KalipsoRed

KalipsoRed

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  1. Almost done

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm tired. I've now been a licensed nurse for one year and 4 months. I've been working in the medical field since 2004. None of it is what I thought caring for other people is suppose to be. I'm tired...

  2. Open mouth; Insert foot

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in General Nursing

    So here's a story about a year old nurse and the new nursing director for the unit. I was asked to go to a "brown bag" lunch to discuss floor affairs with the Vice-President of nursing for the...

  3. Patient to Nurse Ratios: What are yours?

    KalipsoRed replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    Missouri Telemetry/Cardiac Stepdown Nights 5:1 (Ratios on days are the same though, which I think is stupid and

  4. Organizing unorganization

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm trying to figure out if I'm just totally the most unorganized person in the world or what. I've been a nurse for a year so I'm still young in the business. I just feel like I'm missing things all...

  5. For fun - My dream nursing job....

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in General Nursing

    My dream nursing job would be one that had the following qualifications: 1) I'd work from 7 - 4 or 8 - 5, 5 days a week or I'd work 4 10hr shifts in a row. Whichever, I'd get off by 6pm every day. 2)...

  6. Don't want to be a nurse anymore

    KalipsoRed replied to belindalou's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Personally I don't work over time and have been a nurse for over a year now and STILL don't want to be there. I love my patients but I am beginning to really really hate 12 hour shifts. I hate...

  7. Para or Gravida

    KalipsoRed replied to NiesyLuv0o's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't know much about L&D so I don't know how "normal" a murmur is post pregnancy. I have 3 catagories of notifiying the MD: 1) Important enought to call in the middle of the night about (I work...

  8. not sure what to name this thread..need advice (bereavement)?

    KalipsoRed replied to kitti419's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree with both posters, but more with the second than the first. I have only been a nurse for a year, but I was a student nurse in a level one trauma center for 4 years prior to becoming a nurse....

  9. Infection Control "Committee"

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am almost a year old nurse. I wanted to get more involved with the committees and groups at the hospital. Frankly I don't like my job and was hoping that becoming more involved would help me feel...

  10. Infection Control "Committee"

    KalipsoRed replied to KalipsoRed's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the replies! I didn't feel like this was a very ethical thing to do either, but my manager and the infection control coordinator are so "excited" about me becoming more "involved"....

  11. Don't want to be a nurse anymore

    KalipsoRed replied to belindalou's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I refuse to work over time ever. I'm poor and I need money, but I figure I need to learn to live within my financial means. It sucks because I barely have money from week to week and I spend most of...

  12. I've been a nurse for 20 years.

    KalipsoRed replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    I say get a job not in the hospital. You've paied your dues, get a job with a regular

  13. Telemetry - why is it so hard?

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have been reading treads for the last few months and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed that Telemetry seems to be the type of floor nursing that sucks the most? I realize that ICU and...

  14. Telemetry - why is it so hard?

    KalipsoRed replied to KalipsoRed's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I totally agree!!! I've been talking to my brother in law (he is a computer engineer) about leads and our "portable monotoring system". I want to develop something that has a computer chip in the lead...

  15. Being a New Grad stinks

    KalipsoRed replied to AniRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Check out Saint Louis, Missouri. Not somewhere I ever imagined living in my glamorous expectations of life, but it is actually a very awsome place to be. Lots of well know hospitals with decent new...

  16. Questions for a new nurse

    KalipsoRed replied to abanks9's topic in First Year After Licensure

    1. What is your title and what kind of unit do you work in? RN, BSN - Telemetry/Cardiac Stepdown 2. How long have you worked in this unit/department? Since June 2008 3. What are your nursing...

  17. stressed..other nursing options??

    KalipsoRed replied to LovePurple's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You know what. If you go back and look at the posts that I posted when I first started on this site I think you will find they are very similar to yours. I've been a nurse for 9 months now and on my...

  18. Almost finished and want to quit

    KalipsoRed replied to misplaced1's topic in General Nursing

    "I would imagine it will go just fine for you in the RN program. Things usually do go just fine...it's the unusual doozies we end up talking about on allnurses. " See I've heard that sentiment alot on...

  19. Almost finished and want to quit

    KalipsoRed replied to misplaced1's topic in General Nursing

    You know what. I've never really had a problem with my patients, even the demanding, rude, and hateful ones. I kind of really think of patients as customers, and as long as the patient doesn't get...

  20. Almost finished and want to quit

    KalipsoRed replied to misplaced1's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for 9 months and I felt the same way you did for a year before I graduated. I would like to tell you that it gets better and that all these people telling you to stick it out are...

  21. Almost at the year mark, and still unsure...

    KalipsoRed replied to nursealanarae's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow did I hit the right tread or what? I feel so much the same way. I can honestly say that I hate my job, but only because my job makes me feel like crap. I like my coworkers, I like my manager, I...

  22. 6 months

    KalipsoRed replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have a friend who was a second degree nurse who left the bedside after 6 months. It is the fact that she had been in sales before that she could leave. She got a job with a drug company selling...

  23. Leave Good Job for Nursing?

    KalipsoRed replied to LovesGreyhounds's topic in General Nursing

    If you get forced out of your job go for it, but I would not quit a good paying job with those work hours to go into nursing. In fact I'm working as a nurse to pay off my debts so I can get out of...

  24. For fun.

    KalipsoRed replied to eriksoln's topic in Travel

    I'm from Saint Louis and Rout 66 runs right through here. There is an ice cream place that everyone raves about on Route 66 called Ted Drews. I'm originally from Texas so I didn't take it to heart...

  25. Fear

    KalipsoRed posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I called off from work today, and I'm not sick. This makes me sad. I'm at a loss as to where to turn to. I've been on my telemetry floor since June '08, I switched to nights in an effort to feel...