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SoundofMusic

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  1. AM nurses, tell me what I can do to make your shift start easier.

    SoundofMusic replied to tiroka03's topic in General Nursing

    I would agree with all of the above posts, and add: 1. Take care of pain -- many times we walk into the room and pts will state they've been in pain all night ...I always wonder how this could happen...

  2. NP Prep: Fitzgerald CDS

    SoundofMusic replied to reeya's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Wow, I didn't know you could buy them on Amazon. The price is pretty steep, but worth it if it helps you pass. I hear nothing but good about the materials, and it seems to help everyone pass in our...

  3. Is this a strange way of viewing your co-workers?

    SoundofMusic replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have a nurse at our unit, a older male nurse -- who isn't the most popular person on the unit. He's a bit disorganized, sort of tough to follow in terms of not always having his charting done, not...

  4. New grad, common mistakes

    SoundofMusic replied to Jenni811's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been a nurse now for about 3-4 years, (some prt time) and I STILL feel this way. It's as if I get worse as time goes on, it seems, lol. Throw in a demanding nit picky family and I'm toast. If...

  5. My God, these family members!!

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Amazing. I started this thread some 2 years ago. Tonight, on a different unit, (I've quit the hospital and come back) I had this SAME family I'd written about in my OP, only this time w/ the 91 year...

  6. What are your favorite types of patients??

    SoundofMusic replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I second liking anyone without obnoxious demanding family members. The patients are hard enough to deal with. I also lurves my little confused old ladies ...and those on the brink of confusion. As...

  7. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a day shift nurse. I usually handle 5 patients on days on a busy cardiac tele unit. On any given day shift, there are usually ten different tasks on 5 different patients, many more demanding...

  8. Anyone familiar with Morgantown hospitals? I need info.

    SoundofMusic replied to glutton4punishment's topic in General Nursing

    Hope you enjoy it -- pls pass on whatever you find out as time goes on, what your experiences are. Once I finish my NP degree and get a few years experience here in N. Va, we plan to move out and...

  9. Anyone familiar with Morgantown hospitals? I need info.

    SoundofMusic replied to glutton4punishment's topic in General Nursing

    Hey there -- I actually grew up in Morgantown myself! I've never worked there as a nurse, but I've always known they had a very established and viable hospital system there. Long, long time ago I...

  10. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, with all the night shifters chiming in, perhaps I should amend my post. Just, whatever shift your'e coming off of -- or coming onto -- be NICE to your fellow nurses. I dont' think I've met YET one...

  11. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Wait a minute. I DO work my a%%$ off, every single shift to "attempt" to provide a clean slate for the next shift. Every shift I do this .. .I'm as efficient and fast as they come ....what a lot of...

  12. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Whatev .. .maybe I should go to nights. I AM stressed ...absolutely. We have a big time problem w/ lack of tech support, which isn't

  13. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    LOl -- well, this part i can definitely agree with. And I do agree on much of what you broke down. It's true, many tests are done on nights as well. Lots of crap on nights ...I agree. More support on...

  14. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, I hear you all on trying not to specifically criticize night shift, but it's all I know and days are all I do. Both shifts ARE incredibly hard. I've done both and I know things can go like crap...

  15. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    NeoPedi -- great post. I never expect any shift to be easy, either. I never get annoyed that I have to carry out a task that someone on nights left for me. To me it's a 24 hr team job -- that's why...

  16. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Just to remind night shifters, think about the following very time consuming tasks we are required to do that you are not required to do, or are usually unnecessary on nights: 1. Provide a daily...

  17. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    SoundofMusic replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Well, if it weren't for the severe shortage of md's willing to go into primary care, perhaps there wouldnt' be such a demand for NP's. Seems that graduates of medical schools are finding that...

  18. does anyone regret becoming a nurse?

    SoundofMusic replied to CC999's topic in General Nursing

    All I can say is since I have obtained this degree, I have always had a job, and worked when and how much I wanted to -- where many others seem to struggle and get laid off. That said, I did it...

  19. If you won the lottery would you still work in health care?

    SoundofMusic replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    No. Not at ALL. I'd buy land, build up a farm, buy some animals, become totally self sufficient and off the grid from society altogether. The more I'm around them, the less I want to be around...

  20. Do FNP's really make 80k to 90k a year?

    SoundofMusic replied to mariposabella's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't know -- maybe I tend to glamorize the NP job a bit, but I'd rather make $80 or 90K and NOT have to run on my feet 12 hours straight, wade in poop and all the other various bodily fluids, put...

  21. Did a dumb thing r/t dialysis port

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    So embarassed to even admit this here, but I am a relatively new nurse. Yesterday on our floor I was very busy, very overwhelmed and drew a blood culture out of a pt's dialysis line. She had just had...

  22. HATING MED/SURG

    SoundofMusic replied to pale_pilsen's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm in agreement w/ JanHeatherington -- I've been doing this now for four years and I'm still no better at the whole "time management" thing. I'm too compulsively careful and it slows me down. (good...

  23. Hospital nurses - is it really that bad?

    SoundofMusic replied to Marshall1's topic in General Nursing

    I will have to say, many of the posters here have hit the nail on the head numerous times. It truly is a horrid job on some days. I just came off a day like this yesterday, so I am right now very raw,...

  24. HATING MED/SURG

    SoundofMusic replied to pale_pilsen's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Pale, you and me had the same day. I've recently come back into a busy med/surg type tele unit from a six month hiatus. I've been working on my masters and taking care of kids ...but I knew I needed...

  25. what percentage of your job involves poop?

    SoundofMusic replied to onedayitllbeme's topic in General Nursing

    About 50% on a cardiac floor. I don't know ..as many say, a poop cleanup is nothing compared to a disgruntled family member threatening to call the Hospital administrator ...or a patient with a sense...