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I am failing by a few points. And wondering if anyone could give me further advice. How do you know you are failing by a few points? I thought you only get pass or fail not actual marks, just curious!

This is also my personal pet peeve. I come to work on time (actually 15 to 30 min before, you know to socialize) and yet there are others who walk in at 7:05 or later. This is not a one time deal some are always late. People listen the tape starts at 7:00! When we have to wait for you to get there, take off your coat, get your coffee and your pens, put your lunch away..... well its anoying! I made off hand comments to some of the chronically late people and it has helped. Its a respect issue, if you are 5 - 10 min late everyday, then maybe you need to get up a few minutes earlier. That being said I know some people (my mother is one of them) who will be late for their own funeral, and thats just life, I am not going to work myself up over it. I will just talk the extra minutes to socialize with the off going shift.

Sorry Multiply by 60 My bad.

The first equation. 22cc/hr = 22 mg/hr convert mg to mcg and divide by 60. The second equation not sure, would have to look it up

I know this is an old post, but Alberta is still taking diploma graduates. Also the diploma here is three years not 2. Then to complete your degree it is an aditional 1 year of full time classes. d

Alberta Start 27.12 Top of scale 35.60 Degree + 1.25 Other certifications are also reconized and paid for. Shift diff 1.75 (Evenings) 2.00 (nights) 1.75 (weekends)

Yay to that. I have been very fortunate thus far, only getting yelled at by one doc for calling him for an insulin order. He said thats not my paitent why are you calling me- um because you were consulted re. The patients diabetes and wrote the order to call if blood glucose is greater than.... And we do get lots of cover orders for things like po tylenol, gravol, ativan ect. I guess some docs need to learn that the hospital never sleeps, even when they do. D

Please tell me... where would WE ever find time to phone the Doc every 10 minutes? But if the Doc has not written PRN orders, :angryfire Thus in my opinion not respecting nursing judgement, then yes I would call them for everything, including plain Tylenol for a headache. If the PRN orders are adequate and the patient is stable I never have to call them.:) And they get to sleep.

I am a new grad as well, and from someone who has been there... move on it happens. In this situation I would have called the *on call* surgeon Not the primary or the "orignal" surgeon, Thats why they have on call rotations. To allow everyone to have their sleepFULL nights. :zzzzz Generally, on our unit if threr is uncontrolled n/v in fresh post op bowel, Doc wants an NGT now. Out of curiosity is that what the primary ordered?

We run fluids at TKO, loose a site and you have to poke again. Usually 10-50cc/hr depending on the size of the kid. IF the babe has a day pass for whatever reason we hep lock and pray its still patent when they get back. SL clot pretty fast. :yeahthat: D

Where did you get the impression I am A student? I do work bedside nursing. I didnt mean to offend you, But I can express MY opinion.

We have one Doc that writes Please after all of his orders. When it was commented on he said, would you prefer if I write do it now bi**h lol. Most of the docs I work with are wonderful. But everyone can have a bad day nurses included.

Well, you might be sadly mistaken. In Canada, Where I am Diploma and Degree nurses write the SAME national exam. If the extra time in school taught so much extra... why not have a higher level exam? It isnt needed. I just need to learn how to write a paper to get my degree. (as one of the courses I need is nursing research) Not really important to do bedside nursing though is it.(Well the research part is, writing a paper isnt.) Also Degree nurses earn .75 more per hour, they do not move up the pay scale faster, ever. Thats why Unions are wonderful.

In the past 6 months I have seen 3 MRSA cases in infected bug bites. Not from the hospital.

Ok, where I work (surgical + peds) unit there can be 34 patients. our staffing compliment is 1 peds nurse sonetimes 2 if there are 8 peds patients, 2 LPN's 2 RN's and 1 charge we always have 6 to 7 pts each. Is this abnormal? I am a new RN and this is the only place I have worked so NM keeps telling us this is national standards. The surgery unit has general surgery, ortho surgery and gyne surgery. peds is a mini medical ward with respiratory, gastro and ortho kids. Also not uncommon for the 2nd peds nurse to have 2 kids and 4 other surgery patients. what are your ratio's like?