Nurse_Jessie

Nurse_Jessie

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  1. Time Management Tips/Advice

    Does your facility do bedside report? If so, hopefully you and the outgoing nurse are doing at least a brief assessment of the patient's primary issue. Take a look at their dressing and make a mental note of which ones you'll need to change during ...
  2. Assertiveness, Having an "edge". Advice needed

    I got the same feedback during my residency, and for me having confidence in my own assessment skins and knowledge of what was needed to helped me gain assertiveness. When you talk to a physician can you give a quick summary of the patient, the curr...
  3. Icu Nursing isn't for me help

    Is there any aspect of ICU nursing that you are interested in? My hospital has several different ICU's with different focuses, a Cardiac ICU, a Neuro ICU, an Open Heart ICU, etc. Is there an area that you are interested in that you could use to sta...
  4. How is your ICU staffing done?

    ICU patients are always 1:2 or 1:1 (1:1 are rare, generally only if we are cooling them after a cardiac arrest, if they are on the balloon pump, or we are proning them for respiratory issues), however, if we have a lot of PCU and Med/tele or Med/surg...
  5. Able to finish all tasks in ICU?

    I agree with the previous posters on the importance of staying on top of your documentation as much as possible. I have a fairly detailed brain sheet and I check things off as they are done, so I know at a glance what is left for me to do. Also, gro...
  6. Anxiety on my days off!

    I think that this is common for all nurses. I've found that if I'm tired my anxiety is worse, so I work hard to get to sleep after my last shift of the week so that I don't have exhaustion adding to stress. Try to find hobbies and activities outsid...
  7. 5 Tips in How To Adapt to Night Shift

    If you can, try to stay on a more nocturnal schedule even on your days off. I'm still single and don't have children, so this won't work for everybody, but most people that I spend time are working during the day anyway, so if I sleep until 2 PM on ...
  8. Pen and notebook is the way to go. We actually weren't allowed to have computers or tablets during our residency classes, they seemed to think we might do something other than take notes with them (a valid fear considering what I saw in my nursing s...
  9. What you should never say at an interview

    "I want to work in this unit because I'll only have to take care of [X number] of patients" "I figure I'll move on to something better once I have a couple years of experience." "I want to work in the ICU because it looks good on a CRNA school applic...
  10. Is the ICU for me?

    I came off my orientation in the ICU about 6 weeks ago, and I have to say that work has been so much better since I got off orientation. During my orientation, my preceptors frequently encouraged (aka insisted) that I take the sickest patients every...
  11. What do you think of 12 hour shifts?

    I'm a new nurse (6 months into my first job) and I love having 12 hour shifts. The extra days off are really worth it to me, and I generally stay busy enough during my shift that the time goes by pretty quickly. However, I am a single woman without...
  12. New Grad Job Market: A Game of Chance

    Another factor that comes into play is that many facilities know that new nurses will take whatever job comes along to give them the magic 1-2 years of experience that the jobs in more desirable areas require. So they are looking at spending thousand...
  13. Dumb things new nurses do....

    When I was a student I started priming piggyback IV tubing with antibiotic, but I started with the tubing unclamped. The entire bag of antibiotics ran into the trash before I realized my mistake. Fortunately, my instructor was really nice when i ex...
  14. How do I find jobs in a state I do not live in?

    California is a really tough market for new grads. However, the method that I would suggest using for looking for job is to search "City Name Hospital" for wherever in California you will be moving too, then do a Google Map search of the city, and r...
  15. New RN Job Probation Period:

    The probationary period is standard. Mine goes for 60 days beyond the end of my 4 month orientation. However, consider that they are spending the time and money to train you for this position, so it is likely that they will be willing to work with ...