LobotRN BSN, RN

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    PO medicine administration

    LobotRN replied to mugs's topic in General Students

    Mugs, GrnTea is right, it gets easier. Here are some observations I have about those lovely little unit dose packs, how I tend to do it, and other such stuff: 1. First, your hands gotta be clean....
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    What do you indicate when they ask "Salary Requirement"?

    LobotRN replied to caffeineaddict's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I guess I might be so gutsy as to contact HR and ask what the starting wage is for a new grad RN in acute care. A number of larger hospitals hire new grads in waves and have a standard start wage for...
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    New Grad Quitting After Less Than a Year (advice!)

    LobotRN replied to IcySageNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sorry if this has been said before...but your employer, per your post, doesn't know jack. Get over it, give a professional notice, make plans and start getting ready for the interview/job hunt mayhem...
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    No luck with a new grad job- should I go back to school? Any nurse managers around?

    LobotRN replied to BA_anthropology's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    What about RN refresher courses through a community college? That might help demonstrate that although you had a little hiatus, you are doing things to keep fresh. It's usually a class or two, and...
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    What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    LobotRN replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Too true! What makes me say "what the heck?" over and over is something I hear at least once every couple of shifts. I work med surg, lots of knees and hips, gastric bypass, appys, and plastics. I...
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    Assuming The Nurse Role

    LobotRN replied to Soliloquy's topic in General Nursing

    Soliloquiy take heart! I'm so glad that you are having this realization in school, rather than a total reality shock and no foreshadowing before you land your first coveted nursing position. Not all...
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    Still overwhelmed...

    LobotRN replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    One thing to consider is that schools w/ a clinical component will get you face time with potential employers, be they clinics, dialysis, HH, etc., and maybe even acute care. That is one thing I...
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    Refusing a Clinical assignment

    LobotRN replied to SheldonCooperPHD's topic in General Students

    Wow, this one ("refusal") can be a slippery slope in terms of your relationship with your clinical instructor AND how they view you. In general, try to avoid ever saying, "I don't know how to do X"...
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    Who enjoys med/surg??

    LobotRN replied to erika.RN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I love med/surg! It can be crazy busy, but like amm1255 said, if you have good organization, it does a lot to make a good shift. If I were in your shoes, I would jump at the chance. Pay off student...
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    Can you walk into the NCLEX-RN exam with gum in your mouth?

    LobotRN replied to MrRN1989's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    IMO, there could be few things much worse in this time of you life than realizing, "I would be an RN by now, but I chewed
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    Question about tamsulosin post surgery....

    LobotRN replied to LobotRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Yep, we follow SCIP guidelines and have goals to discontinue foleys POD#1. I'm just wondering if anyone has seen docs trying tamsulosin in the older gents to stave off the "I can't pee"...
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    Question about tamsulosin post surgery....

    LobotRN posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    We are having a big push to not use catheters in their pts from a number of ortho surgeons. While this is, in my opinion, inifinitely safer in terms of infection reduction and provides motivation to...
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    Well, the "customer" satisfaction survey.....

    LobotRN posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    ....argh. What actually happened vs. pt perception. I had an aesthetics pt, total overhaul of the anterior chassis, lipo, breast bilat, abdominal......on our Med surg floor. Ummmm....you hurt? Of...
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    Well, the "customer" satisfaction survey.....

    LobotRN replied to LobotRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I agree with everyone. And I had another thought cross my mind as I've been musing on this. As the population we care for is generally older, I really see a link between staffing levels of CNAs and...
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    Advice for new students

    LobotRN replied to Live.&.Learn's topic in General Students

    Love it. And you are so right, it's not about being fair. Not by a long
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    How many much older (40+) students out there starting classes? (I'm 47)

    LobotRN replied to nursingstudent3109's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Just turned 40 and am now finished. Working. Loving most of it, rolling my eyes at some of it. The only piece of advice that I can give you is to take advantage of your life experience. Some of the...
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    Happy Nurses Week Cards...

    LobotRN replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    It's been pretty nice so far! Our employer has hosted a hosted a barbequue on both day and night shift, and last night the nursing supervisor and some of the day staff administrators came in and...
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    What I have learned to HATE about Nursing

    LobotRN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey, I hear your frustration, but that stuff in the larger picture is really the easy part. Please consider where to spend that energy, your energy is too precious to spend on that kind of stuff if...
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    How did you make it work?

    LobotRN replied to bfiehn0905's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't think I've seen it yet in this thread, but sit down and take a long, long, hard look at your budget. I mean be brutal. When I went to nursing school, we cut our household income in half and...
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    Fake it til' you make it!

    LobotRN replied to LindseyRN86's topic in General Nursing

    Be proud Wild! There will be many of those moments on the "other side." I don't get to do many IV starts because almost all of my pt come from ER pending a procedure or come post op from a planned...
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    Update

    LobotRN replied to Teacher Sue's topic in General Nursing

    Sue, I would work for a manager like you any day. Recently I had 5 ortho post ops (POD 1) and 2 medical on my assignment with a CNA who was primarily mine, but I had to "share" a little bit....
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    Fake it til' you make it!

    LobotRN replied to LindseyRN86's topic in General Nursing

    Best line for just about anything regarding "fake it til you make it".....assessment and setting the tone! "Good morning/evening Mr/Mrs Smith.....I'm Nurse Jane, and I'll be with you for the next 12...
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    Pyxis for the uninitiated

    LobotRN replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

    @ Complete....that's funny. I live in Nevada. Seriously! The problem is that the "plink-plink-plinkplinkplinkplink" jackpot would be from the non narcotic drawers. NOW...if the...
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    Pyxis for the uninitiated

    LobotRN replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

    Aside from all that....the first time you use one and you have the model where a drawer slides out and then it has further compartmentalization.....well, its kind of like "the price is right" crossed...
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    Is this nitpicking or does the instructor dislike her?...

    LobotRN replied to Pneumothorax's topic in General Students

    Agree with all the above, and I think there is additional learning that the clinical instructor is trying to promote. Here's my theory. When we make mistakes, we often must accept...