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  1. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    kimmicoobug replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I have a lot of pet peeves!!!! 1. When I have a full code patient who is crashing and needs to be sent to ICU with falling BP's and HR in the 140's and 02 sats that won't maintain...and the doc says...

  2. Survey: Do you leave work at your scheduled time on a regular basis?

    kimmicoobug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    For me, it depends on how hard or easy my group has been. My last night on the job, I was there for THREE hours after my shift ended to work on my charting. I work nights and one of my patients had...

  3. Bad days at work come in threes...

    kimmicoobug posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work on a med-surg unit since graduating in June...and I have not experienced so many bad nights in a row. I am becoming superstitious. For example, no one is allowed to say, "have a good night at...

  4. Bad days at work come in threes...

    kimmicoobug replied to kimmicoobug's topic in General Nursing

    Codes also come in threes...I have noticed that and not just over this past week. I can't wait to NOT be superstitious..didn't use to

  5. Bad days at work come in threes...

    kimmicoobug replied to kimmicoobug's topic in General Nursing

    Codes also come in threes...I have noticed that and not just over this past week. I can't wait to NOT be superstitious..didn't use to

  6. Graduate Nurses vs. Experienced Nurses

    kimmicoobug replied to newgrad2004's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm, I am almost to that experienced nurse category. I liked the line about new grads running to codes...Ain't that the

  7. Graduate Nurses vs. Experienced Nurses

    kimmicoobug replied to newgrad2004's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm, I am almost to that experienced nurse category. I liked the line about new grads running to codes...Ain't that the

  8. Bad days at work come in threes...

    kimmicoobug replied to kimmicoobug's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I agree you ER nurses are a pretty strange lot, so I would probably fit right in. But as a newbie, I think I better just get my crap together before venturing outside of med-surg. Morbid, but...

  9. Bad days at work come in threes...

    kimmicoobug replied to kimmicoobug's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I agree you ER nurses are a pretty strange lot, so I would probably fit right in. But as a newbie, I think I better just get my crap together before venturing outside of med-surg. Morbid, but...

  10. Bad days at work come in threes...

    kimmicoobug replied to kimmicoobug's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a med-surg unit since graduating in June...and I have not experienced so many bad nights in a row. I am becoming superstitious. For example, no one is allowed to say, "have a good night at...

  11. How many nurses do their own vitals???

    kimmicoobug replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, I just read my post and realized that I sounded a little snotty in my post. I should say that there is a charge nurse who is notoriously lazy. The other charges are just as hardworking as the...

  12. How many nurses do their own vitals???

    kimmicoobug replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

    I work med-surg and I often get VS on my patients. Reason being is that there are some senior nurses whose patients always take priority over mine. So, unless I want to wait over an hour and a half...

  13. Moving to larger facility, float pool LONG

    kimmicoobug replied to ParrotHeadRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a new grad, and I do look things up because I want to make sure I know what it is I need to do to provide the best care. Just had to mention it because the senior nurses do roll their eyes at...

  14. Hi! I'm Tweety Your Critical Care Med Surg Nurse (Or long waits for ICU beds)

    kimmicoobug replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Man, we have patients ALL the time that are just too acute. A few weeks ago, ICU was full,so I had two chest pains and a guy that I coded in one night in a group of seven on med-surg. Dx of patient...

  15. Successful without an Externship?

    kimmicoobug replied to maire's topic in General Students

    I had never worked in a hospital or in any kind of medical environment when I took my job after grad. I just had my review a week ago, and my director gave me a great review and said she was pleased...

  16. Medical patients on post-partum floor?

    kimmicoobug replied to tiliimnrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Oh Jeez!!! Our OB department refuses pts all the time!!! And honestly, I don't feel that they should get med-surg if at all possible. But they do get mastectomies, and they do get gyn surgeries...

  17. Increasing our workload once again!

    kimmicoobug replied to Sadie04's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think it would be a benefit, personally. We have tele on our med-surg floor for some of our pts, and it is just lovely to know what is exactly going on with our

  18. New Nurse Salary

    kimmicoobug replied to murnahan5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Money is pretty good considering I live in a farming community, and I do believe the cost of living is pretty low (eastern

  19. New Nurse Salary

    kimmicoobug replied to murnahan5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just figured out my income for this upcoming year, and it is right under 50,000 without the overtime. Now mind you, even if I take no extra shifts, I still have overtime with end of shift charting...

  20. RN call outs, how do you handle them?

    kimmicoobug replied to Carotid's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I wish my hospital had some sort of policy for nurses calling off. I work med-surg, and one nurse in particular has been calling off every other weekend. She only works weekends. It is not...

  21. Survey: Would you go into the same field of nursing if you could do it all over again

    kimmicoobug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated in June, so I don't have a wealth of experience to base my opinion on. I work med-surg, but would like to work OB. Now, I feel as if I have learned SO much working on...

  22. New Nurse Salary

    kimmicoobug replied to murnahan5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I make $24 an hour and pick up maybe one shift of overtime a pay period, usually a weekend shift, which is double time. I have brought home some fat

  23. relocating to virginina beach

    kimmicoobug replied to Dre's topic in Virginia Nursing

    So much to do in Virginia, as I grew up in that area. Thought a few times of relocating to VA, as

  24. Stool transplant???

    kimmicoobug replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

    My husband said he would gladly give me his sh*t if it meant I could get better. Though when I told him I would do the same for him, he got a lil

  25. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    kimmicoobug replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    My most recent disgusting story. I was flushing a foley by taking the tubing apart and inserting a large syringe. Well, as I disconnected the tubing, this large amount of really thick, INFECTED pee...