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    Items You Carry Daily in the Hospital

    newtress replied to studentdan's topic in General Nursing

    Aside from all the above items, I personally kept in my pocket a tiny zip lock with these OTC's: 2 ASA 2 Ibuprophen 1 vitamin 2 GasX and 2 Imodium. Having any pains, headaches, upset stomach, gas...
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    Obnoxious classmates that turn into great nurses

    newtress posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all, since I graduated eight months ago, I have worked in two different facilities and ended up working the same shifts with several of my former classmates as coworkers. While in nursing school...
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    Obnoxious classmates that turn into great nurses

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    COOL!
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    What meds will I see geriatric vs adolescent?

    newtress posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I will be starting a two week orientation prior to going on the floor as a nurse at a psych hospital that has 8 floors. Starting with child to adolescent to adult to geriatric, CD and detox floors. I...
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    help me KEEP my license plz?...

    newtress replied to rickysyfee's topic in General Nursing

    I left my first new grad position for the very same reason. They had computerized med pass/documentation and I was always in the red zone on time because they wanted me to pass lunch and dinner trays...
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    2 Bachelor's degrees + ADN = means nothing???

    newtress replied to KamiK85's topic in General Nursing

    Pretty rough comment re new grads up
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    55 year old joining Army Reserves

    newtress replied to barlcsw's topic in General Nursing

    Can a person over age 50 really join a branch of military reserves? I'd like to know more about it because I had wanted to join air force or navy for quite a while and then with years of commitment to...
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    CNA's and Fire Power

    newtress posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello to fellow nurses who have been stung by the CNA wasp. After I got off a 3-11p shift on New Years Eve, I sat at the dining room table telling my boyfriend that I felt very uneasy about what...
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    CNA's and Fire Power

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    On bug out's reply, I was following exact protocol for THAT facility. What I described in a "normal" 8 hr shift is how I am expected to chart on the Medicare Part A residents. Yes they do require the...
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    CNA's and Fire Power

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting chacomom that you said you were fired because you spoke out and tried to change things for the better. Now that I reflect back to three months ago, the new DON who actually originally...
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    CNA's and Fire Power

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    Well to clarify on the VS canundrum, there is a sheet of specified only Medicare Part A folks that I needed the VS for and had them flagged on the sheet (there may have been 9 total out of 32) and in...
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    Goofy call bell requests

    newtress posted a topic in General Nursing

    Depending on where you work, I've heard it refered to as call light, or call bell. Maybe there's another one for it and wonder what you refer to it as on your job. Anyhooz, I am sure that there have...
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    If you could build your perfect Nursing Home......how would it be?

    newtress replied to Ling07's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    One of my biggest priorities would be to require that the central soiled linen and trash collection areas would be taken to an outside receptical q4h during each shift. The CNA's. nurses, wound care...
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    Ok I dont like ortho

    newtress replied to Sirapples's topic in General Nursing

    One poster mentioned something that has been happening with me also. I am brand new on this ortho/neuro floor, and these nurses who have been on this unit a long time don't answer their call lights,...
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    How do you deal ith mouthy rude CNAs?

    newtress replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Well, from my recent experience I was sharing something I had not ever had happen in the past. I have been a CNA myself, a nursing student and now a new grad nurse. My "complaint" regarding the thread...
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    How do you deal ith mouthy rude CNAs?

    newtress replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    I had one today as a matter of fact. I am a brand new nurse to a ortho/neuro floor. A patient needed to be moved to a new room right in front of the station. The CNA and I were to do the move. As I...
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    the new person on the block !!!!!! HELP

    newtress replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    This ranks high on the suck-o-meter. And it can be found almost anywhere. There's no other reason or point to it other than it is a form of juvenile entertainment to them. Yes, nurses and managers...
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    Perception of Problems Faced by New Graduates and the Ideal New Graduate Employee

    newtress replied to Daffodils2's topic in General Nursing

    Gotta agree with JoPACURN and DogWmn. I was honestly embarassed by some of my classmates in clinical. Severe
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    Will telemetry cert matter anywhere else?

    newtress posted a topic in Cardiac

    Hello to all, I am a newbie grad and just hired into a hospital facility. Part of my early orientation requires the telemetry certification classes they say you must have. Although the unit/floor I...
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    Med Errors and Job satisfaction (or disatisfaction).

    newtress replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Yes please do tell whom ever is interviewing you how you feel about your nusing license being a part of you, something to protect. This way you're not left having to tell or explain the horrors of...
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    Med Errors and Job satisfaction (or disatisfaction).

    newtress replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    All of the above is exactly what I just experienced recently and just gave notice. I had to. The med cart situation was like going into someone elses house and trying to go through the junk drawer....
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    Will telemetry cert matter anywhere else?

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Cardiac

    Yes thanks, that's helpful information. I was told it would be "telemetry certification" but I agree with you that it most likely would be hospital specific for my orientation only. They do plan on...
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    need help for new orthopaedic nurse

    newtress replied to egomori's topic in Orthopedic

    I'd like to know the very same things myself. I was just hired and on orientation on an ortho floor and also did not get very much from clinicals or a full semester in
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    What will I see on an ortho/neuro floor?

    newtress posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all, I was just contacted by a local hospital facility today asking if I can come in tomarrow for an interview. I was surprised to say the least as I have applied at numerous facilities without...
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    I hate being a LPN in LTC. The horror!

    newtress replied to Plagueis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Ohhkay, well thanx for the