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  1. New nurse made a mistake!

    puggy232 replied to newnursewithquestion's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Honest mistake-maybe by having it brought to the attention on your floor there will be attention as to having PICC lines secured in a better way. The hospital I work at no longer uses sutures just...

  2. Nurses who don't seem to get it....

    puggy232 replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    After reading your post I thought the same thing why in god's name didn't you have a PCA? The doc who did your repair dropped the ball too-he had to know post op pain- your should have came out of...

  3. Scary baby near-code

    puggy232 replied to Erin 321's topic in General Nursing

    I hope you got that nurse's name and employee# what a *****! Most peds nurse would even be weary of puting a NG tube down on an infant that tiny. While reading your post my heart went out to you-I...

  4. Army Medic 68w

    puggy232 replied to doctorita's topic in General Nursing

    Have you talked to the ROTC rep at your school? Also are you using your GI bill? The amount is due to increase-with an additional $1000.00 month for living cost next year in June I believe if you...

  5. Nurses with tattoos?

    puggy232 replied to crunchymomx3's topic in General Nursing

    BaRNs I only wish I was a policy maker-tatoos would not be on my list of things to change in nursing:chuckle. In my orginal post I meant to state at the hospital I work at they have to be covered....

  6. Nurses with tattoos?

    puggy232 replied to crunchymomx3's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I'm from the old school-I always cringe when I see females with tats-ie the ones on the neck:eek: policy is that they need to be covered, that said it is a symbol for you of...

  7. Smoking on Campus

    puggy232 replied to ScrubMan0416's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a smoker, never have been. That said I can have empathy for those who are and are trying to quit, and for those who choose to continue god bless-but really it is annoying for coworkers to...

  8. Want to work at WHMC/BAMC in San Antonio

    puggy232 replied to 1GOODNURSE2's topic in General Nursing

    Your best bet is to look and apply through www.usajobs.com, being a veteran and married to active duty you probably qualify for a five point reference-goodluck, I had my LPN school there at BAMC 14...

  9. How did you react to your first code?

    puggy232 replied to AZcardiacRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was strangely very calm, the doctors had just completed rounding, and this pt, lung transplant sat up eyes bugged out, red faced, sob, his room was right next to nurse's station-I went and told the...

  10. Stressed Out!

    puggy232 replied to AWanderingMinstral's topic in General Nursing

    I can relate to your experience- the constant cutdowns, wear you down, you are human, unfortunately for some reason in nursing folks want to knock you down when you are already there! As for not...

  11. How do I deal with a liar?

    puggy232 replied to learning2Bnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Some people feel the need to always 'one up' another person by doing/saying things such as your co-worker-she isn't worth your energy, and she obviously has issues of low self esteem to be acting in...

  12. Any input?

    puggy232 replied to megs0310's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have taken one of these pre-interview test. It was interesting some of the questions mostly asking about how you prefer to work, how you respond to conflict, has anyone ever angered you at work?...

  13. People who flat out lie to get you fired

    puggy232 replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    I can empathize with you... I just got out of a situation just like this-inherently I think these situations happen in nursing because of women who tend to be passive aggressive, mean, jealous and...

  14. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    puggy232 replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    I can relate to all these posts-unfortunately seems as if these people with little or no work ethic are everywhere regardless of age. I've had techs older who know better-off the floor to smoke for...

  15. Nurse Bashing

    puggy232 replied to hippylady7211's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've read a few journal articles on what you are referring to when after my first year as an RN I thought I was going crazy with all the rumors, backstabbing, and out&out meaness of the nurses I...

  16. Giving Bedside Report - Pt involvment or JCAHO violation?

    puggy232 replied to Teleflurry's topic in General Nursing

    We make a go on it sort of, I give most of the report outside the room of the pt if not in a private room, then head in with the on coming nurse to introduce to the patient, most of the nurses don't...

  17. Rude to pt's family?

    puggy232 replied to RiverNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Some folks will take offense at the smallest thing, like you said it might be a cultural thing-I worked on a floor with alot pts of color, proverty,urban area, I would get complaints that I was being...

  18. Help me with my dad

    puggy232 replied to AmericanChai's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe stress the cost if his DM becomes even more complicated, this disease is the worst, as you all have seen pts basically wittled away toe here, than a foot, then a leg- the noncompliance is...

  19. Salary

    puggy232 replied to AngelaChanel24's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a Magnet hospital in St.Louis you can probably guess which one-first year I started at 22.90 an hour because I had been a LPN previously new grads I think start a 18.00, shift diff hourly...

  20. NM altering my timecard - how do I approach her?

    puggy232 replied to casperx875x's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I worked at started docking pay to class time 11.00 an hour vs time and half-which I don't believe is fair-but I also would see the same nurses shift after shift still charting at...

  21. Best places for nurses?

    puggy232 replied to icedtea's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know the best place- just stay the hell away from med-surg! It

  22. Differences in pain medication

    puggy232 replied to heaverboo's topic in General Nursing

    I would always cringe seeing the order of dilaudid-these pts tend to take twice as long to be discharged, regardless of having better assessments,rom and intake of food-pain is always at a

  23. Single Parent joining the Air Force!

    puggy232 replied to HIGirl1995's topic in Government, Military

    If you choose to join the service the Air Force is the way to go! I'm former Army and I always regretted not going into the AF-you will get treated so much better, the AF is truly family friendly,...

  24. Quick question or thoughts?

    puggy232 replied to thegreatone28's topic in Ob/Gyn

    When in school on my clinic rotation we followed a male nurse but he was on the new born nursery side, I think it would be hard to be in L&D as a male, never mind open yourself up to...

  25. Hospital Activities for Staff!?!

    puggy232 replied to ERnursegrl04's topic in General Nursing

    We got some plastic weather radio-oh and all the stuff of making us feel like crap, oh yeah calling nonstop on our days off to come in and work for call ins-when you do not even a thank you-but you...