mustlovepoodles

mustlovepoodles RN

OB/GYN, Peds, School Nurse, DD

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  1. Disenchantment with "Dream Job"

    Yeah, it sounds like an impossible situation. If i had a young baby, I would be crazy about working two jobs either. I hope you can find something else soon, dream job or
  2. Disenchantment with "Dream Job"

    I don't think you're overreacting. You have to pay your bills. This hospital could have the best reputation and solid gold toilets,to boot, but if you can't get enough hours then you have to do...
  3. Skip that one job "opportunity" to work in Staff Education. Your boss will turn out to be an evil, sadistic slave driver and you will have nightmares for the next 25 years if you take it. Ditto that...
  4. Would love some advice......

    I just want to add: Nobody likes wiping butts. There. I said it. Wiping butts is not fun. Neither is wiping snotty noses, cleaning up vomit, or bandaging gross wounds. But it's something we all do to...
  5. What is your attendance policy?

    I don't know if we have a specific policy. I'm a school nurse. My personal policy is "if the school is open, I need to be there." I know that if I don't show up there are going to be a lot of people...
  6. TMI

    I think I'd have to have a chat with HR. I think this constitutes sexual harrassment. Of course, it's only harrassment if you tell them you're uncomfortable with the conversation and you ask them to...
  7. Help getting over bloodwork?

    I felt just like you, OP. I was very young in nursing school, graduated when I was 20. I was afraid of a lot of things, but especially afraid of giving shots. It didn't help that I suffered crushing...
  8. Good area of nursing for a male to work in?

    I have worked with male nurses in every area I have been in, with the exception of my current job(school nurse.) Not that a man couldn't do it. We just dont' have any male school nurses, for whatever...
  9. school nurse, biggest challenge/reward

    OMG, the calling of the parents--spare me! Last week I called every person on this kid's emergency call list and NONE of them were working numbers. Thankfully, it wasn't a dire emergency, ya
  10. school nurse, biggest challenge/reward

    My biggest challenge is educating parents. My school serves an underprivileged population, and that's putting a pretty word on it. Our families are quite impoverished and their lives have all the...
  11. It's Official!!

    congratulations!
  12. Is this the wrong field for me?

    All of the above and you have supervisors who have artificially high expectations of what can be done. When i worked at a peds advise line we were taking calls for private pediatricians as well as the...
  13. What's my nursing specialty?

    I have been a nurse for 34 years, 27 of that in pediatrics. I have an Associates Degree, plus a BS in elementary education. I suppose many school systems want BSNs and if I were going to school...
  14. What's my nursing specialty?

    Well, until that last sentence I was going to vote School Nurse. I'm a school nurse in a little elementary school. My students come overwhelmingly from very impoverished familiese and they have all...
  15. "if I could give you any advice" New RN wants advice!

    I have to agree. My first night in the NICU I was almost paralyzed with fear. A more experienced nurse leaned in and said, "They're pretty hard to kill." After a few months, i realized it's true....
  16. remember when....?

    OMG, I hope not! I remember having to empty their drain to collect that nasty viscous green bile and them mixing it with some grape-flavored medicine. I couldn't believe that patients actually drank...
  17. Dad just doesn't understand...

    I was in your shoes when I was an 18yr old college student. I came home and announced that I was changing my major from biology to nursing. My father was furious; My mother, stunned. My father...
  18. Flea Market Contact Lenses

    I had one last year show up with these bright blue contacts. She had just gotten to school and was crying, holding her eyes. She couldn't even open her eyes. It took me and our security officer to get...
  19. Backup Plan?

    I don't have much of a backup plan, but I know what I don't want. I NEVER want to go back to floor nursing. I shudder at the thought. All those night shifts working on my feet in a fast-paced NICU...
  20. What do you do when you're a pt?

    I don't usually advertise the fact that I'm a nurse but usually they guess it because I ask questions. Not nosy questions, but I just want to know what's going on maybe more in-depth than other people...
  21. "I know what diarrhea is..."

    One of my little special ed 1st graders came to me for a stomachache today. I checked him out and he seemed okay, very talkative and wiggly. I asked if he had vomited(no) and had he made some poo-poo...
  22. It's that time again!

    I've got you all beat--10 days! Yeah, baby
  23. Before you had ANY type of nursing training/education, did you know anything?

    I didn't know much prior to starting school other than some stuff my mother shared with me. She was an LPN and she would come home and tell me about things she did or saw. Still, it was a whole new...
  24. This is test week so the clinic has been fairly quiet until today. A little after noon I had a young girl come in c/o difficulty breathing. Her HR and RR were elevated, but nothing else out of the...
  25. I got a surprise this morning....

    I'll tell you what worked for me. i was in an urban/suburban middle school and those kids had NO boundaries. They didn't know the concept of personal space. So, I put down two long pieces of masking...