DudeNurseRN

DudeNurseRN has 1 years experience and specializes in Hematology/Oncology and Medicine.

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1. Am I not meant for the ER

   DudeNurseRN replied to RileyRN's topic in New Nurse

   You will see things in one day that most people don't see during their time on this planet. This will also include some pretty horrific and scary and sad stuff. Is it okay to cry... oh for sure, the more you get used to your environment the less i...

2. I hate nursing..

   DudeNurseRN replied to flygirls2's topic in New Nurse

   Hmm. So not the fear of making a mistake/scared to go to work everyday thing that most of us had. There really are plenty of other areas out there. I float to other units because my hospital has no float pool, and I can say for instance I was BORED...

3. Medication Error

   DudeNurseRN replied to g61j's topic in Emergency

   Unfortuately med errors happen. We're people and we are going to make mistakes at one time or another. Statistically the more medications that you have to give, the higher the chance of having an error. 5 rights is great, but certainly not error p...

4. Hello Im in a Hickle of a Pickle

   DudeNurseRN replied to PrettyKathyRN's topic in General Nursing

   It sounds like you already know which job is for you. From what I read it seems like you need support in telling your current workplace that you need to leave. The 3-11 place will be fine with you leaving. It's like leaving any other job. You're...

5. Talking Dirty

   DudeNurseRN replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

   I personally would use you influence to try to influence the other people. You don't necessarily have to go the whole nine yards and use "I" statements ("When you about your intimate lives at work, I feel uncomfortable."), but you could try manuever...

6. When do you NOT want people to know you're a Nurse

   DudeNurseRN replied to Nurse_Newbie's topic in General Nursing

   Hmm. Thankfully I don't have anyone hitting me up for money, but then again most my family lives out of state and me being an only child probably has something to do with it. I don't advertise, but my wife drags me to her doctor's appointments and A...

7. Calling Docs by their first name...

   DudeNurseRN replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

   I am in agreement with most of the people here. I am fine calling the doc's by their 1st names when they are getting SBARed for pt needs. I mean let's be honest, no need for formalities, we both know what our roles are. But when the MD's and RN's ...

8. I can't do this anymore...(VERY VERY LONG)

   DudeNurseRN replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

   You have A LOT on your shoulders. You can quit nursing, it'd be okay. With the experience you have, plus your BSN, you could take that degree and ride it to do something else if you wanted to. Or if you wanted to stick with nursing there are a lot...

9. Preceptor Issues-Long!

   DudeNurseRN replied to New ICU Nurse's topic in New Nurse

   It's going to be tough asking for a new preceptor, but being a new grad myself I have to say, that, this person probably is a good nurse, but doesn't appear to be a good teacher. There are people who are great nurses but not great teachers, and that...

10. IV PB meds-- silly question, but need to know!

    DudeNurseRN replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    I kinda go along with the concensus here. Personally if I am using an infusion pump, I won't in theory have to worry about air emboli. But per practice of my charge RN, I always setting the pump to make sure that the bag drains completely taking ca...

11. New at nursing and ready to give up....

    DudeNurseRN replied to smaka's topic in New Nurse

    yuppers. it'll get easier, and you can't beat the learning curve no matter how hard you try. i know cause i tried too. but having this experience will benefit you down the road. what you chose to do is very, very hard and the work is worthwhile, ...

12. Yikes!

    DudeNurseRN posted a topic in New Nurse

    I had one tough nite. Dang. I had a person who was having problems with bone CA in her hips, and trying to get her on the bedpan, and I had a person with ulcerative colitis, who was getting blood and had a blood transfusion reaction, and I had to g...

13. lack of confidence on giving meds

    DudeNurseRN replied to lenjoy03's topic in New Nurse

    NancyNurse brings up a good point. Our team has a pharmacist too, lots of times they are on the floor and ready for any questions you may have. I remember more than one time I had to call them to have them save my butt when I had no idea about how ...

14. Thinking about trying night shift...

    DudeNurseRN replied to LadyPhantom's topic in New Nurse

    I definately have experience when it comes to the day/night scenarios because that's what my shifts are. Nights is an interesting beast in the fact that they dump a whole bunch of pt's on you because of the theory that "well if pt's are sleeping the...

15. lack of confidence on giving meds

    DudeNurseRN replied to lenjoy03's topic in New Nurse

    My preceptor taught me, and I took it to heart, that you can't give a med not knowing what it's for. BUT... you need to make this easiest on yourself. What he taught me was to carry a PDA, with a drug database in it. This speeds up your ability to...