ORNurseAngie

Had a young patient the other day with pancreatitis, pretty much from drinking so much. Patient was receiving Dilaudid 2 mg Q 4 hours prn pain. Was getting it every four hours pretty much but would freak out everytime I was ten minutes late or so. (G...

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 etc. They can also do research as well. In some h...

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

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 I currently work at but optimistic that I will do ...

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

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

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

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? I am constantly being interrupted and have to stop...

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 feel totally comfortable on your own for at least...

I think you just wrote this to get some attention! Focus on school and come back and post on what it really is like to be a nurse.

? why not follow a heroic float nurse who can legitimately work in ob one day and er the next? or a travel nurse who can legitimately work in reno one season and nyc the next? haha instead of the real housewives of orange county and the other lo...

I think that you are very rude!!

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! LOL

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 the OR. I am fifteen weeks pregnant but I feel ok...

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 ideas. I never never argue with patients anymore abo...

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 a doc has to but the same rules apply except we ju...

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 breaks, going home on time, no weekends or holida...

It is tricky at first to figure out what to chart. Dont' write stories simply state the facts. Chart any procedures you do and patient response, chart pain and pain meds. The main thing is to stick to the facts only the facts, don't offer your own th...

i HATE that one, If a patient is asking for a bedpan give them the bedpan for GOD sakes. If u are too lazy to do it then ask me the RN and I will gladly give the patient a bedpan. Most of our 'incontinent" patients are not really incontinent 24 hours...

It happens way more than you know. I don't know how many times the very same thing happens to me except I find all kinds of things such as rashes in the groin that noone knew about. My favorite was when I found scabies marks all over my patient that ...

I work on a busy med/surg/tele floor where we are only supposed to max at six patients a piece day or night. Typically it ends up that we take seven and I've been told by the nursing supervisor that need be we will take 8 a piece but I have never had...

Hello all I am in a huge dilemma. I recently last December signed a contract for a sign on bonus for 10,000 dollars. I was told today that my job has been eliminated at my hospital however they have offered me a position at their sister facility whic...

Diep flap's last forever, never done one myself but seen them last from 0730 am to midnight and then come back in the middle of the night because it doesn't take, sucks! The nurses and techs have break coverage until 11pm and the surgeon's provided ...

I've heard about some of the other hospitals recently are cutting back on staff and non clinical employees. Has anyone heard anything about providence. I am about to accept a position there in the OR so I am just a little curious. I work at a small c...