nurse grace RN BSN

They are heavy and cumbersome. I hate lugging them from room to room. I think they make the med pass twice as long as it used to be. I wish they would hire enough staff.... the COW can't give the meds for you.... you still have to drag the stupid thi...

1.med surg 2.yes 3.tele, ob, med surg 4 4 years Good luck with your project!

Get out of there, charge as a brand new nurse is way too much too soon. Go somewhere and get the orientation and experience you need and deserve.

Be very careful in any situation where you got up against faculty. My friend did and down the line that teacher failed her for clinical 2 weeks prior to graduation and she did not graduate or become an RN. She fought long and hard and even in court a...

Good luck :)

You could use SBAR -- we use that at our hospital S= situation: patient X is showing signs of possible stroke, MI etc B= background: a brief hx and what you think is going on now A= assessment: vitals. slurred speech, change in sensorium etc R= reco...

I know that AIDET is a method of managing up and not part of hourly rounding. I was just replying to the person before me that we are doing both. I like AIDET and think it is an excellent way to promote great customer service. Hourly rounding is a...

We have it too and AIDET as well. Guess what? patients still fall, code etc and the nurses are so tired from making nosensical visits to the patient rooms that no care can get done. also, patients complain that we are bothering them. I think manageme...

I changed jobs within my first year from tele to mother/baby ( thought it was my dream job but hated it) then back to a med/surg floor. I have been on the med/surg floor almost 3 years now. My advice--do what works for you and makes you happy. :)

I had a patient last week that was in her 90's and wanted constant attention. If you didn't go to her room- she would beat on her bedside table with a tube of poligrip! She also, would scream nurse, nurse, nurse nurse- finally we had to have a sitt...

I had a dream one night, soon after we had a big expansion project at my hospital. When I got off of the elevator, there were slot machinges and craps tables near the ICU family waiting room! Really, freaked me out. When I went to the cafeteria--- i...

I had a dream one night when I was still working as a Post partum and nursery nurse. I dreamt that I had a bucket full of babies in the back of my car that were stacked like "russian dolls" and they all were crying, wet and needed to be fed. The drea...

I am not sure of how to write this but I am angry/hurt/upset over what I consider substandard care of my MOM. She was in a CVU and showed definite changes that pointed to a stroke and her nurse didn't address it. :angryfireFurthermore, she didn't eve...

Wow, I am so moved by your story and your courage. I don't know if I could have continued if I were in your shoes. I am so sorry that the doctor tried to blame the nurses for his inadequacy. You did nothing wrong and you are a credit to the nursing p...

Our pyxis is pretty much stocked with everything needed on a med/surg floor: narcotics, cardiac meds (plavix,bp meds, coumadin etc.) gi stuff(nexium,prevacid, mmalox, etc. We have bins of 2cc and 10 cc saline flushes. Individual patient drawers have ...

My hospital is starting a "practice run of "P4P" this year. Everyone is running scared thinking they won't get a raise. The raises are only arounfd 3% anyway--not much more unless you are exceeding expectations in every area of a very biased evaluati...

Every unit in my hospital has a wall in the bathrooms covered with papers about everything from the night shift committee to reminders about the "vis" sheet for inoculations. I ignore them, that is not the way to educate. Just my:twocents:

I had carpal tunnel prior to becoming a nurse. I now am just returning to work from Guyons' tunnel surgery--- this affects the ulnar nerve. The pain involves the ulnar side of your arm and the ring and pinky fingers. I was dropping everything and in ...

We all need to learn to get along for the sakes of ourselves and our patients. The job is difficult enough without having the nurses abuse one another. We were all new at one time, perhaps we should think back to how we felt at the time when we began...

We hired some great new nurses this summer and they have been an asset to the unit. We did have one from last year that was a little *****. She felt entitled, superior and always right. It showed in every thing she did and she even went over the head...

Lets face it folks. The nurse that you become is innate in you, whether you are 20 or 50. Some 50 year olds will never mature and some 20 year olds are mature beyond their years. I am an older , fairly new nurse( a little over 3 years at the bedside-...

I made the mistake of jumping to a new floor from tele after only 5 months-- because OB had a ton of openings. I should have put in a year on tele first.I am on a med/surg floor for over 2 years now.It is working for me and not what I thought I'd lik...

I just saw it last month in Atlantic City. It was truly remarkable. My favorite was the male who was standing toe to toe and fingertip to fingertip with his own skeleton. The exhibit of cancerous lung was pretty graphic for smokers. Another interesti...

WE use Jean Watson at our hospitals.

My hospital paid my tuition, books etc. everything except for uniforms-food- and gas. In return I had to work for three years as a nurse--finally paid up and can go elsewhere if I like. But, mind you--I was already working for them for close to 20 ye...