Scoobiedoo

Scoobiedoo

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  1. PCA Pump Settings

    Scoobiedoo posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am an LPN and soon to be (30 days) an RN graduate! YEAH! However, in my facility on the Med-Surg floor Rn's start the PCA pumps when the surgical patient arrives from PACU. I see things like...

  2. Seeking a Assignment Worksheet or Form

    Scoobiedoo posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    i am a new lpn and i am seeking some kind of form or worksheet for my patient assignment. i need something to help me get organized on things like: ls, bs, iv, o2 therapy, allergies, etc. does anyone...

  3. How many new nurses are seriously thinking about quiting?

    Scoobiedoo replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, I have been on the Med Floor since graduating in May 2007. I also worked in our ICU for 4 yrs prior to becoming a RN, and was a EMT before that. I have found it extremely hard to care for 6 Pts...

  4. I'm now an RN!

    Scoobiedoo posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I passed my boards on August

  5. How many new nurses are seriously thinking about quiting?

    Scoobiedoo replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've worked in our hospital's ICCU for 5 yrs before getting my RN license. Yeah, I knew we are short on nurses all the time and have holes unfilled. However, what I didn't see was on the Med~Surg...

  6. How many new nurses are seriously thinking about quiting?

    Scoobiedoo replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sure! Never enuff staffing, 6+ patient assignments, mandating, 1/2 the time we don't even have 1 Nurses Aide on our 7p-7a shift! never being caught up! Computer charting thats WAY TOO...

  7. I'm now an RN!

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

    thanks!

  8. How many new nurses are seriously thinking about quiting?

    Scoobiedoo replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been a graduate since this May - licesnsed since August - all 7 of us graduates HATE nursing - and I've even worked as a Cardiac Tech in ICCU for 4 yrs and KNEW what I was getting into!

  9. How many new nurses are seriously thinking about quiting?

    Scoobiedoo replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Umm, its called NURSING

  10. Help getting organized?

    Scoobiedoo replied to superdeluxe's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I work 3-11 pm shifts. I have tried going in early so I can get all my Kardex info and labs for my patients on my shift - but the Charge Nurse doesn't even MAKE the assignments until like 2:30 or 2:45...

  11. CVP readings

    Scoobiedoo replied to sazza's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I am a little confused. Why exactly is a CVP used and what info does it give you?

  12. How many new nurses are seriously thinking about quiting?

    Scoobiedoo replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I guess I was lucky in that I worked in our ICCU as a Cardiac Monitor Tech and Nurses Aide for a year before I started RN school. However, I am no an LPN and will graduate our RN program this May...

  13. Keeping Nursing Textbooks...???

    Scoobiedoo replied to nyclizzo's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I sold mine on Amazon.com and good goo money for them. I can look up just about ANY disease online these days and get good information, S&S, etc. on them...easier, faster, and takes less space...

  14. Help getting organized?

    Scoobiedoo replied to superdeluxe's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know just how you feel! I'm a new LPN grad and graduate from RN school in 4 wks! YEA! I know how hard it IS to get organized at the start of my shift - esp when I have 5-6 patients! This forum...

  15. Forensic Nursing (FN): Programs

    Scoobiedoo replied to sirI's topic in Forensic

    How can I find out WHERE these colleges ARE for this degree? What

  16. I's/O's...

    Scoobiedoo posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new LPN and soon to be RN. I'm finding it difficult to tally up my I's & O's at the end of my shifts due to some staff that is negligent in recording my patient's I/O's from meals, drinks,...

  17. I's/O's...

    Scoobiedoo replied to Scoobiedoo's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, I don't know if they are even recording their own. Thats a good question... I think they are such a hurry to pick up the dinner trays and get back to their patients that they just don't mark...

  18. I's/O's...

    Scoobiedoo replied to Scoobiedoo's topic in General Nursing

    My facility DOES have I/O sheets on the bathroom doors. However, many of our staff (Rn's too) are negligent to record info when they pick up and remove trays when I am with other patients, busy, etc....

  19. PCA Pump Settings

    Scoobiedoo replied to Scoobiedoo's topic in General Nursing

    Yea, our hospital too. MUST have 2 RN's to do

  20. PCA Pump Settings

    Scoobiedoo replied to Scoobiedoo's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! I didn't think a PCA pump GAVE a continuous dose! I thought it was all ON DEMAND!

  21. $17.00 Hr. Starting Wage For RN?

    Scoobiedoo replied to krazykev's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, thats an 'insult' vs. New York's current $21.50+ per hour RN

  22. Tattoos?

    Scoobiedoo replied to kamon8404's topic in Men in Nursing

    I am a current LPN, will complete my RN in 30 days and own and operate my own tattoo studio. I try and keep my tattoo's in places that aren't too visible when I work. I'd love to have full sleeves but...

  23. Iv Therapy

    Scoobiedoo replied to DAMomma's topic in General Students

    So, What solutions ARE: Hypo Iso Hpyer Where do LR, NS, 1/2 NS, D5W fit in?

  24. Seeking a Assignment Worksheet or Form

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

    Thanks everyone for all the helpful sheets. So many to choose

  25. Hematoma ???

    Scoobiedoo posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm a new LPN and RN student. Many times when I try and get my IV stick my Pat winds up with a 'lump' in their vein. Hematoma? WHAT am I doing