cloister

cloister

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  1. What questions would you ask a New Grad applicant?

    cloister replied to VizslaMom's topic in MICU, SICU

    I can think of a few questions, having precepted my fair share of new grads in the SICU....... Why do you want to work in ICU? What was your clinical experience in nursing school? Did you do an...

  2. Where are all the happy nurses?

    cloister replied to NPs4health's topic in General Nursing

    Love my job in SICU. Good staff, good pay, and we self schedule. I figure if I'm still smiling when I walk in the door, it must be pretty

  3. PLEASE read. I need help!

    cloister replied to heavenly14313's topic in General Nursing

    Screw HIPPA. I think too many times we make patient privacy a lot harder than it needs to be. I think your school way overreacted to this situation, but it's been my experience that this is the way...

  4. I am the Class Speaker! Now what?

    cloister replied to smd592's topic in General Nursing

    I was the class speaker at our pinning in 1987. I composed most of my speech while sitting at my graduation just a few hours prior to that. (Can you say "procrastination?") I addressed the faculty,...

  5. Rapid Response Team and Families

    cloister replied to Grumpy's Girl's topic in MICU, SICU

    We have family initiated rapid response in my hospital. We call it Condition H, and the family receives a flyer on it when their loved one is admitted. There are also posters up in the rooms. In our...

  6. Funniest thing a confused pt. has told you...

    cloister replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    I had a young man as a patient who had a closed head injury and a fractured pelvis. He wore a pelvic fixator, but was ambulatory. I caught him wandering down the hall away from his room and went to...

  7. Entitled Generation

    cloister replied to javajaydon's topic in General Nursing

    In the ICU I work in, there are several of us with 20+ years experience who actually LIKE nights and will probably stay there forever. We hire most new staff to nights, but occasionally days has...

  8. Med-error & down n the dumps

    cloister replied to Advocate1's topic in General Nursing

    Hope your meeting went ok, and that you're sleeping better with that behind you! Don't keep beating yourself up over this. There's not a nurse alive who hasn't made at least one error, sometime,...

  9. What nursing "invention" would make you famous?

    cloister replied to juscallmegrace's topic in General Nursing

    A condom cath that will actually stay on the pt. ICU beds with slots for X-ray plates so you don't have to lug the pt. up to do the X-ray Truth serum for the pt. who still thrashes wildly on 60 mg...

  10. Top 10 Reasons To Become A Nurse!

    cloister replied to pumpkin1984's topic in Nursing Humor

    Other reasons to become a nurse: Opportunity to develop a really robust immune system from exposure to all the crud that the hospital setting offers. A chance to experience sleep deprivation on a...

  11. I don't want to come to work on my days off.

    cloister replied to Wheaties's topic in General Nursing

    As Nancy Reagan said, "Just say no." Don't feel guilty. I've watched a lot of people die, and not a one of them has ever expressed regret that they didn't work more. Enjoy your job, enjoy your time...

  12. Night shifts.. moms with young kids..?

    cloister replied to lvmama's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked nights for 15 years, and at one point had 3 sons under the age of 4. Guess what I had been doing on my nights off? :redbeathe I was fortunate to be able to go part-time when my youngest...

  13. You know you work nights when.......

    cloister replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

    When you schedule your dental cleaning at 0900 and then fall asleep in the dental chair........ When you fall asleep in the middle of report....... When you fall asleep in the middle of sex...... When...

  14. Does anyone else like working night shift besides me?

    cloister replied to Joyfullme's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked nights consecutively for the past 15 years; in fact, I've only worked days or evenings for 22 months out of 20+ years of nursing. I LOVE working nights. You could not run fast enough to...

  15. How much do you do for the next shift . .

    cloister replied to widi96's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, you did your best. The job is 24/7. I'm not sure I understand where your float nurse is coming from. Where I work, the resource nurse fetches blood, helps turn patients, etc. Looks like she...

  16. TRAITOR: Get Out of Nursing!

    cloister replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure I understand all of this, but thank you for the information. Think I'll stay in

  17. Horrible thing happened in O.R yesterday

    cloister replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, you did your best and you were trying your darndest to follow policy and procedure on the missing suture. Unfortunately, if the surgeon doesn't see fit to follow protocol, guess what? Said...

  18. I need to hear from the real nurses!

    cloister replied to FuturoEnfermera's topic in General Nursing

    I gotta say, Futuro Enfemera, I feel your pain....... I started nursing clinicals just as NANDA and nursing diagnoses was getting off the ground. Most of the diagnoses made me want to retch -...

  19. The Cap.......

    cloister replied to Justhere's topic in General Nursing

    We wore a cap to clinicals when I was in school....along with the always attractive Sears Roebuck uniform and sturdy ortho-nightmare shoes. We got a "junior stripe" after the successful completion of...

  20. ICU Nurses with OCD!!!

    cloister replied to nursern20's topic in MICU, SICU

    I've been in ICU 12 years, and yeah, I'm pretty anal retentive at work. That being said, I think I'm also approachable - I notice the new staff comes to me with their questions, and I always try to...

  21. What do you write on your pt's bulletin board?

    cloister replied to Dempather's topic in General Nursing

    In the SICU where I work, we're supposed to write the nurse's name and the doctor's name, as well as the pt's answer to this statement: "Very good care to me is________________" Pain control?...

  22. OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

    cloister replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    We practiced bed baths....clothed, I seem to recall ("Use your bath mitt to make smooth, velvety strokes".....) We did head-to-toe assessments in our underwear, and yes, this included breast exams,...

  23. your first....

    cloister replied to misslo's topic in General Nursing

    No scrubs allowed when I was a student.....it would have made sense, and we couldn't have that, now could we? Our uniform regs were easily a page long and were penned with the notion of turning us...

  24. Ethics: Does it bother you when people are in nursing to make money?

    cloister replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm kind of afraid to admit it, but I consider nursing my calling. Simply put, it's where I'm most apt to encounter the sacred, and after 20 years I still consider myself privileged to be a...

  25. Age you will/were graduated?

    cloister replied to sweetiez's topic in General Students

    I was 22 when I graduated with my BSN. I had no idea what I was getting