klmartin08

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1. What is your Nursing Super Power?

   klmartin08 replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

   Hearing alarms. I can hear the faintest squak at the end of hall or even in other patients rooms. Everyone is always commenting how crazy it is I can hear them so well

2. Long Term Care Nursing is Lame

   klmartin08 replied to purplegal's topic in Geriatric

   First thank you kindly for the insult. I've worked long term care for 5 years now and it is challenging. We work in an environment that is long term and difficult. You make actual bonds with you patients and this can be one of the most brutal situat...

3. Math requirement for RNs?

   klmartin08 replied to llg's topic in General Nursing

   For most nursing programs algebra is a prereq to get in. Often only an a/b grade is acceptable, at least in this area.

4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   klmartin08 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   yes. I heard this in the first few months of nursing and many many times since then. Also, always open a window after they pass to let the spirit out just in case. And, death usually comes in 3's or 7's.

5. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   klmartin08 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   One more story, for the moment. This isn't a ghost story, but a very touching story. I had been a nurse about 6 months when I had my first death on my shift. She was a decently confused lady, who sometimes was very friendly, or combative. She always,...

6. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   klmartin08 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I have had many strange experiences in my life, even before becoming a nurse. My grandma says I'm just gifted (haha) like her. Anyways, when I first started working at a LTC facility, I would feel someone walk behind me in the halls, and my hair woul...

7. Calling for IV Starts

   klmartin08 replied to applesxoranges's topic in Relations

   As hospitals become graded more and more by patient satisfaction surveys I wonder if nurses find it better to have the designated IV team to do the job. At our hospital the urology department cracked down on infections from ER inserted foleys, making...

8. "Your job is to make me happy"

   klmartin08 replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

   There are some you can treat with All the warmth of the sun and they'll still berate and degrade you. I believe that if there was a more REALISTIC view on the profession and what should be expected of nurses you wouldn't see such a need for a big att...

9. Leaving Bedside Nursing

   klmartin08 replied to Deebuzz's topic in Career Support

   As a long term care nurse my patient to nurse ratio almost every night I work is 40-something to 1. Long term care is scoffed at by some, but when you are the only nurse on the unit with one QMA and 2 CNAs, it tends to burn you out and put the fear o...

10. Night Nursing: Precepting & Perception

    klmartin08 replied to Larry2016's topic in General Students

    Amen!

11. Night Nursing: Precepting & Perception

    klmartin08 replied to Larry2016's topic in General Students

    What do you mean night shift doesn't do assessments? Every nurse on Every shift should assess their patients! If you don't bother to go look and seriously once over your patients you really need to reevaluate your ideas of What nursing is. Also, I h...

12. difficulty with bureaucracy

    klmartin08 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay. I have been a nurse for almost four years. Not very long in the scope of things, I know. I also know that I am young and if I am going to make this decision it's now. Lately I've been feeling more and more uneasy with what nursing has turned in...

13. Every other weekend & holidays??

    klmartin08 replied to LuciaRN2b's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated a few years ago myself. A. as others have asked, didn't you realize nursing is a profession of self sacrifice? B. You can find jobs at doctors offices but they don't pay as well. One office offered me $12/hr. Nope. Floor nursing atm for...