nursey70

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1. How to do 12 hour shift and raise a kid??

   nursey70 replied to mp2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hello and welcome to the profession! In NJ a graduate nurse earns about $25/hr and night shift usually offers a couple dollars/hour for shift differential. On the downside, you will need a sitter for 12 hours. However, once you get one year of exp...

2. Share your shift "brains" with a rookie, pls!

   nursey70 replied to samiracat1958's topic in New Nurse

   Making a cheat-cheat will make your life Much easier!!!! Mine contains vital info such as patient room#,name,age, code status, allergies, pertinent history. I also have a column for to do items and any vital info that occurred on previous shift. It i...

3. Think I am in trouble, maybe fired

   nursey70 replied to Furoffire's topic in General Nursing

   Furoffire, Hi! I too was a Med-Surg nurse and ended up having to pick up one day a week in Rehab because my unit cut down on thier hours. Long story short, I felt like a fish out of water. I too worked in an "enchilada" type rehab which is a whole d...

4. Rich nurses?

   nursey70 replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses in the USA work VERY HARD and are just starting to receive the pay that they deserve! We work understaffed and deal with insurance company cut backs that many other countries with socialized medicine do not have to deal with. Our pay rates p...

5. BSN does not mean better... Sometimes education is overrated!

   nursey70 replied to lovegoddess1977's topic in ADN/BSN

   I have been a diploma prepared nurse for 9 years. However, I will receive my BSN in August :pumpiron: . I ALWAYS empty bedpans, clean up vomit etc. when the need arises. However, I feel that it is ignorant when nursing assistants sit around talkin...

6. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

   nursey70 replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! Nurses really do eat their young! I too felt the same way as you do while i was on orientation. I cried all of the way home from almost every day of orientation! I stuck with it for over 2 years being miserable on one unit and moved to our siste...

7. How to do proper rehab nurse notes or documentation?

   nursey70 replied to teedy9's topic in Rehabilitation

   Good luck! Happy Holidays!

8. Nurses from NEW JERSEY I need some feedback please!

   nursey70 replied to cherriterri519's topic in General Nursing

   Welcome to New Jersey! I too live in South Jersey, but it seems that most hospitals have a nurse to patient ratio of 5-6 on days 6-8 on evenings and up to 14 on nights. I would Google the area you are moving to in order to get a listing on area hos...

9. How to do proper rehab nurse notes or documentation?

   nursey70 replied to teedy9's topic in Rehabilitation

   I work in a rehab one day a week. However, they use a form that targets the patient's abilities to feed, clothe, bathe and transfer themselves or the level of assistance that they require. In fact, we do not do a narrative note on the patient unles...

10. How Did a BSN Help Your Career (Or Not)

    nursey70 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    I will graduate with my BSN in August! The hospital that I work at pays $1 per hour more for BSN nurses. However, that is not my motivation. I hope that it will open the door for nursing opportunities outside of the hospital. Because it is rough ...

11. What part of pt care gets overlooked most often

    nursey70 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Oral care! I used to work on a respitory unit with vent/trache patients and people on hospice care. It would infuriate me to find that my poor patients who were NPO had horrific looking tongues and mucous membranes. It is a pet peeve of mine to ma...

12. Who starts school this week!!!

    nursey70 replied to tookewlandy's topic in General Students

    I go back to Widener tomorrow. This semester I have to do 84 clincial hours ontop of my 3 days a week. Uggghhhh. Any survival tips?

13. feces odor in student

    nursey70 replied to ALoucas's topic in General Nursing

    As a mother of a ten-year-old, I can almost certainly tell you that this child does not wipe. My son is told repeatedly to wipe,flush and wash his hands after moving his bowels. And he is not mentally impaired in anyway. He is just in a rush to ge...

14. Pictures Needed r/t Nursing & Burnout

    nursey70 replied to Ginger35's topic in General Nursing

    Ginger, Hi. Did you try to Google/Images? Also,there is a pretty good photo of frenzied nurses at www.valuecarevaluenurse.com. Good luck, Dina

15. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nursey70 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work on a med-surg unit. In this one room, whenever an elderly patient hallucinated, they would always ask me, " Why are all of these kids running around in here?" It gave me the chills............