Nurse4babies

Nurse4babies has 22 years experience and specializes in Pediatrics.

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1. What Makes A Better Pediatric Nurse? Life Experience vs. Credentials

   Nurse4babies replied to JNURSCO's topic in PICU

   Does it make you a better nurse to be a parent? No. But it might help you relate to what the parents are going through.

2. Do you feel safe at work?

   Nurse4babies posted a topic in General Nursing

   In a Florida hospital today, a man armed with a gun shot and killed a patient and a nurse. There is no indication that he knew either one of his victims. Hospital security (unarmed) arrived and was able to restrain him after he was done shooting. ...

3. Baby RN's running ICU?!!

   Nurse4babies replied to kmarieCCRN's topic in Critical

   That's part of the problem. Putting a plethora of inexperienced nurses on a unit at any given time diminishes the experience and often sours them to the units. There is nothing worse than being in a stressful situation and not feeling like you have...

4. Baby RN's running ICU?!!

   Nurse4babies replied to kmarieCCRN's topic in Critical

   Sorry, but the initials after your name do not translate to good clinical experience straight out of school. In fact, I would say that most new grads really don't know just how much they don't know until they've been a nurse for several years.

5. Screaming match with my preceptor

   Nurse4babies replied to jherd's topic in Relations

   If the OP hasn't already, I would suggest he go to the HR department and file a report about the incident. He is going to need it if he does end up getting fired. It sounds like he was placed in a hostile work situation with his preceptor and it ca...

6. new nurse, trouble already

   Nurse4babies replied to malenurseFl's topic in Safety

   I'm sorry you are having problems so soon and agree with everyone about getting an attorney ASAP. That being said, however, it's the responsibility of everyone to know what's and is not within their legal scope of practice.