danh3190

I'm not sure I'd even call this a "careless" mistake. Sounds like the poster was just overwhelmed with issues at the moment and the CBG got overlooked. It's happened to me, usually when meal trays are earlier than I expected, though I do my best to...

I'm a long time medic and a 3 year RN. I don't usually stop at an accident unless it looks like someone's unconscious (needs airway open) or some sign of profuse external bleeding. In all the accidents I've been to as a medic I can only think of on...

Why distract yourself with nursing school if you want to be a physician? Go for it with everything you've got, but don't spend time looking back wondering if you should have gone to nursing school. You don't want to be a 40 year old nurse wishing t...

Good luck. With 5000 questions under your belt I'm sure you're ready. Just stay calm when you hit a question you don't know the answer to. Remember, a lot of the questions you see aren't real questions yet, but are being tested to see if they can ...

I know people who didn't have any math problems. I had a couple pretty straightforward math problems. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I can't imagine how the health care system can support those types of wages, if they are truly typical of regular staff nurse pay. They're pretty much double ours here. Cost of living must be terrible there or else they must work under truly terrib...

I also work ambulance. A lot of the time we don't find out pt has MRSA or other infectious hx until just before we get to the ED (when I have a moment to read all of the nursing home hx sheet) if then. I always tell the ED if I know, but I pretty m...

My BS and MS in chemistry make no difference in my pay. I get paid the same as any other diploma RN.

When I got hired they asked me if I wanted to work Day/Evening or Day/Overnight. I was surprised they gave me the choice. Some of the preferred schedules (three 12's a week or the weekend program) require overnights.

We have a lot of cardiologists on our floor and they're all different. I've gotten chewed out for holding beta blockers on patients with HR in 50s even though 60 was the written parameter on the order. Cardiology attendings often like their patient...

At my old (nonmedical) company they had noncompete agreements that we had to sign. A number of people who left the company ended up suing to overturn these agreements and the cases were settled out of court. Basically they were allowed to work for ...

I've never worked in LTC but I go to various nursing and personal care homes a lot in my part time paramedic job. I admire the nurses there so much. They have so many patients and so much responsibility. I don't know how they can do it. I know I c...

That's why I was in favor of earlier proposals to require that everybody in the US carry health insurance, rather like all drivers have to have car insurance. Or an alternative would be not to require them to purchase the insurance but to tax them d...

I've found the pharmacists to be a help when the "Variable" note comes up. I know they use other sources and a lot of them know what the variability is, I've had them say stuff like "O, there's only a problem at higher doseages, you're fine at your ...

No. We're not a religious based hospital and are part of a large system. We do have chaplains who round, but no public hospital-wide prayer etc.

Yes I certainly would care for a woman who had an abortion but wouldn't allow myself to be involved in sending her up for the abortion, or the OR. So I guess I can't work in OR, Same Day or Short Stay surgery. Now that they have the morning after p...

In my nursing school it was absolutely forbidden to be involved in the administration of blood products. I don't think we were even allowed to take vitals while the blood was running. I think they were trying to make sure the students weren't held ...

Thank you for an eloquent explanation of the problem. When I was in nursing school I just couldn't believe the concept of nursing diagnoses. Even as I wrote my care plans, I always said to myself stuff like "but it's really shock" or "but the patie...

Pretty sure we had this test as part of our orientation 3 years ago. I didn't know I was supposed to be so afraid of it. I thought it was pretty interesting, I liked it more than a lot of the nursing school tests I'd had. Many of us passed all the...

Would the hospital's organizational chart help you? At least you'd know who he supervises. Can't see how knowing such a thing would make better nurses.

I wonder how they managed to get all the skills checked off. I went to a very good hands-on diploma program, but with all the students we had there was no way to participate in 10 deliveries. They were very eager for us to have practical experience...

I thought my 1st semester of nursing school was pretty useless, lots of models of nursing and stuff about early nurses. Micro and A&P were good though. 2nd semester was pretty interesting, basic nursing skills. Then it started getting really i...

A lot of the middle aged and older RNs are going to be retiring and turning into patients themselves in the next decade, so I'm hopeful that my young friends in nursing school may someday have good jobs.

Has anyone seen any research about the effect of piercings, tattoos, etc on patients? Whether it upsets patients, relaxes them, or has no effect? In our culture more and more people are getting tattoos, so at some point it may be more normal to hav...

... there are places that might tolerate it but not in my ER. Good luck with your choices in life. Wow. Hope I don't land in "your" ER.