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12/09 Lap chole. Nurse gave me versed in holding area. Told my DH bye and we went down the hall. Halfway there this conversation happened. Her: You feeling that versed? Me: Nope I think you gave me saline and kept it for yourself. Her: OH Lord! Ge...

You need to go to one of their job fairs and really sell yourself. I put in an application and resume and didn't hear anything at all. Then i went to a job fair they had and was interviewed on the spot (as a new grad) and within a week had an offer...

San Antonio hospitals have openings. I work for Methodist and I know if you can sell yourself they hire new grads. Lots of ICU positions open. Goto www.sahealth.com to apply for Methodist. Hope this helps.

I guess the grass is always greener. We have been begging for them to lock our unit. We have the hugs system and it is constantly going off with our moms walking in the hall. It drives us nuts with all the false alrams we have to run for. Also, witho...

Only thing I can think of to add on...... I am a teacher. I teach my pts how to care for themselves, and I teach the family how to care for the pt. I answer questions and am patient with the learning process. I guide scared pts and family and see ...

Why yes doctor, I actually am an idiot and I love calling you and bugging you because your scribble that looks like a 3 year old tried to write I love you cannot be deciphered. I volunteered for the job of calling you because the way you yell makes ...

Our unit does the same thing, minus the manager messing with the time clock. If we work a 16 hour shift on tuesday you can bet that ifthe have the chance they will send you home early on the last day of the week you work. In Texas OT is based on we...

I live and work in San Antonio. Do you know where you will be living? That is a big consideration to what hospitals might be good for you. San Antonio is huge (very spread out) and to avoid an hour drive to work everyday you should consider this. ...

I didn't read all of the replies, so this may have been said before, but I use Meditech too and at our hospital we got IT involved. Don't ask me how, but there is a way that IT can program Meditech that instead of using the F9 lookup function you ca...

Nurse Techs are not permitted to give ANY medications in a hospital setting. Oral or IM or IV. That is true across the board.

1) Please Please Please read a book, any book about babies will do, BEFORE you deliver. Or better yet take one of those FREE parenting classes that are offered all over the city! 2) No, I will not give you a free car seat. You paid over $100 for a ...

I wholeheartedly agree with you. I work Postpartum and have shown many floats how to do the pesky fundal check and in return when I had a dialysis pt a float nurse sat with me for a half hour trying to figure out all the orders and how to put them i...

No I wouldn't use those negatives. Something like, "I am extremely hard on myself. I push myself a little too hard sometimes and that can be exhausting." The trick to answering that question is you take something that is really a positive trait and...

I will give you that it is annoying to listen to people whine about having to take their share of holidays etc, but that whining comes from the "older generation" too. The nurses young and older who expect that just because someone is new to the uni...

The point to my post is why is anyone worried about what other people are doing? If they want to brown nose or be lazy, noone says you have to help them. They put their licenses on the line every day just like everyone else. Nurses in general are ...

I think the attitude in this post is part of the problem with nursing today. I think it is most of the reason that we can't stand together and fight for what we need (like low ratios, etc.). Nurses are always worried about what the next person is o...

I actually had to tell a nursing student the same thing recently. I live in Texas and had a pt who didn't speak english. I don't speak enough spanish to find my way out of the Mexico City airport, but we were getting by with one word sentences all ...

Once had the father of a bili baby in NICu come storming out of the NICU and out to the desk. when asked if he could be helped he said very loudly: I am very upset. You have my baby back there naked, and there are boys in the room!!!!! You have he...

We have to use PTO for sick time for 24 hours before our EIB (extended illness bank) kicks in. It is the hospitals way of advertising paid sick time and not actually giving it, because really, apart from extenuating circumstances who is sick for mor...

I'm not sure what state you live in, or what the scope of practice is in your state, but a CMA does not do "basically the same thing as an LVN." Since you said LVN and not LPN I am guessing you are in Texas or California. An LVN is a licensed nurse...

We work this a little differently on our floor. We have our own ORs on the L&D floor (We actually have our own building for L&D and Postpartum) and the recovery area is not really a PACU. L&D nurses work the recovery area (I think they ...

It has been a couple days since this happened and I thought that I would have cooled off about it by now, but I am still kinda ticked off so I decided to get it out here. I work on a mother/baby floor and we take gyn surgeries as well. Some of the...

I really had never thought about this much before. I work on a mother/baby unit and so much of the care is centered around the woman and child, the thought had never really entered my mind. That's actually kinda sad and embarrassing to admit. Your...

The laughing and the FINE! Hold ON! was what ticked me off. An "I'm sorry I didn't realize, I'll get the MD." would have been fine. There was this arrogance in her voice, like I couldn't possibly know more than she did. UGH. At the moment I reall...

Try insurance companies. They are always looking for nurses to go over medical records and such. Just a thought.