MelissaRN

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  1. Doctor Smokes In Operating Room, Fined

    MelissaRN replied to nursebedlam's topic in Operating Room

    That's just

  2. All work no play - WASSUP WITH THAT

    MelissaRN replied to bcelzo's topic in General Nursing

    I do alot of things outside. I am a runner and am also working out in the gym with a trainer. These things really burn off the stress. Also reading and music really help to take one's mind off...

  3. Granny Dumping

    MelissaRN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I've heard of kids being dumped on the pediatric floor especially during New Year's Eve. I just can't imagine. On the ortho/neuro floor I worked on we have patients from time to time that have no...

  4. Has anybody heard of this? AVM & Brain Abscess.

    MelissaRN replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    AVM: Arteriovenous malformation. I've had patients with those before. From what I've read they are pretty similiar to an aneurysm, but because there's venous blood involved there's a better...

  5. Don't Lose Your Clinical Skills?

    MelissaRN replied to KristinWW's topic in Operating Room

    I can't say this with certainty because I won't be working as an OR nurse till June 15, but the OR nurses have completely different skills that are utilized. I'v been working med/surg since I...

  6. I Graduated Today 5/29

    MelissaRN replied to TweetiePieRN's topic in General Nursing

    I felt the same way also. You work hard for those years with this one day in mind and then it's hear and gone! You leave behind your friends to start a job where you don't know anyone. It does get...

  7. work makes me sick, literally :OP

    MelissaRN replied to 2ndgenerationnurse's topic in General Nursing

    We're exposed to a lot and also our increased stress levels put us at greater risk. I was told by my boss that I would probably get everything going the first year. I got a bad cold back in October...

  8. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    MelissaRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    MRSA? Methacillin resistant staph aureous. Nasty

  9. Rumor about contract changes at EMMC

    MelissaRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend finishing up her last year of nursing school next month and she was told by a nursing instructor that things at EMMC aren't going to be fun this summer due to changes in contracts....

  10. New to the floor; now's your time to tell all...

    MelissaRN replied to maddiecat's topic in General Nursing

    Pick out the nurse that's been there for 20 something years or more (there's one on every floor) and watch her/him! We have a couple on my floor that are fantastic resources. There's one nurse...

  11. Leaving Med/Surg

    MelissaRN replied to Mommy/Grandma's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks SCRN! Probably if I stayed at my floor longer it would have gotten better. I do feel like my life is less of a slow Hell, but OR is where I've always wanted to be.

  12. Leaving Med/Surg

    MelissaRN replied to Mommy/Grandma's topic in General Nursing

    I've been doing med/surg for a year and am leaving "the floor" to work in the OR. Sure it's less money but I'm trading the $25 an hour for a mon-fri no holiday no nights no weekend schedule and no...

  13. What shift is best after having a newborn??

    MelissaRN replied to HealinghandsRN's topic in General Nursing

    Have you thought about working evenings (3-11)? If your husband is working during the day you could do 3-11 and only have to worry about a couople of hours of childcare. You'll have the morning and...

  14. Are CNA's considered "Nurses"?

    MelissaRN replied to nursesherry's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a CNA "tech" who when introducing himself says he's one of the "nurses". Oh how I cringe when he does this and nobody has ever said anything to him. He has a lot of resentment being...

  15. I have an interview, and need some advise

    MelissaRN replied to niksemtmom's topic in General Nursing

    I hate the questions they ask though like "where do you see yourself in five years"? Well I don't really know, I hope I'll be at a job I love!! Or "how do you handle

  16. NG canisters:Do you empty at change of shift?

    MelissaRN replied to Stormy62's topic in General Nursing

    That's dayum gross I always 86 the cannister right when I d/c the tube. I had a patient that wanted to save the tube so he could show his friends what was in him. There was no way I was cleaning...

  17. NG canisters:Do you empty at change of shift?

    MelissaRN replied to Stormy62's topic in General Nursing

    We have the cannisters that are hooked to the wall. We mark them at the end of each shift and when they are full take out the inner cannister and put a new one in. We have this special gel stuff we...

  18. just made to feel guilty....

    MelissaRN replied to uk_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    You're not the first nurse to call in when their child is ill and you won't be the last. I had to call in when my son had surgery because I had been working all night and then sitting in the OR...

  19. Working the night shift with young children?

    MelissaRN replied to leisa22's topic in General Nursing

    I've been working nights since I graduated a year ago. I started out working 4 nine hour shifts (hated it) and then went to 3 twelves. The 12 hour shifts are better as I have extra night off but I...

  20. Your Worst Mistake

    MelissaRN replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    I was working as a new nurse about 4 months into the job. I had a post op hip surgery patient that I got from PACU in the middle of the night. I was in and out of the room all night doing post op...

  21. Does your employer recognize "Nurse's Day"?

    MelissaRN replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

    We didn't get squat for nurses day. I expected at least a freaken card. They did offer a CEU course about stress management but that was

  22. feelings about double rooms

    MelissaRN replied to starryx2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    the other night I was caring for my patient who was sharing a room with a younger man. Anyway, my patient was incontinent of stool a couple of times and the smell was pretty bad. The poor young man...

  23. I wish I'd have known....B4 nursing school

    MelissaRN replied to ARmickie's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I had spent more time working as a nursing tech. It's the little things like turning, bed pans, and getting the diaper on the patients that took alot of my time. LOL. I had the technical...

  24. Do you LOVE where you work?

    MelissaRN replied to busyrninva's topic in General Nursing

    Our floor is like a nursing home at times. Many, many old confused patients. It gets frustrating when you have 7 patients and you take your eye off the confused one and they get into trouble. Had...

  25. I don't think I passed

    MelissaRN replied to aleazie2777's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I went through this last year when I took the NCLEX. The computer had shut off after 75 questions and at first I was excited, then looking up some of the answers and seeing that I got them wrong I...