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  1. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    imanedrn replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Agreed! I'm a body mod lover, but when I knew I wanted to work as a professional, I knew I'd have to cover my tats and remove my piercings. I have my nasal septum pierced. I take that out every time I...

  2. What I Love About Nursing Is....

    imanedrn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    What I love about nursing is... I get to "care" for my patients instead of just "cure" them. When I took A&P in high school, I was convinced I would be a surgeon! After years of business school,...

  3. Happily Addicted to allnurses.com

    imanedrn replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Count me in. I was complaining about my job on MySpace. My friend (friend's husband) posted a link to an article here. I read it and have been hooked ever since! Other than work days, I check this...

  4. Reference(s) for New Nurse?

    imanedrn replied to Carla25's topic in General Nursing

    My 2 biggies are Taber's & Davis' drug guide - both on my PDA. We've had to start setting pt goals for the day, too (only for JACHO, sadly...), so I've started brining my nursing diagnosis book...

  5. What is expected of a new nurse?

    imanedrn replied to Carla25's topic in General Nursing

    This totally depends on the nurses with whom you work! I've encountered one night charge (thank goodness I work days!) who DOES expect me to know everything! When I tell her I didn't know I had to...

  6. My Plan

    imanedrn replied to PhilaGuy's topic in General Nursing

    There are plenty of people who start nursing as a 2nd career later in life (later being >20 or so years old). I know people who've done it into their 50's, so don't let age be a factor! As for...

  7. Acused of no compassion

    imanedrn replied to nurseofficegail's topic in General Nursing

    Good use of wording! It's sort of ironic that the complaints would be so vague and not measurable, considering these terms are completely unacceptable in nursing

  8. Acused of no compassion

    imanedrn replied to nurseofficegail's topic in General Nursing

    I was going to the say the same thing. Instead of being redundant, I'll just reinforce this point. If you're being accused of something (anything!), ask for specifics. You can't change something if...

  9. Med/Surg Experience

    imanedrn replied to luvtosmile's topic in General Nursing

    I had 8 weeks of precepting, and I've only been on my own for a few weeks now. I can't believe how much my time management has improved - esp. in the short time I've been on my own. (I learn best...

  10. IM in deltoid & Vastus lateralis

    imanedrn replied to certma's topic in General Nursing

    That's only important in school. You rarely see that emphasized in real life -

  11. Complaints

    imanedrn replied to RiverNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm in the same boat! It's been so heart-breaking for me to learn that reality is not what I expected it to

  12. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    imanedrn replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    The only way I've been able to deal with that is to follow the doc into the patients' rooms. Unfortunately, I'm only able to do that less than half the time. The rest of the time, I didn't even know...

  13. Nursing Insurance??

    imanedrn replied to tampaflrn6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I checked out Marsh and noticed they ask what association you're affiliated with. I'm a member of Sigma Theta Tau, but how is that factored into the cost of professional liability insurance? Would...

  14. Help figuring out what to do P/T

    imanedrn replied to strugglingnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I love teaching, particularly to my patients in detail -- something I don't get to do much of in the hospital -- so I've picked up a part time home health job. I get to spend about an hour with each...

  15. Complaints

    imanedrn replied to RiverNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It's backwards in my hospital! Night shift ALWAYS passes stuff on to day shift -- even stuff that the PREVIOUS day shift should have done. But god forbid I pass even ONE task on to night shift......

  16. IM in deltoid & Vastus lateralis

    imanedrn replied to certma's topic in General Nursing

    With infants, I was taught to bunch the skin also because they have less muscle. Also, you might not insert the needle the entire length -- again, because of the decreased muscle

  17. 10 Tips for Home Health Nursing

    imanedrn replied to homehealth20's topic in Home Health

    The teaching is the part I actually look forward to most. I LOVE one-on-one teaching. That's the part that breaks my heart in the hospital setting, actually. I feel like my patients would be so...

  18. perscription pads

    imanedrn replied to hunter-belle's topic in General Nursing

    Update: The day after posting that we do NOT keep ours locked up... we were told to start keeping them locked in our med carts. It's funny what they do when JCAHO's around the corner...

  19. Nursing Burnout

    imanedrn replied to mollymoocow's topic in General Nursing

    I think so many females makes for a very catty environment at times. I don't think it directly contributes to burnout, per se, but it can certainly wear on other females emotionally -- knowing that...

  20. Nursing Burnout

    imanedrn replied to mollymoocow's topic in General Nursing

    This is what I plan to do (though probably less than 5-8 years) because I KNOW I get bored easily. It's actually part of what drew me to nursing in the first place. If I KNOW I'm getting burned out...

  21. Nursing Association

    imanedrn replied to tampaflrn6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think -- like anything -- you get out what you put into it. SNA had benefits -- I just didn't take advantage of many of them. Also, during my last semester, our President was more interested in...

  22. Young Nurses?

    imanedrn replied to MelBel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm almost 28 and look 18! I know I'll appreciate it in 50 years, but it's funny when people thing I'm sooo young. Just yesterday, a veteran nurse was talking to the spouse of one of my patients --...

  23. Veteran nurses antagonistic

    imanedrn replied to dhammond3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Dang. I'd be miffed if I worked there too. Yeah... I'm convinced it's not the people that are broken, it's the system -- that whole "don't hate the player, hate the game" sorta' thing. Sure, there...

  24. First Med error

    imanedrn replied to emmie08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't doubt yourself over one mistake! Thank goodness I work in a hospital with an electronic medication system. I scan the med and the pt's armband. If the med doesn't belong to the pt, the system...

  25. Nursing Association

    imanedrn replied to tampaflrn6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've wondered the same thing... I joined the Student Nurse Association in school and was even an officer, but I never saw any REAL benefits -- sadly. I also joined Sigma Theta Tau. The major...