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1. Foley placement

   vxxen posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone! I just have a little question about Foley's. I recently moved to a med/surg floor so there's a loooot of those. I was just wondering: what are the signs that a Foley's balloon is...

2. NG Tube NPO

   vxxen posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone! I'm writing here tonight because I thought of a patient I had last week and have a little question. The client was in for abdominal pain and turns out her stomach was full with 2...

3. What is the hardest shift you ever had?

   vxxen replied to vxxen's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, some of these are so bad:( I'm so sorry for everyone who had to deal with such horrible shifts! I see that mine really is nothing compared to

4. What is the hardest shift you ever had?

   vxxen posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new nurse working on a med/geriatrics unit since july and I just had the woooooorst shift ever today!! Got report in the AM, saw that I had a lot of anormlal labs, so a lot of phone calls to...

5. Depressed about new job?

   vxxen replied to vxxen's topic in General Nursing

   Yes I am being trained to both places but I honestly feel like I'm going to work only there because they lack of staff so badly (last weekend, 1 employees were absent!) And one of my friend told me...

6. Depressed about new job?

   vxxen posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone, I'm writing here because this week I got really bad news. I'm a new grad and I was hired at the beginning the summer on a geriatrics/medecine unit and i just loved it! Not a too heavy...

7. New grad anxiety

   vxxen replied to vxxen's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you so much for your kind words, I really needed that right now!

8. New grad anxiety

   vxxen posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone! I recently made a post during my first days of orientation expressing my concerns about being an RN. Now that I just completed day 8 on my own, I realize I'm having problems with...

9. What's wrong with me??

   vxxen replied to vxxen's topic in General Nursing

   I had 5 days of orientation, 4 evenings and 2

10. What's wrong with me??

    vxxen replied to vxxen's topic in General Nursing

    So tonight I've had my fifth evening off orientation and it was my first bad one. I came in to work to know I forgot to give one pill last night (it was ferrous sulfate so it didn't had any...

11. What's wrong with me??

    vxxen replied to vxxen's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I live in Quebec and everything here is paper! That leaves more place for mistakes, gotta be extra

12. What's wrong with me??

    vxxen posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I am a new grad who just started orientation (wednesday) on a med/geriatrics unit (exactly where I wanted to be!). Each nurse here has 16 patients. The first two days went pretty well, but those...