Coffee Nurse

Coffee Nurse BSN, RN

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  1. Why Am I so confused!!

    Coffee Nurse replied to TiaRenee's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, you probably want a postpartum unit or the NICU if you want to work with babies, not L&D (although that is hugely rewarding in its own right). Look into postpartum if you want cuddly...

  2. BSN vs MD?

    Coffee Nurse replied to nicuhopeful97's topic in General Nursing

    I think this is going to be your main problem. I don't consider myself a great "people person" either; I care, absolutely, but I'm quite an introvert, and after a 12-hour shift (especially with very...

  3. Feeling low on options here!

    Coffee Nurse replied to MelissaJasinski's topic in General Nursing

    You may have to wait until January to get into a program. Hospitals tend to do two intakes of new grads to coincide with the most common graduating times, May/June and

  4. Apple IWatch and nursing

    Coffee Nurse replied to Miker1980's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of facilities have a "bare below the elbow" policy -- i.e. no watches, no rings with stones, only plain wedding bands allowed. This helps to cut down on the number of places that come into...

  5. 'Diagnosing' co-workers?

    Coffee Nurse replied to Awesomocity0's topic in General Nursing

    Wasn't exactly a coworker, but one time we had this awful high-pitched squealing sound in one pod in our unit that turned out to be plumbing-related; it would only go away when we left the sink...

  6. Difficulties in finding a Hospital job in NYC!

    Coffee Nurse replied to DLimRN's topic in General Nursing

    You might have to think about moving out of the NYC area for a while. It's considered a very desirable place to live so the decent hospitals can naturally be choosy about what candidates they...

  7. Nursing Jobs Abroad

    Coffee Nurse replied to cathe1715's topic in General Nursing

    Even if you find an agency to take you, you may well have to fulfil experience requirements of the destination country. When I moved to the UK, I was required to prove at least a year's experience...

  8. Physical assessment on sedated pts

    Coffee Nurse replied to Allend's topic in General Nursing

    Why aren't you asking a nurse/mentor/educator on your own unit rather than strangers on the Internet? This is an incredibly inappropriate resource to be using to answer this essential

  9. Nurses expecting to do too much!

    Coffee Nurse replied to CosmoRN77's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't say to write up the doctor. As staff nurses, we don't have the authority to do that. I said fill in incident reports, or do whatever else your facility does to highlight adverse events or...

  10. Medical Decisions

    Coffee Nurse replied to poodah33's topic in General Nursing

    I use UpToDate, but it's a resource for all healthcare professionals, not a "medical decision

  11. Nurses expecting to do too much!

    Coffee Nurse replied to CosmoRN77's topic in General Nursing

    ?? And would this review take place before or after the patient strokes out from throwing an embolus? Meanwhile, nursing staff will start complaining about being micromanaged from the powers that...

  12. Nurses expecting to do too much!

    Coffee Nurse replied to CosmoRN77's topic in General Nursing

    Who's to say the doctor isn't disciplined? If you have concerns about a specific MD repeatedly making the same errors, then you need to talk to his/her superior, or fill in incident reports, to make...

  13. Nurses expecting to do too much!

    Coffee Nurse replied to CosmoRN77's topic in General Nursing

    If the doctor forgot it and you missed/ignored it, hopefully it would come back on both of you. We're all human and all part of the healthcare team; when a mistake is made by one person, hopefully...

  14. Starting as a mother-infant nurse in a month...nervous! what to expect?

    Coffee Nurse replied to EmRN14's topic in General Nursing

    LOADS of patient education. And the occasional wondering, "Am I really sending this helpless child home with these

  15. UK Tier 2 visas for nurses

    Coffee Nurse replied to nursemajee's topic in Immigration Advice

    I've just done this, switching employers/sponsors for my tier 2 general visa. You don't need to take the IELTS again. On the certificate of sponsorship provided by my new employer, they detailed...

  16. No babies for this NICU nurse

    Coffee Nurse replied to angrykitten's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Nothing particularly to add to the wisdom already here, I just wanted to say that I feel you, as a fellow (so-far) childless NICU nurse. You'd think people would know better, in this day and age,...

  17. Entry level pay for nurse resident

    Coffee Nurse replied to mirc88_sl's topic in General Nursing

    Why don't you ask

  18. Moving to Italy

    Coffee Nurse replied to krizia1988's topic in International Nursing

    It's not generally the degree that transfers, but the nursing license. It looks like you'd have to take the NCLEX and be licensed in the states, then apply to have that licensure recognized in Italy....

  19. Vent: parents

    Coffee Nurse posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I'm sure just about every area of nursing deals with difficult family members at some point, but I just have to vent some spleen about conditions on our unit recently. I wouldn't dream of walking...

  20. Moving to Italy

    Coffee Nurse replied to krizia1988's topic in International Nursing

    Where do you want to work? That's the main question. It's much easier to work in any country if you've been educated there to their

  21. Hoarding resources

    Coffee Nurse replied to jay082's topic in General Nursing

    PENS. I work in the UK in a unit that is all paper charting, so this is extra special

  22. BA in unrelated field first a bad idea?

    Coffee Nurse replied to haileyp's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was a classics then a linguistics major before deciding to switch to nursing after sophomore year; I ended up with a degree in both nursing and linguistics. It took me five years to graduate, but...

  23. Need advice please on giving up on nursing tomorrow

    Coffee Nurse replied to coldsteel1's topic in General Nursing

    Why did you want to go into nursing in the first place? Did you enjoy your clinicals in school, any particular one more than the others? What was so bad about your first med-surg job? What kind of...

  24. plagiarism??

    Coffee Nurse replied to wolf9653's topic in General Nursing

    I tend to agree with you, OP. Obviously we don't know the level of detail of the original note and therefore how blatant the copying was, but at a certain point, if the patient's status hasn't...

  25. How old is too old?

    Coffee Nurse posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    At what age do you tend to ship chronic babies off to PICU or the peds floor, and do you have a policy on this or just proactive charge nurses? At my hospital, my unit is rather lax about getting...