HiddencatBSN

HiddencatBSN BSN

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  1. New ER Grad Resources - Help Please??

    Do you use EPIC? If you do, see if you can access the playground to get more familiar with the system and practice in a slower environment. A 50% success rate for completing orientation and staying on...
  2. Feeling lost in my nursing career

    I’m sorry your management hasn’t been more understanding. When I gave notice to take the local/paycut job, my manager was sad to see me go but very understanding that I needed to make the choice...
  3. New ER Grad Resources - Help Please??

    I started as a new grad in the ER and it is definitely overwhelming at first. When your preceptor has a full regular assignment it’s often not possible to slow down as much as is comfortable for a...
  4. Feeling lost in my nursing career

    Having a newborn is super tough. I went back to work at 7 weeks with both of my kids and luckily at the time I was working a weekend program and only working 2 days a week. After my son I took a...
  5. Forced to Return to the Floor

    I appreciate that my hospital made reassignments rather than furloughing staff. We had a hotline staffed by nurses for the public to call in to for concerns, to schedule testing, with referrals to...
  6. Also, I think your idea to have students do assessments on child care center patients is a good one and getting parental permission doesn’t seem like an insurmountable obstacle. Not all parents will...
  7. I taught 2 semesters (well, 1.5 because of covid) so my first semester was seniors and the second was juniors. We were in the children’s er where I taught and let me tell you a 7-2 clinical is not...
  8. My students were with me for 3 clinical days before they went to another clinical since I was in a specialty area, and due to the unit I was on, we couldn’t plot out assignments in advance. The...
  9. New Grad COVID

    I’m so confused how they can call it a 3 month orientation when only 1 month is with a preceptor. This sounds awful. When I’ve changed jobs I often get 8-10 weeks orientation as an EXPERIENCED...
  10. Over $300k in student loans - help.

    This is true. But the OP’s parents were also abusing them financially. So in the context of being in an abusive situation, which isn’t “normal” it makes sense that their educational expenses...
  11. NEED HELP preparing for PICU job

    Developmental stages and typical norms is always good. Normal vital signs by age. I started in peds as a new grad so reviewed my nursing school lecture slides from peds. (sorry, submitted too soon) I...
  12. New area of Peds, help!

    I’ve seen people hired in to psych without psych experience at multiple facilities I’ve worked at. When I was a new grad the psych centers were some of the employers who consistently would hire...
  13. Scab nursing?

    I mean....this is the point of unions, that when workers band together we have a lot more power than we do as individuals. Unions are The Balance between the workforce and the company. Hospitals (and...
  14. Over $300k in student loans - help.

    Also, when I was starting college at 17/18, I got really BAD but well-intentioned advice from multiple adults I trusted. It sounds like OP’s parents didn’t have their best interests at heart and...
  15. Hawkins does support a $15/hr minimum wage, indexed to
  16. Over $300k in student loans - help.

    Have you talked to a bankruptcy lawyer? I know that in general student loans don’t qualify but I was reading recently that it is sometimes possible to have partial forgiveness through bankruptcy....
  17. CNN: Abortion Performed on Wrong Woman

    This is tragic, but South Korea outperforms the US as well as many other western countries in healthcare outcomes. I don’t think this would be news if it were a common
  18. Suicidal patients food and drink provision

    Why not keep pitchers at the nurses station or somewhere designated outside patient rooms? Do your psych patients have activities/things to do to keep them
  19. Blood pressure in peds patients

    Are you able to take palpable blood pressures? They’re faster which means less complaint from a child who doesn’t like the squeezing. Also when using the auto bp make sure it’s set to...
  20. ESI Resource Classification

    I would consider ultrasound and a CT two different resources for triaging
  21. Negative Nancy?

    I agree with the second half, that people who aren’t important in your life shouldn’t carry weight, but being open about mental health and past traumas helps destigmitize them and I greatly...
  22. CNN: Abortion Performed on Wrong Woman

    It’s different because of anti-Asian bias. It’s the same with the “wet market” panic: you can find fish and butcher markets in the US too. The increase in viral activity at seafood specific...
  23. Graduated 2014, Passed NCLEX 2020,

    Can you try to arrange your schedule so it matches 2 or 3 of the nurses who like to teach? What are you feeling like you’re lacking
  24. RN vs. EMT

    I would just reiterate the assessment, that the patient has had an acute change and is now requiring high flow oxygen to maintain sats, and the doctor has ordered transport to the hospital and then...
  25. RN vs. EMT

    Just stick to the facts then. I’d refuse to take the oxygen off: they can noodle with the settings on the way in to see if he desats or