ItsANurseLife

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1. Still jobless and getting frustrated in Nashville!

   ItsANurseLife replied to gbennett's topic in Job Hunt

   It's tough for ADN's now. I am an ADN RN with over three years of med surg experience, but no one in Western NC will even look at me because I don't have my BSN. It's extremely frustrating whether you have experience or not.

2. Forced wearing of nursing cap.

   ItsANurseLife replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

   I think it's kind of sad that so many people are willing to ditch tradition. I agree that it's a way to tie the past with the future and I don't see it as a sexist issue at all. My grandmother was a WWII nurse and I love my picture of her in her nurs...

3. Whats your record??

   ItsANurseLife replied to Rhi007's topic in General Nursing

   I can't help it, this made me laugh. I don't think that as nurses we should get offended by one of us discussing our nursing specialty. Psych patients are special and may God bless all the good psych nurses out there because it takes a very unique p...

4. The math doesn't add up

   ItsANurseLife replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

   LMAO, in our orientation the slogan was "Good ole Studor" to everything. I seriously want the insane amount of money this goofball probably gets from hospitals to peddle his key words and hourly rounding! My recent favorite was when my manager told m...

5. What makes you want to vomit?

   ItsANurseLife replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Trach care with thick secretions is pretty gross to me, but after having one pt on our floor for several months that required so much care I got used to it. The absolute, hands down, worst was when we had a pt with a gaping leg wound that had decay ...

6. Positive or Negative... EMR

   ItsANurseLife replied to kikididi's topic in Informatics

   We have Meditech, and I love it. I love the electronic medication record, it's so easy to scan pt's arm band, scan meds, pull up side effects right there to educate pt, and make sure correct dose is being given. I also love that when I'm administerin...

7. auditing call lights?

   ItsANurseLife replied to picurn10's topic in General Nursing

   We have trackers we have to pin to our scrubs when we walk in for shift. They are programmed to work with the call bell system and our ascom phones so that when pt calls out for whatever it is they need the unit secretary "chirps" our phone to go to ...

8. Would you become an RN again if you had the choice?

   ItsANurseLife replied to eminthesr's topic in ADN/BSN

   Yes! It has been very stressful at times, and there have been moments when I wondered what I was thinking to become a nurse, but then it is also the most rewarding job I've ever had. For example, the day I was walking my dog in the neighborhood when ...