sarahjuly

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1. Please share your story

   sarahjuly replied to PayitForwardHolistic's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, some of you are very dedicated to your job. I am a wife and mother and my first priority is my family. Second, my mental and physical health. Then my career as a nurse. I work part time and when...

2. Why do the weekend on call docs not listen to us

   sarahjuly replied to registerednutrn's topic in General Nursing

   I am a baby nurse. I had a very similar weekend. I voiced concerns to everyone about my Pt on Friday. I came in to start my shift on Saturday and found out my Pt. was in pretty bad shape. Thank...

3. New grad nurses- what did you do to get hired?

   sarahjuly replied to bornthisway's topic in First Year After Licensure

   oh sorry forgot one more thing.. after I got my job a manager gave me advice. She said if you know you really really want to work on a unit find out who their manager is. Send them a resume and cover...

4. New grad nurses- what did you do to get hired?

   sarahjuly replied to bornthisway's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Honestly It may be to late to do what I did. When I was in school I knew getting a job when I graduated may be challenging. So at every clinical I worked really really hard to stand out at the...

5. NG tube and NPO question

   sarahjuly replied to sarahjuly's topic in General Nursing

   Speech had already been involved with the pt on admit so they were familiar with her. They didn't really do an "evaluation", but gave an opionion on it to the nurse. Yes, I agree the guy is a real...

6. NG tube and NPO question

   sarahjuly replied to sarahjuly's topic in General Nursing

   actually, the doctor came in ordered the ngt, and then inserted it himself because he said that he didn't trust the nurses. the pt is 92 and came in after a fall two weeks ago and has steadily...

7. NG tube and NPO question

   sarahjuly replied to sarahjuly's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the quick input. My clinicals is in a pretty small hospital, so I am glad to get input into situations that a pt was being feed with a oral feeding and NG tube. The whole thing started...

8. NG tube and NPO question

   sarahjuly posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone, I'm a student nurse in my last semester, and I was hoping for some help with a question. Today at clinicals a docter ordered supplemental feeding via NG tube for a pt. The reasoning was...

9. Nursing Shoes

   sarahjuly replied to AlleycatLPN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

   A pair of nike walking/jogging

10. What kind of BAG do I carry all this stuff in?

    sarahjuly replied to pedneurornhopeful's topic in General Students

    First, off sorry to offend anyone who use's the rolling bags, but I hate them, and I do think snarky thoughts when I see them. I do feel slightly guilty after having the thoughts. But anyway I have...

11. Pregnant and nursing school... full or part-time?

    sarahjuly replied to magn1jes's topic in General Students

    I'm 6 months pregnant with one semester left in an ADN program. I am due four weeks before graduation. At first I was worried about being fulltime with my due date during the semester, but after...

12. How to deal with Negative Nancys?!

    sarahjuly replied to BrandNewbieNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I often wonder if the "negitive nancies" are just miserable people. They would most likely never be happy at any job or in any situation. Some people seem to choose unhappiness and they spread it...

13. Is it normal after graduating to be nervous about being on your own?

    sarahjuly replied to spacy224's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only who is nervous! I still have one semester left and I have started thinking about graduation with a mix of excitement and fear. (especially now that it's...

14. ipod touch applications for clinical

    sarahjuly replied to anonymousstudent's topic in General Students

    oh and I forgot. RN notes has been handy for looking up the steps to a procedure when you need your memory

15. ipod touch applications for clinical

    sarahjuly replied to anonymousstudent's topic in General Students

    I have nuring central from unbound. I use Davis's drug guide everyday at clinicals, tabers is great and I do use Diseases and Disorders a quite a bit. It's way better then bringing a bunch of books to...