amblessing

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1. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

   amblessing replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

   Yuck! I work in an OB/GYN floor and I won't even wear my work shoes in my car! I take my shoes off in the parking garage and change into flip-flops to drive home in. When I drop meds on the floor, I tell the patient that I don't want to give them ...

2. No fundal checks for post-op C-sections?

   amblessing replied to daisybaby's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Good! You're patient's deserve no less and remember that it is YOUR license. You worked hard to earn it and you must work hard to protect it. We had a lady on another floor who obviously no one did fundal checks on or bothered checking her I/O's, w...

3. What do patients say that irks you?

   amblessing replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I left the Dynamap in the room for a moment while I went to go get something that the patient had asked for and when I returned, the patient's husband had taken the BP cuff and put it around his neck and was "taking" his blood pressure! When I asked...

4. What do patients say that irks you?

   amblessing replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   This didn't exactly irk me but I thought it was very funny. While in the process of admitting a 15-year old pregnant teenager for hypertension, I asked her if she was allergic to anything and she said, yes that she was allergic to latex - particular...

5. Defensive/Offensive Co-Worker

   amblessing posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a very stressful L&D/Mother Baby Unit. We all get along very well - that is the day shift people get along with the day shift and the night shift gets along with the night shift. I have worked there one year and it didn't take too lon...

6. What do patients say that irks you?

   amblessing replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I love it when you go into a patient's room to start an IV or some other procedure, and the patient's family asks, "do you know what you are doing?" I am so tempted to say, "well sort of, you see they were short staffed tonight, so they just yanked ...

7. What do patients say that irks you?

   amblessing replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Quote from the husband of a pre-term labor patient, "well, she was dialtated to a 4, but now she's a 1, so I guess she must be getting better!"

8. nurse pt ratios for new grads

   amblessing replied to mjbsn2006's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated last year and I have the same patient load, as the nurses who have been doing this for 20 years. I used to really be overwhelmed thinking that it was highly unfair, but now after doing this for 9 months, I have a reasonable amount of con...

9. Night Nurses-Pts think we sleep?

   amblessing replied to dosamigos76's topic in General Nursing

   :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: We have a pole . . .

10. Speaking Up For Yourself in the Workplace

    amblessing replied to amblessing's topic in New Nurse

    Well, things are getting better. I think the problem is that we have so many people acting as charge nurses in our unit that some of them don't realize that I am so new and I get really complicated people. I just have to learn that every day is goin...

11. Speaking Up For Yourself in the Workplace

    amblessing posted a topic in New Nurse

    I was taught in my last semester of nursing school that new nurse grads need to learn to speak up for themselves in their place of employment if they are feeling overwhelmed and overburdened by their assignments . . . yeah, right! Where I work, if ...

12. More Strange Baby Names

    amblessing replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    "Dalastone" break it down = Da Last One This was baby #6 :chuckle

13. Tomorrow, July1st

    amblessing replied to kat983's topic in New Nurse

    AMEN to that. Personally I feel that they need to take that less than one minute per question theory and throw it straight out the window I took 1 hour and 20 minutes to answer 75 (I guess that is average though) but there were two whiz kids in ...

14. NCSBN Review

    amblessing replied to chrysalus1003's topic in New Nurse

    My employer paid for a subscription to this service and I found it extremely helpful because the questions are written by the people who actually write the NCLEX exam. The pluses are that the questions are broken down into categories (i.e. infection...

15. Please....good thoughts??????

    amblessing replied to jbeck817's topic in New Nurse

    Jennifer - this is easy for me to say now because I was in your shoes yesterday. If one more person told me that I probably passed because the computer shut off at 75, I was going to HURT them I do now feel that the odds are certainly in your fav...