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Being new into lower management I love this post. As a staff nurse, I knew about the "bad folks" in management. It's strange, but those on the staff who complained the most about the administration are the ones who seem to have "issues" themselves....

Like the others have said med-surg provides a variety of patient diagnosis. At the hospital I work for, I'm on a med-surg/telemetry unit. On our particular floor we have between 5-7 patients per nurse. We try to divide the assignments by the acqui...

Yes, please make/take the time to use the bathroom and to eat your meal. I work on a med-surg/telemetry floor. We get a 30 minute meal break during our shift. I'm fortunate I work on a floor where we all are trying to work together as a team. We...

I happen to be a charge nurse on a 40-bed telemetry floor. Our day is split into 3 shifts. Each shift has 1-2 monitor tech since we monitor telemetry for 3 floors and an admissions/holding unit. Our patient load for day and evening shift is 5 -6 ...

First, I'm sorry that you are having to work with a nurse that you are so uncomfortable with. I am a new ANM on my floor and am learning some of the whys that you are asking. What I have learned so far is that if a nurse has been someplace for an e...

You ask your non-night shift friends to meet for breakfast instead of lunch so that you can sleep. When you leave work at 0730 you're telling everyone "Good Night" You're first questions when making appointments are "How early do you open" and "Wha...

Okay so maybe it's not just the administration at my hospital that has it's priorities out of whack. I was so confused when they started to refer to my patients as "customers", I looked around to make sure that I was in the correct meeting. Sure, w...

Wow it sounds like you could be talking about a couple of patients that come to my hospital. They yell, fuss, and make all sorts of demands, keeping you from caring for the other patients. There is one in particular whose name we do not dare speak ...

LPN1974 I'm looking forward to checking out the link from your original post. I do am always wanting to be prepared. Thanks for taking the time to post. I really do appreciate it, and I'm sure there are others who do also that just haven't comment...

When I enter a room, I do introduce myself. I usually say something like, Good Afternoon, my name is Angela and I will be your nurse until 11 this evening. I put my name and phone ext (we carry portable phones that the pt's can call us on) on the w...

Graduated August 2005 - Licensure October - pay became $18.54/hr + shift diffs. I had worked at this hospital as an extern while in school receiving $12/hr + shift diff. When my anniversary as an extern came in November - they increased my RN pay to...

My graduating class was small, because our class only started with 24 students. We were the first class to start in the spring semester and I they weren't real sure how it was going to work. Yes, that means less than 50% of us graduated; however, n...

:yeahthat: And then when the second doctor says No - you have to call the first doctor back and let them know. Yesterday I ended up having to call 4 different doctors before I was able to assess all 7 of my patients - because the previous shift was ...

The day I took my NCLEX there were four of us from my class there. Two of us stopped at 75 questions and passed. The other two had 265 questions - one passed and one didn't.

I work on a 32-bed telemetry unit. Now, not always are all our patient's actually on telemetry. We average between a 1:6 - 1:8 ration. During day shift there are also 4 CNA/NA/Tech's; evenings there are 2 or 3 CNA/NA/Tech's and on nights there ar...

I love it when we are able to have an agency nurse work with us. They are able to bring fresh air to our floor. I guess I work with a really good group of people, we all reach out and try to help the agency person know where our supplies are, how t...

Pet Peeves ~ Patient's who ask for sleeping pill because they haven't slept since they've been in the hospital. You finally get the doctor to call you back to get an order for something, because the patient didn't want to bother the doctor about it ...

I work on a med/surg telemetry floor. The majority of our patients are elderly and have CHF, CRF, COPD, or some other chronic condition. When we give blood, we use a pump and start it at 75cc/hr. Our policy states that we must stay with the patien...

My first patient's death happened during my last semester of nursing school. I was doing my clinicals in the Medical ICU at the hospital I now work at. A patient was on a ventilator and there was no hope of recovery. The family decided that it wou...

As a nurse nurse what I looked for was: ~ Salary ~ Scheduling - not only the days, but the shifts ~ Continuing education, and education reimbursement ~ Insurance and benefits ~ Opportunities for advancement I know I'm over 30, but I am still a nurse ...

Fortunately I have not been the "patient" since becoming a nurse. However, about 6 weeks ago, my father was admitted to the hospital where I work at. I did not tell the staff that I was a nurse, but fairly soon it become obvious between the number ...

Macon State required that all your core classes be completed. The exception to this was Microbiology. You could take that during your first 2 (?) semesters of the nursing program. The core had all your English, Science, History, etc. I'm not sure...

:balloons: Congratulations!! All your hard work paid off.

Although I have finished school for now (considering going back for BSN) I still find myself assessing people I interact with. Are their veins good? Are the SOB while walking? Can I see any edema in their extremities? Do I hear any wheezing witho...

Working down here in the South, I have had several patient's ask for rubbing alcohol to treat sore muscles. They swear it works, but the doctors don't want to let them use it. In reference to head lice, saturating the head with olive oil, putting o...