StarryEyed, RN

My hospital pharmacy dispenses pre measured amounts of the powder into our Omni cell (in little plastic containers) which we then mix with a defined amount of sterile water on the unit. We mix one for each patient it’s ordered for, put a pt label wit...

I'm not exactly sure if I'm using the right words to describe it. It is solid navy (not sure but might come in other colors, too). It is a somewhat patterned fabric in the sense that some parts of it are a little see-through and some parts of the pat...

What i would do is carefully read each hospital's mission statement and values and use their own "buzz words" in my cover letter to them.

Absolutely take the job!! Then immediately add it to your resume and keep sending it out. USE that license. I finally started getting interest after I added a non-hospital RN position which was really just giving flu shots. I can't even tell you how ...

I would still do it, maybe work part-time as I would probably jump at the chance to spend time with family/kids. I don't think I could handle not doing anything plus I've wanted to be an RN my whole life :)

We get overtime pay for that extra hour and anything beyond that if need be.

I will try them. I'm about an hour from Santa Monica so maybe I can even head out there one day :) Thanks!!

I don't post for ppl to do searches for me unless I've tried extensively myself. KOI navy top is probably the first search I did before even thinking about posting here.

That's awesome that there is amazing teamwork on some units to divide and take over the pts of the nurse in crisis. However, in California, we have staffing ratios and it is absolutely ILLEGAL to have more pt's than ratio allows. I would NEVER do thi...

If she's still orienting how would she help staffing at all? Presumably while orienting they're paying you and your preceptor to do the same job, right?

When I was a new hire/new grad I had an awesome preceptor who took her lunches WITH me each shift (there were others who would either take it at a different time than their preceptee or would go off with their friends and leave their new grad alone f...

Despite the fact that you drove around for one hour looking for parking, you still parked there knowing it was illegal or at least that you would be fined. That ticket is no surprise. I'm sure you knew you'd get a ticket if you parked there. Yes it s...

omg, I freaked out one time cuz I saw gooey brown stuff all over my A&Ox4 pt and was thinking "how the heck did that happen?! Plus it nearly touched my arm but luckily only my glove actually did, then I saw a little dessert cup hidden in the blan...

No kidding! It's annoying when the sitter is calling me into the room all the time saying "He's trying to get out of bed. She's touching her NG." THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE THERE FOR!!! Then they wait for ME to be the one to tell the pt not to do that and mo...

Because things can still get missed even on a double check. I was getting report for a pt w/a PCA, was handed a copy of the order and the pain documentation flowsheet and noticed that both nurses that had signed off on the order had missed that the o...

Just 1-2 months??? I had an agonizing 11 month wait until I started my first full time RN position. Don't give up!!! Take another job while you're still applying. ANYTHING!! You said you have family to support, and for yourself you just can't give up...

I did that for the first almost year that I worked. Then did it on and off. I plan on starting again tomorrow :)

We run Zosyn on a microinfuser, not as a piggyback. I think ER does run it as piggyback. The microinfuser tubing is very thin so I doubt much gets wasted whether it's run as a primary or on a Y-port. And like other's I never heard of it being run ove...

All on my mom's side of the family. My mom is an RN. Both of my mom's sister's (my aunt's) finished their BSN abroad but chose a different career after moving to the US. My mom's brother (uncle) is an RN. My mom's other brother's wife (aunt) is an R...

My previous jobs were: Student grader/reader (i graded papers, exams for math & sciences) Secretary positions (dorm, college nursing dept, unit) Recruiter (for a University. I also did tours) Boy was my paycheck different once I had that RN behin...

I was still on orientation when this happened, but we had a Spanish speaking only male who was post-op and had a foley. He was getting pretty strong and had asked me if he could have his foley removed soon. I knew his surgeon would be in early so I t...

Agreed! I tried applying the the hospital my mom worked at when I was a new grad and they said "no", that they prefer to take the new grads from the community college down the street from them who did preceptorship there. okay... So I got hired else...

Or if they are CNA's. One family member made a huge deal with all the staff that she knew soo much and was very knowledgeable about "all this stuff" because she took Medical Terminology!

The only times I've had the other end pop off is if I inject more than one 1ml worth of air (or whatever amount is in the vial to begin with) It's only happened to me while i was still orienting. Then i figured it out. I always inject the amount of m...

But would you feel happy having stopped at high school, "pushing a mop around" as you stated and making that STARTING rate? You have to realize, it's just that. a starting rate. You think they're rate climb as high as yours would having started at th...