NeosynephRN

Congrats!! Wishing you all the best in your new adventure!!

OK..this is what I want..for you not to take the only chair at the nurses station, to be on the internet or text messaging all day. When I come to you and offer you a skill...for you to respond "Oh I have already done that skill." or the ever popula...

do you see the issue people have with hiring "out of state" new grads..i mean you say right here that you want to leave in a year..do you know how much money and time go into training a new grad?? and to have that investment, which is exactly what i...

I have looked into a masters in education online...for about 165 a credit hour...and a co-worker just finished her FNP online...paid about 1800 a semester!

We were just starting to do this in the hospital I recently left. I was wondering if anyone does this routinely, and if so what do you think of it?

I am not sure what you are going to report to the board...that someone yelled at you for not doing what they asked you to do? Maybe the change was not needed, but unfortunatley we change so much everyday, most changes that do not need to happen, bu...

We use AND and it is very straight forward, it maintains and spells out that comfort and quality of death are very important. There are two sections one for "withdrawl of life support" and then the check box section. Families have been very positi...

We are currently bathing all our patients upon admission to the unit in the chlorihexidine solution, then also on M-W-F. We have not been doing it long enough to correlate any reduction in actual infection rates, but it will be interesting to see wh...

Hmmm.. I liked the arctic sun, and massimo. But I really wanted another smoothie from GE...yummy!!

Just got back from NTI yesterday...4 days of talking about ICU, seeing new products and eating good food and playing on Burbon Street...what more can you ask for.

Or when you walk into the unit and both crash carts are at the front open...with absolutely not a soul in sight....

We do?? Yeah and I usually leave that patient that just coded on the floor while I go finish my lunch and my daily dose of shopping on ebay...they can handle the vent and 3 pressors while I take care of my business right....:icon_roll

I still use the good ol soap and water...I just wipe my basin down before and after with the sani wipes! I love washing my patients hair and braiding it up, feels good and keeps them tidy for long vent days!

We also have it, there are posters in all the rooms that tell about our "care line" for non-emergent issues and the rapid response, with both numbers. I have not had any issues with bad calls. I think we have only had a couple family initated RRT c...

Have not gotten mine yet...maybe tomorrow, I actually have the day off..I could do some serious planning!

Only a few weeks left...I am counting down my shifts!! I cannot wait!

My state did not have "graduate nurse" status either...but every single person in my class had a job secured 2+ months before graduating...if you waited you had no job!

Take this as a lesson why you need to be careful what you use as a reference for a paper...

We start the creams before the butt gets bad...regular turning and shifting of weight...prompt cleaning when soiled...

So because of the variable B/P you are assuming a pt on IV fluid replacement is "actively loosing fluid r/t being NPO" maybe it is just me but you may want to look at this again...I am not sure your pt is that depleted...what else could be going on ...

Here is my advice. You need to look at death in a different way. It is not wrong to be sad, or grieve for someone that has passes away. It is not a horrible thing to die, it is a wonderful thing. You are in a LTC setting and your patients for...

Here is the difference in my opinion. I do not work L&D but in my area often a doc will right "pt suitable for hospice care" or "medical futility should withdrawl life support" in a progress note...that does not however give me any order to "pu...

I think she may mean fired from the patient...we say that too when a patient requests not to have a nurse back or comes and asks for a new nurse mid shift...obviously if I am wrong please correct me!!

It is the same day or night...and we are the oppostie of vashtee...a tech at night and none in the day.

I am starting my RN-BSN in a few weeks...I do not plan to cut down on my hours at work at all. I am going to a 100% online program, besides the small clinical portion which I arrange locally. I work with so many nurses that have gone this route! G...