whipping girl in 07

whipping girl in 07 RN

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  1. How would this work...?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to SAP2008's topic in General Nursing

    Well, if you like the first one, you can accept and then tell them you don't want it if you like the second one better when you do interview. Chances are, they'll have alternates they can offer your...

  2. Did anyone find Hurst Review helpful?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to friendlyone's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    You're lucky I opened this out of curiosity...since your title was pretty vague. Next time be more specific... Anyhoo, to answer your question, I took the Hurst live NCLEX-RN review 6 years ago...

  3. Counting the Pyxis bid

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like the old days of a narc box counted shift to shift. What the hell is the point of the EXPENSIVE technology of a Pixis if you have to count it shift to shift??? We always made whoever had...

  4. How much do you do for the next shift . .

    whipping girl in 07 replied to widi96's topic in General Nursing

    Just because they called and said the blood was ready, you didn't have to necessarily start it then. The day nurse could have given the IV med, then given the blood (unless the pt was symptomatic...

  5. Fed up of losing working hours

    whipping girl in 07 replied to letina's topic in General Nursing

    We are 15 nurses short in our ICU and they still send people home not needed or try to get you to take a vacation day or day off without pay on Sunday and then ask you to work over on Thursday. I've...

  6. SBAR for shift report

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    We've been using it for about a year. It's helpful if you fill in everything. We change it as things change and it's supposed to keep report going along faster because you don't have to write...

  7. To be an RN or RT..Help!

    whipping girl in 07 replied to deebee12's topic in General Nursing

    I'm friends with a lot of RTs...they can't understand how I can be a nurse, I don't get how they can do respiratory. We laugh about which is worse, lung butter or poop/vomit...I personally can't...

  8. Calling out sick...?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Dempather's topic in General Nursing

    My first year in nursing we had a horrible epidemic of flu among the staff of my ICU because everyone kept coming to work sick and would only call off if they thought they were DYING. I did too, I...

  9. Have any of you..

    whipping girl in 07 replied to CH080605's topic in General Nursing

    Several of my friends did it successfully, but I unfortunately, made a D and had to sit out a year, then we moved and some of my hours didn't transfer...so I ended up going back when my son was about...

  10. danger to patients

    whipping girl in 07 replied to tt5555's topic in General Nursing

    We don't have monitor techs at either of the hospitals I work at. They use pagers attached to the telemetry so if there's an alarm, they get paged. The hospital I used to work at, we had monitor...

  11. extensive orientation

    whipping girl in 07 replied to ilmbg's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guessing the "extensive orientation" would be like a new grad orientation/internship. But all our new grads couldn't start work till they got a temporary license to work under as a RNA till they...

  12. Do Nurses have to work in rotating shifts in almost all the jobs?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to shakshi's topic in General Nursing

    I've never worked rotating shifts, I was hired for a shift and that's what I worked unless I worked extra. I've known of some people who worked rotating shifts, my parents both did, my dad in...

  13. Open heart ICU

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Kiwi's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I think the way you did it seems to be the way that's right...I started in ICU as a new grad so that's how you should do it. Or, I did some time in med-surg first, so that's the correct route. Who's...

  14. My unit is going down the tubes...

    whipping girl in 07 replied to whipping girl in 07's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone who's answered me, I appreciate your advice. Unfortunately there are no easy answers but I am working on getting on with an agency and just working the minimum to keep my foot in...

  15. should i just give up?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to MK6babies's topic in General Nursing

    Don't give up, and don't assume that what you want to do at 17 is what you'll want to do for the rest of your life. I wanted to be an English teacher when I was in high school and I changed majors...

  16. Ards

    whipping girl in 07 replied to AnnetteWA's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe try Chest as well; you can get online access to their articles for

  17. continuity of care

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Tele_Nurse4u's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it's my background of ICU, but I've always tried to cluster my care. Even more so for a confused and/or agitated patient. And when worked the floor I had to, as I couldn't get all those 9pm...

  18. touched inappropriately by patient

    whipping girl in 07 replied to newohiorn's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in neurotrauma ICU several years ago and it seemed like we always had one or two relatively young male trauma patients a year try to get away with similar behavior. One guy, a 20 something...

  19. Want to be a nurse, but have to eat.

    whipping girl in 07 replied to mslinzyann's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for 5 years, and I've never worked a shift without eating or going to the bathroom. I've occasionally only been to the bathroom once in 12 hours and I've often eaten while charting...

  20. Would you recommend nursing to your daughter?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    You know, the best motivator I ever had was the year I took off from college because I was burned out. After 6 months of working in the admissions office full-time, I was ready to go back to school...

  21. pros and cons of being a weekender?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Bibagirl's topic in General Nursing

    I did it for 2.5 years, both nights and days. It worked for us while I was doing it, then it got to the point where I didn't like missing out on things because I had to work (or missing out on sleep...

  22. Any new grad ever been let go after 6 month trial period?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to cjj0603's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, I'd try to transfer before I just quit completely. Some areas, some nurses, are just toxic. Sometimes, though, it just takes some time to fit in. At my first job I was there for nearly a...

  23. PRN ducolax suppositories, okay to give right before shift change?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I've always thought it was kind of rude to get in report "I just gave him a Dulcolax supp." I am an ICU nurse (now PRN) and a nutrition support RN (full-time), and I actually write orders for those...

  24. Trouble c accents at work?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    That quiz pegged me as a southerner, and rightly so, although my accent is such a weird blend of Appalachian mountain, Arkie and Cajun that no one else sounds like me. I love hearing people guess...

  25. Showing up to work SICK

    whipping girl in 07 replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I've never had anyone question whether I'm really sick or if I'm sick enough when I've called in or asked for symptoms except for at one facility, where the shift coordinator has to fill in a reason...