level question. If someone has gone all the way the computer hasn't been able to make...