thesundowner

thesundowner has 2 years experience and specializes in Rehab, Neuro, geriatrics.

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1. Mission St. Joseph's Hospital, Asheville, NC

   thesundowner replied to earthling's topic in General Nursing

   "But like any one knows, you can have a beautiful bedpan, but its still full of stool in the end." ba ha ha ha I like that

2. Stopping patient care for another patient

   thesundowner replied to sAssy_NurSe's topic in Relations

   if I am in the middle of medication administration with one patient, nothing short of a code blue/rapid response/pt about to hit the floor will pull me away from that. That is how errors happen. Your DON sounds like a ***** - just tell the truth, mov...

3. Good gift for a new Case Manager?

   thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

   My friend (who has been a floor RN for 3 yrs) just got a job as a Case Mgr driving to 4 different hospitals to do chart reviews. I want to get her a gift - is there something that would help her on her new job? I need ideas - thanks.

4. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

   thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

   I just knew I'd upset a bunch of people by making the comment that I am tired of every nursing student standing there talking about how they are going to go to CRNA school and make a zillion dollars instead of actually paying attention to what I was ...

5. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

   thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

   I blame media and marketing and nursing school instructors! When I was just taking A&P pre-req, my instructor (a Phd nurse) would constantly tell us in class that CRNA was the way to go because one of her old students now makes over $110k a year....

6. My friends have medical questions at all hours of the day...

   thesundowner replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   My friends used to always ask me the craziest health questions. . .until I starting answering "it's cancer" to every single question they asked. They quickly stopped asking.

7. What kind of watch do you wear?

   thesundowner replied to NellieOlsen's topic in Uniform/Gear

   Cheaper is better! I had a $5 watch from KMART for all of nursing school, 1 year of working as a nurse tech and then two years of working the floor before it finally broke. Then, I got all fancy and bought an $$$ "nurse" watch that, no joke, lasted 2...

8. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

   thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

   wants to ONLY work NICU or be a trauma flight nurse, but only for two years because then they want to get either their CRNA or FNP before 2015 because there is no way they are getting a doctorate!! EVERY. SINGLE. STUDENT. Sigh. . .

9. rehab to med-surg insanity

   thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

   So. . .I have accepted a new job and in a couple of months I will leave the relative calm of acute rehab and return to the insanity of a very very busy neuro-tele floor. I have to admit, I am a bit nervous. I used to work neuro-tele and I recall the ...

10. bedside nurse vs. case management. . .daydreamin'

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a bedside nurse and usually love it (even with the chaos, stress, etc). Love the 3 days a week, the 12 hrs shifts, the flexibility of scheduling. . . But. . .every once in a while. . .I start daydreaming of a "normal" job, 9-5, m-f, no weekends, ...

11. Things a New Med/Surg RN Will Need

    thesundowner replied to Cynthia.rn2011's topic in New Nurse

    How do you like it so far? I'm going to the job fair they are holding on Friday. Can I ask how much they offered you?

12. chemo administered on med/surg floor

    thesundowner replied to luellamae's topic in Med-Surg

    Wow - I had just logged on to ask the SAME EXACT QUESTION and saw this post. Yesterday, I also had a patient on my med-surg floor receive chemo. A nurse from our chemo floor (where their ratio is 1:4) came over to access the patient's port and start ...

13. How to stand out at a nursing job fair?

    thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in Job Hunt

    Avatar?!? What's that? That IS me in the photo. . .of course, the picture was taken back in my younger days. I don't look that good now.

14. How to stand out at a nursing job fair?

    thesundowner posted a topic in Job Hunt

    Any advice about how to stand out at a nursing job fair where there will likely be 8 gazillion nurses competing for the available positions? Besides dressing sharply, having copies of resumes and references, being neatly groomed. . .anything else?

15. Certified Nursing Assistants - The Nurses think we have it so easy.

    thesundowner replied to hfullerCNA's topic in CNA/MA

    Holy crap CNA's have one of the hardest, most physically demanding jobs on earth. And they make *****. You are correct, physically CNAs have it much harder than RN's. But responsibility wise, yeah RN's have it worse - we are ultimately responsible fo...