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My sister in law, 56 years of age just graduated and will be working 3 12 hour NOC shifts. We both on occasion use Ambien CR at bed time. She of course has many concerns regarding getting an adequate amount of rest and asked me what I think. I have n...

I'm reviewing various gtts and came acrcoss the insulin one. It says "when changing, flush 50 ml of solution through tubing to saturate binding sites." Does this mean to flush w/ NS first and every time new tubing and gtt is changed? Don't completely...

I have been nursing for 2 decades and developed some back issues. I have work restrictions now as a staff bedside nurse. I have the opportunity to apply for a coding type job, I believe it is called a Clinical Documentation Specialist. Can anyone tel...

There are the 2 types of Ambien, I think the regular has an Ativan like effect and the CR is non-narcotic. Seems like you guys take the regular type which I wonder would be more effective? We were wondering though on that first night on.....what do ...

I was offered the opportunity to work in Home Health. I was reading an online hospital description of the position and they mentioned 8 - 10 hours of high stress. Before I consider the offer can anyone enlighten me? :)

Several months ago I injured my back but am O.K. now. The hospital put me on some bogus program where they would find me alternative RN work because the Rehab Dept. I was in (only a few months) would not accomodate me because I could not lift thier r...

I live in a very small town and am afraid to mention the area, everyone knows each others business. All the desk jobs you mentioned are good potentials but there are hardly ever no openings. I was just passed up on a desk job that I would of been gre...

About 4 months ago I injured my back helping a pt. in Rehab transfer from bed to the commode. It all started with misinformation about her transfer. The shift report, careplan, communication board in pt's room, pt. herself all said something differen...

Thank you all for your help, input and sharing your stories. I did get the local phone book out and found one Workman's Comp. attorney, called and spoke to the "intake" person. I gave her a full account of shared here on this forum. She said "no red ...

my ears are back now. i am trying to get a handle on studying ekg's. yesterday between 2 books i fell asleep. this is serious, i need to get them under my pelt. is there an online fun verion or any recommendations to learning the hundred differen...

I've been nursing for almost 2 decades, mostly med/surg and some tele. I was offered a position about 6 months in outpatient endo, it sort of came my way. I took it but the 5 days a week, on call all hours of the night and the technology just about k...

The ending to my story. I flunked my eval and got an extention to my probation, HR was there, copies of all this will go to several people in high places, it was quite humbling. All my 2 decades of nursing skills meant nothing, everything was centere...

Pray for me at 1500 PST. Big guns from HR will be there. My manager and I had a brief meeting before the big one today (which is suppose to be annual evaluations for everyone but my orientation is 30 days away) and she went over some of the feedbac...

I have been done ICU and med surg nursing for years and now work in a PCU. I've done 8 and 12 hour shifts, now as the trend is, doing 12's. I have been feeling frustrated and tired about the quick turn over in patients these days in our unit, the pat...

I had a chance for an interview as an RN in the Endo Dept. Small hospital but big dept. I was asked half a dozen times if I was a "gaget" person. The interviewers indicated the many gaget like equipment available and the nurse must trouble shoot f...

Good for you but don't hang up those drummer sticks. You will need a creative outlet becasue you will be entering into logical stressful stuff. It is important to have an outlet that is relaxing and soothes the soul.

I work on a very busy tele unit, 3 - 12 hour days. We have no nursing aids, note our own orders, do all 3 meals, the baths, most of the surgeries and procedures etc. are done on days. The nursing station is wild with too many people (bodies and too...

Out here in California and the hospital I work for they adhere to ratios like in step down 3:1 and tel 4:1 on the day or night shift. It sounds very tempting, the unit I am in has some strong very supportive people on both shifts. They also use a hos...

I have read in interviewing books that to call is okay. I have found that managers get very busy and just forget to get back. So if you have and say "I really want to work in your unit...........................etc. etc." reminding them of who you ...

Sorry to hear you got off on a wrong start. Most nurses do have a happy precepting time although its hard because you are putting the whole nursing process together, multi tasking. You should of went to your director and complained about your precept...

I've been a good nurse for a long time but one year old in this new dept. Several days ago I took care of a DNR dementia patient that had runs of A-Fib. She was in a room that had a hard wire and it was. The blood pressure cuff remained on her too my...

The Union Rep who was wonderful, met w/ me and the director. The print off of VS showed like I just two done. Well the rep noticed that the print out was done in hourly fragments and she said something about if whoever printed it should of expanded t...

I hope that is all it is. She has had a reputation of yelling and getting out of control with others. She has since mellowed out, but good point, in that she will be protecting herself. this might be too big and she already knows herself better. ...

Well now that you put it into perspective, what machine is reliable? Thanks, shows that we put too much emphasis into them. Maybe there are other underlying issues like no love connection in that unit, I have sensed that but push under the rug. Hea...

We have dinamaps and couple of those 1950 rolling one's but the patient was hooked up to a hard wire and since not all rooms have hard wire, we are told not to use the dinamap if you have the monitor so that is what I did. Its not a matter of having ...