krisiepoo

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1. Texas Board of Nursing-discrepancy- help need advice!!!!!!

   krisiepoo replied to HopefulRN2b25's topic in General Nursing

   The school mispelled her name and it's her fault that how the school spelled it doesn't match the legal documents? My name is commonly mispelled, should I go change all my legal documents to reflect that? I guess your "truth" is different than mine

2. Texas Board of Nursing-discrepancy- help need advice!!!!!!

   krisiepoo replied to HopefulRN2b25's topic in General Nursing

   She just got accepted into a program and she's waited too long to fix it right away? Good lord why can't people be nice here. OP - I'd give it a couple days and follow up with the school and see if they've been able to get a hold of anyone and what...

3. Starting clinical, looking for advice and tips

   krisiepoo replied to leeann1702's topic in Share Tips

   Make yourself invaluable to the nurses and nurses aides. Answer every call light, bust your butt, do your assignments away from the nurses station (ie, DO NOT sit at their computers). Don't hover, spend time with the patients as they can be lonely ...

4. Nursing school is making me fat

   krisiepoo replied to gedson's topic in General Students

   When I was in school, I had the same issue. I wrote out a 4 week menu and rotated. I did shopping every 2 weeks (I had clinicals on weekends) and made/prepped meals for the week ahead. AS a previous poster noted, weight control is 80/20, with 80 be...

5. Denver Nurses pay

   krisiepoo replied to amberakerly's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses with 2 years experience are starting at $27 in CO Springs... I'm sure denver is close to that... Supply and demand

6. New Graduate Nurse

   krisiepoo replied to MKRN00's topic in General Nursing

   There are a ton of threads on this topic, do a search for maybe some more info. Unfortunately, there is no nursing shortage so new grads finding jobs is difficult. I graduated almost 2 years ago and moved out of the area to get my job experience.....

7. New Grad in LTC - Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?

   krisiepoo replied to blackdiamond407's topic in New Nurse

   You and your supervisor contacted the MD, what else did the DON want you to do? I would possibly ask that if he mentions the watching you comment again. Get more clarification and don't sign anything until you have that clarification Noone can tell...

8. What kind of a job did you have while in nursing school?

   krisiepoo replied to AspiringRN27's topic in General Nursing

   I worked 40+ hours/week at a desk job... saved up PTO and used it for clinicals

9. Avoiding patients hitting on you

   krisiepoo replied to Kitkat1212's topic in General Students

   You're very likely going to get hit on and you're going to have to find a way, your own way, to deal with it. You're young so you will probably get A LOT of practice, LOL... learn to keep good boundaries, learn how to act like a professional, don't...

10. What can you tolerate the least?

    krisiepoo replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    This is odd for me coming from a psych background, but I just can't deal with borderline patients or patients with borderline traits. Not enough nurses/aides know how to deal with the "splitting" that they do with staff and it drives me batty. I tr...

11. How well do you deal with vomit

    krisiepoo replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't deal well with vomit before becoming a nurse. In 4 months of nursing, I'm starting to become less bothered by it. Last night a patient vomited in the sink and I had the distinct pleasure of cleaning the chunks out to drain the sink. In th...

12. Do you find your previous degree was of any help in nursing

    krisiepoo replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    they didn't so much look at my previous *degree* but how I used that, ie my experience. I was a social work case manager and worked in the medical field helping disabled individuals be successful in the least restrictive environment. My new directo...

13. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

    krisiepoo replied to kaliRN's topic in Safety

    4:1 except we have 2 non-tele pods and those can be 6:1 at night if the population isn't too heavy I should add that this is only our unit... we have 3 floors on the hospital and I don't know how other units operate

14. Truthful advice for new grads "hunting" for their first job

    krisiepoo replied to orsrt05's topic in Job Hunt

    You make an awful lot of sweeping generalities about new grad nurses... Perhaps you need to look within your self and your own biases before writing a post like this. Just because you couldn't start in a hospital doesn't mean the entire new grad popu...

15. Bedside rounding in-front of patients

    krisiepoo replied to Nurse-84's topic in Relations

    We do bedside reporting but I always give a brief synopsis prior to going in. At the bedside I can introduce their new nurse and point out IV's, dressings, settings on machines, how much O2, etc. Sometimes things all run together after a 12 hour sh...