Maevish

Maevish ASN, RN

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  1. atheism religion and religious hospitals

    Maevish replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    It's that "Facebook-type courage",

  2. RN-NCLEX Anxiety, How did you cope?

    Maevish replied to HeySis's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I was more nervous after my test because, for some reason, it had made me go to questions number 232 or some nonsense like that and nearly everyone else I knew from my class had stopped around...

  3. "I do the same thing as an RN"

    Maevish replied to WheresMyPen's topic in General Nursing

    And here they can hang blood, but can't give IVP meds or hang any bag with more than just KcL added. Makes no sense to me. Just have them take another pharmacology/math for nurses class and be done...

  4. New Grad ICU Float-Possible? Or Impending Disaster?

    Maevish replied to PhysioJ's topic in Critical Care

    Yikes!! I would have never felt comfortable enough to do this right out of school...I guess, though, if you take the lightest patients in any of those units it wouldn't be too bad. Still, the...

  5. New RN and now trying to figure out which nursing unit I should start in?

    Maevish replied to krodRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Whichever one will give you a job!! I would love it if we could all choose where to work whenever we wanted, but sometimes you have to take what you can get. Plus, you'll be learning no matter where...

  6. Accepted in the Fall pls advice on my summer preparation

    Maevish replied to PJishere's topic in General Students

    They teach you what terminology you need to know for school and if you try even a little in clinicals and looking through charts in clinical prep, you'll be fine. I didn't have it before and wasn't a...

  7. Where did you go get your background check for nursing school?

    Maevish replied to Oceanblu's topic in General Students

    I thought you could get them online, but maybe I'm just crazy. My family did foster care when I was younger and, since I was old enough to babysit them, I had to be fingerprinted and have a...

  8. Starting in the fall...study advice?

    Maevish replied to small one's topic in General Students

    First of all, I wouldn't stress too much too soon...there will be plenty of reason/time for that later! haha If you're just dying to do something though, the books titled "_________ Made Incredibly...

  9. why is it important to have a personal philosophy?

    Maevish replied to staceyamu's topic in General Students

    I don't know how to take in what you're asking, exactly (as in, was it told to you in a class and you're just wondering about your own?). I feel like, in life, you should have the person you strive...

  10. Where is our "Safe Haven"

    Maevish replied to dzadzey's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Apparently, everywhere else is our "safe place" (hahahaha)! My mom remembers the era of nursing where the doctor was always right, nurses got up from their seats when doctors entered a room, nurses...

  11. Nurse forced to work as a CNA

    Maevish replied to hillbillienurse's topic in General Nursing

    "CNA stuff" used to be the only stuff nurses were allowed to do, back in the dark ages

  12. Can I ask to work exclusively day shifts?

    Maevish replied to kassiahgp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm absolutely shocked by the number of people saying that their hospitals make you rotate shifts. I've never worked where someone didn't do that willingly (if they were to do it at all). There was...

  13. Can I ask to work exclusively day shifts?

    Maevish replied to kassiahgp's topic in General Nursing

    Haha yeah, but I've only ever done nights and have NO desire to do days so it's even more annoying. You'd think I'd be able to get even an on-call position somewhere to get in somewhere initially.

  14. atheism religion and religious hospitals

    Maevish replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Nope, not inappropriate at all! The people who work there and who walk in of their own free will know this is a Catholic hospital and they should expect what they get as far as religious things. If...

  15. What do you hate most about your job?

    Maevish replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    ...and they wonder why people don't want to work at places like that:inlove: I feel your pain because, as a traveler, it also sucks coming into places like that. However, most of the staff is...

  16. What do you hate most about your job?

    Maevish replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    This week, it's

  17. Should I SUE?

    Maevish replied to hollyday's topic in General Students

    You should be able to go to another school with no problem bigger than maybe repeating a semester or two. I screwed around in my first program (in the theory classes) because I didn't want to be a...

  18. Should I SUE?

    Maevish replied to hollyday's topic in General Students

    That's rotten! Of course you should have told the nurse, but I honestly think that SHE was more concerned with HER a** being on the line, potentially, so she said what she did. You should definitely...

  19. Taking clothes off for a head to toe assessment

    Maevish replied to evelyn305's topic in General Students

    The most we had to do was to be in swimsuits for learning how to do a bed bath. We heard horror stories from our teachers about having to practice NGs and foleys (I'm not entirely certain they...

  20. Resignation in lieu of drug test? Is random testing the answer?

    Maevish replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Not doing it is an admission of guilt from where I stand. If she had been, say, taking a norco before she went to sleep each night for back pain, she could've tested and told them she was taking it...

  21. what's your pet peeve?

    Maevish replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    -Patients who are "with it" yet still act like a**holes -Pts who think I live and breathe to serve them and act accordingly -Pts who are extremely overweight and yet the family brings them KFC, then...

  22. atheism religion and religious hospitals

    Maevish replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    It's a job. They can't make you pray, etc so I don't see the problem. I mean this nicely, but if you feel like you wouldn't be able to wrap your brain around the fact that it's a christian hospital,...

  23. Nurse forced to work as a CNA

    Maevish replied to hillbillienurse's topic in General Nursing

    Where's the venom and why so defensive? You asked a question and you got answers. No one is being mean here (which does happen easily around here sometimes) so I'm not sure what the problem is.

  24. Nurse forced to work as a CNA

    Maevish replied to hillbillienurse's topic in General Nursing

    They most definitely can. They should have told her that they only needed aides though, so it shouldn't have been a shock to her. If you say you'll work extra, that's usually what happens. Is CNA...

  25. "I do the same thing as an RN"

    Maevish replied to WheresMyPen's topic in General Nursing

    While that is true, in my experience, there are also loads of CNAs who try to do as little as possible and even ignore their patients. I worked with (and reported) one who actually was making up...