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Doctors flirting with nurses? Thoughts? I am particularly chatty with one of the younger doctors. Never thought anything of it, although he has been mildly flirtatious in the past. Then today, he initiates a conversation and he is laying on the co...

I have a question for you all today. Hmmm, this is a sticky situation since it doesn't concern me and concerns another student, and really isn't my business...but I am really curious as to what the future holds for this particular student and as a l...

First let me say that my instructor is so cool. This particular rotation, he gave me shifts in all the units I wanted. One of the shifts that I asked for was OB because I love it there. I had my first clinical of the year there yesterday and my se...

Usually when our ac's let us know about an admit, we usually have report called from the ER within the hour. However, I have come across the day shift charge on my unit refusing admits for this, that, or whatever reason. So, night shift gets stuck ...

I work nights 19-07. I actually choose not to take a routinely scheduled break. I do this because there is nothing for me to do on my break. It usually tends to slow down around 01-04 which is when I will sit down to do chart checks, read progress ...

What our union contract says is that we have to work 2 holidays a year. However, our director seems to play favorites and gives certain people holidays off every year. Our Christmas is considered the 24th going into the 25th. Last year, I worked b...

My personel pet peeve is when you follow a nurse and you clean up their messes. Or a nurse gets an admit 4 hours ago and leaves it for you to do all the paperwork....this actually has only happened following only one nurse in particular. Also, I ge...

We need to get rid of ALL our dynamaps. One of our machines, we had to wrap silk tape around it to keep it on the pole. Do you think our director is sympathetic...well, we still have them. Also, I think we need to do away with the Polaroid camera...

I am a nightshifter...so anyone ever have an Ambien weekend at work? Sweeter than pie old ladies that turn into raving lunatics...I am always just slightly hesitant when giving this to someone for the first time

We use filter needles as well. I agree with whoever posted about the vial being redesigned, not the needle.

I have been a nurse for 10 months now, and I am now a charge every Sunday. I hate it. It is two more an hour and to me not worth it. I could really care less about staffing and checking the crash cart. I still just want to learn my job as a nurse...

Nope, no crushes on an MD, but do flirt with them on occasion. Now, I do have a mild crush on one of the RT's I work with. Very nice butt, and just the nicest guy in the world.

Nurses have intubated at the facility I work at. I believe our policy is MD's first, RT second, and then nurses third. However, it is very rare for RT to do it, and even rarer for nurses. I have only heard of one OB nurse to intubate a neonate in ...

Yeah, I was just told by one of the charge RNs that we have to give notice one half hour in advance if we cannot take our break at our assigned times....So, if we have a patient crump five minutes before our assigned time, then we can not claim "no l...

I always heard carry high, and it is a boy. Carry low and it is a girl.

yep, depends on the patient and what they are there for. I always start PCA's at the lowest setting on the continuous setting. However, it can be dangerous. Recently, we had a kid on a Fent continuous and PCA and he almost didn't make it...

I would date a co-worker...Maybe not in the same unit though, or heck, even the same field. Gossip doesn't bug me. I have always been gossiped about by someone, and it is like water down my back.

well, there is a room where I had two patients in two days have problems. Day one, low BP's, ARF, delusional...she sure got quiet after 0400. I went in there at 0700, to get a BS and she was pale and unresponsive with a blood sugar of 26. She got ...

The experience that I had that just really shook me up was when I first came off orientation on med-surg. I had a patient on BiPap with elevated BP's. I was so focused on her BP's that I just didn't see her declining resp status. Also, they assign...

I would like to follow around an MD for a couple of weeks. I think it would be give me a new understanding for their job. And yeah, I think it would be nice for an MD to shadow the nurses or maybe even RT for a few weeks. Case in point, I once got...

Well, just to post my opinion. I work at a Catholic hospital, thank God, so abortion just would NOT be an option. My sister had an abortion last year, and I really discovered the truth about myself and this very sensitive subject. Well, I encourag...

I push Fentanyl all the time on the med-surg floor. I try to use it as a last resort, but will use it for breakthrough pain when it is not yet time to administer MS or other pain meds. I always start with the lowest dose possible and work from ther...

Ohh,,,I have another pet peeve. Your charge nurse is insisting on taking a 15, and yet the other staff members have not even had a chance to sit and think straight. So, said charge nurse is ignoring her pages for beeping IV's and wants the rest of ...

Oh Jeez...last night was a perfect example of this conversation. I had 8 patients...Ok, as long as nothing happens. However, last night something DID happen. Night shift has a skeleton crew, barely the minimum to keep the hospital going. I had 8 ...

I love nights and work 8's. I will occasionally go in early and work 12's. Once I got into the rhythm of working nights, it was cake. I do have to take sleeping pills, though on occasion. I usually get around 9-10 hours of sleep per day. I sched...