bth44

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1. HIV testing

   bth44 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is it customary for people to receive HIV test results in person only, even if the results are negative? I got paperwork back from the doctor's office, reporting all my pregnancy, pap smear, and STD tests as negative, but saying that the results of t...

2. Residents and Interns?

   bth44 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Ever since I graduated nursing school, I've worked at a reasonably-sized hospital, and the nurses only work with attendings there. Our hospital is considered a rural rotation. I only time I've ever met a med student was when one came in to shadow a f...

3. Nurse dates doctor openly at work.

   bth44 replied to castle's topic in General Nursing

   HAAAH! I thought I was the only one who noticed!!

4. Advice on Resumes

   bth44 replied to Jenny C's topic in New Nurse

   I'm finishing up my resume, and I thought it was appropriate to include clinical opportunities that not everyone in my program was able to do. For instance, I listed, under my education of course, that I assisted school nurses with wellness checks, a...

5. Job search in another city- how do I do it?

   bth44 posted a topic in Career Support

   I think I'm ready to leave my hometown and move to the next largest city. I've been a nurse for, hmm, a little over a year and half. When I got my job here, it was really easy, because I worked at the hospital as a CNA for over a year, so I pretty mu...

6. Focused Charting

   bth44 posted a topic in General Nursing

   The hospital I work at uses summary charting. I find it's not working for me because I'm too wordy and I go on and on and do a lot of double charting. I'm trying to meet up with a supervisor every so often who's teaching me focused charting, specific...

7. I need a cheat sheet or something! Help!

   bth44 replied to bth44's topic in Med-Surg

   That's a great idea too. Thank you!

8. I need a cheat sheet or something! Help!

   bth44 posted a topic in Med-Surg

   I've developed a bad habit that's totally bit me in the you-know-where. I work on a med/surg unit that has 16 beds, my usual patient load is six to seven patients, and I get pretty busy most of the time. When I receive report at the beginning of the ...

9. Being called in extra....do you go??

   bth44 replied to IloveSnoopy's topic in General Nursing

   At my place of employment, you tend to get guilted into coming in. I'm nights, and we're understaffed and we get called in as extra staff on top of who's already there, too. In the past, when I'd get a call, I was empathetic towards the nurses schedu...

10. Animosity between the shifts?

    bth44 replied to bth44's topic in General Nursing

    "distinct personality difference"? What differences do you see between the staff on the shifts?

11. Animosity between the shifts?

    bth44 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a 200-bed rural hospital. It's the only hospital I've worked in since graduating nursing a couple years ago, so it's the only thing I know. :) As time goes on, it's becoming more apparent to me that the staff on certain shifts are nastier t...

12. Is it 5 or 7?

    bth44 replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I agree on that one. The 6th and 7th MUST be rationale and documentation.

13. Is it 5 or 7?

    bth44 replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    Expiration date can be considered a right. I learned it as P-DART-E. Patient Drug Amount of drug Route Time and Expiration. I don't know of a seventh one, but if I can take a wild guess, I'd say Patients' birthdate? It helps ensure that the patient...

14. How bad is this med error?

    bth44 replied to bth44's topic in General Nursing

    Your flushes sound like ours. They do say "0.9% Sodium Chloride" on them. And I thought about the morphine or other drug in the syringe, but then I thought about how the patient didn't have IV push meds ordered. I do know who wrote me up. On the inci...

15. How bad is this med error?

    bth44 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I got written up for leaving a saline flush in a patient's room. I had went in the room with it already having the plastic cannula on it, ready to use, but the previous shift didn't tell me that the patient was getting an IV at TKO, so turns out I di...