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  1. New nurses feel like quitting?

    Here's the way to get people to not want to quit: stop overloading them with work. No nurse should ever have 7 patients, ever. No nurse should ever get more than 1 patient back from the cath lab at a time. No nurse should have to discharge 4 patients...
  2. A Day in the life of a Telemetry Nurse?

    WAIT A MINUTE.........Do we work at the exact same place? Haha! Your day sounds just like mine! I especially love the sundae part, because ya know waitressing is what we became nurses to do, right?
  3. A Day in the life of a Telemetry Nurse?

    I did 90 days of preceptorship/orientation. Actually, the first 30 days was a lot of classroom work so basically 60 full days of preceptorship on the floor. I feel that no matter how long you are under the supervision of a preceptor, you will always ...
  4. A Day in the life of a Telemetry Nurse?

    Our hospital requires ACLS for all telemetry floors, we also have a mandatory EKG course at orientation that I found helpful for review. My particular school program had a very extensive EKG interpretation program, so I felt pretty comfortable with t...
  5. Questions about chest pain

    I agree with Silverlight. I work on a cardiac floor and we deal with a lot of pts who come in with chest pain and are likely already having ROMI panels completed along with at least 2 good EKG readings before admittance to the floor. If this is the c...
  6. A Day in the life of a Telemetry Nurse?

    I've been working on a telemetry cardiac surgical floor since February. Been on my own for a little over a month now. I have been working day shift up until this past Friday, will begin night shift Wednesday (by my own choice). Day shift seemed to be...
  7. Results on hold since yesterday. How long will it be?

    The hold was never lifted. It actually kept showing the same thing until around 50 hours after I finished the exam, then it said results available.
  8. 75qs I think I failed. =/

    I understand the logic behind the trick, but I feel that I need to reiterate what I was told by the TN state BON. They have had several incidences where a person tried the trick, got the CC page and paid the money to re-register only to find out when...
  9. LTC incident, what are your thoughts.

    I guess I may not have connected the agitation and pain, but that shows my inexperience. I am thinking that I would've tried the ativan and if that didn't help, then move to the tylenol. I feel like ultimately as long as you are being safe, those sor...
  10. Things You Know Now (And Wish You'd Known Then!)

    I wish I had managed to relax a little more and enjoy the company of my classmates a little more. Don't get me wrong, a lot of us that graduated in December are still keeping in very close contact and have become life long friends. I mean, I wish we ...
  11. students please tell me what would you do???

    I never took Chem and managed just fine to understand what I needed to know to thrive in the nursing program.
  12. Results on hold since yesterday. How long will it be?

    To be honest, I really didn't. There were some that I just knew because I had come in contact with them (no pun intended) throughout my clinical and work experience. Such as CDiff which is contact precautions. For the most part if it wasn't something...
  13. No Programs - Getting Frustrated

    I don't think there are any LPN to BSN tracks in my state. I actually had never heard of that. LPN is actually not a college degree, it's more of a diploma program because you don't graduate with an Associates (the lowest actual college degree). You ...
  14. what can i expect from psych rotations?

    I think it just depends upon your personality whether you will like it or not. I remember basically spending a lot of time talking to patients. The unit that we went to was more of a crisis stabilization unit, so we were dealing mainly with patients ...
  15. I believe the last poster said it best. I know the other poster said don't think about water with salt in it, but that's how it works for me. If you cook something like chicken in a sautee pan: at first while you are cooking you add a little water to...