MelissaPhoographerRN

MelissaPhoographerRN

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  1. Atlanta DeKalb Women's Center L&D Residency???

    MelissaPhoographerRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hey Ladies!! I'm just wondering if any of you are familiar with DeKalb Medical Center's new women's center here in Atlanta?? I was just on their site and saw that they have a nurse residency program...

  2. Just Fired, Need Interview & Resume Advice

    MelissaPhoographerRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I posted this on the career advice page, but there doesn't seem to be much traffic over there. Sorry if this is long, want to give the whole story. I'm a fairly new RN I graduated in the summer of...

  3. Just Got Fired, Need Interview Advice

    MelissaPhoographerRN posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Sorry if this is long, want to give the whole story. I'm a fairly new RN I graduated in the summer of '07, so I have a year and a half of experience. While in nursing school I worked for about a...

  4. Talk to me about HH Nursing

    MelissaPhoographerRN posted a topic in Home Health

    I am currently looking for a new nursing job. I have experience on a telemetry floor (also had a lot of post surgery/med surge type patients). And ER experience. I had never thought about HH, but...

  5. Atlanta area nurses...I need to vent!!

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to TeeTee,RN's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Congrats!! And residency is NOT the only way to get a job as a new grad. I wasn't in Atlanta straight out of school, but I did not go through a residency program to get my first job on a telemetry...

  6. Charge nurse with less than a year RN experience???!!

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in Nurse Management

    Yeah, I was put in charge on a very busy tele floor less than 6 months after graduating and even less time since out of orientation. Usually it was only in the evenings after the charge...

  7. what do you do about phone calls if you could come to work extra on your day off

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to olli975's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I don't answer and then listen to the message to see what they want. For day shift it wasn't as big of a deal. But no, I'm not coming in to work night shift when you call me last minute and...

  8. Nurses, do you thank your CNA/PCA/Nursing Assistant daily?

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to gonzo1224's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, if they do a great job, I thank them profusely. Unfortunatly for some reason we had a lot of techs who would disappear for oh hours at a time and nobody could find them. But yes, the ones who...

  9. Please Help.............I Got My First Job!

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to 2008pn's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, the questions will come as you are oriented. one thing that pops in my head is to ask what kind of things come up that you don't see day to day and how do you deal with them? I haven't worked in...

  10. Were there any nursing skills that you didn't get to do in nursing school?

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, sounds typical. I've been out of school for a little over a year and a half and I'm yet to have to do trach care on anyone. While you're in orientation you'll get to practice the procedures...

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

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

    You're 8 weeks pregnant and puked once today?? Ever heard of morning sickness? I actually said this to a patient after she asked me for phenergan and chips at the same time. Me: Um, I thought you...

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

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

    You must work at my old hospital!!! Visitors brought in patients' dogs ALL OF THE TIME!!!! Nobody ever said anything to them. Now, I'm a dog lover and just dealt with it, I figured if management...

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

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

    A few weeks ago I was really sick, on my second really bad cold in less than 3 weeks and on top of it pregnant, so not feeling so hot. I had been unable to get out of bed for about 4 days straight...

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

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

    This was said by my mom who is the calmest, nicest nurse ever and i almost died. "Here is your call light. This red button is to call if you need something. Don't push it and we'll get along just...

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

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

    Do you actually think the Dr is going to write you a work excuse for the past three weeks when this is the first time you've been seen by a Dr and it's only to get the work excuse?? Really?...

  16. Help, DH in ER!

    MelissaPhoographerRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    At about 5AM this morning DH started having left flank pain. He had diarrhea the night before right after dinner and kept feeling like he had to go again. Also kept feeling like he had to pee also...

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

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

    When you get caught smoking in the public bathroom by the elevators by security and then an hour later get caught giving yourself pain meds out of your luggage and the house supervisor and security...

  18. Fess Up! How much HSP stuff is in your drawer???

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    our er didn't have prefilled seringes, so I would get home with bottles of saline, and alcohol wipes. I eventually got a little cute bag that I would put it all into before I left work and leave in...

  19. Lighting at night

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    My only complaint would be that I think it would be harder for me to stay awake during the

  20. No time to actually be a nurse???

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to MelissaPhoographerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm in Georgia where they're fighting legislation to keep school nurses, so I don't think I have much hope of finding a school nurse job here. However, I have thought about

  21. No time to actually be a nurse???

    MelissaPhoographerRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is one of my biggest disappointments about the nursing profession. I feel like we're so short staffed and everything is so mandated by proper paper work, charting and such that it leaves little...

  22. I don't want surgery!

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    OH, man, I hear you. I am the worst patient ever. I spend my work life in the hospital, I don't want to be there during my time off too. I'm friendly and my nurses have no idea that I'm a bad...

  23. Mistakes

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in General Nursing

    I also lost a vicodin once for about 15 minutes. I was a brand new nurse. I walked into the room with my hand full of the patients meds for dinner time, including a couple of syringes and a bunch of...

  24. Mistakes

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in General Nursing

    I can't remember what I did as it was awhile ago, I think the one of the drawers that spins got stuck. It ended up this big mess because it kept wanting me to count all of the meds in the drawer with...

  25. Wife Just Completed 2nd NCLEX - question

    MelissaPhoographerRN replied to amorgan's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I bet she passed if she was close the first time and studied even more this time. There's no way of knowing for sure. I passed after only 75, however I know people who failed after only 75. But, I...