0.9%NormalSarah BSN, RN

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    New nurse leaving hospital for office job.. advice?

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Cabana's topic in General Nursing

    The first year sucks major donkey booty. For most of us it does end up getting better. If you can manage to stick it out, even if that means getting a different hospital job, I think you’d find...
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    CCRN EXAM

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to SueRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just took this test and passed recently! I used Laura Gasparis’s review, she has an online version you can purchase for $125 and access the videos and print the powerpoints. Also I used the Pass...
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    Vaccination for clinical

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Grad 2020's topic in General Students

    @ukgirl7655, do you really believe it should be your right to remain unvaccinated, potentially contract a preventable disease, and bring it to work where we are charged with caring for very sick and...
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    Moving California. Insight on pay scale etc?

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Nurse4lifeNC's topic in General Nursing

    I live a little north of LA in a nice beach community and work for a hospital that is not unionized. I started at a little over $40 an hour as a new grad with an ADN. I know they do pay more up north...
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    When you hear the word "nurse," do you think male or female?

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to OldDude's topic in Men in Nursing

    To be fair, in making it easy for lecturers or anyone during conversations, choosing a gendered pronoun is not egregious. People get annoyed about this, but it’s not that she thinks every nurse is...
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    Adjusting to NIGHT SHIFTS advice??

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to nurse.sierra's topic in General Nursing

    I won’t bevstarting nights until I get through most of my critical care orientation and preceptorship, so it’s going to be like 4 or 5 months
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    safe staffing legislation

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Wow @Grrrse that is wild! I am very lucky for
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    Had a horrible weekend...

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to carberrylane's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Just sending hugs your way. I am a new nurse and don’t have any nurse mistakes under my belt yet, but I made mistakes back when I worked in dialysis as a tech and it’s definitely embarrassing and...
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    Another Tragedy at Vanderbilt

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    There’s another thread on this. If you bypass many steps built in to the system to prevent such an error, the argument is that it at some point becomes more than simply negligent. Of course I’m...
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    HELP QUIT NEW GRAD ICU JOB

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to lclapps's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I would just try and get another position and be honest that it wasn’t a good fit, but you will probably have to really convince your next interviewers that you won’t get going when the going gets...
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    starting psych nurse career in NYC

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to TG2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Got it! Well good luck to you, if you know for sure you want psych I’m sure you’ll get in somewhere. The places around me are always hiring nurses, can never find enough people who are truly...
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    New grad trying to choose between mother-baby and ICU

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to lexxa25's topic in Nursing Career

    @lexxa25 what did you end up choosing? Have you started
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    Feeling incompetent as a student nurse...

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Nathalie Im's topic in General Students

    Wow, how many of those days did I have as a student? A lot! Nursing school is about learning how to be a nurse. If you already knew how, you wouldn’t need school! Try speaking up and participating a...
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    Just got a job offer!

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Morelaur288's topic in Critical Care

    Wow that sounds like a really great training program! Yes this is my first nursing job, I was so over the moon for landing my first choice job at a teaching hospital. Well good luck to you, too!...
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    Please tell me what to do

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Moon908401's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I started to reply and then it hit me - are you a nurse? Or did you just come to this forum to ask about this since you assume this lady is a nurse? It is unfortunately not a typical forum to ask how...
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    New Nurse Grad Interview question

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Lindseyel's topic in General Nursing

    I think that you should follow up with a thank you email, look up some examples online if you haven’t done that before. Make it nice but short and sweet. If they respond (and they might not), they...
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    IV calculation

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Lelele10's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Look at this as two separate orders. 1. You have 150mL per hour infusing for 8 hours. Then you will change over to the new order after that one is complete. 2. You have 500 mL you need to give over...
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    Just got a job offer!

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Morelaur288's topic in Critical Care

    Congrats to you! I am in the same boat, I start Monday. My new hospital does ECCO, essentials of critical care orientation. Did you find out if your place does something like
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    starting psych nurse career in NYC

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to TG2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Not trying to dissuade you! But someone I knew in nursing school wanted psych but also didn’t want to lose clinical skills and wanted to start somewhere she would get those. Teacher suggested...
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    Another Tragedy at Vanderbilt

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    What about the time out? Wasn’t this a breakdown of the whole team and not just the surgeon? This is a serious question, I do not know. Maybe not an apples-to-apples comparison but I’m really not...
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    Cdiff question

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to ss234's topic in General Nursing

    3 episodes of diarrhea in 24 hours could absolutely be the start of C diff. Does your facility have a policy? Does the patient have other risk factors? Other antibiotics recently, elderly, etc?...
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    Adjusting to NIGHT SHIFTS advice??

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to nurse.sierra's topic in General Nursing

    Haha that’s ok, Pebble, I know you were just being honest. It’s good to hear and very helpful. I hope you get things under control and start having a better quality of life very soon! Yes my new...
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    Failed Capstone clincial....

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to sophia_29k's topic in General Students

    I’m sorry, I think I’ll correct my above statement. After reading what Folks and Community said above, I think I would take their advice as it’s probably not super likely that your preceptor is...
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    Failed Capstone clincial....

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to sophia_29k's topic in General Students

    Wow, if the preceptor told a blatant lie about you in that way, I would definitely include that in the appeal. No matter your mistake, lies about your performance or making up things you said is...
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    Adjusting to NIGHT SHIFTS advice??

    0.9%NormalSarah replied to nurse.sierra's topic in General Nursing

    OMG @pebblebeach your post is so scary! I will be starting nights, too soon. I have actually worked night shift before as a caregiver so I’m not naive to this struggle, but it wasn’t full time. It...