PCnurse88

PCnurse88 has 5 years experience and specializes in medsurg, progressive care.

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1. PCCN Certification 2018

   PCnurse88 replied to Cannary22's topic in General Nursing

   I used: 1) Ace the PCCN You Can Do It, review questions by Nicole Kupchick 2) AACN's Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing 3) PCCN Exam Practice Questions by Mometrix 4) The AACN's progressive care nurse review course, with accompanying printable ha...

2. Texting in nursing

   PCnurse88 replied to kimbagirl's topic in LPN/LVN

   Hi! I have an auditory processing disorder. I'm not hearing impaired by any means, I have EXCELLENT hearing, but my brain does not filter out background noise like most peoples. This makes talking on the phone nearly impossible for me. I have to be i...

3. Any certifications I can earn as a student to better my resume for when I graduate?

   PCnurse88 replied to themurse133's topic in General Nursing

   I actually recommend not doing any certifications other than maybe BLS. This is for a few reasons: 1) Many hospitals will pay for you to do certifications, especially if it's required. If they don't pay for it, they may offer bonuses or partial reimb...

4. If you apply and accept a job, don't bail out for no good reason

   PCnurse88 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I used to think like that, too. I drove an hour and a half one way to my first nursing job for 15 months before I finally had to change to a hospital closer to home. I was literally falling asleep driving home on the busiest highway in my state. Now ...

5. Patient waking up during CPR

   PCnurse88 replied to LisaStone's topic in General Nursing

   The very first time I did CPR the patient woke up and immediately grabbed me while I was doing compressions. I was so shocked the only reason I didn't fall off the bed was because the chief resident was standing next to me and had a hand on my back t...

6. Nurses' Week - Upended.

   PCnurse88 replied to evilolive07's topic in General Nursing

   Our med students graduated this week, so we had a couple luncheons and parties for them. It was in the bulletin, we got emails about "hugging a med student!", whole shebang. The managers did something individually for their own units (candy, box of ...

7. Anyone working nurse labeled a Non-Responder with vaccines?

   PCnurse88 replied to jengix29's topic in General Nursing

   I've had enough vaccines to cover like 3 normal people. Chicken pox 3 times, MMR I think 4, hep series a few times... nothing sticks. My nursing school made me do the entire series over. My first and current RN jobs accepted vaccination records. My p...

8. Nail Manicures

   PCnurse88 replied to SamiGee's topic in General Nursing

   I get gel manicures sometimes and they typically last me almost 3 weeks before the first chip, which is when I take them off. Regular nail polish comes off within a day so I don't even bother, unless it's for a very specific event and I'm off work (i...

9. Critical Care Experience

   PCnurse88 replied to thatswhatshesaid's topic in General Nursing

   It would probably vary hospital to hospital. Our cath lab nurses are definitely considered critical care nurses / it's considered a critical care "unit". There is a hospital nearby that is somewhat of a back up cath lab and their facility does not co...

10. Charge nurse after 1.5 years on unit

    PCnurse88 replied to Nurse-please's topic in General Nursing

    You've been there 1.5 years? I'd consider myself lucky if I was given that long before they made me charge! Our facility makes everyone do charge at least a couple times, usually around the 1 year mark but sometimes earlier (I was a new grad with 8 m...

11. Best review questions for PCCN exam prep?

    PCnurse88 replied to rrappsalas's topic in CCU

    AACN's Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing is a good book, but it isn't a question book. "Ace the PCCN You Can Do It" by Nicole Kupchik was extremely helpful, as was the AACN's online course review. The review was 13 hours long and came with hando...

12. Oxygen order changes

    PCnurse88 replied to Danztam's topic in General Nursing

    My (adult) unit recently implemented this and it's going terribly. People are on oxygen for DAYS longer than they need to be because we can't titrate without a new O2 order, but the residents take a million years to put orders in. Night shift no long...

13. How confident are you with reading tele

    PCnurse88 replied to Grobyc82's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree. The blocks can be challenging at first, and there are plenty of things (not necessarily tele) that I go home and look up. We cannot possibly know everything about the medical field, especially when we are new or when it is something we do...

14. Failed NCLEX

    PCnurse88 replied to lmille88's topic in NCLEX

    I had all 265 questions with my NCLEX too- horrible. I cried through probably the last 100 questions, and then sobbed my whole way home - probably shouldn't have been on the highway! All of my friends had passed (my ATT was delayed due to getting my ...

15. Best site for CEUs?

    PCnurse88 replied to coopman712's topic in General Nursing

    If you join an organization (like AACN, AMSN, or whatever your specialty is), sometimes they give free CEUs. All of mine are free, and my membership counts towards my clinical ladder. Obviously the membership itself can get a little pricey but it was...