lysh7777

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1. Sodium Bicarb question!

   lysh7777 replied to lysh7777's topic in Patient Medications

   Thanks so

2. Sodium Bicarb question!

   lysh7777 posted a topic in Patient Medications

   Hi, I have a question, I asked a few other people (nurse and pharmacist) but they all told me the same general answer. My pt. was admitted with c/o chest pain he calls it "chest pressure". He is going...

3. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

   lysh7777 replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

   sorry to say...I don't think I'd be a nurse for $11 and hour. I would make $11/hr babysitting. I just recently got married, and I live in the NE and there is no way I'd be able to keep up w/all my...

4. Giving injections!

   lysh7777 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

   what really bothers me, and freaks me out is having to go in and give these little old frail, cachetic, woman their flu shots. Ahh! I feel like I'm going to punch the needle right thru them and out...

5. How long is your orientation??

   lysh7777 replied to healer27's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I would love to have 6 months...but I'm on a Med/Surg floor so I get 6 weeks. They said after 6 weeks, if I still feel like I need some supervision I could get maybe up to 2 extra weeks. I think I...

6. Got nightmares?

   lysh7777 replied to RITA2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

   haha. this is a very interesting thread. I haven't even started my new job yet, but when I was still doing clinicals I would have nightmares all the time about running extremely late, and when I...

7. New Grads-What are some of the silliest things youve done so far?!?!

   lysh7777 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in First Year After Licensure

   My embarrassing moment.... well I was still in nursing school...and in the med room and there were like 4 different nurses, my instructor and a fellow student. One of my patients needed Heparin, so I...

8. I NEED ADVICE!--Please!

   lysh7777 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thanks for reading this: I graduated nursing school in may, took boards in july and passed. I was working up at a camp over the summer as a counselor and would cover Thursday/Fridays' for the camp...