Corrin1RN

Corrin1RN

New Member
  • Content

    11
  • Visitors

    864
  • Followers

    0

About Corrin1RN

Latest Activity

  1. No I wouldn't recommend nursing

    I was scanning through all these posts and my mind started to race with all the positives and negatives, and all the things I felt I needed to say, then I realized all of that does not matter, all that matters is one of my patients looked me in the e...
  2. What is an HCA?

    I work for a hospital that was bought out buy hca about 7 years ago. The pay is great, great benefits, no more than 4 pts on a tele/stepdown floor, and managment is working hard to better our hospital. I think It has more to do with the managment at ...
  3. Need a little bit of positive...

    GiVE YOURSELF TIME. I have been out of school for about a year, and at first I almost hated it, primarily out of fear. Fear of mistakes, lawsuites, codes, angry doctors, intimidating family..... everyone told me to give it 6 mo to a year. I thought, ...
  4. Would you become a nurse again

    Yes, I would definetly do it again. At first I felt overwhelmed and didn't know if i would ever enjoy it, then one day I just decided to pray before every shift, and just go in to work and be happy. All it took was just setting my mind that I was goi...
  5. Anybody else??

    I am still relativley new to the nursing game but before a shift I used to feel anxiety about things that could go wrong, wich nurses I was working with, which floor I could be pulled to ect... Now my husband prays out loud with me before every shift...
  6. Hanging IV Potassium

    we always hang 20 0r 40 meq bags diluted in 100cc at no faster anan 10 meq per hour with lido if needed, does anyone know if there are any incompatibilitys of K with anything, this is a frequent question at my facility, heparin also.
  7. Pet Peeves

    My biggest is when a Dr. talks with a patient and the patient says that everything is fine and they don't have any questions for the dr. and as soon as the dr. leaves the pt starts complaining about the staff (houskeeping, nursing, ect...) they are h...
  8. lung and heart sounds, labs, ABG'S?

    A few years ago I visited a website that had free lung and heart sound, and I can't find it now. Some of the other nurses I work with are also interested. I am starting to wonder if there is something wrong with my ears! Every one just sounds clear, ...
  9. Areas for a new RN??

    I recently started working (7mo) ago in a small hospital. I don't know the pro's and cons of all the different "new grad"programs (they just put me with a great preceptor on a floor with NICE nurses) but I do think the floor I am on is a good start....
  10. The assessment

    I work in a tele/stepdown unit and graduated 7 months ago. Our assesments and charting are all online so when i started i just wrote down a check list of things to do including the assessment on my clip board. I just go head to toe, while talking to ...
  11. Trying to survive as a new PICU nurse..;(

    OK, I am a new nurse (grad in december) and if I was in your situation I don't think I would go back even once, parents bagging patients because there aren't evough ventelators!! I am as I said a new nurse, but this sounds like something out of a tv ...