Lari45

Lari45 has 3 years experience and specializes in Telemetry/ICU/CCU.

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1. Funny things that pts say

   Lari45 replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

   Had a very nervous patient the other day getting ready to be taken the following morning to another hospital for a cardiac cath. His nurse approached me and started talking about how he didn't seem...

2. Thoughts on patient vigil programs

   Lari45 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was wondering if anyone had any feedback regarding patient vigil programs, the most notible of these was first started in oregon at Sacred Heart hospital. Commonly referred to as "no one dies alone"...

3. How do all the experienced ICU nurses feel about....

   Lari45 replied to student200977's topic in MICU, SICU

   The best thing I can say is you had better get into an ICU with a GOOD support network. when I started, there were 5 other nurses starting and they were ALL new grads. I had some floor experience...

4. What's so stressful about working 3, 12hr shifts?

   Lari45 replied to ArtisticAthlete's topic in General Nursing

   Depends on where you work, I think... ratios effect the exhaustion too. I just feel like working five eight hour days on a busy floor with a 6:1 ratio would be too much. I find that four days off...

5. Questioning the Decision of Nursing

   Lari45 replied to ChihuahuaMamaX2's topic in General Nursing

   I have to say, I had moments where I didn't know what I wanted to do or if nursing was the right thing, but having been in it this long... I feel like it's a good thing. Nursing, for me, was a good...

6. WHY are some PCT's so bitter towards new RN's???

   Lari45 replied to inteRN's topic in General Nursing

   Great point MBARN. There is some real value to being professional. I work in a small ICU/CCU with 14 beds totally full. It's so hard to pull off this kind of professionalism without any personal...