swifty1031

Same here in TX... I work a tele/step down and we have 4-5 and sometimes 6 on days with 5-6 and rarely 7 on nights. Lots of sick pts and post heart caths. I once had a "seasoned" nurse tell me that the pts on tele use to be ICU and the ICU pts used t...

The scariest thing I can remember was when I was a brand new nurse we had a psych pt on our unit who didn't like blondes. No one knew this until after we started our shift that night. He wigged out when I hung a new bag of IV fluids. He jumped up so ...

Sometimes you have to let others do some things. I know it can be hard if you are a person who does everything for herself (I tend to because I know it will get done). My director has said on more than one occasion that a hospital is a 24HOUR facilit...

TX Pasadena Queen-Does Texas Tech have any problem accepting EC? I know you (like me) graduated from there last year:yeah: I have a a BS in another area. Thanks:p

We were required to carry cell phones at a hospital I once worked for. It was very annoying. The secretary would put through family members that just wanted to check on pt but didn't have time to visit, doctors with tons of questions and of course yo...

I waited about a month to get a date and then had exactly one month to my test date. I took a cancellation date and called daily. I finished in Feb. '09 and graduated in April '09. Good luck!

That sounds like a great idea... if only! We usually get the "be glad you have a job in these hard times" speech when we are asked to work short! Oh well, as long as we continue to cover for the administration, things will never change. In fact I hea...

I have found that the best is cran-grape. Most of my pt.s seem to be ok with this, it does smell horrible. One time a friend of mine opened the vial and it flew all over her! She smelled horrible. She had to go get scrubs from OR, I don't know if she...

You would think that would be the case, however on the unit where I work the per diem are being forced to work more holidays than full time. I haven't quite figured out where the fairness in that is yet, but we were told that in todays job market we ...

I so agree with the poster that tis problem is not limited to LTAC. I work on an acute care floor with occasional med-surg pts. I just want to scream when we get that concerned family member who can't push the button on the bed to raise the head but ...

Basically the same thing in the hospital I where I work. We are no longer testing for H1N1, if the patient does come back positive for flu, then they are placed in isolation, but we only get standard surgical masks. In our unit meeting today we told ...

We opened a new unit in January of this year and our theme has been "The Climb". I think nursing school is like that... you finally reach your goal, but there is so much more out there when you are finished with school. You will always remember the h...

You must work at the same place I do!! I am currently wanting to transfer... it will be interesting to see the responses.

i would love to say... even though you don't visit, care for, feed, etc mom/dad, you now want me to jump through hoops and bow down to your every demand (check bs every 30 minutes because we found her unconscious and her bs was 32 in ED-actually had ...

i am precepting a nurse who has hearing aids. he has a specialized stethoscope and is very capable of doing everything a nurse with no aids can do! he is very comical and when he greets a pt who is HOH he makes a joke about both of them. The pts love...

CONGRATULATIONS:yeah: I have been checking frequently to see the good news! Terri

You can also go to the fingerprinting center listed for your area. That is what I did. I got the fingerprint card pretty quick in the mail, but several people I know had trouble with prints and had to have them redone. I think the name of the place i...

The test you are asking about is the Jurisprudence test (I think). On the TXBON website there is a link you can use to study. The test is online. It took about 30-40 minutes to complete. You find out if you pass/fail as soon as you finish. Good luck:...

The opposite is true at my job! We are very short-handed and are always having to work overtime (whether you want it or not).I am not complaining, I would rather have too much than not enough! We have a lot more indigent clients since UTMB has not re...

Depending on the state regulations where you live(experience), you could try doing field visits for a home health agency. Most pay per visit plus milage. It is usually a nice extra check. The only drawback is the paperwork you have to file. It is a r...

You are so right. One of our charge nurse assigns new admits simply by number, while another looks at the acuity of the new pt vs. the load the nurse has already. That is the only safe and beneficial way to assign. I always try to schedule with latte...

We also are supposed to do hourly rounding. This would be fine if we had 4 pts with no problems. Unfortunately we usually have 6 (on a tele unit) and there is always the one pt who absorbs the majority of your time. Most of the nurses are in the pt r...

Night shift never seems to "remember" pre-procedure checklists,consents or med recs. This is a HUGE problem since procedures often start shortly after shift change. (Of course they are not there to here the special procedures nurses making sarcastic ...

I am not sure about them either. I have been looking into UTMB, TX Tech and McNeese (Louisiana-I live about 40 miles from there). Have you seen anything about credit transfers, etc. I have some friends that started their FNP at UTMB but dropped due t...

I actually passed the NCLEX (4/13/09)before my grad date (4/17/09). Texas went by my completion date of March 3, 2009. It just took forever for TX to find my affidavit from EC. Good luck:)