txRN07

I was wondering if you could tell if your work environment is conducive to nursing, do you have high job satisfaction, etc? I do not work at a Magnet hospital but received a job offer from one. Just how different is it?

I'm just wondering what everyone else prefers to wear. I love my clogs, my back pain went away after I switched to them. Are there any particular brands that you swear by?

We always have lots of feeding tubes on our unit, and it has been a long time since school, so I was wondering, when doing your residual checks, how many cc's would cause you to hold feedings? I've always gotten 5 or 10, and that's a given that you ...

I hate it when you have family members who think they know better, we had a patient with an NGT hooked up to LWS, but the family member thought that it was too low and was asking to put suction onto high! We don't want the patient's intestines being...

what on earth?! I have never had that or seen that happen, something must have been wrong with the packaging, that should not happen, should it?

nu uh! not at my facility, if a patient is starting to get diaphoretic and such, it is good nursing judgment to check that sugar, one of the things the doc will ask me is if I checked the sugar.

The only thing I had to do at my hospital was the buccal swab for drug testing, and they tested my blood for Hep B antigen, and that was it, I guess each facility is different, but I don't think your triglycerides is their business.

Well I began nursing school back when I was 21, but we were military and had gotten sent away, then I had babies, etc. I went back in 2005 and I graduated at the age of 32.

It could be that a great deal of our personalities stems from relatives. My mother was disgusted when I told her years ago in college that I had decided to become a nurse. These days she doesn't ask me much about my work, but I do have several cous...

Holy cow! I am sitting here sick and I called in for today, and I feel terrible! Yes I know that i should be here resting, but I feel so much guilt for the floor and for the patients. I do hope they found someone to come in, but I feel just terribl...

That's awful that you can't trust and depend on your own charge nurse. I would definitely go up the chain of command, and talk to her boss. I hope this gets resolved for you.

Has anyone ever come across a patient like this? Last night I was caring for 7 patients on my med-surg unit that I work on, and I had this lady who was admitted 4 days ago with electrolyte imbalance which has since been resolved and she is now eatin...

Holy Cow!!! I just wonder how nice that Ethan Allen furniture will look after being puked and defecated on several hundred times! For crying out loud people, there are so many things to spend many on that a healthcare facility actually needs.

It is very overwhelming when you are first starting out, but you will be surprised how much you retain by graduation, and your knowledge continues to build from there. Nursing is continual learning, none of us know everything, you will get there I p...

I have no place to tell you what to do, but since you put out the post and are open for insight, I was just wondering, it seems like you have a hard time saying no to people, especially your parents. Many people suffer from the same affliction, myse...

If a patient asks me to pray with them, I am more than happy to oblige, but I do not impose, this is very individualized. Some patients have pastors coming in to pray and family members praying at the bedside, so in this situation I don't feel uncom...

Yes! I saw it yesterday, I just stared in awe. It just goes to show you that you shouldn't self-diagnose and self-medicate, you never know what could happen!

I am a new RN, and I have been working on a med-surg floor for 8 months now, and up until this point things have been going well. Yesterday we had students on our floor, and I love having a student because I was one just a short time ago, but I had ...

Dentures!!! I'm sorry but when I come in in the morning and see a patient's dentures in the little cup with the remnants of last night's dinner floating around, I want to hurl!!! Oh, and collecting those stool specimens!:barf01:

Class of 2007 here!:w00t:

Don't you have PTO hours that you earn? I usually cash those in when I am sick, there is always plenty of hours left over for vacation time.

What drives me nuts is when patients come in with a stroke, and as a result they cannot swallow without aspirating, a dysphagiogram is done, and they fail miserably, they are made NPO and the family goes crazy, and acts like we are being mean. I hav...

I work the 5 8-hr shifts and I would much rather work 3 12's, it seems like i'm never home, and all I do is work.

This is SO common, I am experiencing firsthand at work, unfortunately. I am a new RN and there are so many things that I was not taught during my orientation time, so the only way I learn them is by getting rude comments by other nurses that I didn'...

Every time my shift is over and I am at home, my mind is not at rest. I go through each of my patients in my mind and ask myself, "Did I do everything I could for this patient", and I always think of something that I could've done and I beat myself ...