Lissacheer87

well there was no edema, reddness or tenderness to the site it was just leaky. I think the reason i tried to avoid changing the site is because im a new nurse and still have difficulty with IVs...i probably only get 60% that i try and then what? i have to bother another nurse to do it for me. I know practice makes perfect.....im just not confident

I think she is right to report this

thanks everyone for your input. The patients vitals were all stable and it was mostly blood being drained. She had a history of cancer and had a TAH. I should have sat and talked to the student your right. I remember being a student and i really try to be nice to them. If they have questions i always try to answer them the best i can. Im a fairly new nurse myself. I guess i was just very irritated by the instructor...not the student. she did a great job

Today i had nursing students for the entire shift. at the end of the shift the student told me my patient who is a fresh first day post-op hysterectomy had 380cc out of her JP. i said ok, thinking yeah thats alot but its first day post op. Well her instructor didnt like my answer i guess and made the student go back and tell me again and that she should tell the charge nurse. I ended up just saying ok ill call the doc. So I ended up calling the MD- who pretty much acted like he didnt care and said "uh ok". was i wrong?! should i have been like freaking out about the output? I feel like im so stupid 90% of the time

If a patient is getting continuous IV therapy and a small amount of clear liquid is noticed on the arm surrounding the IV site, does that mean the IV must be changed?

i am a fairly new nurse- just started working as an rn in november 2009. does anyone else ever leave there job thinking "i really suck". it isnt like a made mistakes, it isnt like i didnt do what i needed to do. i just always feel like i did something wrong. everyone i work with say im doin really well but i donno. the other day my patients iv was leaking a little bit but it was still working so i taped it down better and it seemed ok. now im stressing thinking it was gonna leak all over for the next shift even though it seemed fine. it was one of those crazy days. was i wrong? am i crazy? i need some advice

wow...that is absolutely rediculous!!

i am a new grad and had been doing very well according to all the nurses on my floor. On friday I was called and asked to come in cause they were short...and i regret it now. my patients were great but i felt like i was a bad nurse...one of the things that happend was i had given a blood transfusion to my patient who already had 100 of NS going...and i for some unknown reason didnt turn that down when i gave my transfusion...patient was fine and the charge nurse only said "its just something you learn as you go on" so noone was being mean to me or anything about it but i took it so personally cause i had been doing sooo good. Am i overreacting?!

Im a new RN...just started working in November. Everyone says im doing great at work but i have these moments where i just wanna quit. The other day at 8am (my shift started at 7am) one of the nurses asked me what that dressing on my patients chest was i havent really gotten to spend much time with the patient yet, i replied it was a mediport...he stated is couldnt be a mediport and i had about 500things going on so i replied well i dont know what it is but i can find out...and he looked and me in disbelief and said "u dont know what that is?" and walked away...granted i found out and told him what it was after he already asked the patient. I wanted to cry cause i felt completely incompetent. Does anyone else have those moments?! i need some encouragment

I did the trick and according to that i passed...thats only thing giving me hope:uhoh3:

I took mine yesterday and it shut off at 110. Im freakin out too. Everyone i know who passed had 75 questions and i know its a myth that 75=pass but i havent known anyone who failed at 75. I had ALOT of meds and priority ?s too