blockmomRN

We all had to start somewhere, at the bottom, as the outsider ...you will do fine. As a fellow night nurse, night shift brings a certain level of comradary(sp) that other shifts just don't get. Stay busy, always ask your teammates if they need help (...

The silliest ones that actually made me turn around and walk out of the room, so the pt could not see my facial expressions were ~~ " I just changed my tooth paste and now my gums are sore" ( I asked her, is that it? do you have a toothache, bleeding...

Some really terrific responses and information, I do usually put down the patient's complaint and then add other information in the triage note. I too would have made this patient a Level 3, without a history or significant changes in VS he would hav...

I was working one night with a fellow nurse that kept complaining of a terrible toothache and jaw pain, my gut kept nagging at me so I asked her if we could just to an EKG on her (she did have a family hx of cardiac disease etc) .....she was having a...

Just Follow your heart, just like your gut it is usually right. You have to do what makes YOU happy, in the end that is all that matters....right:cat: