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  1. What was your favorite nursing job and why?

    brownbook replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    I never pay attention to my salary so can't answer that. An out patient, or ambulatory, surgery center employees pre op and post op (PACU) RN's, and operating room nurses. I am not an operating room...

  2. What was your favorite nursing job and why?

    brownbook replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    My favorite nursing job was out patient surgery. No nights, no weekends, no holidays. (Although the first clinic was part of an acute care hospital so I had to take call on nights, weekends and...

  3. IV Vaso-Vagal HELP

    brownbook replied to John Gonzalez's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Thanks, that explains a lot. If the patient is so compromised they really need an IV it would be tough, even for an expert. Check out out to start IV's on Allnurses. In an emergency, to heck with...

  4. IV Vaso-Vagal HELP

    brownbook replied to John Gonzalez's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Who starts the IVs at the plasma center? Or am I confused about what a plasma center is? If you rarely start IVs then starting one under stressful circumstances is not going to work. Experts would...

  5. Shift Work

    brownbook replied to Bones17's topic in General Nursing

    You don't need to edit your post. Just replying to questions is fine. But I'm still not sure if, for example, you mean you work 7-3 four days, are off two, then work 3-11 three evenings, off two,...

  6. medical spanish courses/classes

    brownbook replied to painmeds's topic in General Nursing

    I got by with a modicum of Spanish. It took several years to feel confident. I never felt I was good enough to take the exam my hospital offered to be designated bi-lingual. It was a combination of...

  7. Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    brownbook replied to kmbrn91's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing you choose now will be permanent, or forever. I say stay at your regional hospital as a new grad nurse. You will have a familiar work site to hone your nursing skills. Work the magical number...

  8. Fully drain distended bladder?

    brownbook replied to haunani's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This whole discussion is clear as mud......as usual with technical questions. I suppose it depends on the patients underlying health, why the bladder is full, etc. Once I had a full bladder on a slow...

  9. Shift Work

    brownbook replied to Bones17's topic in General Nursing

    As other posters have alluded to. We need to know what your idea, definition, of shift work

  10. Useless Shift Report Information

    brownbook replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    There certainly is a middle ground. Depending on the unit, how many patients you have, etc, a lengthy report will make your shift, patient assessments, med pass, etc, start late. The nurse giving a...

  11. Things you wish nursing school would have taught you?

    brownbook replied to Clover19's topic in General Nursing

    1) You will make mistakes. Doctors and nurses with 30 years experience will make mistakes. This is what to do when you make a mistake. 2) You should be saying, "I don't know that... medication,...

  12. Med-surg or GI Hospital lab nurse opportunity?

    brownbook replied to sbwpaso's topic in Gastroenterology

    If you take the part time GI position and can work per diem or something ?? on your current unit....you will keep up your acute care skills. Then if you like the GI job I assume you could eventually...

  13. Useless Shift Report Information

    brownbook replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    And giving report to OCD nurses! We had a nurse in out patient surgery who only worked the late shift when we occasionally had plastic surgery patients stay the night. She went over what we charted...

  14. Cleaning patients after bowel movements.

    brownbook replied to Kidsrablast's topic in General Nursing

    I thought it was a funny question. I guess we're childish and think poo poo posts can be

  15. What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

    brownbook replied to Grogon's topic in General Nursing

    Intellictually I I understand your "I'm not a real nurse" feeling. In my heart I bless you and what you do. I have a severely mentally delayed grandson. Thinking of the future when we "grandparents"...

  16. Colleague asked me for a Tylenol from my med cart. What to do?

    brownbook replied to FromMNtoCA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Totally hijack the thread...but the oddest incident happened to me. I was driving through Jack in the Box. I got to the drive up window and the employee at the window asked me if I had any Tylenol....

  17. NICU or Med-Surg

    brownbook replied to Enurse1234's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure what a post acute/ acute care setting is? It sounds like med/surg. If so, you know what med/surg nursing is like. Generally speaking acute care med/surg nursing in a hospital setting...

  18. Holding HS Meds

    brownbook replied to Newgurl17's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I agree completely.... I mentioned in my previous replies that a doctor must be notified. It seems that the protocol in this special care unit was the LPN notifies the RN. I told the LPN to document...

  19. Multivitamins and supplements? My vent.

    brownbook posted a topic in General Nursing

    Study: Dietary Supplements Do Nothing for Health By Serena Gordon (HealthDay Reporter) Here's the link to the entire article. I've been hearing, from bona fied medical scientific research, since at...

  20. Admissions and Post-ops

    brownbook replied to PineapplePopsicle's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think it's crazy and I'm not a new nurse. I'd speak up. Stop everything you're doing, patient asessments, passing meds, etc. Find the charge nurse and tell her you cannot take the new admit because...

  21. Pulling to other units

    brownbook replied to Susan3897's topic in Pediatric

    I'm very flexible and love to float to other units, but I do hate what you describe. If it happens frequently, 3-4 times a month, if several, (many), staff are told to change units in the middle of...

  22. Tips for same day surgery

    brownbook replied to Justlikeyou's topic in General Nursing

    Same day surgery...."we" don't even have our own Nursing Specialties section ?. I know this has been answered by me many times....but I am not good at finding old posts either. Maybe look under...

  23. ICU Nursing

    brownbook replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    This, plus outpatient surgery clinics. It's better than cake ?, I think of it as Disneyland. We're closed weekends, nights and holidays. My only warning is if the surgery clinic is part of an acute...

  24. Travel Nursing

    brownbook replied to Klori's topic in Travel

    This times 20.....you may be lucky to walk into a nursing unit and get 1 hour of orientation. Then a full patient load and you're on your own. The hospital uses very expensive travel nurses because...

  25. I have been on night shift for 30 years and...

    brownbook replied to tavalon1's topic in General Nursing

    ????? Who, what, or why made you go to day shift? This will stay between you and me only, I promise ?. It seems awful if you were content with nights. I loved nights, did it 17 years. I was more...