I was working in the ED one night as a Tech when we had admitted a man in his 40's for obs there in the unit. His monitor started beeping because his pulseox was reading O2 sats were in the mid 80's....
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this question OP. I noticed how my best friend, who worked with me as a tech, immediately labled anyone who was accepted into NS as stupid an incompetent...
I would be willing to work during a pandemic. I don't have a family of my own yet, and as long as that were the case I would have no objections. I would expect my mom, who works as a CNA in a...
karlita replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor
I was trained to be a phleb at the very first hospital I ever worked at after begging to be trained so I could have some pt contact (I was a secretary). My first night that I went up on my own (our...
When I first started in a hospital as a phlebotomist a couple years ago I was young, naive, and would never believe such things could happen. I was sent to the ER one day to draw labs on a difficult...
Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful advice and ideas! After reading I've come up with a list of about 10 things I hadn't thought of on my own that I will most likely need for school. Two of my...
:eek:Wow! I WAS really excited to start nursing school until I started reading about all the scary experiences some new grads are having, especially in their first year. I have worked in many...
Thanks Dudenurse! I guess the RNs that I have worked with have had sooooo many, many, many years of experience that they make it look super easy although they too struggled at times. It wasn't until I...