Lola77

Lola77

Neuro/Med-Surg

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About Lola77

Lola77 specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg.


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  1. I work in a hospital on the acute rehab floor. We try to keep our patients out of bed as much as possible, but sometimes they cry and scream to get back into bed and sometimes the families yell at us...
  2. I need advice. Here is my story. New RN as of Fall 2009. Starting work on an insanely busy neuro/med surg floor that I really loved. I learned so much every day and was really starting to feel...
  3. Pathway to (UGH) Excellence?

    that is, without a doubt, the DUMBEST thing I have ever heard. Who goes to the ER to feel warm and fuzzy!?!? You go because you think you are freaking dying and need someone to save your life. Wow....
  4. L&D nurses - can you look at my birth plan?

    Oh man, the mandatory nursery time. You guys have no idea what I have been through with it. I took my hypnobirthing class with a local doula/owner of a natural childbirth/yoga studio store and she is...
  5. L&D nurses - can you look at my birth plan?

    Oh, and due to insurance issues, I have to birth at this hospital - because I work at an affiliated hospital, it is pretty much free for me to birth here. Anywhere else, I would have to pay 50% of...
  6. Hello, I posted on here earlier about my desire for a natural childbirth and the best way to approach the L&D nurses/be successful/not feel pressured into things. A lot of you responded and I...
  7. Hello! I am a med/surg nurse who is 34 weeks pregnant with my first child and will be delivering at a hospital close to my home (not the hospital that I work at - my hospital doesn't have an L&D)....
  8. For all INFP personality types only

    I am an INFP and have found a happy home on an acute rehab floor. The pace is a bit slower, you get to know your patients, my coworkers (on my rehab floor anyway) are patient and kind, our doctors are...
  9. Moving from Tampa to Boca Raton - nervous

    depends on where you are moving from. If you are moving from anyplace where people are nice and civilized, then yes - get ready to deal with the most obnoxious, spoiled, demanding people you have EVER...
  10. I want to pursue an MPH and in an ideal world, would drive to school and take classes. However, the closest school to me that offers an MPH is an hour away in Miami and I will have a 6 month old baby...
  11. ooh where do you live? My husband is from Halifax, NS and I lived there with him for a year and LOVED it. What a beautiful province. Now we live in Florida Would love to return to Atlantic Canada...
  12. Hello, I have been an RN for nearly 2 years, working in med surg and Acute rehab. I like rehab because of all of the education we do, but I don't want to work in a hospital forever. I am having a baby...
  13. Looking at the master's in Holistic nursing offered at FAU in Florida. Looks amazing. However, after I get it will I just be an overqualified, overeducated, even MORE frustrated floor nurse with tons...
  14. so a couple of weeks ago, our hospital's DON decided to hold a hospital-wide CNA meeting - at 0730! Every single CNA in the hospital had to go. So, while we were changing shifts and giving report,...
  15. Acute vs LTC. I think I miss working LTC!

    you feel that way because of the hierarchy in nursing - ICU nurses are "the best" and look down on the floor, med/surg nurses look down on LTC, etc etc. Acute care is supposed to be "real nursing"...