chicookie BSN, RN

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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    You know what I love about your posts, They are so in your face! But you have put more thinking thoughts in my head. I did discuss some things with him, that now looking back I should have "PIE...
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    how to get a job as a new grad?

    chicookie replied to STL nurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you! Yes first go to the hospital and talk with the nurse recruiter. Usually (well here they do) they have someone at an information desk that can give you directions(the also give like patients...
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in orientation. New nurse; only been on the floor a couple of weeks. So yes I am being watched very carefully. its the first complaint that she has had of me. And it wasn't even an oh you are in...
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    You assume correctly. When I got him he was ok. On the chart there was nothing indicating that the MDs suspected anything. From shift report the nurse told me the doctor was feeling like it was a one...
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    So that leaves me with another question. Is it normal to have like a handful of pie notes that can be applied to different patients. For example some of the nurse have a handful of pie notes that they...
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    :yeah::yeah: oh THAT IS A GOOD ONE! THANKS! Its going in the
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    ok. How would I pie that? He wasn't really anxious or anything. Most laid back patient I have ever seen. I asked him do you need anything? No. Questions? No. I even asked him was he worried, upset,...
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    Staying for Meetings after Your NIGHT SHIFT!

    chicookie replied to dRkazN's topic in General Nursing

    I have to stay once a week after my shift because I am a new nurse. One time she made me wait 2 hours to tell me, "oh you are doing good. Thanks for your hard work." It took 5 minutes. Talk about...
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    Ok maybe you can help me with this one. male patient, 43 years old. Came in with severe headache. Waiting on results. Pain 0 out of 10.(by the time I got him his headache was gone) Ambulates just...
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    So my pie notes suck.........

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    EXACTLY! That is what I learned in nursing school. But no. My manager wants pie notes all the time. At least two pie notes per shift. I can't even come up with one for these
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    Things you would love to tell your management and get away with

    chicookie replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I like how everything my manager somehow brings everything back to teamwork. The patient fell. "Lack of teamwork. Teamwork would have prevented it." I'm sick, can't come to work today. "Well since...
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    Charting Bloopers

    chicookie replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    admitting dx: dental infection related to great toe
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    Do anyone have tips on finding time to study for he NCLEX

    chicookie replied to GoosbyLPN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you have something smaller like NCLEX made insanely easy that is easier to lug around and study. It helped me alot. I would read it when I would wait for my sis to get out of school or on the...
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    I think I may go get my food stamp when I graduate

    chicookie replied to wshy_no1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    more tut tuting. If you work 12 hours shifts and actually stick to 12 hours ( which no one does) you only work 36 hours a week. Plus you are not counting shift differental or weekend differental if...
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    Hang in there new and recent grads! Nine months and 286 applications.

    chicookie replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    I read this post and as soon as I saw you got it, I raised the roof for you! CONGRATS! I really admire your persistence! I did the same thing with the manager I have now, call and call. I only did it...
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    Do you round on your patients every one hour?

    chicookie replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    See that is exactly my point. I rather not get hurt if I can avoid
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    Hey that's MY patient!

    chicookie replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    :lol2: I can just hear someone in a whiny voice, "BUT THAT'S MY PATIENT!" And then I can hear my manager say. "No that patient belongs to everyone. We are a TEAM!" LOL ( because obviously to her...
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    Do you round on your patients every one hour?

    chicookie replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    :lol2::lol2::lol2: Are you serious!?! That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Really, who wants to look up to a doughnut? LETS ALL IMITATE THE DOUGHNUT AND DO OUR HOURLY ROUNDS! LOL oh and I...
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    PLEASE HELP !!!

    chicookie replied to jeliquin85's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Suzannes plan on here is free and it helped me pass the second time.
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    chicookie replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Then I must be really really weird cause I crave it all the time. LOL Actually I said that so people who need to stop fighting. When I say it, I usually get a O_o and then I get a . then people don't...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    chicookie replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Can't the bananas and pancakes just get
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    Hospital or LTC

    chicookie replied to JeepDudeRN's topic in Florida Nursing

    From what I heard experience is experience. I spoke with the nurse recruiter about my friend that works for a rehab center and that is what she told me. Now my advice to you is that even though they...
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    how does your facility take blood pressure

    chicookie replied to chicagrl72's topic in General Nursing

    See I am the complete opposite I trust the machine more than my ear. My hearing is pretty bad.............Plus manually I can never get an exact number its always around 120/80 or around something or...
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    how to get a job as a new grad?

    chicookie replied to STL nurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My suggestion to you is to bypass the nurse recruiter. Apply to the floor and go straight to the manager. The nurse recruiter were I am at told me no one hires GNs. So I applied to a med surg floor...
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    FLorida pay rate??????

    chicookie replied to Nothing Comes EasyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am making 19.25 an hour. SUCKS I KNOW! But I do work at the lowest paying hospital in the city. My buddy started off at 22. But my pt load isn't anywhere near