racing-mom4 BSN, RN

Memo: As of Friday May 16th we will no longer have internet access on the medical floors. That is what I was greeted with yesterday. Now I am not a huge internet user but when the night is slow and the unit is clean and the patients are sleeping and ...

CNA on the road to Nurse. Let's begin with you are the nurse's eyes and ears, you are probably spending more time with your patients than the nurse assigned is. Listen to a good report; if all possible listen to report along with your assigned nurse....

I am ready to pull my hair out. I am working with an agency nurse in a small unit, just the two of us. She is chewing her gum so loud and smacking her lips, I just am afraid I am going to scream. Bad enough she already trashed talked some of our Drs ...

Just out of curiosity---how high have you titrated levophed before? History, pt in with serious health history, admitted with CHF. Coded on the floor. CPR alone brings back a rhythem I come in at 7pm to find her on cpap with an et tube placed. lev...

This may be more of a vent than asking for help, so bare with me while I try and calm down to type this... I work in a small 6 bed rural ICU--about 40 min away from a wonderful burn unit--people come from all over the midwest to this burn unit. I wor...

I am a new ICU nurse, just graduated in Dec 07. My unit typically does not hire new grads. The newest nurse besides me has about 5 years of exp. I posed a question on this board last week about titrating levophed and was amazed at the knowledge base ...

I had an admit last week a middle age 612lb pt in you guessed it---resp distress. Of course they were a full code. Thank God we did not have to go there, as honestly how does one do chest compressions on a person of that size? The question/problem i...

LOL It was a housekeeper that taught me how to breastfeed!!! She came in to empty the trash and I was in bed visibly frustrated. She asked me how I was doing and i told her I could be better if only I could get him to eat. She came over and said "oh ...

ya i would be ticked too...children and breathing in my mind take precedence!!

my daughter got her CNA lic in 2 weeks through a temp agency. 40 hours of class time and that was it and it cost less than 200.00 bucks.

I could never do office work, but some good friends of mine love it. before taking an office job ask to shadow for a few days to make sure that is the path you want to go...

If I find my self in a nursing home I want to be as snowed as possible. If I dont have a "hook up" I would be looking for one!! In the mean while at least get the poor woman a nicotene patch!!

nursing allows me to only work 36 hours a week nights and weekend and still make a decent anual wage. I may have missed a few things but I am pretty sure my kids still know I love them!!

I got ahold of the board--they said all out of state applicants automatically get sent the ink cards---as there is a clause if you are out of state you DO NOT have to get the electronic ones done....Didnt know that. So I am good. Thanks

I paid 75.00 for my electronic F]bi and bci? fingerprints to be sent to the Ohio bon to get a lic by endorsement---on saturday I get a packet in the mail from the board with the manual ink type of fingerprint cards...the cost for those is soemthing l...

Is she being open minded as in wiling to work nights and weekends?? As she may have to take those scheduals just to get her foot in the door. I am a nurse in Indiana and most of my nurse friends have 2 jobs!! I have honestly never met an unemployed ...

I went into nursing due to flexible hours/decent pay check for the hours I work and am able to use my mind and my hands---plus I am a social person and the thought of working behind a desk drives me CRAZY. Nursing was a win/win choice for me and my f...

If I were you I would call PearsonVue personally and then ask them to follow up verifying what they said to you in an Email. You dont want any little glitches to happen before you test. I dont know the answer and I dont know if I would take the advic...

I am sure you have seen some of the other students through out the years, are they wearing the skirts?? I am only assuming they would have no use for the skirts once school is out, our school had a program that the Srs would donate thier school scrub...

At my new ER job I got 6 shifts. 3 on days and 3 on nights. by 2nd shift I was basically on my own only finding my mentor if I couldnt find something or was stumbling through the computer. My 1st job out of school in an ICU I got 4 weeks. 2 weeks on...

I commend you for saying that---it is 100% true. With out a paycheck you can not provide your kids the basics to survive. My kids know I love them and even if a miss a ball game or a school program it does NOT mean I love them any less. Life is all a...

I work every single Friday/Saturday night too...we just pack some family fun into the weeknights the best we can. i try to make sure I do all the week day stuff with my kids my friends that work M-F 8-5 cant do, like vol at the school, go on all the ...

I see no problem at all in what you did. Pt seems to be A/O enough to handle his own meds--pts have rights to have thier meds and if he was cognitive enough to know to request them if things ran late (and they always do) by all means he has the right...

LOL Sorry but I laughed out loud at the bleeding question---ya know if I would have seen the response pale skin with out reading the rest of the choices I would have picked it too...your right pale skin, but of course you know the soaked clothes is a...

I was also a stay at home mom for many years---]but I am sure your like me in the fact you didnt just 'stay home" play up any volunteer stuff you did, all those hours put in at the kids school, girl scouts, ]boy scouts, vacation bible school etc etc ...