You will become an expert in the many colors of poo, able to identify infection, GI bleed by smell before you even see the poo. It will not bother you at all. You will eat lunch discussing poo. You will talk about poo, while eating to non-medical peo...
First, take a deep breath. If every nurse who made a med error were fired, there would be no nurses. Personally, I think there are two kinds of nurses. Nurses who will tell you they made a med error, and nurses who are unaware that they have ever mad...
We also use Alaris pumps. Instead of Buretrols we use syring pumps which are part of the Alaris system. The syring pumps give you exacting controls. We also have a problem with overfill with chemotherapy. We ask pharmacy to send chemo in a syring if ...
Leecy replied to smurfynursey's topic in Pediatric
You need one year minimum as an RN and at least 1000 hours caring for peds/onc before you take the test. The test is NCLEX-like, but not that hard once you have been caring for these kids for a while.
No way. They share a bathroom and chemo is excreted in the urine and feces. They should have just switched patients around. We don't let pregnant mom's so much as change a chemo diaper on their own child. Why take the risk.
A new nurse after her first code needs to be told she did well unless something was truly catastrophic. They usually curl up in a linen closet and cry once the adrenaline go's away. If the manager had stopped her or said something at that point, she ...
Lucky duck! At my facility that is a coveted job. The co-ordinator would be responsible for arranging pre-transplant testing, co-ordinating marrow matches through the national registry, setting up housing and transportation. Once the child is here an...
What does your gut say? If you are reassured by many people, will you be OK with it or will you still lose sleep? I have worked with many pregnant chemo nurses. I work with a nurse who, in her first trimester had a massive chemo spill all over her an...
Leecy replied to smurfynursey's topic in Pediatric
I would ask the floor you hope to work for if the course will help. I work for a teaching hospital and we have our own classes. We have had travel nurses come to our facility with their national provider card and get upset because they must still tak...
It's neither good nor bad to get interviewed right after shadowing. It depends on the interviewer's schedule. Don't read too much into it. Practice verbalizing why you want this job so much, what being a NICU nurse means to you, steps you have taken ...
Make sure to have some questions prepared to ask the nurse you shadow in case you blank out a bit. Interact with patients, families and staff a little. When someone shadows with me, I am always asked by my nurse manager later how I felt about the pot...
I was stressed out for at least the first year and a half. Everybody adjusts at a different speed. We all have days where we wish we had chosen another profession, especially if we don't have a good support network at work. If you are in the job you ...
Leecy replied to WildcatFanRN's topic in Pediatric
OK Wildcat Fan (AZ?). I also was an LPN before I got my RN. I got a job on a mixed (peds and adult) floor and began working with peds that way. There are many school nurse jobs unfilled and unposted now. Call your local schools if you are interested....