mustlovepoodles

mustlovepoodles RN

OB/GYN, Peds, School Nurse, DD

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  1. Disenchantment with "Dream Job"

    mustlovepoodles replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    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"

    mustlovepoodles replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    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. What is the one piece of advice you wish you could tell yourself as a nursing student

    mustlovepoodles replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    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......

    mustlovepoodles replied to Punkygrl's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    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

    mustlovepoodles replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to FutureNurseKaturah's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    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

    mustlovepoodles replied to salmon7's topic in School

    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

    mustlovepoodles replied to salmon7's topic in School

    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!!

    mustlovepoodles replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    congratulations!

  12. Is this the wrong field for me?

    mustlovepoodles replied to CW1978's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to Nurzelady's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to Nurzelady's topic in General Nursing

    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!

    mustlovepoodles replied to jitterbugg's topic in General Nursing

    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....?

    mustlovepoodles replied to kjpstmb's topic in General Nursing

    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...

    mustlovepoodles replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing

    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

    mustlovepoodles replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in School

    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?

    mustlovepoodles replied to Sarah G's topic in General Nursing

    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..."

    mustlovepoodles posted a topic in School

    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!

    mustlovepoodles replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    I've got you all beat--10 days! Yeah, baby

  23. Before you had ANY type of nursing training/education, did you know anything?

    mustlovepoodles replied to wishfulthinking21059's topic in General Nursing

    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. Well,I went from savior to idiot in less than 2 hours...

    mustlovepoodles posted a topic in School

    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....

    mustlovepoodles replied to LACA's topic in School

    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...