barlowjb

barlowjb specializes in Med Surg.

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1. Is this the wrong field for me?

   barlowjb replied to CW1978's topic in General Nursing

   WORD OF ADVICE: When I first started my nursing career, I met another new nurse who was only one month into her nursing career. She told me and practically everyone else that she knew she was in the wrong filed because she absolutely hated her patien...

2. I hate my supervisor

   barlowjb replied to kikwon89's topic in Safety

   Once I had a pt who for three consecutive days at dinner time had BS between 60 and 70 and had and order for both scheduled and sliding scale Humulin. The first two days I called the MD she said hold the scheduled dinner time insulin. On the third da...

3. Being Sued / Losing License

   barlowjb replied to Meraki's topic in Professionalism

   I never before thought that this could be an issue. The facility that I work at doesn't have the policy of checking placement of patches, and there have been several times when I have had an order to remove a patch and when I check the pt and bed the...

4. When 2 New Grads are hired on the same unit

   barlowjb replied to Student2Registered's topic in General Nursing

   it was great having another new nurse around, we both shared similar fears and concerns and ended up supporting each other

5. MY 1st ORIENTATION!!1

   barlowjb replied to CrammyCute11's topic in California

   Not sure of your situation, but my first week of four days of orientation was in a class room no where close to my unit and half of my 5th day was spent touring the facility and my assigned unit and during that first week I was considered an employee...

6. need advice on starting ivs...

   barlowjb replied to FiduciaRN's topic in General Nursing

   I agree. so far 98% of the time when I ask more experienced nurses to start IVs on "hard stick" patients, they can't do it either, plus there are times when they ask me for help with their IV starts - so that tells me that I'm not the only one having...

7. what should i do?

   barlowjb replied to shuubie's topic in General Nursing

   Try hanging in there a little longer maybe say an additional month and see how you feel. When I first started (ortho/neuro and general medical) I felt unsure of a lot of things and documentation took forever. I began feeling a tad bit ok after 8 week...

8. SOOOO SAD

   barlowjb replied to fearlessleader09's topic in NCLEX

   Don't be too hard on yourself, just keep on trying. I wish you all the best

9. What would you do?

   barlowjb replied to mizfradd's topic in General Nursing

   well said!!!

10. When ill equipped students affect your grade...

    barlowjb replied to wahwahgerman's topic in General Students

    When i mentioned "taking on slack" I didn't say "always take on slack", slack was probably not the right word choice for me, what I was trying to say is when it comes to team work - and lets look particularly at nursing school - if you have one team ...

11. When ill equipped students affect your grade...

    barlowjb replied to wahwahgerman's topic in General Students

    i smiled when i read the op's above statement because it reminded me of a quote from the literature book in high school written by author george orwell's titled: animal farm which says "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than othe...

12. Oh MY GOD!!! I WANT TO WORK HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    barlowjb replied to cicatrixx15's topic in General Nursing

    This is the reason why I love the allnurses website: u see and hear stuff you probably you would not know of elsewhere - it is such a cool video!!!

13. Unsupportive Family

    barlowjb replied to slmmarsh's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I already have a bachelors and masters in Biology and most people expected me to either attend medical school or pursue a PHD. I was told by family and friends that doing nursing was like going "backwards" that nurses were just "wound dressers" and t...

14. Is it legal to call yourself "Nurse" when you in fact are not?

    barlowjb replied to LoveMyDaughters's topic in General Nursing

    Ahh, that definitely illegal.

15. I got fired.

    barlowjb replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    :smackingf OMG, Sorry for the long post above, I am working on being shorter and to the point in the things I want to say, but sometimes when I am writing in the moment I don't realize how long the post is until after I have posted it. My apologies a...