tryingtomakeit

tryingtomakeit RN

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  1. My poor co-worker!

    tryingtomakeit posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I really guess I would just like to hear some opinions about something that happened to one of my fellow nurses. I'll try to make it short. One of the 7a - 7P L&D nurses came onto her shift to be...

  2. My poor co-worker!

    tryingtomakeit replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just wanted you guys to know how much I appreciate your support - you have no idea how much it means to me right now. I am very grateful that, at least for right now, we are all hanging in there...

  3. My poor co-worker!

    tryingtomakeit replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I can understand that being really frustrating, but this is the thing that is so frustrating to us where I work. We do go to med-surg from time to time. It just so happened that this girl had only...

  4. My poor co-worker!

    tryingtomakeit replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I only wish for a union! We were told that we should have received enough orientation to med-surg in nursing

  5. Meds you hate to give....

    tryingtomakeit replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I HATE magging patients in OB! HATE HATE HATE

  6. Sometimes I Miss Being a CNA

    tryingtomakeit replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    You bring the spoons - I'll bring the old coffee

  7. An admin vent of sorts

    tryingtomakeit replied to stillpressingon's topic in General Nursing

    Too funny! I know what you mean. At Christmas we had a contest for decorating. The nightshift did EVERYTHING! Our unit won and the day shift got the prize! Does anyone else get tired of getting...

  8. Sometimes I Miss Being a CNA

    tryingtomakeit replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Angie, I know exactly what you mean. I was a CNA for nearly twenty years before becoming a nurse. I miss it terribly

  9. Unsafe staffing in OB dept

    tryingtomakeit replied to rntobe2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    ..."I don't know nuthin' about birthin' no babies" If I had a dollar for every time I heard this

  10. Unsafe staffing in OB dept

    tryingtomakeit replied to rntobe2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't really have any words of wisdom for you, but I will tell you that I have walked in your shoes many times. My co-workers and I have talked to management until we are blue in the faces, to no...

  11. Helping the goof offs

    tryingtomakeit replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Gosh, do I know this feeling well! I work hard keeping up with my charting, etc. so that as soon as my moms deliver and are safely recovered, I can move them to post partum and help there (our post...

  12. Where's my thank-you card?

    tryingtomakeit replied to SierraN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Not trying to hijack the thread or anything, BUT, do any of you ever get a bit of a sour taste in your mouth when you help a patient labor for hours, hold their hand, coach them, bring them ice chips,...

  13. Policies on starting pit on nonviable fetus

    tryingtomakeit posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm curious what your policies are in your various facilities regarding pitting women who are in active labor, but the fetus isn't viable - or when it is questionable whether the fetus is viable. Our...

  14. I made my patient cry (long)

    tryingtomakeit replied to ragingmomster's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't she why you should be called on the carpet. I have seen patients do the same thing - nurse in the room, no ctx - out of the room, ctx appear again. As far as asking her about abuse, this is...

  15. "Nurses are not professionals"

    tryingtomakeit replied to wannabesedated's topic in General Nursing

    Literally

  16. I didn't know this actually happened

    tryingtomakeit replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been working in L&D for about three years now and I have one pt who is on her third pregnancy since I started. She will start coming to us via ambulance at LEAST twice a week as soon as she...

  17. What do patients say that irks you?

    tryingtomakeit replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Once I went into a pt's room to do her admission assessment and found a young guy sitting by her, rubbing her shoulder, and another older man standing on the other side of the bed. I, at one point...

  18. help re 'pentecostal beliefs'

    tryingtomakeit replied to nickismith72's topic in General Nursing

    Pentecostal here as well and I would let em keep my

  19. I'm septic, or malignant, you decide

    tryingtomakeit replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to send my prayers your way. Know that there are so many out here pulling for you and thinking of you. Please, please keep us

  20. Is Nursing School Hard?

    tryingtomakeit replied to BecomeNurse06's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I breezed through my prereqs and my first year of nursing school. My son was at just the right age to want to be active in EVERYTHING that passed his way, plus I worked 16 hours on saturdays and 16...

  21. To grow a backbone....

    tryingtomakeit replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    You sound JUST like me. I have been very passive my entire life. I have never been in an abusive relationship, it's just how I am. I was raised by very passive parents. Both my siblings are very...

  22. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    tryingtomakeit replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to tell you that I am rooting for you and praying for you. I know how dark this all must seem to you right now, but as a woman who has been through enough to drive the average person...

  23. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    tryingtomakeit replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lori, I think you replied to a thread I started a while back about some of the problems I was having on my unit - remember, I got drug tested the day after confronting my nurse manager about unsafe...

  24. do you allow fetal demise infants to stay with mother in her postpartum room?

    tryingtomakeit replied to unikuelady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Very well

  25. Would this discourage you?

    tryingtomakeit replied to jennifers's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was in the same boat with A&P and micro. I wound up agreeing to take the semester finals with the students who had taken the classes that semester. If I passed, I got to keep my hours. Guess...