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Hi, I am worried sick about a wound vac issue that might get me fired! I am in my job for about a year and I had my assignment that includes a wound vac patient after an I &D. The PACU forgot to bring the power cord with the wound vac and the night shift nurse and charge nurse could not find a power cord, so the wound vac ran-out of power and shuts down at 3 AM. Day shift charge nurse was notified to find a charger but she did not either instruct me neither she look for it. I notified my wound care team about the problem also my nurse leader did see the vac is off and did not gave me instruction to find one. Being Friday and being incredibly busy with my six patients I forget about it and at 4 pm MD called and get extremely angry and speak with my Manager. My manager gets on the case and filed a incident report making me responsible for everything. Wound care team refused to put the wound vac in and MD called them directly and ask them to put the vac on again. So, the wound care team put the vac on at 5 pm without any problem and pt's wound looked ok to me from outside without any harm or excessive bleeding or drainage. But the problem is the vac was off from 3 am to 5 pm and the entire blame now for the delay of care, is now put on me by the management. As a new nurse I was not so sure about how important the wound vac is and also there was not any order either to manage or observe the wound vac by the MD, like what is the pressure setting should be, etc. I told my manager but she said, the wound vac itself is a order and it doesn't matter and I will be responsible for not properly maintaining the wound vac. I did not get any couching about the wound vac and as a new RN don't have any previous experience. So, please help me with your expert opinion and experiences if you think I would be fired for this incident or not?

Thanks, I checked and paid $7.95, which was stupid, I passed! I should have waited till Monday to see my name on FBON, any way thanks everyone for your time and understanding.

I took my NCLEX RN yesterday, unfortunately on a Friday, so I have to wait until Tuesday to check either quick result or BON to get my result! I graduated from a State College with a 4.0 GPA, and a Summa Cum Laude academic award, so I was not really sweeting the NCLEX. Our school have HESI added to our GPA, but not mandatory to pass to be able to graduate, we had to take HESI for every class and 2 exit HESI, I score 1100 on the first one and 1250 on the second, so I can't complain about my lack of study! I did u-world for 3 weeks and took the test 2 days before NCLX, and it was predicted 91% and very high chance of passing. Now, my NCLEX experience, I decided not study too much the day before, so I did not, I did reviewed some of my week points, like endocrine, CKG, Peds and lab values. When I stated the test, I was given question most on critical care, EKG, labs, community nursing, managements, and at least every other question was select all that apply. I was adamant from the beginning that I will not look at what number of question I am at, but after one hour I was exhausted, I did not get any easy question so far and thought I must be over 100 question, but when I looked I was at 69th question, so I was counting....and it went blank after 75 and wanted to start the research question section, I did the research section and let me tell you, I felt like I am taking the MCAT, for medical school. Every question have 3 parts and gave me client situations, they want me to highlight the critical data, that I need to address and my rational, discharge teaching, referral and on and on, I was so exhausted after 2 hr and the computer asked me if I want a break after 2 hr, but I kept on going, I finished after 2 and half hr with the PV survey. I could not predict how I did, because I did not have any sure or obvious question that I know I did answer correctly, all my questions were on critical thinking on client situation. Now I can't wait till I know my result, I think I passed, but still hesitant to do PVT as that would be a easy way out and not reliable! So, friends what do you think I should do? Help!!!