queen777

queen777

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  1. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Maybe someone would let you practice on them. You should be able to do it in your sleep for your pt's sake. Just do it over and over and over till you get and it won't bother you. You will be

  2. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Oh yes I have been called Nancy Nurse. I played "dumb" and asked him what that meant. I wanted to know his version of Nancy Nurse. Anyway he answered, "someone who goes strictly by the book". I told...

  3. Tips for Nurses: Dealing With Annoying Coworkers

    queen777 replied to Bugaloo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yep, don't say anything to the floor manager is right. Just wish I had known that bit of info back then. Doesn't matter now, I got out of nursing. I miss it in so many ways, but I had so many...

  4. I Quit!

    queen777 replied to Super Nurse JoshuA's topic in General Nursing

    I had another LPN hang the phone up for me as I was repaging the doctor to tell him I didn't have the insulin he had ordered. That was an event in nursing I will never forget! I wanted to slap that...

  5. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You said a mouth full. You will be the one they all come to and lots of responsibility, but it sounds like you can handle

  6. I Quit!

    queen777 replied to Super Nurse JoshuA's topic in General Nursing

    I wish they taught this stuff in nursing school and the mear fact that situations like this will happen and how to handle this. I know a nurse can refuse a shift, but they really don't spend enough...

  7. I Quit!

    queen777 replied to Super Nurse JoshuA's topic in General Nursing

    You did the right thing. I tried and I stayed on my med/surg floor. It didn't work. An elderly lady died one night. I had to be off the floor with a new pt I had to take to the ER for xray, ( and...

  8. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Try working on a subacute floor if and when you tired of the long term floor. It also offers more great experience you would not think you would be able to get working in a nursing home.

  9. Tips for Nurses: Dealing With Annoying Coworkers

    queen777 replied to Bugaloo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why in the world is it like this? My first job as a nurse, the supervisors were totally out of line and made my job just as difficult as they could. I was 38 yrs. old, but very naive because I didn't...

  10. Tips for Nurses: Dealing With Annoying Coworkers

    queen777 replied to Bugaloo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I knew I was a good nurse. It wasn't until years down the road of being one that my supervior actually gave me the credit. He said I was better than most of his RNs! That felt really good. Thanks...

  11. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't get too excited. Med-Surg floors are very busy most of the time. Watch out for a wild ride! Good

  12. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You will be just fine. Just pay close attention to the breath sounds and pt's skin color, size of pupils, and if something seems fishy act on it right away. After awhile it will be old hat just...

  13. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I can say this about taking the boards.....just answer by asking yourself, "what would I do FIRST for my patient?". My sister told me that and that alone put me at ease. It makes

  14. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have read and read your's and other's stories about going back to school for their RN or passing their RN boards and all I can think about is how ugly the head of the nursing program was to me when...

  15. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I hope you have a heart of steel. I had only 3 oncology pts once & I had to come home and cry. Its difficult seeing young peoples' lives pass before your eyes. Get

  16. Tips for Nurses: Dealing With Annoying Coworkers

    queen777 replied to Bugaloo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good question. I guess that is why nothing was "held against" me. I felt they wanted me to leave and this was their way of pushing me on out the door. There were things I could have written them up...

  17. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I quit after 8 yrs of nursing in geratics. I took care of my dying father and that was it. I have never cared to go

  18. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    just think of what needs to be done first for a pt and you will be

  19. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Just about. I worked as an agency nurse going to different nursing homes and they are mostly the same no matter

  20. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It will happen again. Its not just because you were

  21. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I first started working at a nursing home I gave out meds at two separate times too. But I quickly found out you can't. BECAUSE, the residents are sleeping at 7PM and quickly told me they...

  22. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have so many horror stories, that was the many reasons I quit nursing. No one took

  23. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I ran into that a lot of times in nursing homes with applying creams. Most were never even opened, but had been signed off as given. One nursing home's CNA's asked "you are going to do the...

  24. New Nurse Horror Stories

    queen777 replied to Baking Nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Excuse me, but a DON can know what is going and do nothing. Let me explain. I was working 3-11, just starting working at this particular nursing home on their subacute floor. One day I was going...

  25. Let's introduce ourselves...

    queen777 replied to pedi-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    As a wife who has there, space is not always good for a relationship. You are only 22, young, maybe you should think about another plan. 5 yrs is a long time to