not now

not now RN

LTC, med-surg, critial care

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not now has 3 years experience as a RN and specializes in LTC, med-surg, critial care.


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  1. So is this economy hurting anyone else??????

    Go for the extra education, more education is never a loss. No problems here. My facility just took away the special pay they were giving nurses for extra shifts worked. This pay was much more than time and a half, it was supposed to last six to eigh...
  2. My son will get all vaccinations except for varicella and HepB. If he doesn't get chicken pox by the time he's four then I'll vaccinate him. As far as HepB goes, my four month old isn't having sex or doing IV drugs, the vaccine can wait. Many non-vax...
  3. Pros: -A daily routine -Becoming familiar with your residents which actually makes your job easier (i.e. I can Mattie to take her pills if I do this, Ted can usually be found next to the roses, ect) -If you are a LVN/LPN it pays more than the hospita...
  4. Do You Wear a Lab coat?

    I wear a long sleeved shirt under my scrubs and a black or dark blue hoodie. My old NM forbid them but my new NM is her polar opposite and doesn't care. The only time I wore a lab coat was in school.
  5. Any nurses out there still wearing a cap?

    I've seen one nurse wear her white cap. She was younger too, only in her early 40's. She wouldn't wear all white though, she'd wear regular colored/printed scrubs with her cap. I have two caps, one from LVN school and one from RN school, we didn't w...
  6. I hate reading charts and not knowing what the writer is saying because it's messy or full of abbreviations that I don't understand. For that reason alone I don't abbreviate in my charting. Ever. When I worked in LTC I wrote everything out. Now I'm i...
  7. Flu shoots

    That's what I was gonna suggest. I don't remember the name of them either.
  8. Flu Vaccine

    Got the flu shot once, years ago when I was a phlebotomist, and didn't get the flu. Haven't had a flu shot since and came down with the flu once, the same year I didn't work in a health care setting. Actually, I wasn't working at all that year. Last...
  9. How proud and grateful you are being a nurse?

    I don't have some huge sense of pride because I'm an RN but my mom sure is proud that I am. I don't hide the fact but I don't shout it from the rooftops either. I am VERY grateful to be an RN because it's a profession that I really enjoy, I earn a v...
  10. I couldn't believe this

    Our pharmacists are so fast to arrive that we hardly ever use the meds in the crash cart. The just show up with a big bag of meds, needles, syringes and start drawing up what the doc orders except bags of meds/fluids. It's great because it leaves nur...
  11. How far do you drive?

    Five minutes. Maybe ten if I hit all the red lights.
  12. How to decide who gets the first admit

    I used to work nights on a med-surg floor. If there were multiple open beds on the floor the team lead based it on acuity. If you didn't like it, tough. If you were swamped at the moment it would come into consideration but with multiple empty beds ...
  13. Bye, Bye, LPN's

    My facility is odd. They have stopped hiring LVN's in all acute care except ED and urgent care. Urgent care only staffs LVN's and the LVN's in ED are regulated to the "fast track" area of the ED. All LVN's left in other departments were either encour...
  14. i hate med-surg

    I was in the same boat as the OP. I loved what I learned on my ortho/med-surg floor but I was drowning every night. I loved my co-workers but I hated going to work. I wanted to go to ICU but didn't have enough experience so the director of critical ...
  15. Knee High vs Thigh High SCD's

    I totally agree with the PP that getting patients up and walking is the ideal but sometimes it's not gonna happen. Thigh highs make patients sweaty, so do knee highs. I find that to be the biggest complaint from all my patients next to "It's just an...