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  1. Name the nurse to patient ratio and the hospital in NY!

    ReWritten replied to JennyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Med-Surg/Tele and 10 patients? I'd turn it down. I work nights on a Med-Surg/Tele floor, and we get 5-7. One really horrible night I had 8 and almost tore my hair out. But we also only have 1 or 0...

  2. You know when you are a good nurse when...

    ReWritten replied to NewlyGradBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't become too focused on what others say. I don't know anywhere where there isn't day shift vs. night shift. I work nights on Med-Surg and I don't know when there is a shift where we don't make a...

  3. How do you handle the smells?

    ReWritten replied to Aly529's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately my facility doesn't have anything for us to spray... so I typically mouth breathe, like others have said. Vomit and diarrhea are nothing... GI bleed and draining pus is what gets

  4. Med Surg or ER for New Grad

    ReWritten replied to BABYJADE06's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm worried after spending time in Med Surg no one would be willing to hire me in the ER That's a load of crap, and nothing to be worried about! I work in a community hospital where they pretty much...

  5. How old were you when you finished nursing school?

    ReWritten replied to pgray1229's topic in General Nursing

    if I hadn't failed a class that put me behind a year, I'd been 21. BSN @ 22, passed boards just a few days after my 23rd

  6. How do they rotate your days off?

    ReWritten replied to RNShenanigator's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My floor is self scheduling, 12 hour shifts. Most of us work our 3 days in a row, but some of the older nurses don't like to. Typically I work Sun, Mon, Tue with the occasional Saturday thrown in...

  7. Can't get a hold of Dr.!

    ReWritten replied to txdon's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    After paging 3 times, if we can't get the doctor on call, we give them a call on their cell phone/home phone. That's after confirming that they are infact on call. (I work

  8. I need to make a decision: new grad MGH ICU or ONC floor.

    ReWritten replied to newnurs02's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the above poster - do you like your job. If not, consider changing, but honestly, I wouldn't take it. How do you expect to pay off $15,000 on a 11.40/hr salary? It's hard enough on RN...

  9. ICU vs. ER vs. FLOOR nursing??? How can I learn more about the hospital?

    ReWritten replied to Skylarslaughter's topic in General Nursing

    The beauty of nursing school is, you'll get to see these different areas of the hospital during your clinical rotations. I was able to have days in the ER, ICU, OR, various community settings, and...

  10. wanted: thoughts on bedside reporting

    ReWritten replied to SiennaGreen's topic in General Nursing

    When I started out 6 months ago, my floor did bedside reporting, but all the nurses HATED it. My manager was the only one that enforced it, and if she wasn't there, we didn't do it. But if we found...

  11. Management of Epidurals, Bolus dosing?

    ReWritten replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new grad with only 6mo experience on a med-surg floor, and I've taken care of a few patients on epidurals. My reply will be based off just my limited experience... We have orders written for...

  12. When patients attack

    ReWritten replied to Ciale's topic in Emergency

    Funny you should ask this... I'm a new grad (5mo into my job), and I got punched in the jaw twice about 2 weeks ago. The patient was trying to escape down the stairs and my coworker was trying to pull...

  13. Meds to given instead of ambien?

    ReWritten replied to stram87's topic in General Nursing

    I hate giving Ambien to my patients for that very reason. There's been quite a few times where it'll make my patient go coo-coo for coco puffs. If they've got it on their MAR, I make sure if they've...

  14. Did your Docs get you a Christmas gift or recognize your work?

    ReWritten replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    My floor's two favorite doctors gave us some chocolates and cookies. The rest barely gave us a smile. Did I mention the one doctor gave us night shift the cookies? Usually it's day shift who gets all...

  15. I've been a nurse for six months. Here's what I've learned so far.

    ReWritten replied to vlmusicalsound's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nice post! I'm at my 5 month mark and more or less feel the same. Having patient, more experienced coworkers have been my godsend. And it's nice when they remind me that it's not possible to know...

  16. Just hired as a New Grad on Med/Surg Unit for Night Shift...Any benefits to nights?

    ReWritten replied to HeatherGurl84's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I graduated in May, and have been working nights for about 4 months now. I LOVE it. I picked it, because I'm a night owl naturally and I always hated waking up at 5 in the morning for clinicals. And...

  17. New Grads...Teaching Hospital vs Community Hospital

    ReWritten replied to Old.Timer's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new grad in a community hospital. I definitely agree that it's nice to have the whole "everyone knows everyone" feeling. The downside is the poor funding we have compared to big teaching...

  18. Team nursing...thoughts?

    ReWritten replied to RaeRN30's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My floor does team nursing, but to me it doesn't really function as one. What I mean is, I don't really see a difference between our team nursing and any other floor I've ever been on. Each nurse gets...

  19. Questions about Night shift

    ReWritten replied to Tepidorchid's topic in General Nursing

    We always call the family before doing this, so they know about it. We'd like to have family come up and be with the patient if we're thinking about restraining them. We also start out with a posey...

  20. Halloween Scare

    ReWritten replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Last spring I was precepting in a neuro icu. A patient had just passed, and the nurses were cleaning her up and getting ready to take her down to the morgue and had the cart up and ready. Since I was...

  21. Questions about Night shift

    ReWritten replied to Tepidorchid's topic in General Nursing

    Did you just get a night shift position and are curious? I've been working for only 3 months on a med-surg floor in a country hospital, so I'll share how it works at our place... 1. Do you find that...

  22. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

    ReWritten replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Medical-Surgical

    wow. Reading some of these makes me sooo jealous. 32 bed M/S unit. I typically get 5 pts, the most I've gotten was 7 (talk about feeling overwhelmed!). No secretary after 11pm, and we're lucky to have...

  23. Plan on moving to Texas [DFW area]

    ReWritten replied to _sunflower's topic in Texas Nursing

    I went to nursing school in AL and got my license for TX. I had a classmate who got her license in AL and then transferred it to TX and the process was long, tedious, and frustrating. Figure out where...

  24. Medication Shortages

    ReWritten replied to registerednutrn's topic in General Nursing

    here I was thinking it was just my hospital experiencing this! I didn't realize it was national. We've been out of morphine for a while (but that doesn't stop the doctors prescribing it! grrr) and I...

  25. Does this happen to you?

    ReWritten replied to NoblePath's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I always dream of work after I get off shift, and usually they're more stressful than my actual shift. My coworker who has been a nurse for 4years says she still hears IVs beeping when she goes home....