We can wear whatever, and a lot of our folks wear Charger stuff during football season. My blood runs deep orange, however, and no one in Southern California would get it, so I don't bother. GO...
RhiaRN75, That was a GREAT story.......I was howling. Thanks for sharing it in such great detail. And, oh, yes, I agree with you.....when certain surgeons lock horns with administration, things...
Perhaps "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News, or "I Want to be Sedated" by the Ramones........ Seriously, congratulations on your upcoming pinning and duet. I don't know if your ceremony...
Stop flogging yourself. I don't think you did anything wrong here. With respect to the previous posters, I have to disagree with them. Your patient was a COPD'er admitted with a sat of 84% on 5...
I'm not an L&D nurse, butI successfully breastfed three strapping sons, so I'll weigh in with my two cents. Baby #1 wasn't interested in eating (or breathing....or doing much of anything,...
Hey, it takes time. We've got a real big crop of brand new ICU nurses working with us now as we prepare to move to a bigger unit. The majority of them are struggling with the same issue you're...
I would think that working as a CNA, even after passing your NCLEX, would be a great way to keep your foot in the future-empoyment-as-an-RN-door, so to speak. We have a young man working with us now...
An emerging trend we're discussing in our ICU right now is family centered care. Other topics with lots in the litereature include nurse mentoring, family presence during resuscitation and open...
amen, and amen. precepting, good or bad, will only take you so far. i've done a lot of precepting in our icu, and i've been told that i do a good job. i like having new staff come aboard, and i...
I agree with this poster. The insecurity among some nurses is HUGE, and sometimes intimidation of the newbie is their only defense. I also agree that what goes 'round, comes round. My philosophy...
I wanted oncology too, fresh out of school. I drove up to Nashville to interview on winter break my senior year, hoping that's where they'd place me. It wasn't. "We'd like to hire you for 11 South,...
Sats in the 40s? Hell, I'd be calling a code too, and I'm an ICU nurse. You don't screw around with that, and the misinformed folks who told you that it "looks bad for the floor" might want to...