Ms Mischief

Thanks for your replies. I know what I did was wrong and won't make the mistake of doing it again. I hope I'll get off lucky, because my supervisor knows me and didn't sound too concerned. We're told technically we can't pre-chart, but if it doesn't get done, we get little yellow sticky love notes from our auditor, so the don't make a big deal about it. Especially since we do paper chart and change of shift begins at 5:45pm, so it has happened to a few of us, that our mars are pulled to be readied for the next shift, before we've had a chance to sign them. No more of that though, I've learned my lesson. I'm just upset that this person was such a witch and ready to make a huge deal of it. I guess I should have known better, I was told she worked for a registry through another place and applied at this place, but they didn't want to hire her, because she had a rep for causing drama. I try to make my own judgements, so didn't pay too much attention. Another mistake of mine.

Last week, I was working with a nurse I had never worked with before. 8 hours into my shift (2pm)I get a call that my son fell off his skateboard, so of course I wanted to come home asap. Now, I have never once in the 2 years I have worked at my hospital had an emergency that resulted in me going home early. This is not a regular occurrence. Now, where I messed up is here. I like to initial my mars early, so I don't forget to later. If it happens I did not give a med or whatever, I circle it and write in why on the back. I will only do this to patients I know won't be discharged and are stable. When I left the other RN's divided my patients. I'd had a discharge, so only had 4 pts. Of those only 1 patient that needed a peg tube flush at 5pm. All my meds had been given, this was the only thing left on my mar unfinished, yet initialed by me. The RN I didn't know well was assigned this pt. I gave her report and told her this was all that was left for to do. However, in my worry about my son and hurry to finish my charting, I forgot to cross out my initials on that one last peg tube flush. The other RN's were understanding, we work together and make a great team. It was just this 1 RN I didn't know who was very bitter about me leaving, kept mumbling about being stuck with this pt. I had been gone for about 1 1/2hrs. when my supervisor calls telling me that I had initialed the peg tube flush as if I had completed it, that this other RN had come to her unaware if it had been done or not. I told my supervisor I hadn't given the 5pm peg tube flush (it's 3:30 when she called) and I was certain I had given this info in report. I apologized and told her it wouldn't happen again. She didn't sound upset and told me she'd let the other nurse know that it hadn't been done yet. I know I'm not innocent here, but I am really annoyed. She did get this info in report and still lied about it, jumped chain of command and went straight to our supervisor, instead off the charge nurse. I haven't been back to work yet, I go tomorrow. I was wondering if this is considered a med error or a documentation error?

I know plenty of pregnant corrections nurses.

Anyone else love them as much as I do? I bought pretty much every color of the Lindsey pants. They are so soft, comfortable and I like all the pockets! The only part I don't care for is they run a little small, so I had to get a larger size lol. I also wish, they'd go down a little in price.

I really didn't want to get into a debate about this. I just wanted an answer, Thanks anyway.

Tired nurses make mistakes, that's why it's a lawsuit waiting to happen. It's a patient safety issue. You don't think 80 hours a week, week after week is excessive? I also happen to work for the state, where in many cases the state loses. I'm not sure about time directives. I do know we need to have 8 hours in between shifts.

Is there a law limiting the number of hours of voluntary overtime? Just wondering if there is an actual number where overtime may become dangerous to patient safety. I have co-workers who voluntarily will work over 80 hours a week and I really feel it's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Yes, it's very competitive. As I said, I would print out an app. and send it in; then follow up with a phone call. It may speed up your inquiry. If you wait for the inquiry they will send you a letter asking you to fill out and send in the application by a certain date, and of course this just delays the process. You were given good advice when told to try to get your foot in the door part time. Many part-timers get priority to get in full time. Sadly, it really is who you know many of the times IMO.

Yay!!! Congratulations to you!!

Is this even legal? They are technically administering medication and they don't have the license to do this.

Print out an application from the California website and turn it into personnel. Or you can wait for them to send you a job inquiry. The wait varies. I'm not sure if all institutions you apply for will send you an inquiry.

I felt exactly the same as you! I didn't think it was that bad, but as time went by my doubts grew. The California website only updates once a day in the early am and that just drove me crazy, because it actually took over 72 hours for mine to post that I had passed. I see you took yours on a Saturday, my sister had hers on a Saturday as well and found out on Wednesday morning. We had taken ours the same week and neither one of us got much sleep that week as we were checking the BRN at like 4am every morning! Anyhow, based on my personal experience, I think it's a good sign for you.

I agree. I used both Lippincott (3500) and Saunders as well. I thought the 3500 was very much like the NCLEX, especially the sata questions. I also thought Saunders was easier and gave great rationales and a very good review area; so I really liked it for that.

Update! My sister just called me to let me know I passed! She checked the board before she left for work.

I would say i had about 1/2 dozen.