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1. feeling burned out

   nite-owl replied to nite-owl's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks everyone for your input! It's nice to know that others feel the same way, although it's a little sad at the same time. People wonder why there is a nursing shortage!? Oh how I long for that fresh out of nursing school feeling, like I could tak...

2. feeling burned out

   nite-owl posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello all, Lately I have been feeling a bit burned out. Sad thing is I've only been a nurse for 3 1/2yrs. I work at a hospital on a 21 bed pediatric unit and I love working there when it's actually pediatric pts I'm caring for. We are required to tak...

3. Charge nurse and take patients?!!!

   nite-owl replied to reddellrn's topic in General Nursing

   I work on a 21 bed pediatric unit and our charge nurse always takes a full load (up to 6). It can be hard , in fact if it was up to me I would probably never charge. It wouldn't be so bad if the cn didn't have to take more than 4pts or any at all the...

4. attending root cause analysis

   nite-owl replied to nite-owl's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you all for you're input.

5. attending root cause analysis

   nite-owl posted a topic in General Nursing

   Need advice please! I'm being asked to attend a root cause analysis on a pt. This pt came in with migraines nothing was helping after a week was going to be transferred to a different hospital with a neuro dept. The previous night before i took care ...