toadie

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1. trying to be a fiance and not just a nurse(long)

   toadie posted a topic in General Nursing

   my fiance's grandfather is in the hospital and i am not close with my mother-in-law-to-be. i get small bits of info from my fiance but he doesn't really understand what is going on. so i called his mom to find out what was happening. well, he wen...

2. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

   toadie replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

   sorry u had such a terrible time. when i started my orientation was just horrible. worked thee six monthes and started looking into going back to school for something else. at the urging of some coworkers decided to try another facility before i q...

3. patients who LIE about their symptoms!

   toadie replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

   reading this post and all the replies i just had to respond. i don't think the op meant anything mean by saying her pt was "lying". i think op was just trying to voice her frustaration with trying to take care of a pt who was not supplying all the ...

4. "YOU'RE my Nurse?!?!?"

   toadie replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in General Nursing

   i'm 24 but appear to be 16 on a good day. i had a pt last week who refused to take medications from me because i was too young to know anything about meds and must therefore be attempting to poison him. :angryfire the other nurse who ended up havin...

5. RN's who cannot insert IV's being Fired???

   toadie replied to maidy's topic in General Nursing

   while in nursing school i worked as a cna at a hospital that only allowed a nurse to start an iv after she was certified by the dept of nursing. this required 2 supervised, successful iv sticks. this was such a bad idea because there was no formal ...

6. Please be nice to medical students

   toadie replied to cantor2537's topic in General Nursing

   i have been a nurse for almost a year. i work in a large teaching hospital full of residents and med students. a lot of them come in and with the attitude that they are better because they are going to be MD's. this is not always the case though. ...

7. Precedex

   toadie replied to my2sons's topic in CCU

   i've had patients on this and its great. it can only hang for a certain time though, i think 24 hours.

8. Title of "BSN" on badge?

   toadie replied to evans_c1's topic in General Nursing

   this debate just makes me nuts. adn's work hard for their degree and bsn's work hard for their degree. i have my bsn. i am proud of my degree, i worked hard to earn it. if there were some vast difference in the education of a bsn vs an adn regard...

9. gratitude for staff at clinical site

   toadie replied to all4schwa's topic in General Nursing

   :biggringi we always brought a gift for the clinical instructor at the end of each clinical. this sort of annoyed me because some of the instructors would expect it rather than appreciate it. the gifts we gave were usually r/t their interests. a ...

10. Yeah, that's right, it's my fault.

    toadie replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    it's not only the general public who don't understand health costs and our salaries. i had a resident ask me about nursing shifts and whatnot. he asked me if because we work 12 hour shifts but are actually her for 12.5 does that mean that patients ...

11. Really getting nervous now! Did I make a big mistake?

    toadie replied to HillNPStudent's topic in CCU

    i started as a new grad in the cvicu. i did have people tell me that i might want to get experience on med-surg first....and all the icu nurses told me if i wanted icu to start icu. my third week precepting i was put with an rn who was totally ol...

12. can a pregnant rn safely work icu?

    toadie replied to arizonacottontop's topic in MICU

    i don't think there is any risk imposed by working on the unit that you wouldn't find on the floor. there are pt's with nasty bugs all over. on my unit we have a couple nurses who are pregnant and we try to work their assignments to minimize their ...

13. Nurse Patient Ratio on Telemetry with Drips

    toadie replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    i work in the unit so i don't have first hand experience but i work with many nurses who just transferred from step down into the unit. they say that they had 6-7 pt on telemetry. a pt who is on vasoactive gtt can only go to step down if they are se...

14. I am worth less for Christmas?!?!?

    toadie replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    my facility gives NO bonus pay for any holidays. they employ many international employees and have international patients as well. to give a bonus for christmas also requires a bonus for hanukkah and all muslim, hindi etc. holidays. they say to gi...

15. Birth Control Patch Warning

    toadie replied to maureeno's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i work in a vascular icu. three weeks ago we admitted a 23 year old female, she had a blood clot in her leg only three inches away from where she wore her birth control patch:uhoh21: :uhoh21: