I have the concept down of PIE charting: You state the problem, you do an intervention, and then evaluate. I bought a book on documentation even. Here's my problem: I need EXAMPLES of how things are...
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"Just keep your lip buttoned, don't give anyone any ammo to use against you and pretty soon you'll sift out a few co-workers who won't stab you in the back the first chance they get." This is...
On the telemetry unit where I work, we RNs get 7 patients with either a CNA or an LVN on the team. Beginning in January, it will be only five patients, but there is talk that it will be either primary...
Keep in mind that BB's are used for venting. So they are not an accurate pertrayal of how nursing really is. Sure, nursing is not a bed of roses, its a hard job, but I was talking about how RNs...
I mentally divide my worksheet into three's - Past, Present, and Future. On the left is basic pt. info:- Name, age, Adm. Dx, Doctor, Pertinent History, and other things that have already happened like...
Everyone I know hold RNs in high esteem. To be a RN was a long-time goal of mine. Now, I am proud to be one. My family is proud of me also. I have not seen this so-called prevailing negative attitude...
A Telemetry nurse does much of the same things you would do on a Med/Surg floor. But since all the patients are connected to cardiac monitors, the heart rhythms must be moniotred and documented. This...
I work nights - 12 hr. shifts - but I only have to work 3 days/wk to be full time. My schedule for the first week is 4 days on and five days off, and for the second week, it's two days on, three days...
I origionally planned to take the ADN program and took Beginning Algebra, English I, Psychology, Anthropology, Communications, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology. When I couldn't get...
Another little trick is when spiking a new bag (assuming the line hasn't run dry) is to crink the line with the hand you are going to spike with, spike the upside-down bag, turn the bag upright,...
I was 50 when I graduated with a BSN. I've been a nurse for a year now, and I'm doing alright (except for my poor feet). Go back to school now for your nursing degree. Take it from me: that nagging...
I like nocs too. I find that if I eat before going to bed, that it helps me sleep. I usually find some left-overs in the fridge - nothing big. My "big" meal is before work. I work 12 hour shifts: 7 to...
I worked as a medical assistant for 10 years. Now I am a registered nurse. Being a medical assistant first was, in no way, a stepping stone to becoming a nurse. None of the classes were transferrable,...
In my BSN program, I found out during the last quarter that the teachers at that state university were not required to have teaching credentials, just a master's degree. Don't get me wrong, there were...
Of course Physicians are more valued than nurses. Without the docs there would be no nurses. It is a fact of life that the more education you have, the more $$$ and less "work" you have to do. I don't...
Thanks but I have tried that site many times and whenever I click "California RN", it takes me to a page that says "the page cannot be opened" or words to that
I remember when I was assisting a doc with a pelvic exam years ago. the woman had a very foul smelling dischage. The doc saw something jammed up in there and used the long forceps to get at it. He...
Tunneling decubitus ulcers on the sacrum. This fellow was paralyzed from about T6 and could not feel as the doc dug around in there with the other end of the Q tip. This caused my preceptor to wince....