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  1. New Onset Afib

    babychickens replied to donotenter's topic in General Nursing

    Never forget- Patient advocate is part of our job. Period. No RN should fault a fellow for doing their job. When I keep that in mind the rest of the drama like "this charge is trying to have me kill...

  2. ICU Nursing

    babychickens replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I Like what a previous poster said. Unions are the answer. I don't know where you're located but if your hospital is union, start there. If not, stick it out and try to move to one that is. Please...

  3. Virtual/Hallway patient

    babychickens replied to Ra3liana's topic in General Nursing

    I think the difference is that whatever unit we are talking about, the RN doesn't work out of their ratio? Am I understanding that correctly? In the ED you may have a hallway pt but you're still w/i...

  4. Tugging at my heartstrings

    babychickens posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi AN community. "This RN" (haha: throwback from recent post) has noticed a recent uptick in ETOH withdrawal pts and hospitalizations r/t heroin. One, in particular, is really tugging at my...

  5. Tugging at my heartstrings

    babychickens replied to babychickens's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of days ago I came back across this reply. I had almost forgot I’d written about this experience. Well guess what? The pt showed back up ... dead. Idk if it’s because I had just read this...

  6. Will it look bad if I...

    babychickens replied to babychickens's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for replying. I'm definitely cool with not knowing it all. In fact, I love the team sport aspect of nursing and to me, it's amplified in the

  7. Will it look bad if I...

    babychickens posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, AN community, Almost as soon as I started working in hospitals I knew I wanted to be in the ED. Now that I'm a working RN (in acute care) I'm wondering if it's too early to start applying to my...

  8. Will it look bad if I...

    babychickens replied to babychickens's topic in General Nursing

    6 months. ? Hence, my doubt. I suppose I was beginning to justify it by, "well it takes at least 3 months for the hiring process and another x amount of months for y." ....Maybe I should just let you...

  9. Tugging at my heartstrings

    babychickens replied to babychickens's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! You are absolutely right! I will remember that for next

  10. Curiosity Killed the Cat and Got 50 Hospital Employees Fired

    babychickens replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    As a new grad, I'm grateful for crusty old bats and battle axes (terms of endearment) such as yourselves. Please keep your eagle eyes and ears on me and my pts. With gratitude, Baby

  11. TX new grad with stipulations

    babychickens replied to willjas579's topic in Nurses Recovery

    A "license in good standing"... Doesn't that just mean it can't be revoked or in jeopardy of being revoked? Or perhaps not having any reports on an existing license?? From what I can infer, you don't...

  12. New Nurse In a Step Down Unit and I hate it

    babychickens replied to Aurora0941's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like I can hear my mentors (in my head) saying "well some of them will just have to wait" or "are they symptomatic?" re: the pain meds and HRs respectively. Btw, I've done my share of freaking...

  13. Scripps New Grad Residency June/August 2019

    babychickens replied to Lulu Belle's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Being a local, I'd recommend branching out to other counties. Have you networked? What I can tell you is there are so few actual job openings each cycle that they usually end up going to internal...

  14. Are Patients Cared for Equally? Challenges of the VIP Patient

    babychickens replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! My experience was in the ED. No special room down there!! Love your statement on politicians getting real healthcare Tx. Please let me get one because I'm pretty my hospital doesn't have...

  15. Are Patients Cared for Equally? Challenges of the VIP Patient

    babychickens replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    Hospital. Board. Member. AKA: battle axe, -reminds everyone she used to run the joint, taught half the staff back in tha day I'm sorry, but I'm giving that lady some damned R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Now if I...

  16. As seen on TV

    babychickens replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, come on!!! Mad Max, Fury Road has some of my faves!!! What about decompressing the tension pnuemothorax with the gear shifter?! Love that

  17. How to ask questions the right way

    babychickens posted a topic in General Students

    It seems so simple but it's not. I would love to hear some suggestions for how you all ask your RNs questions in clinical. Example: When I want to know what charting processes are required...

  18. I'm lost. I want to quit nursing.

    babychickens replied to Amdecl6's topic in General Nursing

    It's interesting to read your ideas here. With all due respect, you seem to be setting yourself up to make the same mistakes...not sure how a surgery center will be much different than an OR, and docs...

  19. Student Charge Nurse out of line

    babychickens replied to cin808's topic in General Students

  20. What I Wish I Had Known Before

    babychickens replied to BlinkyPinky's topic in General Nursing

    This is the 2nd comment of yours I've read and it stuck out due to your desire to choose 2 professions at once...ok. Anyway, so with that I think we could compare school to real-life suckery in almost...

  21. Outrageous Complaints

    babychickens replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man!!! My favorite!!! "Please! Tell your

  22. Outrageous Complaints

    babychickens replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    Doesn't it just chap your hide when they actually get what they want though? I bet you wished for a moment that you worked in an absolutely windowless hospital so you could just be like, "I'm sorry...

  23. What is This Clip?!

    babychickens replied to princesspunch's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a useless D-ring on my scrubs. Irritates the OCD side of me like you wouldn't believe. Yesterday I did something with it. Created this weird chain of scissors and stats. Nope! My theory is...

  24. Called off too many times?

    babychickens replied to MS0298's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Thank you for saying that! One of the many reasons I am looking forward to being a nurse is to have actual sick days. Heaven forbid a person gets sick. Some of you guys are starting to sound like the...

  25. I hate being a nurse and i'm about to graduate

    babychickens replied to Newtons's topic in General Students

    OP, I logged on to AN today to sniff around for people who have ever considered RN to PA-school because I'm feeling the same dread. I''ve just come off a horrendous few days of THE MOST whack-a-doodle...