gracedRN

Is everyone in your class going to get one? I hope so! So fun to know when I've made an impression (good impression, that is ) on people. "Most likely to see the good in the most difficult of patients". "Most likely to stump the physicians with critical thinking skills" "Most adept at EKG interpretation" Just some positive ones I remember form my class. Will you tell us the final list?

It is good and a relief to read positive experiences with computer generated orders.

OK, this may have been covered in another thread, sorry if it's repetitive. Recently the policy at the facility in which I work has the doctors entering orders in the computer, as opposed to the paper chart. Nurses were told, "Be extra careful checking orders!" So I have to take the computer's word for it. Scary to me. Last week, a consulting physician even called the attending to ask if one order was correctly entered, it seemed an inappropriate order. Does anyone else have experience with this? Does anyone else think this unsafe?

I love night shift! I love the patients, who are more open with talking and sharing at night, with no families and no ancillary staff; and not every doctor on the case running in and out. I love the camaraderie with my coworkers. We are a well oiled machine during a night shift crisis, we have to be. I love being home when my angel comes home from school, and we can have dinner together. I am blessed to be close enough to walk to work, and jog home, so I keep up with my exercise. Oh, yeah, don't ask if I want to switch to days. ;-)

Oh, this is a fun post! "graced" is my part my daughter's name- "Grace" and also because I have been given so much in life. "RN", well... :) I have to remember to give back.

Your article was so beautiful. You are an amazing nurse! Congratulations.

Wow. Very inspiring. I must reiterate, "Congratulations, Miss R.N.!!" Wishing you the best.

Good for you for standing by your beliefs. While it always will require 2 RN's to verify blood, thereby having another RN present when you hang blood anyway, sometimes in the ICU, or CCU, someone is hypovolemic and we are pupming in blood rapidly, manually. I can say with confidence I've done this > 100 times in the past year. So there is no start button. Something to think about regarding critical care. Good luck, and keep standing up for your beliefs!

1. Cardiovascular ICU. 2. Oklahoma (moved here after working in Northern Virginia) 3. Fresh from nursing school in 2002, I was not offered my first choice of a job, as the head trauma unit "was not taking new grads at that time". So I interviewed at MANY hospitals in the Wash. D.C., VA, MD area. Found a hospital offering a critical care fellowship, for new grads and experienced nurses. After that, when I moved to Oklahoma in 2004, was easy to find an ICU. So, k.morris, ICU wasn't my original choice but it is now my love! Do you live near a teaching hospital that may be offering a fellowship? Maybe start in a ped. or post-natal until you can transfer to NICU, with some experience? Or find a whole new love. Keep your chin up, take as many classes as you can,-PALS, etc, you already know this . Hang in there.

The ICU in which I work hires new graduates. It's challenging, but most do very well!! :clphnds: One needs to be willing to learn; a position for a new grad. means lots of class time as well as time on the unit with a preceptor. You can do it if you're willing!!

Red (I'm a ginger, too!!!), Thank you for that. More often than not, the docs at the hospital where I work are amazing! We have a great team on the cardiovascular ICU. :)

"Put on your big boy panties and deal with it" ROFLMAO!!

Loving this!! "OK This is the NURSE'S Station! Don't walk in here and take my seat, my computer, and interrupt report because you DON'T belong here." "Yes, I'll be calling with critical values. Regardless of the time." "Do NOT tell me (over the phone) that pt is 'not allowed to leave AMA', then say you're 'NOT coming in to sign the EOD.' I'll pull out the AMA paper faster than you can pull your perfectly coiffed head out of your a@$!!"

Oh my gosh, the Medi-WRECK E-MAR! Duplicate, triplicate meds, times messed up, only lets you use 2 saline flushes at a time (one scheduled, one PRN) so you have to go out and back in and rescan foe a triple lumen flush!

Obynna, I am so sorry! i wish I knew what to tell you, but I have no idea, why the system works the way it does. I am unclear as to why America would turn away a good Nurse! I will pray for you. gracie