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I know everyone has had a red face moment. Usually happens at beginning of our career.You would think after 23 yrs (length of experience when this occurance happened) nothing would turn you red still. One night I had an elderly gentleman that obvious...

Hey everyone, Well I had one week of orientation (sort of ) before nurse training me got sick and had to quit. The paperwork is sooooo different from hospital. She was 2 months behind on filing hence, i am now really behind. The hunt for charts takes...

Hi Laura..This is the second week for me in a new office job. I had worked for 25yrs in hospitals so this is new to me. The paperwork is daunting. So many medicare/medicaid rules for reinbursment. Sooooo many nurse calls for prescriptions renewals or...

JenniferRN Many thanks for the information. I will sure write them this week. Thanks again...Canna

Yesterday was my first day working in an office. Geeeeeez lots of paperwork to learn. Soooo many phone calls. The nurse training me had to stop approx every 5 minutes for phone calls and usually there were more than one at a time. Stacks of charts to...

Hi JenniferRn..where did you take instruction for basic x-ray? I will at times have to do occ one at my new job in office...have no idea of how. Any tips you can give on office work appreciated. What was suppose to be 8-5 job is really 8-7:30 or late...

I may be starting an office job soon...my duties will include doing lab and x-ray. Other than accu-checks, I have never done these as I have worked in a hospital 25yrs. Does anyone out there do these in an office? Is it difficult? Makes me nervous. I...

Ohhhh you really hit a nerve on my memories. Not meaning you do this...did you leave your charts out just a couple of times? This nurse that worked dayshift ahead of me ALWAYS left her charts out. I got sick of spending the first 20 minutes of my shi...

Laura just wanted to say I start my office job Nov 12th. I turned in my 2 weeks notice Friday. Have done the drug screen and signed the tax papers already. Looking forward to first week even though I will probably be all thumbs!! Lots to learn but I ...

Laura thanks..I added you to buddy list..not sure if I know how to use it though ha ha not very computer literate. Just got home from work..was a long 12 hr nightshift. Hope they call this morning but I am not going to hold my breath.Let me know how ...

I had worked in pediatrics for the first 15yrs of nursing. You will love it! Children are so honest and tell it all ha ha ha. Grandma's can be scarey at times though (for real ! ). So far I have not heard final word. The office was closed Monday. I a...

No offense meant to greenville or anyone else who works icu but lets face it...if you have a max of 4 pts..lot less family to deal with..more time to deal with those you have. I had 14 pts one night when every visitor had reasonable requests for my t...

I work 7p-7a shift. We have plenty of ppl to work nights here..days has a hard time hanging on to nurses. We don't have the aggravation of numerous visitors...drs rnds...other depts taking our charts etc. However our DON at a nurses meeting stated we...

Let me tell you about an interview I had 3 weeks ago. I work at a small country hospital (max40 beds). I interviewed at a hospital in a larger city with bed capacity 320 beds. The interviewer said they were higher IV certified LPNS because they were ...

we had grey dress uniform with white pintuck bib. Last night that I worked I wore pale pink scrub ( called cotton candy ha ha). Never wear white anymore...except for occasionally wear white lab coat.

Thanks again Darla! When I saw the term ICD9 codes..I went huh? ha ha I have a lot to learn! Have not started just yet but our days are Tuesday-Friday...every other week we work 1/2 day on Mondays. The clinic is owned by local hospital so we get sa...

Darla..thanks for your reply. I appreciate the information. The office is general practice. The particular doctor I will be working with likes doing lots of procedures. The office manager realizes I have not been doing these particular procedures but...

It was not exactly what I call a chewing out...more attitude..huffing and puffing..making me feel incompetent. She would bark at me..Do you have ...done yet? Why have you not done this yet ? etc. I carefully did everything I could think of so I could...

I make some of my own also. Mostly for variety and fun. I like thicker pockets . It is also cheaper to make my own lab coats and they last a whole lot longer than any I have gotten from HICE. I have not had any trouble finding fabric at wal-mart but ...

The first 5 yrs I worked in nursing , I worked under a charge nurse we called Hitler. After going home crying many nights I started being sure Ihad everything done b4 she could even ask me to do it. On hindsight..much as I hate to admit it...she was ...

Here in cental Mississippi we have a flood of nurses. It seems like a nursing shortage in any of the hospitals only because of managed care. Here average pt load 8-12 patients. As far as salary goes..I make more at my small hospital than I would at t...

I would say 98% of our visitors are lovely helpful people...but that 2% always seems to be ppl whose tree does not branch. Frustrating as it is...it does give us something to laugh about later. Once in awhile we get someone with a chip on their shoul...

sounds like you contacted the wrong people. When our hospital got in that shape we contacted attorney general. He then contacted appropriate ppl..for us it was local district attorney and medicaid office ( that is who has our license to operate). Con...

This wasn't an order a Dr wrote but was a diagnosis on an ER chart. Female patient came in with an ulcer on her leg...badly infected. On the er record our doc wrote for diagnosis...copious xxx drainage..ha ha ha totally left off where ...laughed unti...

Such good responses to scout girl ha ha ha. I have been an LPN 25yrs. Have come across this type many many types. This attitude usually at some time comes back to slap them in the face. Had an RN with a MSN behind her name come to work with us once. ...