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  1. No call no show due to schedule mix up

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to UnidentifiedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    This morning I spoke with my nurse manager and everything is cool. She said that mistakes happen and to not even worry about it. :) She said she has spoken with the people who makes the schedule to...

  2. No call no show due to schedule mix up

    UnidentifiedNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work 3 12 hour night shifts a week. Each time our schedule for the month comes out, I always xerox off a copy for myself and then I note on my calender the nights that I'm to work. And then when...

  3. No call no show due to schedule mix up

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to UnidentifiedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yep I always make a copy of my schedule. But now my lesson learned is to always check it with the master schedule as

  4. No call no show due to schedule mix up

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to UnidentifiedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I just called work to double check if I'm working tonight or not. And I was told I was off. And I told this charge nurse the situation with my no show, and she said it happened to other nurses as...

  5. When to give meds

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Bluecap's topic in General Nursing

    oh ok. No wonder I was confused hehe. We just have different standard

  6. When to give meds

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Bluecap's topic in General Nursing

    TDS? Never heard of that abbreviation. Usually if a MD wants three doses given, they would write so and so medication, the strength, the route, the frequency x3 doses. For example: Torodol 30 mg IVP...

  7. What's the funniest thing your patient has been scared of before?

    UnidentifiedNurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my patients had been through a big MVA. Came out of it with two badly broken legs and multiple scratches, bruises, and abrasions all around his body. He had surgery to get his legs repaired and...

  8. Nights: Normal schedule on days off??

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    where I work, we rotate between day and night shift every few months. When I do night shift, the night before a night shift, I stay up until I feel very tired, but don't force myself to stay up. I try...

  9. Is night shift a good learning environment?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Gallee's topic in General Nursing

    the only part of night shift I don't like is the sleeping schedule. Especially in the summer, I find it nearly impossible to sleep during the day. At most I can only get in 2-3 hours of sleep after...

  10. Is night shift a good learning environment?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Gallee's topic in General Nursing

    I think as a new nurse, it is actually good to rotate shifts once in awhile as long as there's enough days off in between to help transition. A lot of the time night shift can be really busy, but with...

  11. Odors--Help!

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to TraumaTrainingWheels's topic in Emergency

    I've always had problems dealing with feces and the feeling never went away even after I became a nurse. Ususually when I absolutely have to deal with feces, I take care of it as fast as I can to...

  12. MD's professional handwriting skills

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to hppynurse2's topic in General Nursing

    It's almost always the male doctor handwriting that I have a hard time reading. The hospital I work at also has quite a few female doctors, but their handwriting are usually very neat and

  13. How big of a mistake was this?

    UnidentifiedNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Here is what happened. I had a patient who was having pain issues. He was previously prescribed oxycodone but he said he did not like it and wanted something else. Before my shift today, doctors had...

  14. have you ever lost it at work?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to lannisz's topic in General Nursing

    Never at work, but I've lost it once when I came home after a stressful and overwhelming day. I really did not want to go back to work the next day. Took me awhile to decide if I wanted to call in...

  15. How big of a mistake was this?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to UnidentifiedNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    it's either one vicodin every 6 hours for mild pain OR 2 tablets every 6 hours for moderate pain. I know if the patient chooses one vicodin, it can't be taken again until 6 hours later. Each time I...

  16. How big of a mistake was this?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to UnidentifiedNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    let me clarify. The patient asked for vicodin twice during my 12 hour shift. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Each time he said he wanted to take two tablets because he's been having...

  17. How many nurses have taken vacation time during their first year?

    UnidentifiedNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was just wondering, how many of you have taken vacation time after working less than a year? I'm wondering because I've been working at the place I'm at now since late October and really want to...

  18. How many nurses have taken vacation time during their first year?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to UnidentifiedNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks! I'm just wondering because I have not gone through my competency evaluation to become a CN2 yet. I just don't know if it's ok to request vacation before my competency evaluation or to wait...

  19. Do you have a probational period at your job when you got newly hired?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Bala Shark's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes the competency part is what I'm wondering about. How do they test for competencies? I've also been a nurse for 4 months, but there's still a few skills I don't feel comfortable doing by myself...

  20. Do you have a probational period at your job when you got newly hired?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Bala Shark's topic in First Year After Licensure

    After the probationary period, is that when a CN1 gets upgraded to a CN2? And for those of you who got upgraded, did you have to go through a various amount of reviews and tests before getting...

  21. How do you handle so many patients at once?

    UnidentifiedNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know some of you have very large patient loads (7+ patients) and I'm really amazed. How do you handle all that? Where I work the standard patient load is 4. Sometimes we get three if there is really...

  22. Med error could cost my job? Need help!

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to dmwRNpa's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I don't really have an advice for you, but I wanted to say that the way you described how your day went at work was totally like the way my day went the last time I

  23. Nursing = stressful career!!

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to samaletta's topic in General Nursing

    Life is stressful. No matter if you are a student or a worker. Many times when I get stressed from work, I start to think of what other career I can think of that pays well and be less stressful....

  24. Do you have a probational period at your job when you got newly hired?

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to Bala Shark's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm really confused about the probationary period. I read in the above post that during a probationary period, either the employer or employee can let each other go if things don't work out. However...

  25. just a little vent

    UnidentifiedNurse replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know that feeling. I haven't had much experience with IV's either. Only had the chance to do 1 IV as a student...and as a RN, only had a chance one other time. The other times I had patients who...