inava

inava

SICU, NICU, Telephone Triage, Management

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  1. How To Get Started As A Nurse Writer

    inava replied to Elizabeth Hanes's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Thanks for mentioning that you need to treat writing as a business. The administrative part of it can certainly take up half your time. The fun part is the creation, but that alone does not bring home...

  2. Nurses are control Freaks

    inava replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I was recently hospitalized for five days with flu and pneumonia. I tried very hard not to second-guess everything. But I'm the first to admit I'm a terrible

  3. Older Nursing students

    inava replied to MarieD's topic in General Students

    That's the spirit!!! Take it day by day and you'll get there soon

  4. Is It Possible An LPN Can Make More Then An RN?

    inava replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    I join the chorus saying do not bring this to your manager's attention. Big NO! NO! Other staff's salaries are not up for discussion and you will only establish ill will from your manager towards you....

  5. Older Nursing students

    inava replied to MarieD's topic in General Students

    WOW! Congrats. Age is relative. I thought I was old when I graduated at 27. Took time out to have a baby and spend the first 2 years at home with him. And that was 30 years ago. How time flies....

  6. The single best piece of advice you've gotten/gave

    inava replied to HumorHeals22's topic in General Students

    What I would tell all my orientees was that they needed to know 2 things: 1) What they don't know and 2) where to look it up. I find that nurses who act on what they presume to know are dangerous....

  7. What makes Nursing school hard?

    inava replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Students

    I took all my non-nursing classes before entering the program and even so it was not easy. I ended up taking only 2 classes per semester and that was a lot of work. I did have a toddler at home so I...

  8. Can someone please tell me exaclty what RN's do?

    inava replied to tamarin100's topic in General Nursing

    It's not glorified like you see on TV. You don't have time to stand around the nurse's station gossiping about every body else. Here's a small sample of what I have seen and done: --Handed a dead...

  9. I yelled at another nurse.

    inava replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    it's easy to come across as holier than thou. it's a lot harder to work to fix the problem. the losers here are the patients who end up being shortchanged in their care due to lack of staff or lack...

  10. I yelled at another nurse.

    inava replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry but I have to ask: why do you tolerate this situation? I would have turned in my resignation long ago. This looks like a no win

  11. I cringed on the inside

    inava replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    My pediatrician told me a few years ago that he was seeing an epidemic of adult onset diabetes in young children secondary to obesity. This is a real shame. When I drive around practically every...

  12. I yelled at another nurse.

    inava replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Who's in charge at this place? How can this person leave early? Is she being paid for not being there, in which case that would be stealing. Not to mention the liability you would incur for taking...

  13. Prayer at work??

    inava replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    I can understand how you can still have some concern about the situation you were placed in without your consent. If it had been the patient then it would probably have been easier for you to oblige...

  14. Doctor title, Nurse title

    inava replied to pegbord's topic in General Nursing

    I have always addressed doctors as Doctor because that is what I was comfortable with. I preferred not to blur the lines between the familiar and the professional. In return I have been called...

  15. Is it okay to give an IM through clothing?

    inava replied to njinsky's topic in General Nursing

    Not to mention introducing textile fragments into the tissues. Never heard of such a thing. Except on TV

  16. Not allowed to say "I was busy w/ another pt"

    inava replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked a post-op floor in Galveston, we had private (insured) and staff (uninsured) patients. While it was a regular floor (no ICU glass walls where not only do you have a constant visual of...

  17. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

    inava replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

  18. Not allowed to say "I was busy w/ another pt"

    inava replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    This type of management double speak is one reason I am not practicing right now and may never again. What would have been said to you if you had catered to this lady and left your unstable patient...

  19. Nurse calls in because of herpes outbreak

    inava replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    Your good friend needs to look up the meaning of

  20. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

    inava replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have my cellphone 24/7. So do my children. It's my quasi umbilical cord to them. On the rare occasion that I leave home without it even for a short errand I feel a sort of panic, a disconnect....

  21. Should assaults on medical personnel be a Felony Offense?

    inava replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    How could it possibly not

  22. The Doctor said WHAT?

    inava replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    Great story! You should be a writer. As far as nursing goes, stand your

  23. Got my 1st butt chewing today - humiliating!

    inava replied to RN2Bn2006's topic in General Nursing

    So sorry this happened to you. You sound very sharp and on the ball. You were putting the patient's needs ahead of your own and the doctor was putting his personal needs above all else. I have had my...

  24. U.S. Nursing Salary CHANGES?!

    inava replied to Future-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Too true, I remember nurses being laid off in Houston in 1983. DRG's were hitting full force and of course to compensate losses hospitals let the most expensive (in their calculations) yet the most...

  25. U.S. Nursing Salary CHANGES?!

    inava replied to Future-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Shouldn't the goal be to provide universal health care as opposed to providing universal health