nicole anne

nicole anne BSN, RN

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  1. Lab values

    Quick question: I feel I'm struggling in understanding labs values -interpreting what they mean, which are most important to report to doctors, etc. I find it to be hard to remember/memorize it all and recently had a doctor get short with me because ...
  2. So exhausted!?

    I am full time (five 8-hour shifts a week) on a busy LTAC unit. I run around all 8 hours and am lucky if I can sit to stuff some food in me. My question is: any other nurses out there TOTALLY mentally/physically exhausted after working their shift?!?...
  3. Hi Jon! I've had an interview here and am considering the position. I was wondering if you took the job and if you could follow up with anything about it? Thank you so much for any help!
  4. What am I doing wrong?!

    Any advice (or encouragement) you could offer would be appreciated :) I'm a relatively new nurse with about 3 years experience. I had a hard time finding a job as a new grad and took a position as charge nurse of a busy long term care/respiratory un...
  5. Private Duty wish: computers!

    My company went electronic about a year ago. They wrote their own secure website/program for documentation and MARs. I find it takes much less time to document as things that don't change are carried over to every flowsheet and don't have to be handw...
  6. Good nurse novels to read?

    Not necessarily nursing related book but recently finished Stiff by Mary Roach. Really interesting read about cadavers and death. Highly recommend checking it out!
  7. Late arriving Nurses

    It drives me insane! I work in PDN and can't stand when the oncoming nurses show up late (or not at all- that's happened before sadly). 5 minutes late I can understand. 10-20 minutes late? Now you're just wasting my time.
  8. Terrible Twos?

    So was mine... until she hit the "I want to be independent and test all boundaries" stage. I've dealt with it before and it wasn't horrible but that's because the parents cared and gave me some tools (like time outs, take the toy away, etc). These pa...
  9. Terrible Twos?

    Has anyone ever had to deal with the "terrible twos" with a PDN patient? How did you deal with it? How about with parents who don't care to deal with it? I'm experiencing a lot of "terrible two" behavior with my little patient. The parents don't rea...
  10. Walking into a mess

    Sadly I feel your pain. It's very frustrating when I come in for my shift and the nurse before me has left the suction machine full, no suction catheters in the bag, no gloves around, etc. One of the nurses likes the rearrange things so some days I s...
  11. I'm just as good as you...

    I've been doing pediatric PDN for almost 2 years now and prior to that worked in a SNF for a while. Whenever I would catch up with old nursing classmates, I felt inferior and like they were looking down on me for not "landing a job in a hospital". It...
  12. How to Start a Medical Mission

    I do this with a group of nurses I graduated with. We go through program called "ProWorld". I highly recommend them - very professional, they make all arrangements (food, lodging, license in foreign country, medical sites you work in, transportation)...
  13. Interested in Home Health

    Hi akc_RN, I thought I would give a differing opinion from the pervious post. I started in pediatric home health care about 6 months ago (prior to that I worked in a skilled nursing facility for a year). At first it was really hard. I knew I had en...
  14. New to Home Health - NEED ADVICE

    I recently was offered a job a what seems to be a pretty reputable pediatric home health agency. I have a year of experience at an in-patient skilled nursing facility. However, I've never worked in a home care setting. I'm having some trouble decidi...
  15. Learning to Live Again

    Jeff is 51 years old and has pretty aggressive thyroid cancer. He had been staying with us for several weeks until he was able to get his feet back on the ground and be discharged. He has a tracheostomy, is legally blind, and is the nicest person I h...