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Being a southern girl ain't gonna save you this weekend. I'm in SC and they are calling for 3-5 inches between tonight and the am. Yes it happens rarely but it still happens. Hope everyone is safe.

Hey there and welcome to CDI nursing! I've been in CDI little over a year now and love it. I didn't have to take a test for job but the learning curve is huge! You have to learn to reconcile your clinical thinking to the coding world way of interpre...

Most of us have been in your situation in one way or other during our nursing careers. It hurts to have to admit our mistakes, but you sound like you have taken responsibility for what happened and that in my opinion is the most important step in fin...

I know this wasn't the focus of the OP's question but do I understand correctly the older nurse's preceptor has been talking about her performance to other nurses including the OP who is relatively new to the unit herself? I have been a preceptor man...

I did actually say this one night after 2 previous nites of being "the ***** in the box" as we refer to triage. Had a FF who had chronic back pain, pain was always 12/10 scale. Allergic to everything except dilaudid and percocet. She was going on and...

I wanted to comment after reading this thread and it is off topic, sorry in advance. But first to the OP, hang in there...it does get better, you simply have to find a system that works for you and you have been given some excellent suggestions here....

The yelling is really unnecessary and rude.

We refer to triage where i work as being the B**** in the Box.

Probably wasn't the most dramatic code i been in but it was certainly the one that seemed to be the most chaotic....I had brought a pt up to one of our med/surg floors from the ED and was standing at the nurse's station talking to the charge nurse wh...

If someone says there is...i'm going to be really upset,lol. it will mean i have been torturing myself doing this the long way apparently.

First off, I was truly wishing you luck on your nursing career..but hey if you are going to accuse me of something well let me accomadate you by doing it at least. Yes experienced nurses, especially the fear inspiring ER nurses, just may know a littl...

i read your posting and really did stop and think about why i became a nurse, honestly i did. i became a nurse to help people, yes i did. i went into nursing with absolutely no experience in the healthcare field, heck i had never even been in the hos...

Wow...having just read this entire thread or as I have taken to calling it the circle of repeating the same comments by a few select posters, I have come to the conclusion that this thread is continuing because people apparently like beating a not on...

I hope someone here can give me some info on this. I am working in a 22 bed ICU(mixed census of coronary/surgical/med- little of everything). This past week I was assigned to a pt who had suffered a SAH and was placed on a Lopressor Drip for b/p con...

All I want to say is that being a patient does not qualify you to be a nurse or tell nurses or other healthcare workers how to behave or how mean we are in general. I can understand the curosity factor people wanting to see behind the curtain at wha...

Let me preface this by saying I truly appreciate and respect all my fellow healthcare workers and all the experience and knowledge that they bring to this site and I also value the insight that nonhealthcare workers offer with their postings. That b...

IMHO nursing/healthcare as far as the people you work with is pretty much like any other field we have the good the bad and the ugly. I have worked some places where everyday seemed like a mini episode of Survivor-constant backstabbing, politics, and...

I am sure you did everything that you could for the patient. My only thought would be was she having any cardiac changes that you noted on the monitor?> With a k that high she might have had some changes. Don't beat yourself up.

I could not agree more with you. I have visited this site for few years and am always amazed at the # of nonnursing people on this site; and how those nonnursing people are always ready and loaded with their "I was treated so badly at er/icu/or/fill...

I know that this is not exactly in line with the original topic started here but....it never ceases to amaze me how just about everytime a topic is started that contains the LEAST bit of normal venting someone has to make some deep profound remark th...

When I hear this I always want to say"Or what? Are YOU going to do it?"

I just started a travel assignment at a Level 2 trauma ed that requires all nurses to wear white head to toe, not even allowed to wear colored socks. I thought this was a rare situation but apparently white is on the rise again as the color for nurs...

I am so glad that I am not the only one who is having issues with visiting hours and the way some family members/friends of the pt are taking advantage of the situation. I thought I had seen it all, you know 15 people in one room-eating in front of ...

thanks everyone for the info and feedback. To answer the question only the pump was labeled levo the drip was Lopressor 10mg/50ccNS. I worked last night and this pt was still in the ICU, I didn't have her but I saw the attending on his rounds and I ...

Here is one that I would like to tell all nursing students who think they know and understand so much more about a nurse then all of mean and hateful licensed and experienced nurses: until you have walked in my danskos, have a license to practice as ...