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love-d-OR

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  1. Please help, orientation problems

    love-d-OR replied to pupnurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    NovicetoExpert, Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy reading your posts. You are such a positive and smart nurse! Good luck in anesthesia school, you deserve

  2. US economic crisis and Nurses???

    love-d-OR replied to fudgeremedy's topic in General Nursing

    HeartsopenWide, its funny you made that comment. I was just talking to a couple of experienced nurse at my job and they seemed to think the opposite. I told them how I personally knew of new grads...

  3. New girl in town

    love-d-OR replied to nursegirl82's topic in Travel

    :grpwlcm: I'm not a traveler, but I wonder if you would get more responses from the agency section

  4. Orientation Woes

    love-d-OR replied to Andrew, RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Andrew, Its always nice to hear updates on this forum! Although you are quite angry about the outcome, I believe it was a blessing for you. The situation you described months ago was very unsafe...

  5. vents and cpr

    love-d-OR replied to smartnurse1982's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You want to limit interruptions to your compressions. After you have gone through the ABC's of course and you determine you have to do chest copmressions, leave the vent on and usually 12-15...

  6. Best way to ask out a patient

    love-d-OR replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    I know a guy that started dating his nurse a year ago. I don't know the details of how they managed to exchange numbers, but they have been going strong ever since. Anyway, I would certainly refrain...

  7. RN Testing

    love-d-OR replied to chickengal's topic in California Nursing

    Very false!! Sitting for the NCLEX-RN is the only way you can become an RN in

  8. Autonomy

    love-d-OR replied to Hoozdo's topic in MICU, SICU

    A newbie here, so definetly not burned out. But as someone else said earlier, the situation you described is one of the reasons I chose to work in a teaching hospital and in

  9. Ready to give up

    love-d-OR replied to Dacia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    When an order is written for BID it does not mean it has to be given at 7a and 7p necessarily. It just means it should be given twice a day, so you should have given the first dose at 1p and re-timed...

  10. "Let me get out of your way"

    love-d-OR replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Soo

  11. preceptor problems (long sorry)

    love-d-OR replied to DCCCRNn2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This thread was buried 3 years ago. The OP is now a happy travel

  12. Why do some CNAs make our jobs so hard?

    love-d-OR replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Oh dear! Sometimes I wonder if management is too blame. If you have reported her on numerous occasions ( and I am sure she acts like this with other nurses, so it is likely other nurses have reported...

  13. "You don't get to tell me what to do!"

    love-d-OR posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I am a new nurse (still on orientation). On my floor we have 2 aides to a 24 bed ICU. The unit is divided by a small hallway, with 12 beds on each side. One aide is assigned to 12 beds. Anyway, I...

  14. PLEASE HELP! Rude Co-workers...

    love-d-OR replied to gemini81sg's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm sorry to hear that your co-workers are being rude. You should probably stand up tp them now, or it's going to get worse in the long run. Anyway, I really think you need to work on time management...

  15. Atropine

    love-d-OR posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I had a patient who had a very low heart rate, between 37 and 45. Heart rate hung around the 40's most of the day. His blood pressure however, was about 160-190 systolic. We fixed the heart rate and...

  16. Nurses, what do u do on ur day off?

    love-d-OR posted a topic in General Nursing

    After working and going to school full time to become a nurse, I finally graduated earlier during the summer. I went from being busy everyday, to having four days off! I found myself get bored to...

  17. Nurses, what do u do on ur day off?

    love-d-OR replied to love-d-OR's topic in General Nursing

    Woah! MichiganRN, when you said you slept on your days off you really meant

  18. Atropine

    love-d-OR replied to love-d-OR's topic in MICU, SICU

    Lifelongstudent, you say you are not bashing and I believe you. But to answer your question about why I do not know basic ICU nursing or why Cushing's triad was not covered in my nursing education,...

  19. Atropine

    love-d-OR replied to love-d-OR's topic in MICU, SICU

    The resident and a fellow from cards were both standing next to me when his HR went down to 35. I was ready to give the atropine, but was told to wait until BP dropped. This guy was intubated and...

  20. New LPN, new job, and IV push...

    love-d-OR replied to HamBiscuit's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :yeahthat:

  21. Survey: New Grad Pay

    love-d-OR replied to palee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Canuck2texan, thank you for your bravery, selflessness, and generousity. My heart is with you and I hope you are all able to manage the outcomes of the hurricane, and must of all I hope those outcomes...

  22. Starting Salary.

    love-d-OR replied to indiawhitaker's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That poster must be in Northern California, I'm in Southern Cali, and don't make close to that! Lol, people here seem to think nurses are rolling in money, if they only

  23. Atropine

    love-d-OR replied to love-d-OR's topic in MICU, SICU

    I want to take ACLS, but my assistant manager told meto wait 6 months. I have already being involved in a code, and I was told I did good, and if I had ACLS it would not be much different. I don't...

  24. Nurses, what do u do on ur day off?

    love-d-OR replied to love-d-OR's topic in General Nursing

    Tennis lessons today at 5p! I tried to go shopping for tennis clothes yesterday and boy where they expensive, $100 for a top and skirt! I can't afford it, can I??? Ha, they looked so cute, maybe I...

  25. LPN's Role in the ICU?

    love-d-OR replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in MICU, SICU

    Going back to the topic at hand, it seems to me that the education leading to nursing (any kind) may be adding to this issue. Take for instance California, where a CNA can challenge the LVN boards. A...