Pleaides

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1. iv calculation problem!!!!!!!!!!!

   Pleaides replied to prettyparade_3's topic in General Nursing

   Drip factors.....I have never, ever had to worry about drip factors in the real world. We have one size tubing, period, for everybody. Rate is controlled by a pump. Why are students still calculating drip factors?

2. Switching to ER--Advice?

   Pleaides replied to mesixfuture's topic in Emergency

   Can you start Peds IV's? Of everything we do in the ER that is the thing I hate the most, it is ofen very difficult and babies and children always cry. I would rather help intubate or do a chest tube than a Peds IV. OB is also very positive experi...

3. What do nurses really think of CNAs?

   Pleaides replied to ccyrrus's topic in General Nursing

   When I first worked as a nurse in LTC, I had the license but did not know how to dress a combative pt, get a 400 lber out of bed, etc. Everything practical I learned from CNA's. It is a very stupid nurse indeed who does not appreciate a good CNA. ...

4. what did you do in your former life?

   Pleaides replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in General Nursing

   I was a flight attendant for 24 years, and would be today except for american airlines dirty tricks. Now I work in the ER, but am considering going to OB.

5. New Nurse feeling overwhelmed!

   Pleaides replied to Diva Nurse Dani's topic in General Nursing

   Just go one day at a time and do the best job you possibly can, if your patients are happy you are doing fine. I too hated my first RN job, on a Med-Surg floor, at a facility with lots of infighting and bickering. There were plenty of things I did ...

6. New nurse blues

   Pleaides posted a topic in New Nurse

   I am nearing the end of my "orientation" program in my first RN job. The first two weeks were spent observing various departments and then we went to the floors to orient. A month later and all the preceptors are tired of having new grads ask quest...

7. What is the #1 healthcare problem in the USA?

   Pleaides replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

   NOTHING is more problematic than smoking-related problems. So preventable yet the it-won't-happen-to-me and then "why me?" folks who continue to waste money on cigarettes instead of treatment to quit. Nurses who smoke are a complete mystery to me!

8. Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

   Pleaides replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

   So what if some of us became Nurses for money and job stability/mobility? I became an RN precisely for that reason. For 24 years I was a flight attendant until American Airlines destroyed that world, stapled me to the bottom of the seniority list a...

9. New Grad hired for Float pool

   Pleaides posted a topic in General Nursing

   Well, I didn't hear last week whether I had been hired, so I figured not and sent out some resumes today. At 1705 I was informed that I had been hired at a place I had given up hope on, and that it was unusual to be hired as a new grad into float po...

10. 38 too old for school?

    Pleaides replied to akanarn's topic in CRNA

    Just do it! If you don't you will regret it later. You will certainly get older, but not neccesarily wiser unless you take that path. The old retirement age of 65 will recede until retirement is 70, 75, 80. That is a lot of years to work. I will ...