gees_rn

gees_rn has 2 years experience.

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1. How do you stay warm at work?

   gees_rn replied to Vfernandes's topic in General Nursing

   Reading this as I sit at my workspace, freezing. I wear a tank top, long sleeve, scrub top, and usually a fleece or a hooded sweatshirt (unapproved; bad girl alert) and am usually still cold. People think I'm crazy! I have no solution.

2. Old nurse won't retire

   gees_rn replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   ...I'm just over here still offended by the comments about the younger nurses throwing themselves at doctors and staring at their phones instead of working. Barb's *moment* will come; she'll suffer an injury she can't come back from or management wi...

3. Gloves? Is this acceptable?

   gees_rn replied to medsurgRNCali's topic in General Nursing

   Im probably a little lax on my glove usage to be honest, as I'm a hand-washing nut. I am very strict to the gloves-for-potential-body-fluids rule; but in the ED there is some wiggle room. oral meds? no. unless I'm going to have to physically put it i...

4. Might be a dumb question but

   gees_rn replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah I'm not sure, and I agree; sometimes I don't know what to tell people. Sometimes if the patient seems cool enough I'll make a little joke about how the IV hydration is the best part of coming to the ER or something like that and we'll all have a...

5. Should I accept my dream job over my other offer?

   gees_rn replied to Bunsbuns's topic in Career Support

   Commute time is so important to me. It's a huge quality of life factor that you don't always consider until it's taken you 1.5hrs to get home after nightshift more than a few times. However I understand the draw of more money. You decide what's more...

6. Do you think that nursing students need to work as a CNA or nurse aid while in school?

   gees_rn replied to LindseyPar's topic in General Students

   I didn't work as a CNA, or in the medical field at all before becoming a nurse. I was not right out of high-school and working as an aide would have been a steep payout from the full-time job I worked through nursing school. I'm sure that experience ...

7. Too ugly to be a nurse..?!?

   gees_rn replied to RandomNurse2b1's topic in General Nursing

   I'm going to respond again, because the oily skin and acne comments really speak to me. An inexpensive good-skin makeup combination I love for 12 hour shifts is the CoverGirl Clean Matte BB cream with Rimmel Stay Matte translucent powder. It's the on...

8. Eating the patients' food?

   gees_rn replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

   crackers and peanut butter are, in my opinion, fair game. I work nightshift in a hospital without a late-night cafeteria, in a town lacking in late-night food delivery options. Even the vending machine options are limited. If I forget to pack a lunch...

9. Too ugly to be a nurse..?!?

   gees_rn replied to RandomNurse2b1's topic in General Nursing

   I think you actually just described what I look like except I'm ten pounds heavier, and despite all of that I brush my hair and put on my makeup and wear cute fitted scrubs and go on to work anyway. It never even occurred to me that I might be so ugl...

10. Give LTC a chance, or get out now?

    gees_rn replied to mc-escher's topic in New Nurse

    I am glad I left. I worked LTC for abouI 1 month total. I was lucky because this facility was giving me a long orientation, which I know just new LTC nurses don't get, but I left one shift shy of my first day on my own. I wanted a job so I'd taken t...

11. Does anyone still wear white shoes?

    gees_rn replied to Alex_RN's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I actually saw a really cute pair of white shoes recently that I contemplated buying. I like to alternate shoes every few shifts depending on which scrubs I wear so I don't mind having some variety.

12. CEN tomorrow, sharing is caring!

    gees_rn replied to detrelibre's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing to offer as I haven't taken it, but good luck!!

13. Driving drowsy

    gees_rn replied to Irishnights's topic in Emergency

    That bothers me. They really WOULDNT expect a day shift nurse to come in at 11:30 for a class to a meeting. They would also NEVER call them at 1:30AM to see if they could come in early.

14. Follow up to "new grad per diem offer - am I being ripped off??"

    gees_rn replied to meganec17's topic in General Nursing

    I almost feel like this time you SHOULD accept... I know it doesn't sound ideal and that you don't really need to rush in to anything right now but those other potential job offers are just that, potential, and the sooner you start working the sooner...

15. Very Low Gpa...Is there still hope?

    gees_rn replied to Futurern2013's topic in General Students

    I did it! My experience wasn't exactly the same as yours but I'll give you the short version. Went to college, majored in lots of things, graduated with a bullcrap degree in nothing, with a 2.49 GPA. Decided I wanted to be a nurse, spent 2 years ret...