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Your tele experience will be an asset to you. The biggest transition I experienced (and have witnessed other med/surg to critical care RN's undergo) is the shift of priorities from a task orientation to an acuity and systems orientation. You really h...

We use a 10 ml per hour backer at minimum, unless the gtt is running at 10 or greater.

We use the CHG wipes, and are also starting to move away from calling them a "bath."

OP, I work full time nights and have gotten straight A's taking 1-2 courses at a time. I have 4 classes left, including Capstone. I have taken two of the "dreaded" ones (Assessment and Management) already, and am in the process of taking the third (R...

Time-consuming but easy.

I think you'll be fine. This is normal. At least for some of us girls. ;-)

I got the impression that the statement came from her self-report to the hospital's event reporting system, which does not go into the chart. Not sure how the press got ahold of it, though.

I worked a better paying job throughout NS. I learned the CNA stuff hands-on my first year as a RN (we went over some of it, very generally, in a prerequisite for NS but there was very little hands-on training, so it didn't really stick.) In retrosp...

I worked about 30 hours a week. Expect to get poorer grades and to miss any "social" aspects of NS like study groups, but it's doable.

I just wanted to start a thread to show some support for our hard-working mods. Your job is never easy, but today, it's especially difficult. I can't speak for everyone, but I know I speak for many when I say that what you all do is appreciated. Keep...

Michelle Collins is no peach, either. She's the one who initially brought up the monologue in a derogatory way, but Behar is getting most of the heat.

Also, if you click on "Visitor Posts" on the View's Facebook page, there are many more scathing comments.

They're not going to live this one down quietly. Their Facebook page is exploding. I thought it was refreshing to see her monologue about her talent. Not everyone plays an instrument or does ballet. I was really proud of Miss Colorado.

Totally agree. I'm an ICU nurse also, and I can't imagine expecting the ED nurse to have done a 1900 glucose check at 1850 whilst transporting said patient. That's pretty ridiculous.

Not a dumb question, not everyone uses different colored pens. Some do it to organize their brain sheet (seen a lot in ICU, different tasks get different colors or things get checked off with another color) and some who are still using paper charting...

I hate Frozen! Lego Movie for the win!

Was it ever formally confirmed that Jahi passed away? (I mean, by the family--I know she passed away in reality long ago.) I was just thinking about this horrible debacle and wondering whatever became of the situation.

I have two superstitions: one is about moon phases and night shift, the other is having money in my pocket on New Years. Otherwise, I'm a very logical and rational person.

RIGHT?!? Ugh.

#2--Me, too. But it does get old being the "service recovery" RN after awhile.

Ixchel, Xarelto *is* a hell of a drug, but don't ever make the mistake I did and say so in front of a hem/onc doc. She bit my head off when I noted (not in front of patients, of course) the number of hospitalizations we saw with Xarelto-related bleed...

New favorite thread. *cackle*

Thanks for starting this thread, MMJ.

This site has been a part of my life for over five years now. I'm saddened and shocked by this tragic news. I hope the Shorts' families and friends can find some peace in the days ahead.

When an RT spiked a humidification bottle incorrectly and I had to clean up a giant puddle under and around my patient's bed, in the near-dark, at 3 AM, without waking him... Sigh. The patients and administrators TRULY never know how the night shift ...