OlivetheRN ADN, BSN, RN

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    PACU nurses, I need your opinion.

    I've regularly wrestled kids who are waking up from anesthesia. Not boring. Especially when the toddler is half my weight.... It will really be facility dependent on how "boring" it is. Are you looking at a surgical center or a hospital? If it's a ho...
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    Should nurses be able to listen to music at work?

    Agreed. I used to work OR and the music variations where interesting. Probably my favorite was the vascular surgeon listens to things like Drowning Pool while doing amputations. It was perfect timing when "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" was BLARING as...
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    What is your Nursing Super Power?

    I am great at doing a kids' first IV when they're in the 5 and up age range. I always let them see what an IV looks like and I retract the needle so they can hear the noise and see what's actually going to be in their arm and feel and touch it, etc. ...
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    What did you do in the ER today?

    Last night I was in our behavioral area. I had 7 patients who were not going to be going anywhere anytime soon. I did my assessments, my room checks for the shift, pulled what seemed like 100 pills for my patients, had two patients refuse their meds...
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    Which field of nursing is the most technically hard?

    What will be challenging to one person may not be challenging to another based on a variety of factors, i.e. their strengths, their weaknesses, their background (have they worked in the medical field before and if so, as a CNA, an EMT, etc), personal...
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    Did I harm the patient??

    I think that will depend on the type of acute care area you work in. Working in the ER, yes, I give a TON of IV meds, but if I'm working in our fast track area (or depending on how the night is going in our behavioral med area...) I will give a TON o...
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    How do you deal with the name calling?

    Working in the ER we get patients and family members who are in high stress situations or, more often, are just impolite people who don't understand that their ingrown toenail does not take priority over the person we are doing CPR on in the next roo...
  8. When I was working in PACU and would occasionally do days in post-op, there was one urologist in particular who wanted us to tell EVERY patient who was going home with a foley how to cut the port in the event that the Foley catheter got yanked on but...
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    Help Please!! APA format for personal statement letter?

    I recently applied and USA specifies APA for your personal statement
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    What's wrong with me??

    Girl (okay, I'm assuming here, forgive me if I'm wrong), it's been like 4 days! You gotta give yourself some credit where credit is due! The number of patients that you're juggling at one time is a lot, and as a new grad it's a steep learning curve w...
  11. We have the same system of when we clock out we're asked did we take a 30 minute uninterrupted lunch break. My typical policy is to say yes if I did or if I didn't but had the opportunity to and didn't for whatever reason by my own choice and no if I...
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    Frustrating... ED is Not Critical Care

    I have yet to come across one
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    What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

    Pt had came in with complaints of constipation and abd pain. Had taken Epsom salts at home the night before and that morning. Wadled over to in room toilet with my assistance and had explosive diarrhea all over toilet and surrounding floor. Splattere...
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    Assertiveness Training Needed

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    Help, did I get hired onto a sinking ship?

    Dude. I need to move. Most nights I'm lucky if I get 15 minutes to stand in the break room an inhale something. The other night my lunch was me eating a Tupperware container of strawberries and pineapple spread out over like 3 hours of my shift ducki...