Irish Nurse 89

It depends on whether or not you would enjoy working with other people, or mostly like to work by yourself. If you don't mind taking care of a large group of patients, you should look in hospital, or LTC nursing. If you want to work alone, without ha...

I'm not 100% certain, but I believe this would only be an internal issue and shouldn't reflect on her nursing license. I hope everything turns out OK for her....

My hospital ER has this as well. I participated in it for the first time this year, and plan on doing it again. The "Teddy bear clinic" is a wonderful concept and great way to teach the children about the ER in a non-threatening environment. :)

Actually, I believe the PCP is wrong about this. IF the patient is oriented, and proved to be fully competent to make his own decisions, he IS allowed to sign himself out AMA.....

If they are true CNA's, they "should" be properly trained in taking VS. I haven't worked in a facility that didn't have the CNA's doing the VS while I did meds., treatments, Accu checks, ect... I was under the impression that the "C" in CNA, stood fo...

I studied for 2 hours each day. I had a part time job, and found that anything more than 2 hours above the time that I spent in school, just wasn't manageable.

You are absolutely NOT pathetic. I really enjoyed reading this cute story of yours. Thank you for the post. :)

This is a very interesting concept. I could be wrong about this, however, at this time, I don't believe the hospital that I work for has such a thing set up. Do you have a link, or a name of this product, so I can talk to my manager about it? Thank y...

I am an LPN working in my hospitals ER, and one of the things that should also be on your agenda for teaching, is "TEAM WORK"! Let them know that everyone in the department works together as a team, no matter which patient that they are assigned to t...

Although my hospital does have an IV team, ER nurses are not allowed to call them unless we have tried getting the line in ourselves first.

First of all, congrats on getting your RN, this will open up more opportunities in the nursing field for you. You should find out if the hospital that you worked for has a home health dept. that you could work for. Maybe getting out of the hospital w...

I agree with those on here who said that you should sit down and have a talk with the DON. Before you go into the DON's office, you should make a list of all the things that you feel are important for you to learn during your orientation period. This...

Same here!! I would like to see an improvement in moral in the nursing department in general. More staff would definitely be a step in the right direction. If management would place a strong emphasis on "team work" when hiring new staff, more nurses...

I don't think the nursing field is any more negative than some of the other "customer service" based jobs that are out there today. For the most part, I find that on any of the forums like this one, a person is more likely to post a bad experience th...

Is this a sleep away from home camp? If so, perhaps you might want to look at his sleeping patterns at night as well. Sometimes it really is hard for someone to get the proper amount of sleep that their body needs while they are away from home. I wen...

IMHO, I wouldn't rule out starting in a LTC facility either. I know a lot of med surg units that are just a busy as the ER's these days. LTC will help you to develope the language skills that are needed to effectively communicate with your patients, ...

I agree with you here. Although I do feel bad for the secretary that is involved in this, I think the charge nurse who put her in this situation in the first place should also share some of the blame..... We have all been in this situation at one tim...

They are used in our ER by the Doctor's, Charge Nurse, Triage Nurse, and the unit Secretary, to make it easier to communicate with each other. However, since being implemented a few months ago, I haven't seen them being used that much.....

1) Yes. I am a part time nurse..... And a "full time" Mom! 2) Three. I worked in a LTC facility, and two hospitals.

The hospital that I work at is not closing. As a matter of fact, we are in the process of expanding, due to all the business that has come our way from another smaller hospital that recently closed in the area.

I would never wear all black scrubs, let alone a black srub top with skeletons on it....... Unless it was Halloween.

I recommend that you take a look at the sticky thread at the top of this forum: https://allnurses.com/forums/f279/good-drug-resources-195803.html

I've been a nurse for 19 years, and to this day, I still aspirate before giving an IM injection, no matter what site I am using. Aspiration before any intramuscular injection can prevent inadvertent intravascular injection.

We have what is called "low work days" where I work. I use to get more of these when I worked on the med surg unit. However, now that I'm back in an ER, there have been very little "low work days".

I think it depends on the person. I started out as an LPN 19 years ago working at a LTC facility, until I became comfortable with giving out meds and doing wound care. After a year I moved on to working on a Trauma unit in a city hospital. Looking ba...