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  1. please advise charge nurses

    danaheil posted a topic in General Nursing

    My husband is a new nurse. He has been on a medsurg unit for less than 6 months. He has already been asked to assume charge nurse role, and feel unprepared to do so. He has had no training or...

  2. please advise charge nurses

    danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

    Right on, I totally agree with you, anne74. I worked for this company in my first year of nursing and they did the same thing to me. It was a big part of why I left. Yesterday when my DH went to...

  3. please advise charge nurses

    danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks guys, We appreciate all your responses. Dana and

  4. please advise charge nurses

    danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

    It is more like an ICU step down for trauma pts. Occasionally a post op from the OR is admitted when space is unavailable elsewhere. Most of the admissions come from the

  5. please advise charge nurses

    danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

    NO, he was not offered the job with more pay. He just went to work one day and the staffing office said that he would be charging now. He works the night shift, and the charge nurses at this facility...

  6. Advice For The New Nurse Entering Med-Surg

    danaheil replied to RNPATL's topic in Medical-Surgical

    my husband just started in med surg less than 6 months ago. He is already being asked to charge, and he feels unprepared for this. He has received no orientation to charge, and has no desire to do...

  7. secondary cancer after radiation therapy

    danaheil posted a topic in Oncology

    Does anyone know the incidence of secondary cancers after radiation? Pelvic radiation specifically. How much time goes by before this becomes a distinct possibility for patients? I know that pelvic...

  8. Would you let your hospital treat your loved one?

    danaheil replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    absolutely. I brought my husband to the facility where i work after he had a terrible experience with a VA systems hospital. He was much happier, better cared for and his exact words were "I feel...

  9. Drop Rate for Nursing School

    danaheil replied to angelina02_21's topic in General Nursing

    My BSN class started with around 40. 2 had to drop to part time for personal reasons and finished school in the next graduationg semester. All of the class graduated and we had a 100% pass rate for...

  10. Need some help

    danaheil replied to xjae's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with prvious posters, that you need to look around in the forums and also contact the schools you are interested in. As for the difference in associates and bachelors, there isn't really much...

  11. Jury Duty during nursing school

    danaheil replied to capribry's topic in General Nursing

    I am pretty sure i was excused a couple times when I was in college because i was a full time student. I don't know if the same rules apply in your

  12. teamwork and job satisfaction

    danaheil replied to mak2's topic in General Nursing

    Teamwork is absolutely important. It makes everyone's life easier. That is why many places call it a treatment team. And besides, no one person is expected to know everything. It is important to...

  13. Are some environments beyond hope?

    danaheil replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    You have to do what is best for you. If you feel it is important to you to be in this orientation program, (if it is the only new nurse orientation program in your area for OR) and this is the area of...

  14. Computer Charting

    danaheil replied to sstromberg's topic in General Nursing

    I really like the idea of computer charting. I can type about 4 times faster than i can write anything out by hand. The problem is that our particular unit is caught in the "in between" stage. We have...

  15. Wearing scrubs home??

    danaheil replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    i think that nurses fall into two classes regarding germs...the paranoid and the blase I suppose this is somewhat true. Although, I have been known to switch from one group to the other dependant on...

  16. How FAST/what route to RN if u already have other degrees?

    danaheil replied to FutureTraveler?'s topic in General Nursing

    I have a BS in PSYC. When i origionally considered nursing school it would have taken me the same amount of time to aquire a BSN as it would an ADN, so I went ahead and got my BSN. Univeristy of Texas...

  17. Nursing school with a GED.

    danaheil replied to desireef's topic in General Nursing

    DH tested for GED at age 17. Recently finished bsn program with top marks. Now works ICU. You should have no porblems. Good

  18. Austin, Texas Area CC

    danaheil replied to actexas's topic in General Nursing

    blinn college also has a branch in Bryan,

  19. How do you tell your co-worker you don't won't to be in their study group?

    danaheil replied to nurse2b2007SC's topic in General Nursing

    I usually have problems absorbing material when studying in a group as well. I had a rather long collegiate journey and have had opportuniies for many study groups. I have never had social issues...

  20. Do you love your job and why? help 4 a nursing student!

    danaheil replied to mdonohue's topic in General Nursing

    I work in L&D, but have worked other places beore. My favorite part of L&D is the opportunity to be a part of something, that for most people, is one of the happies times of their life. It is...

  21. What is your unit's Uniform Policy

    danaheil replied to 1994OBRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't think that colorcoding departments (i.e blue for nursing, green for housekeeping, ect) or even colorcoding based on speciality (purple for L&D, red for cardiac, ect) is a bad idea....

  22. Favorite, Fun, Weird, and Scandalous Symptoms and Diagnosis...

    danaheil replied to doctordefender's topic in Nursing Humor

    Pts regularly comt to my unit asking if it is too late to get their "epidermal" (epidural). Often seen on tentative diagnosos section of adission paperwork "thinks water broke" as opposed to "r/o...

  23. Funniest thing a new nurse said/charted/asked...

    danaheil replied to RN12345656's topic in Nursing Humor

    recently seen on operative notes in L&D for a C/S. "Count correct upon closure of perineum" instead of peritoneum. I feel sorry for the women that needs perineal closure from a

  24. Share Your Saying

    danaheil replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    Southernism too stupid to pour pi$$ out of a boot with the instructions written on the