stella123 rn

Love it!! I had 20/20 vision the next day. It is like a miracle for me. I can not believe it. I had very poor vision before. My husband is going now. I was the guinea pig. WOW!! After wearing glasses for 20 years and contacts for 12 this is j...

I am 22 weeks along. Are there any patients I should avoid? My employer says there are not. I can not help but think there must be some. I certainly do not want special treatment nor shy away from certain patients. I want to carry myt full load ...

This happens often. They still may need to be given. The doctor always says it is a risk vs. benefit thing. I get all my facts and call the doctor. I let them make the call. I always write it as an order and may even write a note about it. Even...

I am not sure what kind of test we use but it is rapid and comes back in only a few minutes.

I just wish that I could take vacation when they are here. They are focusing so much on patient safety this year. We have a ton a new policys in place that we are supposed to follow. The problem is that so many people have quit in the last month t...

We have docs that do this. But, we are in no means expected to watch them. They bring coloring books or something along. They sit quietly in the nurse's station while their dad makes rounds. I do not think it is a big deal. They are usually onl...

Do you ever wonder how people can be so stupid and rude?? Today I was visiting my mom and decided to run over the local hairdresser and get a quick trim. This guy was there whose daughter graduated from high school last year. I do not know them ver...

Thank You New CCU RN. I am newly pregnant and this thread has me angry and scared. I hope that when I am 8 months along, my co-workers do not have the attitude of some people on this board. I just do not see what is wrong with team work. So, I m...

I do not care if I need reading glasses someday. It is better than not even being able to see the alarm clock when you awake. As for the side affects. As with any surgery there are going to be extremes. The majority of the people just have scrat...

I had lasik a couple of months ago. It is great!! I love it!!

Gosh, I do not know how you guys do it. Our staffing on med/surg is 4:1. They only give you two surgicals if they HAVE to. If I have a CNA with me, we can have up to six patients. If I have a lpn we have 7 or 8. I should consider myself lucky.

We do all computer charting now. I check about an hour into the shift to look at the vitals. If they are not there I hunt the aide down and ask why. Accuchecks I always ask because there is usually insulin that goes along with it. I will admit t...

I have finally gotten pregnant after over a year of trying. I do not want to do ANYTHING to jeopordize my health or my baby's. I do not know what out policy is but other nurses are very nice about this. If there is a patient that we do not feel co...

I love my pm shift too (3p-3A). I wanted days also. They had to move me to pms after being there a couple of months because of staffing. I would not go back to days for anything!!!!

Don't you guys rotate? We have to work every third Christmas, or any holiday. It does not matter who has kids and who does not.

At our hospital when the new nurses come off orientation, they are given slightly easier assignments if the staffing allows. When the charge nurses really feel that they are confident and can handle regular assignments they stop doing this. They al...

I do not know if anyone remembers my posts about being more assertive and such. I never want to say anything to the charge nurse because I do not want her to think that I can not handle things. Well, last night I was VERY busy will a fresh knee, fr...

Where are you in northwest WI? I am there too!!!

"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." (Charles Swindoll) That is so weird that you have this in your post. I was having a really hard time at work a while ago. My anxiety level was at an all time high. My ...

Like I said there were other people that could have taken it. In situations where we are all maxed out but the admissions keep coming, I never say no. This just was not the case. This CN is famous for lopsided assignments. The CN leaves at 9pm, ...

My instructors told us that if a hospital will hire you into CCU they are just fullfiling their needs for a body.

This is a neverending issue. Just last night I had a 19 year old who was admitted for abdominal pain. She does have Chron's. Anyway she was started on a PCA on admission. Well, her mother called the next day and explained to the doc that her daug...

I hate the issue of patient's smoking. It just causes me stress!!!! I am not an crusadaer on this subject either. I do not believe we are going to change the world in a three-day hospital visist. Some doctor's have on their standing orders that t...

7 minutes. I am a mile and a half from town. I love it!!! Just far enough away to have a 3 acre yard and privacy and close enought to have a short drive.

First name, last initial. Funny our doctor's don't wear name tags at all. I forgot to add that we then have RN Picture MEd/Surg