arizonanurse

I would not let it rest here. You were perfectly in the right and it was rude and unprofessional of the doctor to act like that. If you say nothing more and hope the whole thing just blows over, you are encouraging him to repeat the same thing again....

One of our doctors made a mistake on one of his orders, so I took the chart over to him as he was walking out to leave and asked him to correct it. He asked me for a pen, and both me and the unit clerk handed him a pen at the same time. Now, our unit...

I took the CLEPs for biology and chemistry, and it was well worth not having to take the courses. The bio was easier than the chem, I thought. I felt like I was guessing on most of the questions but I passed with a pretty good score. The way I looked...

No, I've never used a nursing diagnosis since I graduated. In my mind, they are a waste of time. I've heard the arguments that they "teach you how to think," but personally I never found them useful. I wish nursing school would focus more on the comm...

You do clinicals in your own community (you're responsible for setting them up), but they're not "clinicals" in the ADN sense. For example, one of the assignments was to shadow a leader in your hospital and write a paper on the leadership qualities y...

I did an online RN to BSN program through Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff (http://www.nau.edu). I never had to go to the campus at all.

I wanted to add that it doesn't matter if the MRSA culture came from the wound...you still initiate contact precautions. And any MRSA culture from the past (for example, you have a patient admitted that had a MRSA positive culture a year ago) means c...

At our hospital, all meals for contact precautions patients are in disposable containers. In addition, all patient care equipment should be "dedicated" to that patient. There should be a seperate BP cuff, stethoscope, thermometer, Accucheck meter, et...

Okay, I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but we don't know the whole story and we really can't judge the nurse without it. Say you have a patient on Vanco and Timentin pending culture results, culture comes back at 0600 as MRSA. MD won't be in ...

nope...try again or how about NC or NP (hint: means the same thing)

postdates induction of labor LCTA

I bought a used Honda Civic for $3700 and saved most of the rest for graduate school tuition. I did let myself splurge a little more - ate out about once a week, whereas when I was in nursing school I NEVER ate out; went shopping when I needed new cl...

Stethoscope (I don't like wearing it around my neck, so it goes in my pocket) Tape Alcohol wipes Bandage scissors IV caps Lots of pens, since I always seem to lose them My report sheet My cell phone My car keys with a calculator key chain (can't coun...

I probably did about 10 IVs in nursing school, and got about 70% of them. Not great, but I didn't think I was horrible either. Then I started working. For the first three months I did not get one IV. I'd get flashback, but then I'd blow every. single...

I am applying to graduate school and need to provide three references, one supervisory and two from peers. I'm going to ask my nurse manager to write the supervisory one, and I know all of my coworkers would be more than willing to write peer referen...

Okay, these are my pet peeves. It doesn't get to me when I read it but when someone says it, oh my gosh, it's like nails grating on a chalkboard. umbil-EYE-cus (accent on the third syllable) instead of umBILicus "reversible isolation" - we have a nig...

I wanted to add...to the OP, I know what you're going through, and the wait is agonizing. I've been there, and it is not fun. But before you know it you'll be working as a nurse, and these few days will seem like years ago. At least we don't have to ...

I just took my NCLEX last June, and I already smile when I see these posts. Same with the posts that complain about the "mean" nursing instructors and the RNs at clinical that (gasp) don't wash their hands before and after going into every patient ro...

I graduated nursing school and first worked as an RN at 19. I was charge nurse for the first time a few weeks after my 20th birthday. I never got any negativity from patients, doctors, or coworkers, although that was one of my fears when I graduated....

At the facility where I used to work, IV Protonix required a filter. Not sure if this is standard practice or just facilty-specific.

Neither did I :) It's nice to find other heretics out there. Seriously though, sometimes I DO feel like a hypocrite when I vaccinate babies at work, or give the flu shot (which I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of, but that's another stor...

Not a phlebotomist, but as an RN drawing blood or starting an IV, I've heard: 1) Oh, try this one, this is the one I always use (from a drug user) 2) That one's no good anymore, it's been used and abused (also from a drug user) 3) Can't you just do i...

I am pretty similar. There are many side effects to vaccines that have not been fully studied. Personally I would not feel comfortable giving my children routine vaccinations since the jury is still out on this one. I was fully vaccinated as a child ...

Okay, so I know this seems like a dumb question...but say you have a two month old for routine immunizations. There are 5 to give - DTaP, IPV, Hep B, HiB, and PNC7. So where do you give them all? 3 in one thigh and 2 in the other? Some two month olds...

Here's the bad side: You hold the ultimate responsiblity for your patients. Which means you are the one that gets blamed if lab is late drawing the blood, or dietary gives your NPO (nothing by mouth) patient a dinner tray, or the previous nurse didn'...