LSRNgrad2008

Sorry for typos---it's wee hours of the am for me.... :)

Is your book talking about someone with a CVA, or someone with a CVA and unilateral neglect syndrome. There is a difference as mentioned in ealier posts. If it's a straightforward CVA, approach from the unaffected side, if it's a CVA with unilateral ...

Well I know older Docs hate the idea that the days of a nurse standing up to salute them, making their coffee and lighting their cigarettes are over.......but......they are! How do you guys handle being disciplined by a Dr in front of a patient or ...

I don't think that filing bankruptcy will necessarily affect your job search per say, but it will affect your life. I would be hesitant to do this. Look at possibilities, you are young, so going part-time to school is an option, can you move in with...

lol....I agree, but sometimes I can't help but get defensive and have a chip on my shoulder....I need to get over that:bugeyes:

It was MRSA isolation, and as I stated I am not debating that isolation is isolation, I should be gowned or not. My point to my thread is how he handled “disciplining” me.

MRSA isolation

I think nurses eat everyone and anything, we are truly sharks …….we can be some of the meanest, bitchiest people I have ever known. This is of course a generalization…….but I think when you have a large population of women……insecurities, anxiety, an...

I have to chuckle.....at how many nurses feel the need to be superstars.....I say come to work do your job and go home. I had a pt...in a nutshell post op....had 3 small lap incisions and a jackson pratt drain with a ABD dsg over it. Throughout my en...

Yeah, she's one of those people that HAS to be right..and be the shining star.....that's ok with me.....I don't need to be that way. I had also given him a pillow to splint his abdomen (he had a lap chole) not major abdominal sx, and she felt the ne...

Eeeekkkk...... Well for $50-100/yr it's worth it. You may not "get sued" in the end but liability insurance pays you if you have to be out of work pending an investigation if your license is temp suspended. So it's not just about "getting sued" it pr...

You could also try taking an EMT class. It's usually pretty short 8-15 wks long you can try that out to see if you even like working with people, blood, guts all that. Then if you still think about nursing, well you can work part time as an EMT throu...

That is an incredibly low pass rate. The schools that I had to choose from had pass rates in the high 90's. I would check around for sure.

As far as the microwave thing, it's a fine line because we want patients family to assist in care of their loved one......and it should start in the hospital.....if they know where the nutrition room is.....there is no reason why they can't grab thei...

same NSO 3,000,000-6,000,000

there are so many things that you have no control over. try to spend your energies making yourself the best nurse you can, rather then focus on things around you that you can't control. you will not change anyone......do not try. i think "going to...

Hi All, I am a new grad and recently finished orientation. I had a pt with a portacath that was already accessed with a huber needle, and had a pigtail extension with D5 1/2NS with 20 KCL running. I was given report that I needed to draw blood in...

Thank you so much for the info. I'm glad that what I did was ok, even though the other nurse would have done it different, all the while still being fine protocol-wise. It's just tough b/c even though there is protocol that is sometimes vague, peop...

Well it sounds like you are doing everything that you can to be a great nurse and coworker.....I say just keep trucking along because you worked too hard to get where you are and you deserve to be there just like everyone else. Good luck

Yeah it's hard because each shift thinks they have it worse than the other. Unfortunately each shift has it's own battles. I work 3rd and I am hardly bored, but I also work in ICU and when/if I have down time I catch up on looking up things about m...

Thanks, I will contact the educator, I did call the oncology floor I was on 3rd shift but no one there really new for sure.

I tend to still pass along that stuff, because if lung sounds are clear on my shift and then all of sudden they are not, or if bowel sounds were present and then not it's still good to give the next shift the pts baseline, it's nice to know kind of s...

Well I am a new grad working about 4 months. I do find some of the same problems, and I believe it would be anywhere you go to some degree.....the whole concept that we learned in school "nurses eat their young" is quite true. You have a few option...

I'm a new grad and the change of shift report was tough, we did partial verbal and partial taped, and in ICU they do mostly tape report. Anyway we use SBAR and it's a printed form at the nurses station and they are trying to get the whole hospital t...

Hi All, I am a new grad and recently finished orientation. I had a pt with a portacath that was already accessed with a huber needle, and had a pigtail extension with D5 1/2NS with 20 KCL running. I was given report that I needed to draw blood in...