Tami707

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1. CNE Expects Code Nurses To Leave Patients Under Direct Care

   Tami707 replied to Tami707's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Thank you everyone for your replies. We, all the Charge Nurses, have requested a meeting with our Manager, the DON, and CNE to discuss this. The consensus among us, is that this is an unsafe, as...

2. CNE Expects Code Nurses To Leave Patients Under Direct Care

   Tami707 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Wondering if anyone else has run into this and what you have done. I work in ICU and am frequently assigned as a Charge Nurse. In addition to unit resource, Charge nurses are a member of the...

3. Upset When Nurses Volunteer To Take On Extra Patients

   Tami707 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   Do you have any type of Professional Performance Committee or Staffing Committee that nurses sit on? At my hospital, the Charge is a, mostly, rotated assignment. Some senior nurses won't do it, and...

4. why leave an open appendectomy open after surgery?

   Tami707 posted a topic in Pediatric

   I work in a mixed med-surg unit, so we get pediatric patients occasionally. One of our surgeons, will leave the open appys open after surgery and have us clean them qXhrs. Usually this means...

5. Interview scheduled - now What?!?

   Tami707 posted a topic in Nursing Career

   I finally have an interview scheduled, and I've done the research on the typical questions (thanks for the stickies!!!) But, this hospital is going to have me walk around the floor with another nurse...

6. You'll never make it in California

   Tami707 replied to luv2shopp85's topic in California Nursing

   I just have to add my two cents. I've lived in Cali my entire life. I'm currently in Nursing school, my husband is our sole support and we are raising two kids on less than $35,000/yr in a rental...

7. Major meltdown in progress re:pathophys

   Tami707 replied to Tami707's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Thanks for the slap, I stopped hyperventilating long enough to think again. I ended up writing most everything as an abdominal mass, but I did pull out the information that doctor used to come to her...

8. Major meltdown in progress re:pathophys

   Tami707 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   UGGGGHHHHH, I received a ptient today with an admitting diagnosis of Abdominal mass. I need to do a pathophysiology on that diagnosis, with all the related stuff: diagnostic tests, etiology,...

9. Order of science classes

   Tami707 replied to AmericanChai's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   I had to take Bio before I could get into Anatomy, and Chemistry before Physio or Micro. I took Bio one semester, chemistry the next, followed by Anatomy, then Physio, then Micro. It took me longer...

10. Micro advice???

    Tami707 replied to bpo93's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    HI BPO93, I took Micro last summer. It was 5 hours everyday (mon-Thrus), 3 hour lab, 2 hour lecture, with a two hour break between them. I spent the time between lab and lecture studying (and...