StephRN08

StephRN08 has 3 years experience and specializes in oncology/BMT, general medicine.

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1. Best floor to work on for an aspiring Nurse Practitioner

   StephRN08 replied to aliciaj456's topic in General Nursing

   It depends on what type of NP you want to become. I have a few good friends that are NP's or in NP school... one is an acute care NP specializing in transplant and she worked in a liver transplant ICU, one is an adult NP with an additional post-MSN...

2. Stress Relief after a BAD shift?

   StephRN08 replied to JStollRN's topic in Stress 101

   I pass a few of my favorite restaurants on the way home (all with amazing desserts), so I will treat myself to a little food therapy! I find that fried food and chocolate do the trick. I also love a little retail therapy... and I have bought most...

3. Six Cultural Phenomena Assessment

   StephRN08 replied to StephRN08's topic in General Nursing

   I am disgusted by some of the attitudes on this site. I only asked for some resources, such as scholarly articles. Websites do not cut it in graduate school!

4. Any MSN-CNL grads out there?

   StephRN08 replied to anne2010's topic in General Nursing

   I have also worked with a few MSN-CNL grad before too. I agree that their clinical skills are seriously lacking. My manager refuses to hire them because she feels that you must have bedside experience before you can become a good leader. I couldn'...

5. Christmas

   StephRN08 posted a topic in General Nursing

   On our oncology/BMT unit we have many patients that just cannot make it home for Christmas. In the past few years, we have started a week of holiday festivities on the unit to help lift the patients' spirits and it does wonders. A group of us will ...

6. Need help in Oncology Nursing

   StephRN08 replied to eortega's topic in General Nursing

   When I first started in oncology, I purchases Oncology Nursing which is published by Mosby. This book is my top recommendation as it includes everthing you need to know to care for oncology patients. I personally learned so much from this book! It...

7. New Hire Pharmacology Test

   StephRN08 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone! I just started a job with the VA and will be working on a general medicine unit. My background is oncology/BMT. I will have to take a general pharmacology test next week as part of the orientation process. In BMT land we give the s...

8. Which path would you choose?

   StephRN08 replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

   First of all, you need nursing experience in order to become an advanced practice nurse. There are graduate programs that will accept students who have obtained a BSN without any nursing experience. However, I have worked with some of these individ...

9. Preceptor Gift Ideas

   StephRN08 replied to JjoBsn's topic in General Nursing

   Things that I have received from student nurses/new employees: -a coffee/tea/hot cocoa gift basket -stationary with my initial -nurse tote bags -lunch gift card for the hospital cafeteria

10. Medical vs Surgical Nursing

    StephRN08 replied to Ashley_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a medical nurse working in oncology/BMT. Although I can't specifically say why I like medical rather than surgical, I do know that I do not like incisions/wounds, drains, etc. One thing about oncology/BMT that I really enjoy is the long-term r...

11. How do you switch specialties???

    StephRN08 replied to shinyblackcar's topic in General Nursing

    Well apparently my co-workers are some of the only people that found this appalling. I don't give a damn about nurse-to-patient relationship and blah blah blah... what she said was down-right rude. That's like someone saying why are you were a Ste...

12. Some people should just stay quiet!!!

    StephRN08 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was taking care of this elderly woman today with fallopian tube cancer for a port placement and chemotherapy and accompanied by her daughter. I should have ran as soon as the daughter started calling me "Nurse Stephie". Anyways, the patient was v...

13. Where can I get my certifications????

    StephRN08 replied to Lisa1980's topic in General Nursing

    Are you currently working in oncology? At my hospital, the only RN's permitted to administer chemotherapy must work in the inpatient or outpatient oncology departments or the physician practices. Our float pool has a few nurses that are chemotherap...

14. how many nursing jobs have you had/how long have you been a nurse?

    StephRN08 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse Tech for 3 years on the same unit... RN for 2 1/2 years... Job 1 - 8 months in ICU Job 2 - 1 1/2 years inpatient/outpatient oncology/BMT and IV team I left the first job because I quickly discovered ICU was not for me. When I took my present p...

15. Curious about sedation

    StephRN08 replied to AnewerRN's topic in General Nursing

    It is very individualized and based on anesthesia's assessment. We get a lot of interventional radiology patients post-procedure and the RN's administer the sedation in that department - they most often (80% of the time) give Fentanyl 50 mcg and Ver...