RnAngl

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1. charge nurse/shift leader

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a fairly new nurse and my nurse manager has put me in charge a couple of different times. Well, I have this one nurse who has been at the hospital longer than me (but is not the brightest light bulb in the stack) She proceeds to tell me how ...

2. Reality Shock

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   :stone I started my first position on a Neuro med/surg unit in April, While I love Neuro Patients (most of the time)---I hate the nurse--patient ratio. I work nights and have had up tp 10-12 patients with one PCT. As many of you know most of ...

3. angry at nurse in pre employment screening

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire I am a new nurse. I have been offered a job and accepted it. I went to my pre-employment health assessment today. i had a 2 page form about do you have this or this or this etc.... I HAVE TO ...

4. What would you do?

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have just graduated and passed boards. I am ready to start working---but Iam not willing to just take any nursing job. I have been offered a job (first offer) but this is not something i want. pt/nurse ratio is 9/1 it is a med/ surg floor in...

5. I passed--I am not losing it anymore

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   I passed---i feel so much better knowing that all that hard work paid off. i also got a job offer today---i have not decided yet--i am going to think about it over the weekend.

6. Is an hour too long to drive to work

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   I thought this was a profession that you could easily find a job. i guess i was wrong. I have an interview at a hospital that is an hour from my house. is this too far to drive. it is for baylor.

7. bed baths

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   How many nurses actually have time to give bed baths?

8. Decadron given in the deltoid muscle

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   Today I went to the doctor for this nasty URI (viral)--I was sick of coughing my head off. Anyway, the nurse CMA, or what ever she was gave me deadron in the deltoid muscle. When she came in I had alredy gotten ready to get it in the hip---but she...

9. fluids/electolytes

   RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

   prolonged vomiting and diarrhea----does this cause dehydration or hypovolemia?

10. Preceptor

    RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am down to the last weeks of my class. I have to pick three places to do my preceptorship in----I like L&D, Peds, Mom and baby, but I am also interested in peds oncology. What would you suggest?

11. How many nurses remember the actual theory?

    RnAngl posted a topic in General Nursing

    i heard that you learn all this book stuff---but it does not click until you actual start working as a nurse. The things they teach us ---i might as well be able to do brain surgery. I did better in my OB and Peds classes than cardiac and GI. I ...

12. Failed class with five weeks to go

    RnAngl replied to RnAngl's topic in School

    I am not really going to give up. I am just repeating this class

13. Failed class with five weeks to go

    RnAngl posted a topic in School

    Well I failed my first ever nursing class with 10 weeks to go before grauatng. I am so upset because i have never failed a class. I had a 76 average and needed a 78 to pass. It really makes me want to give up.