rachelita

rachelita has 5 years experience and specializes in ER, Oncology, Preop, Recovery.

Latest Activity

1. Grieving a perinatal loss

   rachelita replied to Elvish's topic in NICU

   When I lost my baby, one of my nurses cried with me. I was not offended at all. On the contrary, I was moved and comforted by her caring. She was a great nurse.

2. Grieving a perinatal loss

   rachelita replied to Elvish's topic in NICU

   I am so grateful for this. I lost a baby at 27 weeks. It was heartbreaking. However, I had excellent, caring nurses who did all they could to help me. I was so thankful to be able to hold my baby and take home her ohotos and keepsakes. One thing: e...

3. Frustration and Gratitude

   rachelita posted a topic in General Nursing

   me days I come off of a nursing shift feeling like a total moron. I guess that is what happens when you try a new specialty. Hopefully my coworkers and managers will not judge me to be an idiot and will understand that I am teachable. I just need to ...

4. Have you always known you wanted to be a nurse?

   rachelita replied to Getreal2011's topic in General Nursing

   I knew I wanted to be a nurse ever since I was 3 years old and saw Nurse Dixie on the old Emergency TV show from the 70's. She was beautiful and smart and wore the cool white cap :) It took me until I was 33, though, to get my RN, but when I became a...

5. Things I've Learned This Year

   rachelita replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Absolutely right on!

6. Funny things said by students

   rachelita replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Humor

   While floating to the Gynecology floor a few weeks ago, I met a very sweet, well meaning early twenty something looking ADN student. She came out of a patient’s room and asked me in an exasperated tone “We don’t have have sanitary napkins, do we ?” I...

7. Fired After 50, Part V: Happily Ever After (I Hope!)

   rachelita replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   Congratulations!!!!!

8. PACU catch phrase

   rachelita replied to TennBSN's topic in PACU

   How about : Wake up with the best"

9. Online FNP programs

   rachelita replied to guessdior's topic in NP Students

   Check out University of Cincinnati too.

10. 2009 On-Call Pay Scales

    rachelita replied to openheartmary's topic in Operating Room

    $2.75 hourly to be on call, time and a half if called in, no minimum time. Florida Someone told me their CPA said that they could write off their cell phone bill as a business expense since it was used while on call...no idea if this is true or not.

11. Was I Inappropriate

    rachelita replied to rachelita's topic in General Nursing

    I appreciate all the replies to my post. I was totally not trying to do anything stalkerish or creepy. I usually do not have the opportunity to just chat with a patient. And this patient was my age, had a child with the same name as mine, and was wor...

12. What Cha Got Planned For Nurse's Week?

    rachelita replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work it is no longer Nurse's Week. It is now called "Hospital Week" I guess we are not special enough for our own week anymore. We do get free pizza and ice cream, however, which sounds tasty.

13. Was I Inappropriate

    rachelita posted a topic in General Nursing

    I need some opinions. The other night I was helping out in PACU. (I am usually in ER or Preop, but occasionally go to PACU when needed) I was asked by another nurse to transport her patient upstairs. The patient was early 30's female, very nice, alwa...

14. We no longer triage

    rachelita replied to Guest219794's topic in Emergency

    Do you still have to do all the the triage paperwork/computer work plus your usual initial assessment paperwork/computer input? I guess yo do, at least list of meds, history etc. When we have triaged in the room, it was very time consuming because we...

15. Funny Sign In Slips

    rachelita replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    Here are a few more classics: "Sik" a personal favorite "Bleeding from rough sex" "Private" usually involving an object in an unusual place or a possible STD, often accompanied by "please do not call my home number" "A$@hole keeps fal...