Morettia2 BSN, RN

CTICU, Interventional Cardiology, CCU

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    Hang in there new Grads and New Nurses it does get better..I PROMISE

    Morettia2 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    This board for 1st year nurses saved me from quitting my job numerous times. I came here and still come here to rant, whine, complain, tell how great/horrible my shift was, and mostly for advice from...
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    Experienced cardiac nurse transfers to CTICU..gotta read this one

    Morettia2 replied to Morettia2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    See the thing is....I didn't become cocky, I was sick of being verbally beat down. One can only handle so much insult. You reach a breaking point. And I broke. I had enough, and I wasn't about to be...
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    Experienced cardiac nurse transfers to CTICU..gotta read this one

    Morettia2 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have worked at the same hospital for about 5 years. I started out as an Interventional Cardiology RN right out of school. I became one of the Night Shift Charge Nurses and was offered a position as...
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    MYNX Closure Device, any one else having problems with the NEW MYNX closure device

    Morettia2 posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hey all. SO My hosp. just started using the MYNX closure device a month or 2 ago. The MD's used to use angioseal, perclose or just send the pt. to my floor with a Sheath for us lovely nurses to pull,...
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    What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    Morettia2 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    I have one...this wasn't a Nurse but a DOCTOR who did this......Here it goes, you guys are going to love this one, it was about 4 years ago..I was probably about 1 year into my nursing career as an...
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    Hang in there new Grads and New Nurses it does get better..I PROMISE

    Morettia2 replied to Morettia2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OMG I haven't been on this site in a very very long time...I can't believe this post is still a sticky...I can only say, one year ago I posted this...since then it's been well...i am not going to go...
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    Weaker nurses at night?

    Morettia2 replied to LeeniesMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work nights, I am far from weak. If I heard a Doc say that, I would fire back with, "well, since youthink we are weak, I would be prepared to expect an increase in pages b/t the hours of 12am-5am....
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    Worst night ever

    Morettia2 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ok so I have been posting on here for quite a while, and alot of you have read my stickie...it get's better I PROMISE....and I thank you and I hope I have helped or encouraged you to keep up the good...
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    Worst night ever

    Morettia2 replied to Morettia2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    haha thanks..I know it was a long post. And I thank you for reading
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    Hang in there new Grads and New Nurses it does get better..I PROMISE

    Morettia2 replied to Morettia2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    god-is-love, when you start out as a new nurse it's like being on mars, kind of. My story is this...I am from the philly burbs. I went to the University of Scranton in 98-2002 and graduated with a...
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    VENT!! Called off and labeled "No Call No Show" LOOONG...

    Morettia2 replied to so alive LPN's topic in General Nursing

    HAHAHAHA you don't know how many times I wish I could have said
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    VENT!! Called off and labeled "No Call No Show" LOOONG...

    Morettia2 replied to so alive LPN's topic in General Nursing

    I am glad to hear that everything worked out... I am an RN working in an innercity hosp. Every so often we get called off when our census is low. Last week, I was called at about 5:45pm by the day...
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    Relatively new nurse- unhappy and unsure with job. anyone else?

    Morettia2 replied to roadrunner25's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just wated to tell you, your story sound similiar to mine..I will post more later gotaa go back to work in a few hours but if you ever need to talk just send me a
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    Hang in there new Grads and New Nurses it does get better..I PROMISE

    Morettia2 replied to Morettia2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey guys just got my evaluation for the year, last year I was new so it was a prewritten evaluation..this year I got to score my self, self evaluation before my night shift Nurse Manager gave me what...
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    Having a hard time with less hygienic patients

    Morettia2 replied to Manatee111's topic in General Nursing

    OMG I work in Newark, NJ and we get the worst of the worst. Low income area where my hosp. is located. The pt's that are admitted to my floor with cardiac problems are so unbearable at times. There...
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    Starting PIV = bane of my existance. Any advice?

    Morettia2 replied to whykiki0103's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ok had a pt. last night who needed a new PIV. The day shift RN told me he pulled it out by accident around 5pm...I asked her why she didn't put in a new one..she said no one could get a vein, even the...
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    Starting PIV = bane of my existance. Any advice?

    Morettia2 replied to whykiki0103's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My fav. place is the hand...you just put that tourniquite on and tap away at the veins in the hand untill you find something. The pinky and the thumb work well for pt's that have crappy veins....but...
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    What are your "I'm a nurse, I can do this (totally unrelated)" things?

    Morettia2 replied to mama_d's topic in General Nursing

    I can stick the worst veins, start IV's on anyone, code a pt. , pull femoral sheaths, tell you about medications even hae MD's come to me about meds, can read rhythms when other people can't..but if...
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    Nothing like a good kick in the face

    Morettia2 replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I know those nights..one night I was bit by a pt. thank god she had no teeth, so she just gummed my hand literally..hahah..but she did punch me also. We have the boxing glove mitten restraints, they...
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    Cardiac Sheaths

    Morettia2 replied to debthern's topic in Cardiac

    We pull sheaths on my floor. I work Interventional Cardiology. The ACT has to be I can say that sometimes pt's come with ACT's in the 140's and I wish that the cath lab would have pulled it b/c now...
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    Gave the MD the best answer ever!!

    Morettia2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    So last night was a terrible night..ran around like usual. But I had this pt. who I had the previous night also. She's a Nephro RN and was on my unit for pulm. HTN and eval for lung transplant. So we...
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    First year in nursing really that hard???

    Morettia2 replied to R.NICU's topic in First Year After Licensure

    what makes it hard as a first year nurse is learning the nursing culture and hospital culture and physician culture. Nursing school and clinical prepares you to BE a nurse in the world of nursing,...
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    Ever pull the wrong med from the right cubie in the Pyxis?

    Morettia2 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    just had my first problem with this recently. I was pulled to another floor for the night. I have been on this floor many times before so I knew the nurses. I pulled my 10pm meds from the pyxis. I...
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    Hang in there new Grads and New Nurses it does get better..I PROMISE

    Morettia2 replied to Morettia2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    soo sorry to hear that. My biggest help in anatomy was getting a study group and just drilling the crap put of each other...it's just memorization. another thing is I made a binder of all the slides...
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    What are all the things you should have on your first nursing job?

    Morettia2 replied to TrinaCNA's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Dansko's if you can tolerate the "breaking in" period, but once boken in LOVE EM', hence the reason I have 7 pairs in all diff colors and styles, A good stethoscope, the Littman Classic II S.E. I...