loveishope

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1. RN Pre-Employment Tests =(

   loveishope replied to Sunf1owerRN's topic in General Nursing

   I took the same test for a hospital. Clinically, I did great on the test. However, I failed the personality exam. There was no right or wrong answer. I did not get to interview because I failed the personality part of the exam. The recruiter was upse...

2. Working as a nurse and pregnancy

   loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have a dilemma. I am 13 weeks pregnant and am currently working full time. I need to move back home to be with my family. I found out that pregnancy is not considered a pre existing condition due to hipaa laws. I'm worried that no one will hire me ...

3. Home medications

   loveishope replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

   My manager told me I did not need to contact an attorney and I do not have malpractice insurance.

4. Home medications

   loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

   I need some guidance on how to handle something. When we have patients bring their home medications, we enter them in the computer. A patien brought their medication bottles in and I entered them in the computer. If we don't have the medications, the...

5. Verifying medications

   loveishope replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

   That's correct. The nurse has nothing to check the order against. So our manager wrote her up for not verifying a med that the other shift took an order for. She told her she should have verified it. We have no doctors in our hospital at night, just ...

6. Verifying medications

   loveishope replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, the nurse just enters the order from a verbal or telephone order. Nothing is written down.

7. Verifying medications

   loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work at a hospital where you enter all medication orders in the computer. After you enter the order in the computer, you have to verify the medication before it will appear on the emar. A nurse entered an order but failed to verify the medication. ...

8. Magnet Status

   loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work at a small rural hospital. It is a critical care access hospital. We have 22 beds, ER, and an SCU. The hospital is not JCAHO accredited; it is run by the state. We do not follow core measures. I use to work in a large hospital which had magnet...

9. Neck manipulations

   loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm going to a chiropractor tomorrow. I have a pinched nerve. I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of neck manipulations. Do I have a choice to refuse a neck manipulation? Or would it be completely useless to go if I don't have one? I am the kind of ...

10. Anxiety....I hate it.

    loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

    If it was not for Allnurses, I would lose my mind. It's funny how I will never see or know any of you, but yet I feel this is the only place of comfort I can come to. I'm having horrible anxiety today. It just comes from out of the blue. I try to clo...

11. Back Pain.....Taking my life away

    loveishope posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have to admit, I often thought of patients with back pain as being overdramatic, but now that I have experienced it, I wish I could take care of those people again and show more compassion. I have a pinched nerve in my neck that is causing horrible...

12. How will a bad transcript affect my future goals?

    loveishope posted a topic in General Students

    I am enrolled in a RN-BSN program, but I have failed some courses due to personal problems. Should I enroll in another RN-BSN program and if so, does the bad transcript follow me? Also, my goal is to become an FNP. How will the bad transcript affect ...

13. The pitfalls of a small rural hospital

    loveishope replied to loveishope's topic in Rural

    I was thinking the same thing. I even go to the pharmacy at mix meds like antibiotics, etc.. I also get to play respiratory tech. The only thing that concerns me is that I will not be able to work in ICU again because I am afraid I won't be hired bec...

14. The pitfalls of a small rural hospital

    loveishope posted a topic in Rural

    I am working at a small rural hospital as a charge nurse on a med surg floor. In fact, the hospital only has med surg and an ER. It is very different. There is no 24 hour pharmacy, no RT, and no doctor (Nurse Practitioner or PA admits the patients). ...

15. Need assistance handling a situation

    loveishope replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

    No I didn't sign a job contract but I did sign a form which had my rate of pay, including the charge nurse pay which is only $1 more per hour. My concern is that I won't have a job now because I do not have a contract to work.