espritjolieRN

Hi all, I'm looking into a position as an ALF RN. I'll be honest... I'm not a big fan of doing a lot of clinical skills. Don't like IVs or caths at all. For those of you who have done this position... are these part of the job?

Thanks for your reply. I work in a clinic as RN. Most of my position involves telephone triage and handling walk in patients with medical complaints. I feel like my assessment skills and pathophys knowledge are good. I know what to ask, what to as...

I'm curious, are caths expected/common in an ALF setting?

My feeling is if you're doing overflow, you're getting your experience with med surg. If you like what you're doing, I wouldn't switch. If you decide later you want to make a switch and feel like you need more med surg (I'm betting you won't) you c...

In the clinic where I work, the doctors refer to their assistants as nurses. The receptionists refer to the assistants as nurses. Even the licensed and registered nurses refer to the assistants as nurses. Because really, what is a nurse? It's one ...

When I worked the floor it was that way with almost all the nurses. Always too busy. Well, yeah, it's true we're busy... but come on! People don't seem to realize that when we take a few minutes over and over in a shift to come together our worklo...

I've solved my situation to my satisfaction, found an RN job that suits my strengths and personality more than hospital nursing. Doesn't change the fact that if I knew then what I know now ABOUT MYSELF I would have chosen something different. It's...

I worked as a tech in a pathology lab for 10 years prior to entering nursing school. I have always loved the "intellectual" side of nursing more than the "skill side." I work in a clinic where I do a lot of treatments and deal with symptomatic wal...

One option... Call the police with the license plate number and a report of what you witnessed. Kicking someone in the jaw is a form of assault... and if that's pushing it, this isn't: the entirety of what you witnessed was a form of abuse and sho...

What am I doing wrong?? I have the hardest time finding the right location on women. I suppose nothing's going to help me there but practice. But this is really puzzling me: I've done 2 males now without any urine return. I would swear I'd have ...

Makes sense. This is what one of the other RNs thinks is my problem. She's seen me cath and she says I use a lot of lube. Can I flush a straight cath from the opening?

I know there's no absolute with women, but "usually" it's right above the vaginal opening isn't it?

I used to work in a hospital where they had us inject lidocaine into the urethra prior to cathing a male... then come back in 5 minutes.

Alright, I feel stupid. It's a brand new cath, why did you get return when u flushed it?

I'm doing both. The straight caths aren't in a kit, so they're using the KY. I haven't been inserting almost to the hub though... there's part of the problem I guess...

If I could go back and do it all again, I'd go for accounting. Some nice little desk job where the numbers all add up and nobody dies... or poops on me.

No...

Networking. The DON's life partner was a nurse on the peds floor I worked at. She told me about the position. The clinic sent me to several seminars and gave me more training time than I ever had on the floor. Plus I work with 2 other triage RNs ...

Yes, and once again, WHY is there a lack of attention??? Because they're willfully careless? No.

Want to stay positive? Find an area of nursing you love. The ones who are negative and cynical are that way because they're burned out and hate where they're working.

What's a commode?

IMO they occur primarily because the staff is overworked and overloaded with way too many responsibilities. Think about it, when you're moving as fast as you can to try to keep up with everything you have to do AND you're always automatically thinki...

I interviewed for positions last September. Before going in I googled something like "common interview questions," picked out what I thought i could get asked and prepared & practiced answers for them. I did really well. And I would say they a...

I don't care who knows. If they want to talk about their medical problems I'm game - I like the medical field, it's all interesting to me. If they ask me something I don't know, I say "I don't know, let me look it up for you." If they ask me to d...

Title of this thread is ironic considering it's sitting on the same page as the Doctors Are Bullies thread...