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  1. If you hate being a CNA will you hate being an RN too?

    Did you ask what he wanted to wear before dressing him? I was a CNA, so, I know that many times we just do without considering the pt and what they want. Sure we do that because we have 11 more pts to...
  2. Preceding Nurse Never Completes her work

    Patient's lives are in danger with a nurse like that on duty!!!! Look I've been a pt before on ICU...worried about things like this while there. You really need to report her until something is done....
  3. Please send your pt to dialysis with good hygein, they can't do it themselves. Great
  4. However, dixieredhead, there is not always a charge nurse to give report to. This has happened to me & it's just 2 of us. You can put the policy in place, but nurse supervisor can't enforce if...
  5. I was a CNA before I was an LPN at the same nursing home many years ago. When I would come in the nurses would take forever to give me report so that I could start my shift. They would talk to each...
  6. LOL.....
  7. If you hate being a CNA will you hate being an RN too?

    A great nurse is one who will not ask her staff to do something that she/he is not willing to do themselves. So, if you don't like dealing with resident's now, then you may want to chose another...
  8. do you think I should be written up?

    If you where doing the progress note, then yes, you should have looked at the MAR or at least the order. Otherwise how would you know what the pt is taking? Yes, you should be written up along with...
  9. Dialysis PCT job description

    Most companys offer on the job training and you do not have to have previos exp. as PCT. this is usually a paid 3-4 month training. FMC does pay PCT's well...at least $12 where I live just starting...
  10. Hello and nice to meet you.

    Welcome..I too am new to dialysis nursing...3 weeks in so far. I am not a new nurse, but there is SO MUCH TO LEARN! I like it thus far...Good
  11. IM injections - divide into 2 or keep as 1?

    2ml in VL should be fine. I agree that an injection is going to cause some pain/discomfort regardless. Did you change your needle after you drew up the medication? Giving an injection with a dull...
  12. need advice

    I don't know all the details of yours situation ,of course...While I agree that you must do what is best for you and your family, that thr employer would have no problem firing you without...
  13. Consider applying to a nursing home (LTC) or Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF). Most times these type places are always looking for nurses. When I completed my RN training and passed NCLEX, I moved to a...
  14. Failed NCLEX 5 Times! Am I The Only One Who . . .

    Well, I guess I was thinking about him when I responded,LOL... However, that doesn't change the fact that Ruby's comment was RUDE!!!! That is one of the huge down falls of nursing....nurses can be...
  15. have you been hired on the spot?

    Since it is a nsg home I'm sure they need a nurse ASAP!! You will mostly likely only get 3-5 days of orientation and just be thrown onto "the floor" to sink or swim. I have worked in 3 diff. nursing...
  16. Failed NCLEX 5 Times! Am I The Only One Who . . .

    Ruby your comment is rude and you have bad
  17. Do your staff desert the floor during a potluck?

    Is there no joy?? Must we now complain when we have fun? I think the joy leaves when people are not considerate of others. I mean why do you have to tell grown people, who get paid, how to conduct...
  18. Do your staff desert the floor during a potluck?

    The "RULE" is someone has to be the "bad guy" and tell them that they can not all be gone at once, nor can one person take 2 hours to set up! Come on guys we are at work...yea, I was always the bad...
  19. I'm trying my best, but seriously stop putting me down on the phone

    Nursing in a LTC/SNF is a hard job. OP, you did the right thing by calling the doc and following his orders. An inceased temp followed by nausea can mean a lot of different things in the elderly. And...
  20. I'm trying my best, but seriously stop putting me down on the phone

    ambgirl2nurse: it's protocol for the nurse to call ER and give report to ED (at least it has been at the 3 nursing homes that I have
  21. Patient died...

    I hate that you had a pt come in to the clinic and ended up dying! Oh, how I wish that young lady would have went stright to the ER....Not because I think you did anything wrong, but the clinic is not...
  22. Sure, manic ambulatory patient refusing to take her meds, caught up with the nurse she was chasing...LOL...poor
  23. Oh, it didn't happen to me but another nurse. I have zero desire to work in that area...I think I would hate
  24. What should I do...? I am SO bored!

    Congrats on finding a job in a hospital as a new grad, because I couldn't. CRNAs are nurses, advanced practice, but nurses. I have a good friend who is a CRNA, so, no disrespect. I think it is normal...
  25. Really Psych nursing, ez! Really???? NOOOOOOOOOOOO....try providing care to a pt who is combative and manages to remove your scrub top, from your body, on the floor...true