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  1. Organization sheets and Incompetence?

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey everyone, I am trying to find a website or any good ideas of how to create a sheet to help organize my patients and what they need throughout the day. I have found that the sheets the floor...

  2. ERI PreRN Review

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Has anyone gone to this? It's a 4 day, 32 hour review course I believe. I was supposed to go this week and I was blessed with strep throat which has kept me house and bed ridden since Sunday night....

  3. Nclex July 9th, Work July 11th

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I am starting orientation on July 11th and have just scheduled my Nclex for July 9th, the Saturday before I start. I'm wondering if this is a bad idea, considering I fail... I won't be able to do...

  4. 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?

  5. Pregnant but Negative Urine Preg?

    shape0fmyheart replied to RunnerRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just saw that and deleted a bunch.

  6. 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...

  7. 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

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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....

  15. Nursing and Social Anxiety Disorder

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder a few years ago and I never did anything to "fix" it. I am currently in my 2nd year of nursing school, the 3rd of 4 semesters. I am fine when it comes to...

  16. 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...

  17. 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....

  18. 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...

  19. 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

  20. Mental Break or Mental BreakDOWN

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey there. I work 11p-7a 5 nights a week (big mistake there) on a very busy med-surg/oncology/hospice floor. I honestly feel like the stress that I get from this job is not worth having the job...

  21. Anyone call way after their shift to tell just one more thing? :)

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

    I work 11-7 and the other night one of the experienced day nurses, the one who thinks she "knows it all" and is always questioning everyone else, calls at 0330 to say she forgot to chart something on...

  22. More good days than bad

    shape0fmyheart posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm writing this at 10:15 and I have to be at work at 11, and I am dreading it. The past few weeks I have had more than double the amount of BAD nights than I have had good nights. It's horrible. I am...

  23. More good days than bad

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

    Thanks everyone for the positive words! Good luck to those of you feeling the same way I am right now, I realize I am not alone.

  24. More good days than bad

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

    LOL, I just realized that I meant to title this "More BAD days than GOOD". See what this job does to me??

  25. More good days than bad

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

    Thanks for the replies. I'm sorry that I posted that twice, my computer was telling me that the website timed out and I didn't even think it posted once! I work on med-surg/oncology/hospice. We get a...