Lynda Lampert, RN

I agree -- Great answer! I will need to print this out to keep with my research stuff. Iona

Thanks for the replies, all. I think I am getting a better understanding of it. Still feel so lost in the unit right now, but it has only been two weeks. I'll likely be back with any other questions that frustrate my preceptors. :) Ionafey

Maybe I am confused. I would not doubt it, lol! I have been to the Edwards site and d/l some of the stuff they have there. I love learning, so I am not having a problem with this: I think being confused is the first step to understanding. And, I ...

I just wanted to say that I have been a new nurse for four months and off orientation for a month. Last night there was another nurse orienting a newer nurse. I kept going down and asking her questions. In fact, I asked her more questions than her...

I would probably give the q8h med first because if I don't have have the potential problem of smacking up against the next scheduled dose and not keeping 8hrs between dose. I once had a problem like this where I had to give unasyn, 3 runs of k+, and...

Well, I know that you are looking for uplifting stories regarding AA nurses, but I thought I would put up a story about something you may face. Before I started school to be a nurse, I worked as a CNA at a nursing home. One of the other CNA was this...

Med surg tele here. There are pros and cons" Pros: great coworkers, patient resource and charge nurses, patients that like that I can joke with them, patients that truly need my help, the challenge of figuring out a problem, the thrill of being righ...

Off the top of my head for med/surg tele, this is my order: Name/ doctor/ age Consults History highlights Most important thing about this patient New orders this shift/ day Head to toe including: orientation, edema, pulses, tele, breath sounds, heart...

Just wanted to chime in and say that I am a new nurse, too, and that sounds like a tough shift to me! I work nights, too, but my manager won't let me work all nights. She's afraid I'll get lost in the shuffle and there is a lack of resources on nig...

Just wanted to tell you deeDawntee that you made me blush. It's nice to have praise when you can sometimes get caught up in a sea of your own criticism. Just wanted to let you know it helped me. Iona

Hi, all! I've just come off second shift and I think I need to do some typing to some people who may understand. I work on a tele unit. I graduated in May and had about 11 weeks of orientation. Today was my third day off of orientation and I had f...

LOL, thanks for all of the replies! Angie, I love to write, actually. I just don't often get the time to sit down and do it. All of those things actually happened sequentially. I keep joking that I start at one room with a problem, then everyone i...

Thank you for all the replys! I was pretty upset that night. I felt so not confident, so out of control. The thing for me is that I don't want others to think -- and I don't want to feel! -- as if I am being lazy or stupid. I am understanding bet...

I actually had to tell a doc the other day that he couldn't use the cell phone on our floor. He looked sheepish and hung it up as he sprinted towards the fire stairwell. I basically had to tell him, too, because a family member was standing in the ...

Okay, maybe this isn't the way to do it, but these are some of the things I've picked up so far. I hate, hate, hate narrative notes. I actually like to write, but narrative notes get me so stressed. I never know what to put. Sometimes I will look ...

I have a theory: Ionafey's theory of economics, part one: All life expenses will expand to fill all available money regardless of how much money there actually is. You read it here first, folks. I've seen it happen! Iona

I'm just finishing up my ADN -- graduate May 19th, and I've helped a lot of people who struggle with the odd questions that nursing tests ask. I always tell people to focus on these three things: 1. what do you see (ie. signs and symptoms) 2. what d...

In my school we have a separate patho class . . . that was the best and the HARDEST. Loved it! Right now we are doing cardio. Of the actual nursing classes, I'd say this is the best and the hardest. Things I didn't like: maternity, micro. Both were r...

I just wanted to chime in here because I suffer from anxiety, too. Clinicals are a nightmare for me! I'm a very good student and quite vocal in class, so I think that people expect a lot from me. When someone is looking over my shoulder, though --...

Hello to all on this site! I very often lurk here to find support and understanding, but don't often post because I don't have much to say. Right now I am going through some things and I think I need the advice of the group to put my best foot forwa...

Hi, all! My clinical group and I are having a hard time figuring this calculation out. Actually, even my instructor is having a rough time. She's telling us one set of numbers and we're getting another. I just don't understand her rationale. If s...

Actually, that is the answer we all got: 166ml/hr. It is the clinical instructor who said that pharmacy told her that is wrong. She said that it is actually supposed to be 187ml/hr. Her reasoning is that you calculate it for 2hrs and then subtract...

Thanks, Jaime. :) I will settle down. Just going to breathe. I actually am looking forward to psych because it was one of my initial interests -- and it may still be a path I want to go down. Just haven't had the experience yet. No more beating u...

Sorry, I didn't see the posts on the second page! Finallyat40, I don't get to select my patients. They are always selected for me. I actually requested from a few instructors that I be given patients that were a bit more complex because I enjoy the...

Yes, I did get rattled by the instructor. My patient was very complex. I had to crush all the meds and give them via peg tube, which I had never done before. I had to hang new maintenence fluids, hang a piggyback, and change all the tubing which I...