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1. Tips for a quieter floor?

   abbysmom posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work the night shift and have been asked to figure out how to make our unit quieter at night. The staff seems resistant to small changes, such as dimming the lights and silencing alarms quickly. Also, many people use their free time as social hou...

2. Top Five Tips for Night Shift? For a new nurse?

   abbysmom replied to TuckerBug's topic in New Nurse

   RE: how to keep people from talking trash about you. (a few comments back): It seems to me that this is rampant throughout nursing. I hate it, and the only way I can combat it is to not join in. We are all way too hard on each other, and with the ...

3. +Nursing caps

   abbysmom replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

   so funny that i would come across this tonight. i just read a nursing article about physician/nurse relations that started with an anecdote about a nursing professor addressing her new students. she described the nursing cap as one that marked know...

4. On flight to Europe... "we need a nurse"!

   abbysmom replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

   I searched for "medical emergency airline" and found this string because it just happened to me. I took my family to Mexico to celebrate my first 6 months as a paid RN--it was a long haul through nursing school with 3 kids. So, I'm still a newbie, ...

5. Silly question

   abbysmom replied to rastanursern's topic in New Nurse

   maybe Night of Care or Night on Call. not sure either. it means i'm up when most people are not, and i've had patients ask (at 5 am) if i've gotten enough sleep that night/ do they think i've been sleeping? my issue is that the day nurses coming ...

6. Call yourself a nurse?

   abbysmom replied to kittagirl's topic in General Nursing

   Hi--I enjoyed reading through all the posts--the outrage is mine as well about someone claiming to be a nurse who is not. I also hesitate to give any advice. Here is when I go completely off topic...sort of. I have an older friend who last year to...

7. caring for chronic pain pts

   abbysmom posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a 6 mo. new nurse and look to the experienced ones to help with this. I work on a post-surgical gyn/onc floor and feel comfortable now dealing with my pt population. However, we get people from all services who have some coincidental issues. I...

8. calling a code

   abbysmom posted a topic in New Nurse

   this morning at 2 am a woman walked on to our floor in street clothes, asked for some help, and looked like she was going down. i got up to try to catch her but she hit the deck -- though i couldnt see her head and if it hit. then she started seizi...

9. giving report

   abbysmom posted a topic in New Nurse

   hello--i'm a new nurse--off orientation end of september, working nights. i am on a busy post-surgical/oncology floor with overflow from other services. i usually have 7 patients overnight, and as you night nurses know, someone always spikes a feve...