brookorrn

brookorrn specializes in med-surg/or/ambulatory/geriatric psyc.

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1. Is it normal to feel inadequate?

   brookorrn posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am a fairly new RN and I have been working ambulatory surgery since August of 2008. I have been training in OR off and on ever since (probably a total of 6 cases-observing). Is it normal to feel...

2. CRNA Hates me

   brookorrn posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am a new grad (graduated and got rn in july), but I worked on the floor as an LPN for a year. My love has been OR ever since I was about 6 years old. Now I have been working in Amb Surg since...

3. Traveling as a psych nurse-the need-please respond if you know

   brookorrn replied to brookorrn's topic in Travel

   I am hopefully going to be working in a facility that works with geriatric psych patients with Alzheimer's and dementia. This facility takes them in for approximately two months at a time, tweaks...

4. Traveling as a psych nurse-the need-please respond if you know

   brookorrn posted a topic in Travel

   My true love is alzheimer's and dementia, but any psych medicine would fulfill that desire.........how big of need is there for traveling psych nurses and what kind of experience is

5. Shorted $800 on my first check as a GN

   brookorrn replied to brookorrn's topic in General Nursing

   This hospital is very small, approx 33 med-surg beds, so I am not sure about human resources, but I am going in tomorrow to find someone to talk to about it. I just do not want to be labled a...

6. Shorted $800 on my first check as a GN

   brookorrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Well, I just got my first GN check, and it was $800 short. I was guaranteed PRN wages as a "scheduled" PRN, but when I recieved my check, I got the same pay as though I was getting benefits, but with...

7. didn't pass second semester

   brookorrn replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

   Some of the best nurses I know did not make it through school the first time. I believe that it is because they had to study harder than everyone else and because a lot of the information they...

8. How to handle an abusive surgeon?

   brookorrn replied to aquarius1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I do not work in OR yet, but I did clinicals in one the other and when the surgeon walked in the door, the first thing he said was "I didn't know they let short, black women scrub in for surgery" and...

9. Need Ostomy help please...Ileostomy? Colostomy? Can patients have both?

   brookorrn replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   i forgot to mention that i have a colostomy, but i still have an anal opening that i produce "mucous plugs" out of. if the anal opening is closed off, then a double barrel ostomy is made so that one...

10. Need Ostomy help please...Ileostomy? Colostomy? Can patients have both?

    brookorrn replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    could the place where the 4x4 is be a second ostomy (such as from a double ostomy for draining mucous)? I know that when the rectum and orifice is sewn shut, a second opening is needed for the mucous...

11. BON wants my adoption decree!

    brookorrn replied to brookorrn's topic in General Nursing

    well, i got my lpn license, now i am going to be in the process of trying to get my rn. do ya think i will have the same

12. Am I crazy? Looking into traveling with husband, 2 kids, and dog.

    brookorrn replied to spiritdancer's topic in Travel

    What traveling agency do you use? My husband and I would like to start traveling in 2009 after I get a year experience as an RN in med-surg. We have a 13 year old (who will be 15) and a 10 year old...

13. VA Hopeful

    brookorrn replied to IIIseeyaa's topic in General Nursing

    I found that calling whoever interviewed you and aksing if they have everything they need and letting them know you are still interested, works also. I did that when I got my job at the VA. The guy...

14. Which nursing skills do you dread?

    brookorrn replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    Ostomy care does not bother me either and some day I want to specialize in it due to having a colostomy myself. But I have to agree with those who do not like brushing dentures and suctioning...

15. My mother is embarassed that I'm going to be a nurse...

    brookorrn replied to iriska_meller's topic in General Nursing

    You have to do what will make you happy. I have worked so many jobs that I absolutely detested because I was trying to "please" someone else due to prestige or whatever..........life is way tooo...