Ilithya

Im not sure. I don't even know what a health card is...

Alberta. They live in Grande Prairie

Thats fine and dandy but where my parents live in Canada they cant even get a family dr to accept them because they all have to many patients they have to PAY to go to the clinic $35, much like I would if I were to go to a clinic here. Where I live i...

I disagree completely, if Australian nurses are getting better scores than we need to find out what they are doing differently and then teach our nurses whats lacking. It is imperative that our country hires American nurses for the survival of the co...

Hahaha we should have an "optimistic nurses" or "happy nurses" forum for all of us who need a break from negativity

One time I was at work and we currently do bar code scanning for medication administration so the nurses have computers on wheels that we use which of course are slow as molasses. So usually when avaliable I try to use the grounded computers (they ar...

I've been nursing since August and I went through a maybe month or two period around month 6 of hating my job, even to the point where I put in applications elsewhere. However, I am really glad that I didn't get hired because now I am at a point whe...

Hahahaha we are so desensitized as nurses. My mother is also a nurse and at family get togethers we are often scolded for our choice of dinner conversation... and of course people are always amazed by the things you can watch/ say and then immediatel...

Six to one, we are ALWAYS staffed for 6 to one. We all start the day with 6 if they can help it They do not call in another nurse where I work until not a single nurse can accept patients and if they can give one nurses patients to another so they ca...

We did have to memorize those in my program. I didn't write my cards though. I bought Mosbys drug cards off of amazon.com. Saved me a lot of time

My question is have the CNAs given you any reason to think that they wouldn't know when to report a vital? I don't know about your facility but at mine the CNAs are great. If your not sure than talk to them about parameters to report to you. You can'...

I would consider it the date I started working.

I would say no, the people who can work full time and make it all the way through are very special, although rare people. I would suggest getting a loan to cover finances, thats what I did. Of course my plan was get my LVN (done) and then go online t...

My facility still uses Baxter... but lucky us were training to switch over right now...

I got the flu shot yesterday. My facility provides them for free, so really its a win win.

Firstly know your hospital policy, at my facility you pick up the phone in the room and dial 2 numbers to connect you to the emergency line of the hospital operator, who will then send in the appropriate personell so that you do not have to leave the...

Firstly let me just say that I'm a day shift nurse so Im not exactly sure on what all of your duties are but I hope this helps anyways I show up at work at 6:30 (Im supposed to be in report at 6:45) This gives me time to organize my papers and my bin...

My only suggestion is to ask questions, even if it seems stupid. I usually ask the charge nurse, but everyone I work with is great about helping each other out and answering all my questions.

My year when had a student walk by a code blue, the doctor told her to get an IV pole so the student takes off finds an IV pole and runs back to the code with it, our teacher stopped her, took the IV pole and started cleaning it in the middle of the ...

My hours have been cut, but we got hit by Ike so two of our floors are yet to reopen, all our shifts that would give us overtime are cut and given to the nurses from those floors.

Why are we pointing out things to spark more anger

You've had plenty of experience, not as an RN, but its really not that different knowledge wise.

I agree with interleukin. I often ask questions when they come up because if I don't I'll probably forget. I probably would ask you if the JP bulb had been changed, not to condemn you for not doing it, just so that I can start mentally preparing my t...

I got a loan for 1 year of school to get my LVN and I didn't work. Now Im working full time while getting my pre-reqs for LVN-RN transition, and when I finish them (this semester) I will continue working full time while I do the transition program on...

Your tissues are still getting some sugar so you don't need to break down ketones. Your blood sugar gets so high because your body is trying to compensate and trying to compensate until it simply can't anymore