nursekatie22 RN

i'm sorry if this has been covered before somewhere, but i've got a question.... why don't all states have laws regulating nurse-to-patient ratios. i mean, a monkey could see that a lot of the time, it's not safe practice, so what's the deal? i kno...

i'm about 8 months out and i'm feeling okay about it now, for the most part, but there's always something that you haven't seen before, heard of before, administered before. i showed a nurse with 5 years experience something that she'd never done be...

-lots of water. some night i don't drink enough and i can really tell a difference. course i then have to pee all the time, but whatever. -look up the things about the patients that you don't know. words, symptoms, etc. i got a pda with all kinds of...

thanks everyone for your input. i realize that what works for one hospital (or unit, for that matter) won't work for everyone, but i want to do travel nursing and the things that really scare me are that i'll have a too-short orientation (which i un...

i've just hit my fifth month of being an rn and all i have to say is do not be intimidated enough to not ask questions when you need to. i don't care if you're in front of a patient, their family, or anyone else. if you don't ask questions, you wo...

i honestly hate them! it really stinks since i work on a med-surg floor that is also tele so there's always the possibility of having at least one tele pt. i mean, i passed the ekg test after taking the class, but my boss just sent me an e-mail say...

i haven't really been back here since i posted this but i'm glad i got some input. i took acls this past week and it was great! the guys who taught it were medics who do this sort of thing all the time and most of us were m/s, onc, med, surg nurse...

okay, had a chat with the nurse who actually told my boss about my "issues" and since i never see my boss (i work nights) we worked it out and i learned a lot! whew!

I've been on my own as a RN for only about a month or so, and I know what you mean. I owe about $92,000 and I think that kind of thing all the time. But it's a good place to be....it's harder to imagine that while you're in school and studying your...

this may sound like a dumb question, but all of the "afters" but one seem to have these red lacerations/wounds on their faces. why is that? i've never had to deal with any ods before so i'm very curious.

Thank god, NO!! They're gross!

Having a testicle brought down???!?!? OUCH!:uhoh21:

you guys are good!!! yup, i'm in california. i didn't know you could do that with the lvn boards and i hope you can't do that with the rn boards! i'm happy that this might make it easier for her to get into a registered nursing program, but i was...

Okay, I have to do ACLS for my job that I just started and I'm terrified!! It all looks so hard! Course I haven't had my basic EKG strip reading classes yet so that may not be helping, but STILL!!! Any advice on taking the class/absorbing all the i...

;)do what i do and say............... "because i like it!!!!"

yeah, i just got hired in june and started on the floor july 3rd and the class is september 3-4. i'm hoping the ekg class will help a lot cause i don't remember too much from school! :uhoh21:

As a student nurse extern this past semester (having finished my nursing classes in December) I could waste as long as the other person was an RN. At the hospital I'm at now as an RN, it has to be another RN.

I live in California and was wondering where to get my Neonatal Resucitation certification because I'd like to float to mother/baby every now and then. I've e-mailed my education department and am getting nowhere and I don't know where else to go. Al...

OMG!! I'm always stressed out before I even get in the door (just had my 2nd night of work on my own after 3 1/2 weeks orientation--which I didn't feel was enough!) and I can't even imagine what you're describing. I would be an absolute basket cas...

Where I work, PICCs are flushed Q8 with 10ml NS and we don't use heparin for them. PACs and such are hep-locked, though and we flush with 10ml NS then lock with 5ml heparin. At the place I worked in Visalia as a student, they still locked PICCs with...

I want to try living in NYC after I get done with my first year of nursing and was wondering which hospitals were good (Med-Surg wise), pt to nurse ratios, and where housing is available (i.e. close to work or not), etc.

I work on a MS/Onc/tele unit and I'll have to take ACLS in September and I'm so scared! I didn't know if there was a book, internet link, etc that would help me understand heart rythems. I'm just lost when it comes to that stuff; I can tell when it...

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The one we're using sounds identical to the one you're describing and it works pretty well. It was just hard to get used to because I'd never used anything like that before, but it's pretty neat!

:uhoh3:Holy crap! That's a LONG interview! I had 40 minutes (not expecting to even get an interview that day!) and I thought that was a lot!