Jenn-eRN2008

the new research shows that the best way to give vit k is po works better then iv or im

Just today I wrote " Lung sounds CDI (clean dry intact) " I was doing a discharge and was looking at my note . I meant to write that his lungs were clean and dsg cdi .

Last year we had the ones where we placed our own needle not this year. This is almost old fashion small 3cc syringe with a 1 inch needle nothing else. It just has the soft kinda cover like lovenox but no cover for the needle .

Can you believe that this years flu shots from merck HAVE NO SAFETY NEEDLE. Im not sure if anyone has different ones were they work but my hospital got these little syringes with small 1" inch needle ( not long enough for big men) a needle cover that is soft plastic (like lovenox covers) and no needle safety. If I have to give the shot to bed 2 I have to walk by bed 1 and all there visitors before I get to a needle box to to get rid of my used needle. Talk about infection control issue .

I understand were you are coming from .. I had a situation at my school and my instructor liked me and not others ( like my whole group). my advice to u is that you truly don't know who is friends with who and if ur school is anything like mine your not going to win ! I'm a fighter .... but things I saw in nursing school made me kinda keep my options to my self. I have seen all kinds unfair treatment .. as much as people being "asked" to leave the program . As long as safety is not an issue I would just ride out the strom and stay out of it .

oh yah I'm def. going to get my BSN I just couldn't afford it at the time But its in my big plan :) Thanks for all the support guys ..

Hello all ... I new here and need some support I started my 1st rn job in june on an arrhythmia step down floor. After 3 weeks I hated it . We had no manager no educator my preceptor had only been a nurse for like a YEAR ! Everything was going wrong everyday . Heres a little bit of the back story . I'm a very ambitious 25 year old who has worked on a Med-surg floor for 2 years and in an ICU for 4 years . Nursing is my life I had wonderful nurses and doctors who have taught me so much . I was the very first ICU tech( cna) to ever be put in our ICU so the nurses were not so sure what to do with me . So I followed nurses with there meds . worked codes , learned ICU meds and drips, Help MD's put TLC in and seen more produces them most experienced rn's ( small hospitals do everything at the bedside) After 4 years of assesing and helping care for vented and nonvented ICU pts all my nurses told me to go get the experience a BIG INNER CITY hospital will give you. So on June 2008 I left the nest to learn to fly ... First I was told that I wouldn't be hired into an ICU because I had an ADN not a BSN. Kinda ****** me off:banghead: So in orientation I had to sit next to some 21 year old who graduated from a university tell me how shes working in the CCU. I said oh yeah why did u pick there ? Her exact words" It sounded cool ":banghead: OMG I have worked my butt off to get an ICU JOB and so BSN would thinks ICU is cool gets the job over me . Second my floor is so boring .. all it is , is syncope and s/p icd placement. I feel like I have lost all my skills since I have done nothing for 5 mths. Im so sad ... I love nursing so why is it so hard for things to work out for me ? I;m quiting this hospital and going back to my small hospital were the new manager told me that I still need a year experience to work in the ICU because " AS A NEW NURSE I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT " I told her all about my experince since shes new and doesn't know me and she still said " BEING A CNA U DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF AN ICU NURSE " So now I'm going to work on Med-surg floor and have 7 PTS and hopefully not be too broken to transfer back into the ICU after a year 4 years of school and lots of debt was supposed to = DREAMS COMING TRUE NOT MISERY AND TEARS