Geslina BSN, RN

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  1. Geslina

    Hating Nursing Currently

    I feel your pain. I've been a nurse for 5 years, and I still have nights where I lock myself in the bathroom and cry. I have never been good under stress, and I find nursing to be the most stressful job I've ever had. It's not so much the general ...
  2. The day shift nurse, who had left for the day, called the patient's MD from home and got verbal orders for PRN narcotics for a patient on a sub acute floor. I'm supposing she didn't have time to do this during her shift. This nurse then calls the n...
  3. I work with the elderly, and currently have 3 former nurses in my care, and there have been several in the past. I find that it can go either way, but mostly they are nice...and very understanding of how busy we are!
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    New nurse. What do I need?

    Sharpies. Highlighters. Hand cream. A little notepad. A good quality tote bag or backpack. Lots and lots and LOTS of pens. You wil find that you spend a lot of time looking for lost pens. I bought those little pocket protector thingees, but fin...
  5. I failed the last semester in my program...and I wasn't alone. We started out with almost 200 in our class and just under 60 made it to the end. I was devastated to fail, being so close to the end. But our program was crazy - the last 2 semesters...
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    Nurse Sues for Lunch Breaks

    Wow. I haven't taken a lunch break in 3 years. I barely take my 15's either, because I like to get out of there at the end of my shift. i tried to get paid for them in the beginning, and was just told that I HAD to take lunch breaks. Puts you in ...
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    The Opioid Crisis hits LTC

    Sounds like where I work, we will take ANYONE. Even rapists and murderers. No one cares, as long as the beds are full. I've seen patients whose medical hx clearly states problems with addiction, but the MD, no questions asked, will write scripts f...
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    Surplus of Nurses - should I think twice?

    Haha, have to say I agree. Given a second chance, I'd have chosen another career. It's not that being a nurse is so bad, it's the daily staffing shortages, the constantly growing state documentation requirements, the lack of time to give patients a...
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    Bullied for reporting a med error by another nurse

    Ha! Our current manager always wants to be the good guy. Someone was just fired, and the next day the nurse called me and told me that management told her she was out of there because I had reported something she did, which is an outright lie. And...
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    Bullied for reporting a med error by another nurse

    I hate finding med errors, because we are legally obligated to report them. I've had to report a few, and I've made a few myself. If it's something I can fix without reporting it, I try to....but if there is nothing you can do about it, you have no...
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    Ugghhh, another new nurse...

    My supervisor was doing an evaluation on a new nurse, ands the new nurse told her that she looked up to me and hoped to be the kind of nurse I was someday. And beleive me, I'm hardly Super Nurse. I was really touched by it, though, and it made me st...
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    A Rough Nursing Shift...

    Ahhh, that's me every single night. Sad that almost every problem that makes nursing overwhelming could be solved with just a little extra staff.
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    Good grief...I came up Positive

    Wait...I'm confused...why with 16 years of sobriety are u even IN a monitoring program?.
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    Kicked off unit when Joint Commission arrives

    The joint commission coming is serious stuff. Everyone is under enormous pressure, including CNAs. There will be enough to worry about for the facility without having "beginners" around. It's hard enough under survey scrutiny for seasoned staff, an...
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    First week- will I die of boredom?

    Haha. Honey, you will be soon be so far up the creek in mind numbing unbelievably overwhelming amounts of information to memorize that you will look longingly back on your days of boredom and nursing for dummies fundamentals. Enjoy the calm before ...