purple_nomad

purple_nomad

10 weeks in Pediatrics

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purple_nomad specializes in 10 weeks in Pediatrics.


Nursing student extraordinaire! Also a future author, mixed media artist, and stage actress!

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  1. IV starts turn into hematomas

    So I've been having this big blow to my confidence lately... I'm a new nurse, just off orientation at a children's hospital ED. We do a lot of IV start s(obviously) and sometimes on very little veins. For the past two shifts, all of my starts have e...
  2. I just moved to California a few weeks ago. To make a long story short, I applied for a job before I moved here and now they want an interview! Yippee!! Concern: My interviewing clothes are back in Missouri! I honestly didn't think I'd get the int...
  3. No $$ for NCLEX

    Well, I got this email about registering for my NCLEX 1-3 months before I graduate. Problem: I don't have the 200 dollars to spare to pay for it at the moment! I graduate on May 7th...and I think I'll get the money right before then or right after th...
  4. Nursing poetry?

    I just read the Fall issue of "Scrubs" magazine, and there was a great section by Courtney Davis, who is both a poet and a nurse and has managed to bring the two together. I was wondering if there were any others out there who wrote poetry about nurs...
  5. RNs tell your hospitals to hire new grads

    Aren't we supposed to be having a nursing shortage? Or is that not happening anymore? Schools are pumping out new grads, and nursing schools have waiting lists, and...er...no jobs!
  6. 2 months of school left!

    On the same boat! (Well, not a tech, but the two months part) I totally feel like I'm cruising...for some reason, the way my program is set up, senior year isn't so bad. It was JUNIOR year that nearly killed me! I've never been a slacker in school, b...
  7. Favorite "Lay Terms" For Diagnoses

    Also heard Alzheimer's coined as "Old Timer's"
  8. Calling a recruiter?

    Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it! I think I can discuss my internship as "real"...at the end of the ten weeks, I WAS the nurse (i.e. managing care, administering meds, etc) for three moderately-high acuity patients. Good point about brin...
  9. Nursing in the media means a lot to me. I think one of the main reasons I almost chose NOT to be a nurse when I was in high school was because I kept seeing these medical shows where the doctors did nearly everything. Shows like "Nurse Jackie" and "...
  10. Calling a recruiter?

    Well, I am relocating from Missouri to California after I graduate, and I really REALLY want a job at Children's in Fresno. There are no RN I positions posted on the site as of now, and so I was discouraged until a nurse friend of mine suggested that...
  11. What grosses YOU out?

    I was bathing a woman who was on palliative care. As I was washing around her mouth, I noticed this brown, bumpy piece of SOMETHING hanging from her lip. I had to peel it off, and when I was examining it in my hand, I figured out that it was... A DEA...
  12. Getting more clinical experience outside of school?

    Sadly, clinicals just tend to be this way. Really, clinicals seem to mostly be about you getting comfortable with the mechanics of actually BEING in a hospital, assessing a patient, doing some meds, etc. But when it comes to actual experience...eh......
  13. Ideas for preceptors/new grads

    So, I had an internship this past summer that was truly amazing! I learned so much, especially being under the guidance of my preceptor, who firmly believed in me figuring stuff out (under her close supervision, of course). I really appreciated ever...
  14. I am in my mental health class and have done a few clinicals already. Out of curiosity, I finally watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and was taken aback by Nurse Ratched. Not by how terrible she was, but rather how NOT terrible she was. At le...
  15. I don't feel prepared for med/surg clinicals

    Asking the nurses is a good idea. I think sometimes instructors feel a lot of pressure from the whole thing. Maybe it's because it's a favor from the hospital that we're even THERE. I'm sure there are discussions among hospital boards about liabiliti...