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Hi guys 2nd year RN here just wanna ask what are the chances of getting HIV from a patient? In my case, i received a superficial scratch when the patient was being ocmbative and pulling out his IV lines, so blood was there. But not sure if my scratch...

thanks guys! I am just kinda scared because this is my first time doing it... lol, not like I wanna do it again but, blurg. thanks! :)

Also, right after I noticed the scratch, I washed the site with soap and water ASAP, and took a whole bottle of Hibiclens to wash the site. lol

Well I didnt have the scratch beforehand I know that much, but as far as him scratching me or any blood coming into contact I dont know since I was trying to calm him down and not making him pull his ETT. I didnt see any blood stain on my uniform so...

I say it starts with whoever is giving care to that patient, and those are RNs. But, what happens if those RNs are not "satisfied" and I use that in a broad sense. It could be the unsatisfaction of the administration, patient workload, the fact that ...

Have you ever heard this one: "You guys at night do not do anything but babysit the pts until the dayshift gets here, so I expect everything to be perfect when I come in the AM." ...First reaction? Slap the taste out of that mouth! Babysit? Night shi...

I think that RNs in general think that the night shift is the "clean-up" shift where it is ok to leave stuff undone. For example, this guy's hemo was 7.5 and had orders to transfuse 2 units of PRBCs since 11am....... and somehow it wasn't done when I...

I was thinking about a story someone told me the other night, and it had to do something about LPN and RN differences. Where I work at, they tend to give the LPN's a lighter load than RNs. The other night a patient was taken away from an RN because h...

To the OP: You know i read somewhere that the economy slump is hitting the NE the hardest so I think you should critical think about how to get an RN job... I mean think about it, you need to go to a place where alot of people live, vacation, etc. Mo...

sounds like you did everything you could for each pt that you cared for i mean the K WAS 4.8, but the thing about that is WHEN the K was 4.8, how long the K was 4.8 and how long in between the 4.8 and the K you infused. also, it all depends on how he...

i read all the posts and thanks by the way, but i worked at fast food for 3 long years and you know what i figured out? we (the nurses) are glorified waiters. i hit on it when i was running from a patients room to the medroom when another patient cal...

the LPNs we have can push IV meds so i guess it is different in other places

We get 5 accrued hours for each paycheck, and that depends on if you work the total 72 hours a week. What a jip. And Quafetti got it right. I hear patients telling me "oh you're so good to me" and "you're my favorite nurse" but none of that reaches ...

Don't you hate it when your managers or team leaders make a meeting the FIRST thing in the morning? Everybody has to come, even the night shift! AUGH! :angryfire I mean, really, I spend about 12 hours running after doctors, meds, technicians, then n...

to flygirl43: right on! thats exactly what i am saying, doing meetings like that endangers yourself and others. also i forgot what that violation is called but it is as bad as a DUI. Some doctor told me about it. to LHH1996: maybe u can talk to my ma...

Ok let me start off with what I believe why I am writing this. As a nurse, we do not have the usual holidays as other normal jobs because our work does not stop. Fine, so instead of giving us these holidays, we get PTO, or paid-time off, to use anyti...

tait, care to elaborate?

Thanks iluvivt, I guess I know how a private hospital with no union works now. Never again will I work here!

"You came in after calling in with a headache??? Great, now you'll have them making stupid suggestions for years to come. Once you call in that's it, you're out, and don't even agree to try to come in. " what do you mean by that?

Thanks for all your input and experiences. I will try to be more assertive next time, and not let them bully me into work. Also, I always try to call in waaaay before my shift starts at least 4 hours before so they CAN find my replacement. But, it se...

"I speak some Spanish, and I have no problem speaking Spanish to Spanish speakers, but a few have refused to speak Spanish to me. They will talk to the translator, but not to me. One guy just said "No speaky" to me over and over, when I told him (in ...

"No I do not speak Spanish and NO I SHOULD NOT learn how to speak Spanish because we live in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!! YOU should learn how to speak ENGLISH!" MAN I wish I said that to the family member.....that just infuriated me. To think I ...

I really do appreciate all of your guys' input.

how do you quote stuff? lol sorry new at this

I should have been more specific then... I told her I had a severe headache 4 hours before my shift, ample time for them to find a replacement. I felt like if I would go to work tonight, it wouldn't be to the best of my ability, hinder the patient c...