cb_rn

cb_rn

CT stepdown, hospice, psych, ortho

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  1. Call Bell Requests

    cb_rn replied to pomRN's topic in General Nursing

    A job where I worked implemented hourly rounds and you had to check the following each hour: bathroom needs, need for beverage, pain meds, room temperature/bed covers - based on a month long...

  2. Job dilemma

    cb_rn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I feel like a tool posting this but here goes: I switched nursing specialties and took a permanent charge nurse position. The problem is I hate it. Its the actual work - it is not like any charge...

  3. Code Blue Experiences

    cb_rn replied to Nurse0621's topic in General Nursing

    I missed this one as well but a coworker of mine was working stepdown when a patient fell out in the bathroom in Torsades. She quick turned on his temporary pacer and cranked it up. Lucky for him it...

  4. Code Blue Experiences

    cb_rn replied to Nurse0621's topic in General Nursing

    My first patient ever was an elderly lady ithat had been shocked out of some funky ventricular rhythm less than 24 hours earlier. I wasn't there for the code (it was my first day on the floor) but she...

  5. how to remedy this situation?

    cb_rn replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    How do you know she's mad? If she's giving you the stink eye, are you sure that's why? That's a pretty innocuous thing to get mad at someone over, IMHO. The fact that you're even concerned about it...

  6. Nursing vs. Occupational Therapy vs. Speech Pathology

    cb_rn replied to RosePMHNP's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Had I only known... Makes me wonder what the PTs are

  7. Co-workers...when they run hot and cold on you.

    cb_rn replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    We had an doc once that was like jekyll and hyde. you didn't know which one showed up to work til you had to talk to him. one of our great docs said to him one day in plain view of everyone, "Either...

  8. Nursing vs. Occupational Therapy vs. Speech Pathology

    cb_rn replied to RosePMHNP's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Food for thought, physical therapy assistants in the home health agencies I worked made more than the

  9. It seems probie's can't take a joke or laugh

    cb_rn replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Remember that part in Forrest Gump? I didn't know that the hell he was talking about until I met my husband and got exposed to the military. Gave me a

  10. Do I need a certification to access ports?

    cb_rn replied to ivdude's topic in General Nursing

    I regularly accessed these in home health and in the hospital and had no certification. My preceptor taught me and then watched me do a couple and that was

  11. I need help/advice for RN&Army wife

    cb_rn replied to S.Hughes's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a military wife and, as a matter of fact, I just left Fort Benning in the summer. Small world. Take heart, I paid for my GA license and never worked a day there since we were only stationed there...

  12. Gender ratios for emergency c-sections?

    cb_rn replied to Libitina's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Its that damn Y chromosome. Males are the weaker sex genetically. Look at cancer rates for just about any body part but the breast. I also read an interesting article the other day about how men seem...

  13. Funny doctor orders

    cb_rn replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Ok, what? I know that doesn't mean 9 banana bags. So 9 bananas to eat? That's 18 servings. Who the heck could eat a bunch of bananas? A literal bunch of bananas. Can we talk about the need for a smog...

  14. student with vasovagal problems

    cb_rn replied to pabrocc's topic in General Nursing

    Hey! I have the same thing and its not because I'm weak-stomached. I get hot all over (usually very cold natured) and my ears ring. And it's happened in pregnancy and when I'm not, when I'm doing...

  15. Funny doctor orders

    cb_rn replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    wth i can't stop

  16. Where's the best place to sell your books after graduation?

    cb_rn replied to RickLP's topic in General Nursing

    Oh PS say your book is kind of old or there is a new version and the old version is selling ridiculously cheap - well if you look on the lower right hand corner often there is a button where you can...

  17. Where's the best place to sell your books after graduation?

    cb_rn replied to RickLP's topic in General Nursing

    i sold tons of my old textbooks on amazon but not some of the basic nursing texts. never know when you may need to pull out kozier and erb or fischbach's manual of lab & diagnostic tests or at...

  18. Is it realistic that I'll make 80-100,000 thousand after I graduate with associates.

    cb_rn replied to Awright162's topic in General Nursing

    East coast teaching hospital: new grad I got $23 an hour, if you worked straight weekends there was a $10 hour incentive so $33 plus $7 shift diff so $40 an hour. Work some overtime and you could end...

  19. Do not spare me..

    cb_rn replied to kplp1111's topic in General Nursing

    A good friend of mine was a scrub tech for a few years and then went through RN school with me. Do you have a personality where you don't mind getting b*tched out every now and then? Probably, since...

  20. Over riding a resident?

    cb_rn replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

    There are plenty of residents I'd like to ride over. But I follow the orders I'm given unless I have a darned compelling reason to question

  21. Some Nurses too Almighty?

    cb_rn replied to EbonyBorn2Succeed's topic in General Nursing

    what about that post about the floated nurse that was assigned to do tech/CNA duties and got in a huff about it? There were a few posters that agreed with her. Now whether that relucatance was an...

  22. So... have I burned my bridges with this hospital or can I recover?

    cb_rn replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

    My answer might not be the one you want to hear... Employee references from the nurses on the floor aren't going to help that much if someone in HR is blocking your application because they aren't...

  23. Some Nurses too Almighty?

    cb_rn replied to EbonyBorn2Succeed's topic in General Nursing

    RE that post about student nurses saying they want a desk job that doesn't involve patient care... How are you supposed to be able to get any experience to have a desk job if you don't do patient care...

  24. L&D-Maternity 1950's Style

    cb_rn replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Too cute. Hard to believe the men used to not watch the birth and now its such a given. They're even setting up webcams at our naval hospital so that military dads don't have to *miss* the event when...

  25. What Nursing Organizations to Join?

    cb_rn replied to CLC27's topic in General Nursing

    ANA. Sometimes the political views that ANA has and mine don't mesh but you get discounts on books and other things (like whirlpool appliances and continuing education), a magazine subscription...it...