PICURN74

PICURN74 ASN, RN

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  1. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

    PICURN74 replied to Brian's topic in First Year After Licensure

    lots of great information for both new and experienced nurses. The thing that helped me when I started was finding a friend at work, not a mentor or preceptor although the same person can serve more...

  2. Starting 1st RN position soon.... med error haunting me :(

    PICURN74 replied to CANewRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You were a student which most likely means someone (instructor or RN you were working with) had the ultimate responsibilty for the med being given according to the 5 rights. While I am glad you...

  3. 2 questions: 1 about the ICU, 1 about orientation

    PICURN74 replied to glamgalRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    in my PICU we got 2 weeks of classes with a couple days on the unit as observers thrown in followed by 6-8 weeks on unit with a preceptor and then we met with nursing leadership, and preceptor to...

  4. 3 medication errors in 7 months!

    PICURN74 replied to NYCRN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    NYC stop beating yourself up. Med errors suck, there is nothing like the feeling you get when you realize you made a med error or think you might have made one. As others have said most med errors are...

  5. mistakes made during your first year...

    PICURN74 replied to RNmaria's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Experienced nurses make mistakes too, my advice is to own up when you make one, learn from it and hopefully you won't make the same mistake again. You will probably be your harshest

  6. Most Humorous Call-In Excuses

    PICURN74 replied to jeffrey_rn's topic in General Nursing

    "I can't come in because my favorite scrubs are dirty and the dryer is

  7. some younger male nurses.....

    PICURN74 replied to junebride's topic in Men in Nursing

    JuneBride you seem to have an awful lot of time during your shifts to so closely monitor the work habits of your peers as well as asertain their motivations for working a particular shift or wearing a...

  8. GN Orientation the good the bad the ugly

    PICURN74 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is a question for all you new grads and new to practice nurses. After being in your shoes not long ago I am now about to start precepting new grad nurses in a busy PICU at a large teaching...

  9. Friends Hospital Philadelphia

    PICURN74 replied to Doog's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    it might be worth your while to look at Girard medical center (part of north philadelphia health system) as they have a couple DD units, including longer term residential units. But no shortage of...

  10. Friends Hospital Philadelphia

    PICURN74 replied to Doog's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I have friends who work at friends (no pun intended) and they seem to like what they do. There is also North Philadelphia Health Systems, they have a lot of psych jobs. Penn health system has psych at...

  11. Scrubs to tight? How do you tell someone?

    PICURN74 replied to Absolutely13's topic in General Nursing

    we just had to have a hospital wide training about this, powerpoint presentation and all. Needs to be said, preferably by a well paid exec or HR

  12. Please Help, I Need Your Advise!

    PICURN74 replied to bnehls's topic in Men in Nursing

    many single mom and dads in my program. It is not easy ( I worked full time and did school full time) but you do what you have to. My program was very family focused. It was not unusual to have a...

  13. Male scrubs?

    PICURN74 replied to X-treme's topic in Men in Nursing

    Landau cargo pants, have tons of pockets and both elastic and drawstring. Allheart.com has fairly decent selection of guy

  14. Help with my nursing care plan assignment related to asthma and gas exchange

    PICURN74 replied to ranglervol's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    There are two main components to Asthma (hint watch advair commerical) which is the heart of the first questions. The second question is basically asking what an asthmatic patient presents like, what...

  15. central line flush/lock

    PICURN74 replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in Private Duty

    depends on the policy of the place that employes you. I work in a PICU and we treat indwelling lines differently than the regular floors and very different than outpatient places like dialysis within...

  16. No She/he Did Not!!!

    PICURN74 replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    ONSD:(resident) berate me for not telling her the patiet had no urine output for 12 hour shift when she finished I calmly reminded her (in front of the small crowd that the commotion attracted) that...

  17. Males in nursing

    PICURN74 replied to byswe0525's topic in General Nursing

    racing mom is right a competent nurse is just that regardless of gender or anything else. I have never run into any problems being a

  18. Any males working in Pediatric Med/Surg or PICU?

    PICURN74 replied to Lericalpoet's topic in Men in Nursing

    I work in a great PICU there are several males I work with and I love it. If you want to work in a PICU go for it we would love to have

  19. BSN Admission

    PICURN74 replied to lanierguy's topic in Men in Nursing

    grades arent everything, I failed out of school my first time (graduated eventually) and then grew up and graduated with honors from an Ivy league nursing program. Don't make excuses own your mistakes...

  20. Male nurse crying!!!

    PICURN74 replied to ClassQ1's topic in Men in Nursing

    I think of myself as a real man and I have cried in the course of my work. I think that we need to be careful showing emotions at work not because crying is something to be ashamed of but because we...

  21. med error panic

    PICURN74 replied to vaccinia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    meridith T- while diluting meds can be a good practice like everything we nurses do it needs some critical thinking for the average adult healthy patient I am a big advocate of diluting and running...

  22. Med Compliance

    PICURN74 replied to PsychRN-Kris's topic in Psychiatric

    I too am constantly worrying about this, check in your state RN law because patients often have the right to refuse medications even in PRN situations. personally I have never given a forced injection...

  23. Protection from a person who is a threat to self and/or others

    PICURN74 replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Psychiatric

    very hot topic, laws vary state by state and even within states there are arguments. I deal with mental health court in which patients are in front of a judge to determine if they are in need of...

  24. Group Project

    PICURN74 replied to NY Nurse's topic in Psychiatric

    the group I got the most positive feedback was one I did was dealing with stigma of mental illness and how to deal with people in the community. It can be hard to teach but there are some videos out...

  25. Got sick at work

    PICURN74 replied to RNNPICU's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    just the other day one of our attendings was helping in our sickest kids room, he started to gag when the patient had some yellow bubbles come out of his nose, luckily there was a basin on the table...