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  1. New grad just got fired

    marygirl replied to rn2day's topic in General Nursing

    in my life before nursing, I was an assistant stock trader at a large firm in a major city. It was 1987 and the stock market crashed. Everyone on our trading floor had ulcers, irritable bowels,...

  2. I just can't catch on

    marygirl replied to Brooke13-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I also passed the NCLEX in July and work on a telemetry floor. I just finished up working 6 12's in a row (picked up 2 OT shifts) and I realized during the six-day run that even if you have the same...

  3. How assignments are distributed

    marygirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a relatively new nurse and I worked the night shift for a year as an extern before graduation. Now I am an RN and work on days on the same medical telemetry floor. On our unit, the night charge...

  4. Preceptor Friend or Foe??

    marygirl replied to texaschick's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, sometimes you just don't communicate well with someone. One day during my orientation, my preceptor asked me to help her turn a patient. I had not gotten report on this patient because we had...

  5. Are enteral feedings poorly tolerated?

    marygirl replied to javanurse2000's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I wish I knew the answer for the frequent loose stools with tube feedings. I know that maintaining GI motility is so important for recovery but I had a patient that had a cardiac arrest at home and...

  6. I just can't catch on

    marygirl replied to Brooke13-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Brooke, med-surg is just that way--you can't beat yourself up after you leave. If you don't note the orders, hopefully the next RN will. It isn't like that patient is going to be in the hospital...

  7. New Cardiac Nurse wanting info

    marygirl replied to STFXNurse's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    books on EKG dysrhythmias can be confusing because interpretation is only that: interpretation. Does the tele unit have a training guide for your hospital? On our tele unit, everyone goes to DIM:...

  8. Anyone travel with their family? Husband and kids?

    marygirl replied to teresab_2000's topic in Travel

    I am not a traveler, but after my son graduates from high school, I plan to start traveling (he is a sophomore.) I met a traveling respiratory therapist who took her 2 kids on the road, they were...

  9. A 1,000,000 National RN shortage by 2010?

    marygirl replied to ARIZONA_RN_STUDENT's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Well I passed my final nursing school exam today! There's one more nurse on the

  10. Oh boy......I ticked off the charge nurse

    marygirl replied to newish nurse's topic in General Nursing

    when you're a student, every nurse on the floor is an "expert". A student came to me and asked, if 1500cc fluid restrictions are ordered, is that just fluids the patient drinks? I said, no, that is...

  11. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    marygirl replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    The school that I attend has a first-come-first-serve and the students get weaned out significantly in the first semester of clinicals. That isn't a bad thing. If you can't calculate med dosages and...

  12. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    marygirl replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, I have top agree with Wayne, you can't judge a person's grade on English, Psych, and A&P and determine who will make a good nurse. Some people took their pre-req's one class at a time...

  13. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    marygirl replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you think that continuing a shortage of nurses is what increases the med and procedural errors? Half the nurses I have encountered couldn't pass my level one clinical exams and I am not being...

  14. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    marygirl replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    that is also true in my area. There are five nursing programs competing for space in roughly four hospitals. Some days students are tripping over staff and each other because there might be students...

  15. Oh boy......I ticked off the charge nurse

    marygirl replied to newish nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I've been in clinical in several hospitals now and there's always somebody....I have to say, if it's only one person, that's better. My last assignment was a preceptorship in which my preceptor was...

  16. Nursing school vs. nursing shortage

    marygirl replied to Natkat's topic in General Nursing

    I am taking my final exam for an ADN program Friday (what am I doing reading posts on here!!!) and it has been a tough haul for all of us. We started with 48 students and for our final semester, we...

  17. How do you feel about your CNA's?

    marygirl replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    If you are in a room helping a patient that is one thing. If you are on another unit chatting with a friend or in the corner reading a novel while someone else is cleaning up your patient and...

  18. How do you feel about your CNA's?

    marygirl replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    Disappearing staff is a problem on many levels. At our hospital one of the reasons it goes on is because charge nurses rotate and they may be in charge one shift and on the floor the next. If they...

  19. Patches left in public

    marygirl replied to amgo24's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Something nurses need to be more concerned about that I run into all the time as an almost graduate: When you put a new patch on, find the old one and take it off. I have peeled as many as three...

  20. do you feel like the CNA's run the floor?

    marygirl replied to babynurse223's topic in General Nursing

    I have 5 weeks of clinicals until graduation. Since my externship last summer, I have been working as an aid on a cardiology step-down unit. I fear the attitudes I will get from the CNAs when I...