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1. How often to check Beta hcg?

   shape0fmyheart posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was just wondering if anyone could tell me how often they like to check quantitative hcg levels in the first trimester, specifically in the first few weeks of finding out?

2. Pregnant but Negative Urine Preg?

   shape0fmyheart replied to RunnerRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I just saw that and deleted a bunch.

3. Pregnant but Negative Urine Preg?

   shape0fmyheart replied to RunnerRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have been searching the internet for answers to my situation but finally decided who better to ask. I have had 5 positive hpt's... 3 were with the double lines and the 2nd line was always very...

4. Does anybody work for CHS?

   shape0fmyheart replied to dekatn's topic in General Nursing

   Well I'd sure like to find one of those hospitals

5. Does anybody work for CHS?

   shape0fmyheart replied to dekatn's topic in General Nursing

   CHS is a monster corporation that owns something like 78 hospitals throughout the country. I am just getting ready to quit my job at a hospital owned by CHS, mostly because of my manager but also...

6. Newbie Hospice RN

   shape0fmyheart replied to jessica's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I work in Med/Surg but we are also the hospital's Oncology and inpatient Hospice floor. I have dealt with quite a bit of hospice/DNR/"comfort care" patients since I started last July and those are the...

7. Refusing unsafe RN:pt ratio

   shape0fmyheart replied to RN2B07's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Our normal load is 6-7, lately 7. A few nights some nurses have had to take 8 patients each. I have not been faced with that yet but I have said that I will refuse. It's MY license on the line and our...

8. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   shape0fmyheart replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

   Actually the patients that have driven me near insane have been nurses themselves, retired, but nurses nontheless. One of them kept ringing alllll night because her gas was painful. Meanwhile I have...

9. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

   shape0fmyheart replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

   The other night at work I had a NP and the supervisor of our heart station as a patient. I have been in nursing for about 10 months so I was extremely nervous, especially when her IV went bad and I...

10. Burnout in the first year

    shape0fmyheart replied to yellow finch's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Unfortunately, every night I go to work I feel the same exact way, and I can tell you that a good majority of my coworkers do as well... even ones who have been there for a long time. We have too many...

11. Why do I always get the disaster patients?

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am starting to really hate my job. Every night I have to go in I dread what disaster I will encounter this time. Even my fellow colleagues "joke" with me about how I always get the "bad" patients....

12. Perfect job for me

    shape0fmyheart replied to JentheRN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You will have to let me know how you like home health when you start, I've been considering that in the back of my mind but I also have a lot of fears about it as well. I will keep an eye out for your...

13. first week of night shift over...

    shape0fmyheart replied to stn2003's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I need to post a semi-rant here and see if this happens in any other hospitals between shifts. It seems as though dayshift thinks night shift nurses are lazy and sit on their butts all night long....

14. You are probably a med-surg nurse if.....

    shape0fmyheart replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Our ER nurses have recently gotten a kick-start (incentive pay) for getting pts out in a certain amount of time. It is GUARANTEED that we will get a call at 2300 with an admission. The ER will call at...

15. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    shape0fmyheart replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    He didn't ring the bell (this time) but I was in the room with bed 1 when bed 2 decides to yell out "Hello?!". I look around the curtain and say "Yes?" and he says "Oh, hi. I just wanted to say