Surgical_RN08

i have recieved my 1st eval. and it was great!!! we even had a "new grad no more breakfast". i can personally say this year presented many learning opportunities (did i forget to mention it was hard as heck). i am not so overwhelmed anymore and can...

its been a year since ive helped contribute to this thread....i thought it was soooo helpful...so those of you coming out of school...study hard every day with a set schedule and congrats to those who have recently passed the nclex. wow i am sooo gla...

i have a question. i am a floor nurse and dont know very much about this. i had surgery friday and had loads of anesthesia i.e versed, fentanly, diprivan, etc. i think it was one more but i cant think of it. anyways...the day before surgery i had an ...

i have a question. i am a floor nurse and dont know very much about this. i had surgery friday and had loads of anesthesia i.e versed, fentanly, diprivan, etc. i think it was one more but i cant think of it. anyways...the day before surgery i had an ...

the latest i stayed over....the shift ends at 0700 so i ended up leaving at 0910 because i was still charting. but lately its been 0730 at the latest and its mostly because some of the nurses dont get there on time to get report (some are even new gr...

you shouldnt quit nursing but you should think about going to another area to work (maybe in the hospital or outside like a doctors office, community health etc.) 6 wks orientation isnt much at all by the way (i had 12). if you dread going to work ev...

well a doc got pretty upset with me because i called him in the middle of the night for an order. situation: my pt had a temp at the start of the shift 100.1. i encouraged him to do pulmonary toileting, plus the pain med he had already had tylenol in...

a nice stethoscope always comes in handy or a pocket organizer to keep scissors, pens, etc.

hi all, i do call the pharmacy at work when i have questions about this. i know iv nexium and invanz are not. i am trying to make a list. is there a book or website i can get this information from. thanks in advance.:typing

okay we do have lexi-comp which replaced our micromed....i will explore around with it when i get back to work to see what i find. thanks guys.

i just recently had my eval after getting off of orientation and my manager said it is quiet "normal" to be task-oriented at first as a new nurse. she also says as time goes on the critical thinking we spent so much time stressing in school will star...

its a two stick max for any person at our facility new or seasoned. wow she trys that many times before she asks for help. if i try once and know that i cant get it on the second try i will find someone else.

hi all, i graduated on May 18, took boards july 7. i started working on a 27 bed mainily postop surgical floor (but we get medical pts too). i love this floor because it will help you to get organized because of the high patient turnover and everyo...

i think i am in the same boat as you guys. i am trying a few different things. i write down the patients room numbers across the top of a piece of paper. then draw lines down to divide them. i write all the things i do (as i do them soon after i come...

my preceptor put hemostats and tape clipped to the side of my pants. we keep flushes and wipes locked in the pts med box inside the room. one multicolored pen in one pocket but i always keep a few wipes in my pocket just in case, and my hospital phon...

it was a girl in my class that had hyperthyroidism. but she was still accepted. She was a tee-tiny girl. hyperthyroidism can make you really thin sometimes. but as long as she took her meds she was okay and guess what she passed her boards last week....

i have a wonderful preceptor but when she isnt there i am precepted by other seasoned nurses. what this substitute nurse show me saved me from a huge med error. we have a medication system called adminRx. what this entails....the MAR gets scanned to ...

Morphine, Dilaudid-thru the PCA, percocet, darvocet, zofran, phenergran, tylenol are the most common prns on my unit

before i started the AM shift....i already knew that it was going to be hectic and i was right...i work on a post-op surgical floor which is also a regular med-surg unit so you can imagine. we have to oriented 6 weeks on days and 6 weeks on nights. ...

try carolinas medical center...its also a level one trauma center.

hmmm interesting thread, well in my opinion if you are proud of what you do then i have no problem with displaying you are a nurse. as a matter of fact i have had the first in nursing nc plate for about 3 years now which is for a charitable fund whic...

i would say no to IMs or Any injection thru clothing. the clothing will get the needle contaminated. do people really do this? wow!

well tommorow is the first of aug and this has been a very exciting month with a lot of changes...first being sooo nervous about taking the nclex on july 7, finding out i passed two days later and giving tpn, meds, heparin, drsg changing, co-signing ...

i am a new grad RN but worked as a cna for a long time. i am in orientation on a postop- surgical floor where the the pt turnover is very high. the little sweet old confused lady down the hall. wow!!! i had her tonight all i can say is whew!!!! (beda...

i am going thru orientation and my manager said she is going to gradually build up my patient care load until i reach the max. we (me and my fellow co-horts) will start out with 1 then 2 and so on till we reach 5-6. but on another floor which is a me...