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  1. Giving tylenol to a family member.

    KSU-SN replied to Tiaj72187RN's topic in General Nursing

    I understood the post perfectly fine the first time I read it....TakeOne, I hope you are not as negative and unhappy as your posts make you out to be. Geez. I think you just want to start trouble but...

  2. Getting worse with experience??

    KSU-SN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I just hit the year mark for working as an RN. I work on a busy med/surg unit at a large hospital. At my 6 month evaluation I got a great eval...the nursing director had nothing but good things to...

  3. Getting worse with experience??

    KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you everyone for the support! There are some wonderful people on this forum :) I had a much better night tonight, got out on time and everything. I also found out that the nurse that was talking...

  4. Drug seekers

    KSU-SN replied to inteRN's topic in Emergency

    i know what you mean....and sometimes i just want to call them out on it and tell them i know they are really just druggies. i got a patient from the ER a few weeks ago who came in with abd pain and...

  5. Biting your tongue when it comes to visitors!!

    KSU-SN posted a topic in General Nursing

    One of my biggest pet peeves of being a nurse is having to bite your tongue when its comes to a patient's family members/visitors. I work on a surgical care floor and most of our rooms are...

  6. Biting your tongue when it comes to visitors!!

    KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

    oh yea and last week I had a patient who was 42 years old, awake, totally competent to speak for themselves and their mother answered every question I asked the patient. I said are you having pain?...

  7. A happy rant about my nursing coworkers :)

    KSU-SN posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am reading a lot of posts on this site that talk about how nurses "eat their young" and are catty, short tempered, and rude. I guess I got very lucky with the group of women I work with. (And I can...

  8. Lovenox Injections: SC, But Where?

    KSU-SN replied to lmz's topic in Patient Medications

    One of our most respected and trusted surgeons recently instructed us to inject Lovenox into the patient's thigh if they have had abdominal surgery. So it can be injected into the

  9. zofran question

    KSU-SN replied to Nurse Lulu's topic in Patient Medications

    zofran IS compatible with LR. I looked it up in 2 drug books and the manufacturer's website. Work on a med/surg floor and have given it with LR hundreds of times with no

  10. First big nursing mistake....need some support

    KSU-SN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been an RN now for 10 months. I work on a med/surg floor in a large hospital and I love my job. Just got my yearly evaluation literally 2 days ago and it was great. Our DON said I was doing a...

  11. First big nursing mistake....need some support

    KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

    thank you everyone for the advice and kind words. I am feeling better, moving on, and taking it as a lesson learned. Still dreading going in to work tomorrow because I am embarrassed but I love my...

  12. screaming doctors....how can we handle them?

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work on a fast paced med/surg unit in a large hospital. For the most part our surgeons are great caring doctors who are easy to get along with. But we have one especially, who is a peripheral...

  13. LPN jobs in NE Ohio for new grads -- do they even exist?

    KSU-SN replied to helikias's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    all hospitals in NE Ohio are phasing out LPN's. I work as an RN in Canton, Ohio and my hospital and neighboring hospitals are not hiring LPN's any longer. Nursing homes still hire LPN's but your wages...

  14. 8 months until graduation and I want to drop out!!

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Hi i am in need of some serious advice. I am a 21 year old female nursing student at kent state university in ohio. im going for my associate's degree. well this is actually my last year...only 8 more...

  15. 8 months until graduation and I want to drop out!!

    KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in Nursing Career

    trust me i know its horrible that i am throwing away all this money. but i just figured out about 2 months ago that i do not want to be a nurse. before that, pretty much everything we did was aide...