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First, congrats on graduating! Nursing school is tough and you should be proud of yourself. I caution you though about thinking life after nursing school will be stress free. Being a nurse is...

Unfortunately IV infiltrates in babies can happen pretty quickly. A small amount of fluid, say 30 cc, is going to make an infant's hand pretty swollen when it would hardly be even noticeable in...

Wow, I am impressed how quickly you jumped to conclusions and attacked my basic nursing knowledge. You clearly misunderstood what I am saying. I never said antibiotics and disinfectants are the...

Very interesting. We started using chlorhexidine wipes in my hospital sometime in the past year. My only concern is that using them every day might actually increase the risk of super bugs in the...

That's way too much! Professional Liability Insurance for nurses, nursing medical malpractice. . This is what I have and I think a lot of other people do too. I can't remember exactly how much it...

Is it bad after reading this entire thread I poured a glass of wine and immediately turned on an episode of Greys? ...guilty pleasure...

It's pretty amazing that people think tv shows are similar to reality. My friend is in med school and has not started any rotations yet. A few months ago she told me that she heard Scrubs is pretty...

1) Use gauze. You can't avoid blood coming out of a large vein, it is a vein after all. I usually put the gauze over the site as I am pulling out the IV and apply pressure as soon as it is out to...

I love being a nurse. When I became I nurse I was expecting the difficult families. What I wasn't expecting was management that wants our inner city hospital to be a hotel yet they don't give us...

I agree that ideally we wouldn't wake sleeping babies, but I disagree that it is very possible to work around the baby's schedule. I work with mostly patients who are less than 1 year old. I have 5...

I was evacuated from my apartment and still made it to work Monday night. I planned ahead and made sure I had a place to stay in an area that wouldn't be evacuated. I packed two bags: one with...

The fact of the matter is that you asked a question and people are answering it truthfully, it is just not what you want to hear. I work in NYC at a hospital. The job market in NY is saturated...

I feel saying "I am in medicine" is very misleading and uncomfortable. It is just as easy to say "I am a nurse". I get what you are saying about drips and hemodynamic monitoring, but you could...

Nursing and medicine should not be credit driven professions, they should be about the patient. It doesn't matter who came up with the ideas. You helped the patient and that is your reward. You...

We're supposed to do bedside report at my hospital, but it hardly ever is done unless my nurse manager or the DON is around. Most people don't like it. Like you said, there are some things you...

I'm a pretty shy person. Nursing is actually a good way to overcome your shyness since you will constantly be interacting with people. You'll probably be shy when you first start your job, but then...

Has anyone worked as an RN (particularly nights) while obtaining your masters part-time at Columbia? There are a lot of threads on here about Columbia's ETP program but very few about just their...

I agree with gonzo1 about skillstat, it's an excellent tool to learn EKGs. Just practice A LOT. The more you do it, the better you will get. And don't get bought up in the little details (that's a...

My initial thought was that she is not an RN, RNs rarely work in doctors offices. And I am quite surprised she admitted to telling you she failed the NCLEX 3 times too. My entire nursing class...

i see where you're coming from but i respectfully disagree. i personally think my hospital did a really nice job with nurses week. they included cnas, lpns, rns, nps. they did stuff on both night and...

I think some places are trending towards just doing a national hospital week instead, then everyone gets recognized at once and no one feels left out. I would be a little disappointed with hospital...

I always thought it was a feeling patients got from the catheter being in there, but not necessarily a sign of a full bladder. When I worked as an NA on an alzheimer's unit we had a patient with a...

I have a Littmann Master Cardiology. I had the master classic II in school. Both are nice stethoscopes which I would recommend, but I am absolutely in love with my master cardiology. I bought...

One more thing to add unrelated to needles... don't limit yourself to pediatrics right away! Almost my entire 90 person nursing class started out thinking they wanted to do peds. At the end only 5...

I only have a cell phone so that's where I get all my calls. If I see that it's work calling I let them leave a voicemail. If I want to go in then I call back. Sometimes my NM catches me off guard...