dollphyn

dollphyn specializes in Plastic surgery and Med/surg.

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1. Am I Making the Right Decision?

   dollphyn replied to QueenCityNurse's topic in New Nurse

   If you are that unhappy, you definitely need to find something else. I am in the same boat as you are. I am just over a year as a RN. I have been out 2 months due to a critical illness and am now trying to get back in the groove of things. I am o...

2. apply for job before nclex or wait?

   dollphyn replied to 09NewGrad's topic in General Nursing

   Definitely apply now. I applied back in April 2008 and found out they were giving me a job on the floor I still work today. I started June 2nd 2008, but did not take NCLEX until June 17, 2008. If you do not pass, at my hospital, they keep you, but...

3. Anyone ever gone through nusing school while pregnant?

   dollphyn replied to ngillilan1's topic in General Nursing

   Unfortunately it does happen. I had a girl that was pregnant, but she was due in the summer. So, she finished third semester, then had the baby like in June or July when there was a break. For me it was a different story. I found out I was pregnan...

4. Nursing Shortage? Not Here!

   dollphyn replied to newmanmom's topic in General Nursing

   Also in Dallas, Texas, at least at the hospital I work for. I was a part of the June 2008 new grad preceptorship and we had at least 250 new grads. Don't know yet for this year, but do know they have been recruiting for this year's internships. (Ja...

5. Attention all 50 states: what is your nursing ratio? please post!

   dollphyn replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

   Texas.....Days is 4-5:1 and nights used to be as many as 7:1, but they have taken some of the rooms to make surgical rooms, so now nights is 5:1 and no tech. Day shift gets a tech, but they leave at 3:00pm. This is a post-op surgical floor with som...

6. Leaving Nursing Program & Coming Back

   dollphyn replied to NiteQwill's topic in General Nursing

   I had to leave my final semester d/t an unplanned pregnancy in Fall of 2006. When I tried to return in Spring 2007, they told me they lost my paperwork. Then when I tried to get back in for Fall 2007, they said that since I had been out more than 1...

7. Do you round on your patients every one hour?

   dollphyn replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

   On my floor, which is a post-op floor, we do hourly rounding until 2200 and then every two hours after that. I do not wake my patient and ask anything if they are asleep. I quietly walk in the room, check to make sure everything is right, breathing...

8. "End Stage" Untreatable Obesity

   dollphyn replied to medgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

   My floor has just taken over the bariatric service. I really enjoy watching Discovery Health especially about the journey of people who are morbidly obese and are seeking help. There was this one episode that discussed this very issue. I think the...

9. discharge or drainage: same thing?

   dollphyn replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

   I went looking around on Google to see what I could find. On one of the websites that was a MD website, regarding the eye, drainage and discharge were used interchangeably. They even gave a listing of all the names of different eye disorders and us...

10. insulin coverage

    dollphyn replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it really depends on when it was taken. On my floor, the night shift tech will take the blood sugars from 0630-0700 before going off shift. We night shift nurses, do not cover with our sliding scale at that time, but tell the day shift nurs...

11. Pulling New grad/new employee to another floor two days after coming off orientation.

    dollphyn replied to bkleriRN's topic in General Nursing

    On my floor there are three of us that started back in June. As soon as we were off orientation, they started floating us, even though we were told that we would not be floated for six months. My manager hired too many people for night shift and so...

12. Help Please

    dollphyn replied to Dixie_81's topic in General Nursing

    I used the website Google and found some information about Burkitt's Lymphoma. The first website that came up was Wikepedia, it even had some pictures of children that had the Burkitt's lymphoma. My mother died of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, so I knew t...

13. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    this website that i am sending you the link to has free nclex questions that really helped me during school and after. it is the nclex 3500, i know there is a new one out there with more questions, but hey the site is free and it has the dreaded mul...

14. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    Mine came via email, but in my junk email folder. I really do not remember what addy it came from because I deleted it after I got my license. Just make sure before you trash anything, you are checking to make sure it is not the ATT. Also, make su...

15. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    Back in May, we took the Hesi on Wednesday May 7, 2008 and I got my ATT on May 28, 2008 so about three weeks. Some of my classmates did not receive theirs until June and one of them did not get theirs until July, but that was due to ECC boo-boo. I ...