GardenDove

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  1. What was your first clinical experience like? Any suggestions on how to handle it?

    GardenDove replied to LuvaBSNRN's topic in General Students

    My first clinical was at a hospital SNF. My pt was rehabing after a hip fx. I and a classmate stood outside of our assigned rooms for at least 10 minutes, terrified to enter, as neither one of us had...

  2. Instructor trouble

    GardenDove replied to Boltthrower's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I've never encountered this attitude. The instructor has an issue for a reason that is somewhere in her past, most likely. I had an instructor who had been dumped by her MD husband for a bimbo....

  3. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I think the use of the word 'enraged' was an exaggeration in order to express frustration. Just like pts have different pain thresholds for pain, nurses have different thresholds for pains in the...

  4. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I hate it when anyone does anything in front of the pt. Big beef of mine. I was at the supermarket the other day and the clerk was giving the bagger a hard time and embarrassed him in front of me....

  5. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    People get pretty judgemental about people they think are judgemental. Old story, I think Jesus addressed this more than once. I find it annoying,

  6. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I like PCAs for this type of pt. Big time

  7. My Experience...

    GardenDove replied to nurseyNJNYC's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nursing is an art, so it's a good thing you are an artist. I'm also an artist, I sold some artwork in Laguna Beach, CA while in nursing school, and also did finishing work on high end furniture, which...

  8. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I'm honored to be on your list!

  9. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    GardenDove replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, K98, what a scathing post! I like nursing, myself. I'm an anxious type of person who doesn't handle new situations with total enthusiasm, feels uncomfortable with the female clique thing, was...

  10. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I suspect that some who are uncomfortable with questions feel put on the spot, probably because they don't know the answer. If a new nurse or anyone else asks me something I don't know, I just say...

  11. Have you had a baby at your hospital??

    GardenDove replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hey, I'm glad to hear homebirth is alive and well. I had 6 homebirths. Good

  12. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I figure, my responsiblity is to give them meds as ordered. I don't have to believe them. I'm not going suspend disbelief, but I don't mind giving them their meds. I figure, if it's not physical pain...

  13. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I think some nurses aren't cut out to be preceptors. Only those skilled at it should do it. Tweety, you sound wonderful. I wouldn't do well as a preceptor because I have the opposite problem, I'm too...

  14. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I think seasoned nurses need to totally respect new nurses who want to double and triple check. They are like new drivers, things don't come automatically except with time behind the wheel. I don't...

  15. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    No, I'm not enraged. I just figure they are exaggerating and give them their med. Believe me, if you had the worst pain possible you would in no way be just sitting there. I have experienced 10/10...

  16. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Really Ruby? I haven't been here at all nurses long enough to know that. I'm definately not the mean type of nurse, I'm usually quite appreciated by new nurses as being nice and supportive. I really...

  17. Newbie nurse afraid of her job she MAKES up stories, HELP< HELP<HELP

    GardenDove replied to mizzou_ivy's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if she's aiming to oust you and get a dayshift position? If she has some sort of in with management, who

  18. working in a hostile environment.

    GardenDove replied to happytobehere's topic in General Nursing

    You have to prove yourself, once you have you'll be accepted. You might want to give it more

  19. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    GardenDove replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget that if you're in early pregnancy, your hormones are haywire and exacerbate any pre-existing anxiety 10-fold. Thank goodness you have a hubby with a good job! Just take a breather like...

  20. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    GardenDove replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    When I got out of nursing school 13 yrs ago, I remarried and moved to a rural area. The nursing shortage ended 6 months before I graduated and hospital jobs became scarce for new grads due to...

  21. JCAHO vs. non-JCAHO hospitals

    GardenDove replied to Shiggles!'s topic in General Nursing

    I work for a small non-jacho community hospital and of course we serve medicare recipients, we could not afford to stay open

  22. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    GardenDove replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    Don't let your license expire, be sure to keep it up. Enjoy your

  23. Eight or Twelve Hour Shifts

    GardenDove replied to outcomesfirst's topic in General Nursing

    I knew one charge nurse where I once worked who was the weekend charge and worked 2 16 hr shifts a week. The union contract allowed this if it was the nurse's preference. She liked it because it gave...

  24. Do you use filtered needles for Im injections

    GardenDove replied to ceen's topic in Emergency

    To tell the truth, I hardly ever give IMs. I haven't given one for quite a long

  25. Reporting a Doctor

    GardenDove replied to NurseWi_JennJenn's topic in General Nursing

    According to a very interesting article in this months nursing 2006 on nurse/physician relationships, this type of behavior is deleterious to pt safety by damaging communication lines between MDs and...