LaurenBoog

If I had a choice? Absolutely part-time. I just had a little one and I am dreading working full time, even though it's only 3 days a week! You could always work "officially" part time and then pick up a day or two on the schedule to cover any extra e...

Sella turkey-ka sounds like a delicious italian dish.

Of course she wasn't going to die...the hospice nurse closed the window!! Sheesh! That's how I keep all my patients alive!

I had one of those piercings during my senior year of nursing school/clinicals. I put a clear plastic stud in during clinicals...didn't make it any less obvious in my opinion, but none of the nurses or instructors said anything. Now I see nurses with...

In orientation, my preceptor was showing me how to hang tube feeding. It was a special kind that she had to request from dietary (wasn't stocked on the floor) and when it finally came up at the end of shift, I spiked the wrong part of the tube feedin...

Who is supposed to cover your assignment after you get sent home? Staffing is so tight, I just never see this actually happening. Sounds like a scare tactic.

i wouldn't pay for any more of her schooling. she is an adult...if she wants to jump from career to career, she should do it on her own dime, not mom and dad's.

I am just the same way you are! I was considered very smart throughout school, but get me into "real world" situations and I ask so many questions and have to be walked through everything. I have tons of respect for people who may not have gotten the...

I have worked in ICU for several months now. While I know I still have a lot to learn, I am beginning to feel confident in the more routine aspects of ICU work. Except.... I don't feel like I move fast enough in truly emergent situations. I can think...

His message is very inflammatory and seems aimed at stirring people up. The only nurses who are lobbying to be called doctors are ones who have.....received their doctorate degree. We afford that respect to professors and others who have their doctor...

Like the other posters have said, I would just go along with your CNS and make an action plan for yourself. It is snarky to send that e-mail right after your "disagreement," but you will waste too much energy fighting it or worrying about it and you...

I have known several people who failed a class or semester (usually due to unforeseen circumstances such as death or illness in family) and later graduated. If nursing is your dream, keep at it, even if it means taking a semester off or switching to ...

I don't think it is "crazy" or "scary" that the OP feels this way. What is scary is that some people feel this way, embrace it, never question it, and let it affect their patient care. Kudos to the OP for actually examining her feelings and being hon...

My former manager was awesome, I really respect her because she actually was a tech on the floor, then a staff RN, then the nurse manager. You can't ask for more than that! She had done the job, she knew the job, so she did not tolerate B.S. When I ...

I completely agree with you about the patient being too unstable for CT. The reason I went was because the surgeons ordered the CT d/t massive abd. distension, and the pt. was doing so poorly anyway....I just figured that the pt. would definately die...

I don't think it is just an age issue. I actually AM 25, and I can't keep up anymore either!

I wrote about having the same situation in one of my posts (my post was about emergency situations--I am literally in the room with the patient the whole shift and the MD writes orders for something and lays the chart who knows where, and then I neve...

You did great! There are many unknowns in that situation but you caught it before it could get worse. Keep up the good work.

I feel that I may have made an error in judgement and made myself look incompetent to my supervisors. In the interest of not stirring up any drama at work, I want to post the situation here in order to gain insight about what you all think. I am new ...

A year or so ago I took care of someone who was admitted the night before with rapid a-fib to a telemetry cardiac floor. Since her main problem was cardiac, I guess everybody missed the ABG with respiratory acidosis that was drawn in the ED. After I...

I am new to ICU but can totally relate with what everyone is saying. One reason I was so excited to switch to ICU from med/surg was because I could finally perform "excellent" patient care..."At last!" I said to myself, "I won't have to depend on CN...

When I first started in the ICU, I took care of a patient with chronic liver and heart problems. She had an extremely low BP....the attending doc started her on pressors which had to be D/C'd because of her heart rate, and they weren't helping anyway...

I don't splurge with money, but I feel that after a few days in a row of working, I deserve a day to lay around the house, sleep until 1100, take a nap at 1500, and eat well. It drives my girlfriend nuts, though, to come home and find out that I've d...

You should read the book Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth. It talks about compulsive eating, and how compulsive eaters eat not to fill a physiological hunger, but an emotional hunger. Then, weight gain and overeating turn into a negative cycle of ...

Here are my pet peeves (all taken from real experiences): To my discharged patient: No, I won't call the hospitalist and request new prescriptions for your Xanax, Oxycontin, and Ultram. I don't believe you when you say that you don't have any pills l...