renardeau BSN, RN

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    Esme Needs Your Prayers and Well Wishes

    renardeau replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Esme adds so much love to AllNurses. I hope she recovers quickly and has a great team working with
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    October 2013 Residency - Washington Hospital Center

    renardeau replied to FFEMTRNED's topic in General Nursing

    You might be surprised. The turnaround time for licensure by endorsement was really pretty quick for me. (I got my offer the beginning of the month and had to start before the end of it. I only...
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    Does anyone like their job?

    renardeau replied to DatMurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I love my job, though I know I'm starting to grow complacent. It's not that I'm not learning (of course, there are always more things to learn), but after you get a handle on things, the days can feel...
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    October 2013 Residency - Washington Hospital Center

    renardeau replied to FFEMTRNED's topic in General Nursing

    You'll love the floor! It's one of the best in terms of unit culture (or so I hear from the float nurses). The Heart Failure doctors and NPs expect you to deliver, but they are great to work with and...
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    Music to study to

    renardeau replied to nurselou04's topic in General Students

    I'm completely the opposite of most people on this thread haha. I listen to EDM while studying---a lot of it is rhythmic and pump-up music. It makes me feel excited and energized. Music that is too...
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    I dread going to work :(

    renardeau replied to MrsICURN14's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Can I ask why exactly you dread it---e.g. are you anxious about messing up? Do you lack good friends/co-workers on the unit that make the day easier? Do you just not like nursing itself? I'm just...
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    A Nurse and A Go-Go Dancer

    renardeau replied to charmgracel's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I've always thought about this as my friends and I go to concerts and festivals quite often, but I have to agree that I'd be worried about people finding out. There are so many photographers at these...
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    When to hold meds

    renardeau replied to SunshineDaisy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It largely depends on the floor; in my hospital's cardiac floors alone, there are a lot of differences in nursing judgment. Not at all saying my way is the best way, but just as an added view from...
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    Coworker is Innappropriate

    renardeau replied to missnurse89's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have to agree with the paragraphs and the points on talking with the difficult person one-on-one. However, judging by some of the comments, I also don't believe that OP can be entirely faulted for...
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    Blacklisted by your Nursing School?

    renardeau replied to PolishGirlRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Is there a higher-up you can talk to? A dean of the school or university? A dean of student life,
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    Not excited to start nursing. :(

    renardeau replied to jemray's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was the same way, I admit... It's not that I didn't like nursing (though I definitely didn't know what I was getting myself into upon starting nursing school). I just wasn't really excited to...
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    Suction event

    renardeau replied to psychRN-PMHNP's topic in Cardiac

    I'm a relatively new nurse on a floor that deals with a lot of VADs, so I might give a completely coherent answer, but here goes. (And I wish I could draw pictures here haha.) Also, someone please...
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    April 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

    renardeau replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Yes, hi! We each brought a list of our own allergies, intolerances, and corresponding reactions we want the kitchen to be aware of. Could we go over the menu with you after you've reviewed
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    Which drugs are you required to count?

    renardeau replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Medications

    Off the top of my head, we only really count narcotics and expensive drugs (e.g. milrinone bags). Things like tramadol, ativan and lyrica are pullable without an accurate count. It's really different...
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    Tired of bedside nursing

    renardeau replied to krn85's topic in Nursing Career

    Has the surgery dept. explicitly said to you that they won't take nurses that don't have surgical experience? I've been told a lot of times to ignore the job experience requirements and to just apply...
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    Rant: the first patient to make me truly disappointed in myself.

    renardeau posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm a new grad going into my 4th month floor nursing at a busy trauma 1 cardiac IMC. Despite my expectations from this board, friends, and colleagues, the job is so far not that stressful. In fact, I...
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    New medsurg Grad

    renardeau replied to Abeautiful01's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've had the doctor-tells-patient-but-not-me thing happen to me quite a bit too! (I've only been off orientation about a month.) "Oh, you're going for a cardiac cath? Today?! Okay. Um. You should stop...
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    Do you apply to only new grad positions?

    renardeau replied to remotefuse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Agree with all the former posts, I eventually accepted a new grad position, but I applied for jobs that were exp. nurses only and got an interview for one of
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    Rant: the first patient to make me truly disappointed in myself.

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Same! I feel very badly turning down assignments. The funny thing is, I wasn't even supposed to get this patient this day he was switched to me because someone else didn't want
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    Rant: the first patient to make me truly disappointed in myself.

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I appreciate your response, and I understand your point. It may have come off otherwise, but my saying "I'm human" wasn't just an all-encompassing excuse for me to purposely slack off, it was more so...
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    Rant: the first patient to make me truly disappointed in myself.

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I guess, in short, I'm having a small existential crisis where I realize my thoughts about someone are really mean-spirited (really, much meaner than some of the things he said me) and I'm...
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    Rant: the first patient to make me truly disappointed in myself.

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you for all your replies. Again, I know it's a personal habit that my speech, especially when I'm annoyed, gets very formal, which comes off as condescending, especially when I can't help myself...
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    New grads Need Not Apply

    renardeau replied to elisiah's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We were told that too, except the hospital then had a hiring freeze and while the externs were still offered jobs, they were offered jobs as techs and many were 'waiting' to be hired as RNs once the...
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    Floated to Tele, no experience...

    renardeau replied to RNewbie's topic in Cardiac

    I agree with all the other posts about ACLS being super helpful. I kept my huge med-surg book from nursing school and find the cardiology sections very good review as well. I can't suggest any books...
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    Grad nurse residency wants 3 year commitment

    renardeau replied to lifelearningrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My new grad program has a 2-year commitment (3 months of which is official "orientation", with the new graduate program running a full year from the start date) to the facility. The penalty for...