ORNurseAngie

ORNurseAngie specializes in Med/surg/tele/OR.

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1. RN to Pharmacist

   ORNurseAngie replied to spopeye's topic in Nursing Career

   There are lots of avenues to explore in pharmacy not just retail in the cvs or walgreens. There are pharmacists that work clinically in the hospital and dose meds like coumadin, tobramycin, vancomycin...

2. Hateful, mean nurses

   ORNurseAngie replied to CupCakeRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I would find evidence of them abusing their patients and report them to the board of nursing. How stupid and

3. Advice for the New Cardiac RN

   ORNurseAngie replied to ElizabethRN10's topic in Cardiac

   I too just took a job in telemetry step down unit after pretty much six years of medsurg, give or take the couple years I spent as an OR nurse. I am a little nervous as this is a larger hospital than...

4. St john Main hospital

   ORNurseAngie replied to Ms.RN's topic in Michigan Nursing

   what about the area? is it a bad area? is it scary to drive

5. Highest paid specialty in nursing ?

   ORNurseAngie replied to Elleveein's topic in General Nursing

   Do we really have to ruin a perfectly nice informative discussion by being rude to each other? Lets be professional

6. isolation

   ORNurseAngie replied to optimusgts's topic in General Nursing

   we do not isolate patients for MRS anymore, although I forget why. The infection control nurse told us why but I

7. Medication pass times

   ORNurseAngie posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

   I have a question regarding medication pass times. At the hospital I currently work if a medication is due at 1000 we have an hour before and an hour after to complete the med pass. Is this the norm?...

8. Attention OR Nurses

   ORNurseAngie replied to anneles's topic in General Nursing

   I love working in the OR (even if I currently am not doing it right now). It is totally different type of nursing. A periop training program will definatly help you out quite a bit and don't expect to...

9. nurses and spelling

   ORNurseAngie replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

10. nurses and spelling

    ORNurseAngie replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

    I think that you are very

11. To those who have been pregnant and working

    ORNurseAngie replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    I just previewed my post after I sent it, can you say holy run on sentences. Wow what happened to that BSN degree, certainly doesn't show in my writing skills!

12. To those who have been pregnant and working

    ORNurseAngie replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    I am presently pregnant right now working on a busy med surg floor on midnights. I am the charge nurse and I take a full 6 patient load, I am just getting back into med surg after two years of working...

13. how to you deal with this?

    ORNurseAngie replied to HeatwaveRN's topic in General Nursing

    Difficult to deal with for sure. I often times wonder why in the world do these people come to the hospital then. Document, document notify physician and consult social work and psych are all great...

14. IV push hydralazine or labetalol - tele?

    ORNurseAngie replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At my hospital tele nurses can push both, for hydralazine just frequent b/p checks for labatelol must be on telemonitor like a bedside telemon. On the medsurg floor medsurg nurses cannot push either...

15. bad mgmt + bad decisions=burnout?

    ORNurseAngie replied to sasha2lady's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Absolutely true. I worked med surg for three years day shift and night shift and eventually lost it. I was ready to quit nursing all together. Then I got a job in the OR it was my dream job. Scheduled...