Miller86

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  1. questions about tests/procedures (please help!)

    Miller86 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone, I was wondering if you ladies and gentleman could help me with something that I personally feel I am struggling with! It is my 4th month as a nurse and I am learning tons of new things...

  2. questions about tests/procedures (please help!)

    Miller86 replied to Miller86's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for the responses!! Really great information. I learn so much daily and read up a lot of helpful information on

  3. questions about tests/procedures (please help!)

    Miller86 replied to Miller86's topic in General Nursing

    By the way thank you for the feedback I really appreciate

  4. questions about tests/procedures (please help!)

    Miller86 replied to Miller86's topic in General Nursing

    See that's what I believed when I freshly started and kept my "but what about the order!". Our facility doesn't do orders for tkvo. It's just based on someone's assumption which makes no sense to me....

  5. i'm a dumb nurse

    Miller86 replied to julaybeeba20's topic in General Nursing

    Don't call yourself dumb. Just take this as a learning experience. Look up time management skills, maybe write a sheet of "to do" list on all your patients and cross them off as the day goes on. I...

  6. giving report

    Miller86 replied to melisgood's topic in General Nursing

    Some people are really picky with the way report is given. We have a few nurses on the unit that want/ask every little detail about the patient while there are others that get annoyed when I give them...

  7. Precepting a role transition student

    Miller86 replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    When I had a preceptor in my final clinical rotation this is how it went: I gave a list of things I can and cannot do as a student (outline by my programs policy for students) to her as a guideline....

  8. Starting Clinicals

    Miller86 replied to edenson's topic in General Nursing

    If you are dedicated and motivated to learn it honestly makes the experience all that more interesting and rewarding. Ask questions, get hands on practice (my nursing program barely let us do...

  9. Starting Clinicals

    Miller86 replied to edenson's topic in General Nursing

    If you are dedicated and motivated to learn it honestly makes the experience all that more interesting and rewarding. Ask questions, get hands on practice (my nursing program barely let us do...

  10. Is nursing right for me?

    Miller86 replied to Kbb0907's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a lady who said she used to get anxiety attacks when patient's conditions deteriorated but over time she managed to get everything done appropriately. Give it a try. You might overcome...

  11. can my supervisor write me up (i'm an rn) because a patient fell?

    Miller86 replied to calypso1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well why weren't you at two places at once? Being with another patient is not a valid answer. I'm kidding. Your supervisor sounds completely unrealistic. Was this patient fall risk? Was it expected...

  12. Sleeping on the job

    Miller86 replied to mairose15's topic in General Nursing

    If she wasn't messing with patient care (ex. missing the diabetic child's medications), I would have talked to her first and told her to get her act together. But since she's too laid-back on a...

  13. LPN scope of practice

    Miller86 replied to Quark09's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work LPN's do pretty much everything a RN does except being in charge and a few things here and there. They hang blood, do IV initiations, Picc line management, all types of assessments and...

  14. How to deal with Negative Nancys?!

    Miller86 replied to BrandNewbieNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh there is a few like the ones your describing at my work as well but I just kill them with kindness and if it doesn't slide then I just don't take it personal. You haven't done anything to them so...

  15. Is nursing theory actually used by working nurses?

    Miller86 replied to BCRNA's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Well it helped to a certain extent but no I don't go in every day and think about Florence and her exact ways. I do consider the person, their environment and what's happening to it, and the type of...

  16. Concerned...allnurses store product

    Miller86 replied to AwayWeGo's topic in General Nursing

    I would be concerned. A child could easily get confused with actual pills in a bottle and the one time candies put in the bottle. Candies just shouldn't be put in pill bottles unless they were meant...

  17. Want to keep my pride. . . Please Advise

    Miller86 replied to SweetBabyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Get er done. Approach him and let him know you want the position. Show him all the work you put into getting to where you are now and what you will do to excel in the new position. What is the worst...

  18. Gross MD!

    Miller86 replied to prettyinblu's topic in General Nursing

    Why would he be putting his fingers in his nose anyway, who knows what he touched in the hospital! yuck! Give him a pamphlet on "infection control" or just say "eww" quietly as your beside him. This...

  19. Our new hire, new grad charge nurse

    Miller86 replied to kimbo9's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't want to be that new grad. I can barely function on my own on a hectic day. To be on charge as a new grad would probably give me an early silent MI. Good for her though. I just hope you...

  20. For those new grads who are employed, what's your method?

    Miller86 replied to grateful2010's topic in General Nursing

    Never losing hope of finding a job, that was key for me. I went to numerous job fairs and repeatedly got told "we're not looking for new grads at the moment" but continued to attend in surrounding...

  21. My best orientation mistakes

    Miller86 replied to skicoachrn's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have done some stupid things in the last month or so after finishing orientation. I still cringe when I think about them! 1) Nurse A tells me she is going on break and to get patient 7A onto a...

  22. Some crazy/funny things that patients did.

    Miller86 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    When I was on a maternity rotation, a woman who had a baby the previous week returned to the unit with a box of donuts and home made brownies. The nurses and I thought that it was the sweetest...

  23. What would you do about this...

    Miller86 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey everyone, I worked nights this past weekend and there was an issue that came up about a nurse (call her nurse A). There was an order that nurse A did not carry over from early within her day 12...

  24. What would you do about this...

    Miller86 replied to Miller86's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for replying everyone. I don't feel comfortable approaching A since I really don't know her well and don't want to start any unnecessary drama, even if I do tell her watch her back in private...

  25. Any new grads thinking of leaving nursing?

    Miller86 replied to BettyBoop01's topic in General Nursing

    I waited 5 months (felt like eternity) before finally finding a job. Somewhere, some door will open up for you. Just keep looking and don't lose hope. Go back to or keep your old job in the meantime...