RNJess10

As jwk said above, Vanc has a 2 hour window to be given prior to incision according to SCIP guidelines. From what I understood in our hospital's inservice about SCIP procedures, the antibiotics only need to be started prior to incision, and not comp...

I'm right there with you! I have been on orientation at my hospital for 2 1/2 months, but we only have a 3 month orientation. At our hospital (it's a small hospital), they don't train circulators to be scrub nurses. It is a completely different...

Thank you very much for sharing your story! I have 1 week of classes left and then I'll be in that new grad position. It really helped me put things into perspective; I've been going through these last few clinicals (only 2 more!) trying to imagine...

I haven't passed out/fainted, but when I was in my second semester of clinicals, I noticed whenever I dealt with anything blood related (bloody, painful wounds, trying to start an IV and watching the vein blow, etc) I would get dizzy, hot, and nau...

In a nursing home in KY, I made 9.80/hr, base, and basically less than a dollar in shift differential. In a hospital in SC, I made 9.30/hr base, and 0.75 for evenings, 0.90 for nights, weekends, and holidays as differential. Then my friend back in ...

This semester, it would have been very helpful for me to have a drug guide on my phone, so that I could look up reliable info about drugs quickly. It would save you from having to hunt down a book on the unit, or googling it on the spot. But I have...

That is INCREDIBLY neat!!

I'm in my second semester of nursing school (in the upper division / clinical classes) and I've done it both ways -- I think I like using a computer more than pen and paper. I type faster than I write, so when I write, I miss more. Of course, the c...

I work on a rehab floor (for pts recovering from strokes and broken bones) and I do a lot of moderate to heavy lifting. not too long ago a lady hurt her back lifting a pt and I want to be sure the same thing doesn't happen to me. anyone have any advi...

Thats what scares me -- the fact that I may one day be afflicted with alzheimers and know it, but be unable to do anything about it. whenever a coworker of mine gets frustrated with or angry at an alzheimers pt, i just tell them our time is coming.

I was working at a LTC facility and one of the residents told me she was angry cause *someone* took a dump in her panties.

my friends in Kentucky were able to get jobs in Louisville with no experience fresh out of their CNA certification training, but...I had no luck. I guess it just depends on how desperate they are? I now live in SC and they only require high school di...

the nursing home where I work at had me shadow someone. I was a brand new aide, never had any experience before. I mostly helped out with changing people and transferring residents (which I still will not do on my own if they can't stand -- I may b...

heheheh, I had really low blood pressure when we were practicing BP. 90/52 for me. I couldn't believe it either.

I have a hard time taking blood pressure because I can hear my fingers cramping on the stethoscope. I can't determine where the beat is versus where my fingers are making noise. thankfully most places have the automatic BP cuffs.

So many colleges really emphasize that most people won't be accepted into the nursing program. To me, my school gave me such a negative outlook that I felt I'd never be good enough to get into the clinical classes. I'm really happy about the college...

You'll especially love it when the residents decide to smear BM everywhere! But not to discourage, I do love my residents.

I'm an 18 year old CNA - never been employed as a CNA before - and I wasn't sure if I should dress business-like or if scrubs were acceptable for an interview? My mom said she didn't think so, but she isn't affiliated with the medical field. The sc...

I am currently taking biology and chemistry together and it is not bad at all. They aren't making me attend any labs for it, though, just the lectures. I guess I lucked out. Its only the 3rd or 4th week of school but I'm doing fine with it.

I am a freshman and my school (its a university) had me take this nursing 101 class, which is just like a general education about campus life and talks a lot about nursing. From what the seniors told us (we had asked them that question), they said a...