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  1. Trouble with charting...DART (focus)

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am getting so stressed out and frustrated. I am still in my orientation at work and I am finding it very difficult to chart. Our hospital use DART (data, action, response, treatment) style. I know...

  2. DNR-Comfort measures

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I get a little confused about this two..no, actually just the "comfort measure"...I recently had a patient who was a DNR but the family requested comfort measure (IV therapy and IV antibiotics ok...

  3. I'm feeling dumb........

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hello, all I have been on orientation for 2 days now. Most of the time I feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I just follow what my preceptor tells me to do (even what to say to patients). The...

  4. Work 2 12-hour shift and get paid 40 hours???

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Have you guys heard of this type of deal? Apparently a Skilled Nursing Facility in Palm Springs, CA has this type of deal where you work 2 12-hour shifts as an RN and get paid 40 hours. Such a too...

  5. sickle cell crisis...when enough is enough....

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yesterday at work, I was really worked up with one of my patients who has a sickle cell anemia..She's 24 years old and had been dealing with it since she was about 4 years old...According to the other...

  6. sickle cell crisis...when enough is enough....

    FreshRN05 replied to FreshRN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    this is exactly what I don't understand.....my patient was very much alert and oriented...she knows what's going on and even her vitals signs revealed that she's in pain...the doctor even said it...

  7. $23/hr to travel?

    FreshRN05 replied to Billy5949's topic in Travel

    $23 per hour????????? Wow! That's so cheap! I've never done travel nursing but I know a lot of travel nurses from work and they get paid at least $50-60 per hour...You might need to research more and...

  8. Transfering from the U.S. to Philippine Nursing School

    FreshRN05 replied to king2000usa's topic in International Nursing

    Wow, that's a shame..but then again AUF has gained its reputation as one of the top nursing schools in the Philippines......I wonder though as to why they would not transfer your credits??? Here in...

  9. Please share your embarrassing stories!

    FreshRN05 replied to studentnurse74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ok, this one happened just last week...I had an order to start TPN/lipids on my patient...Our policy is to use two seperate pumps for the TPN and lipd and to use a filter for the TPN...Well, I did all...

  10. California patient Ratio

    FreshRN05 replied to nursebear168's topic in California Nursing

    In the unit I work at (Med-Surg...mostly post op patients or awaiting for surgery) we sometimes do team nursing. If I have 10 patients, I will have an LVN and CNA working with me...The LVN will do all...

  11. Giving Report

    FreshRN05 replied to spejsa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    when giving report ( we do ours via voicecare...not nurse-nurse) you do not have to give head-to-toe report on your patient. Focus on what the patient is in the hospital for and if there's any changes...

  12. First Year--Gain Weight or Lose Weight?

    FreshRN05 replied to kellyo's topic in First Year After Licensure

    well....let's see....I'd say the first 3 months I was losing weight because of stress (I lost about 10-15 lbs in 3 months) but guess what???!!!!!! I'm gaining it back and fast (and more...)...I'm...

  13. Work 2 12-hour shift and get paid 40 hours???

    FreshRN05 replied to FreshRN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    what I've heard is that this person works every wednesday and thursday AM 12-hour shifts and then every other weekend 12-hours night shifts. So say if this week she'll only work 2 days then next week...

  14. What's In Your Pocket?

    FreshRN05 replied to AmyD_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    alcohol swabs IV tubing caps pen light pens (red and black) pencil highlighter syringes sodium chloride bandaids tape kelly clamp bandage scissor mints cell phone (unit allowed) critical lab slips...

  15. Dealing with HH agency...so not to short change yourself!

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in Home Health

    I don't want to short change my self when I start HH...The agency that I will be working for will be paying me $100.00 per admission. HH is really new to me and I'd like to get some opinions from all...

  16. So how much do you owe?

    FreshRN05 replied to Butterfly3001's topic in First Year After Licensure

    From an ADN community college in upstate

  17. Spring '05 grads-1 year in-how many new nurses you started w/ are still there?

    FreshRN05 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi, Your post reply caught my attention about switching to a non bedside nursing...working for an insuance company. I too graduated in May 05 and I've been working in a med-surg tele unit for almost...

  18. team working

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ok...I just have a question.....when doing team nursing, your team should work as a team right??? It doesn't matter if you're the RN, LVN, or the nurse tech as long as we all work together to have a...

  19. what is your nurse to patient ratio?

    FreshRN05 replied to paphgrl's topic in Emergency

    in my home unit (ER overflow with tele), we have 5:1 (sometimes with tech depending on our unit census)...when I float to other floors, it's 10:1 (non tele) with an LVN and a tech; 8:1 (tele) with an...

  20. How did you feel when you came off orientation?

    FreshRN05 replied to wonderbee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi, After what happened to me last night at work ( doing almost everything that my Nurse Tech should have done on top of my own responsibilities...hence not being able to take breaks and not able to...

  21. How did you feel when you came off orientation?

    FreshRN05 replied to wonderbee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well....I've been off orientation for about a month now...I normally work in my home unit where we only care for 5 patients (total care) and our unit is an overflow of the ER (med-surg/tele)....I was...

  22. Admission Assesment RN for a Nursing Agency

    FreshRN05 posted a topic in Home Health

    Can someone tell me what exactly an Admission RN does? Recently, I was approached by one of my church members who owns a nursing agency asking me if I want to work for her company doing admission...

  23. New to Home Health....any tips or advice?

    FreshRN05 replied to jkaee's topic in Home Health

    wow...i'm getting more and more excited as I get answers to my questions.....Organizational wise, I think it will not be a problem for I like things to be organized especially paper works....I just...

  24. New to Home Health....any tips or advice?

    FreshRN05 replied to jkaee's topic in Home Health

    Hi, thank you for replying.......I actally was able to see the OASIS form and the way I see it, it maybe time consuming to fill out the the whole form but some of the questions are questions that I...

  25. New to Home Health....any tips or advice?

    FreshRN05 replied to jkaee's topic in Home Health

    Thanks... I live in CA.....Can I ask you a question? What exactly do you do when you start a case? Any tips besides doing complete/comprehensive