LorderrorproneRN

Hi there Thanks for your comments everyone. yea i suppose you guys are right at the end of the day im the one with his head on the chopping block if anything i was unsure of hits the fan. i know EXACTLY what u mean imagine720 i was the scapegoat in alot of my clinical and it made me doubt if asking questions would just make ppl think i know absolutely didly. but thats how i learn, i know that i know the fact but i need confirmation that i didn't just make up that fact to make my life easier. ive had those exact same type of preceptors u had, they hated being asked questions, maybe its cause they dont want a student, maybe its cause you asked questions they didnt know the answer to. but its YOUR license now, your accountable to your patient and yourself. haveing good relations with the other nurses is important in those days where u cant even bend down to tie ur shoes but if something happens not a single one of them will be able to help you because you did something unsafe. in short ask away, and dont worry what might be going through their minds. for me personally i have learned that asking is a last resort or a time crunch card. if i dont know something i will look it up myself that way i know where to find it next time i need it and i dont agitate anyone. if someone is on the bathroom floor and i dont have time to look it up then sure ill ask. otherwise i keep to myself help the other nurses when they need it and hope they return the favor in my times of need. cheers

Hi there Im a new grad, and i guess the main point is i doubt my self alot. during my school years i kinda ended up with the worst preceptors/instructors and no im not saying they were bad cause my experience alone was bad it was a common known issue that no one addressed because they feared what would happen if the issue was actually brought up. now that im a practicing RN i fear what i dont know, not saying that i should know everything at all times but i cant help but feel if i dont im going to be letting people down. my learning style has always been to ask when unsure, its not that i dont know the fact, but if i feel 99.9 sure about it that .1 will haunt me all day. so in my last year when we had preceptors i asked alot cause i hated that .1 and my preceptor flat out told me that i didnt know anything. i tried to explain to her my situation but she took none of it. one night she came up to me and told me she is going to bed and i shouldnt bother her unless somone is dieing. so now im stuck with the mentality that if i ask i appear ... stupid i guess. so i dont know what to do i just find my self doubting my self alot, is it just me or is this normal for starting nurses? Cheers

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honestly most up to date journals will tell you clients are safer in their home anyway, if there is nothing that you could do for the client, like iv antibiotics or some sort of complex dressing then they are better off at home. yea you should have mentioned it but the odds are the MD would have still discharged him, hopefully all goes well and you're richer for the experience.

Hi there when you say soft stool, what does that mean? if you are worried that the client is gonna get C-Diff then there is 2 things that need to be in place, was the client on anti-biotic therapy and if it was loose then the lab wouldnt even look at it for C-Diff, c-diff stool is watery, like when you put it inside a container it conforms to the shape of that container, if its ice cream consistency they will throw it out and not even test it hope that made you feel somewhat better?

Hi there we have all made medication errors, personally i have given a pt perc's instead of T3's, and oh dear god in heaven when i noticed my mistake i was going to die, first of all i had to make sure the pt was ok, checked the charts to see if there are any allergies, told the nurse, contacted the physician ... lol he wasn't happy at 3 am... to make matters worse he told me why i even bothered to call him ... jerk. and as a cherry to the icing the next day he changed the order to perc's because the T3s weren't working out for the pt anyway. when my CI came to see how my placement was going i could have not told her because nothing really happened, but that mistake was part of my learning process and i will never forget that mistake. it was my first ... and hopefully last mistake but we are human we make mistakes, what makes us stand out is our ability to learn from those mistakes, and if you had lied and got away with it, then it could happen again and the mental process is well i did it once and got away with it so why not again? ... trust me ive seen this happen ... on multiple accounts. so your best bet is to be honest tell them why you lied, how do you plan to change that in the future and how this mistake has made u a better nurse!! atleast thats my 2 cents Yours truly lordERRORprone i love this name i wish i could get my name tag to say it !!!

the only problem with me putting distance between us is when i need help, i mean im just a new grad so there are lots of times where it gets overwhelming and i need to get my act together, i haven't yet needed that help but ive seen lots of new grads get burned out!!!

god i wish it was normal conversation! i wasn't hoping they shared in the male locker room conversations but i was hoping they would share in what i would consider normal conversation! its fine they complain once in a while, its only to be expected, but i feel like im the dumpster for all that is bad, whenever they have something depressing i would be the first to hear about it. i dont know what it is about me but it seems to draw out those feelings in them! one time one of the nurses told me and i quote "your too happy you know that" i didnt know you could be too happy!!. its fine though i've grown to accept that and let it come in one ear go straight out of the other. as for the backbiting im the newest person on the floor, so i dont know any of the staff well enough however i find alot of them passive aggressive towards each other, and me included, there are definite clicks on this floor i prefer to remain neutral

Hi Everyone I Have to get this off my chest before i explode. is it just me or do female nurses treat you the same way they would treat a girlfriend? ... k that came out wrong! my dilemma is do female workers in your place of employment tell you about the awful hairdresser and the sloppy husband and the tuna casserole that went bad and the guy in room 303 that is checking her butt out and the diet they are on.... or is it just me. i dont mean to be rude or anything but for the love of god and all that is holy there are days when ive had 70 bajillion code browns and i dont want to hear this on the 15 min break i get. sometimes i feel like taping their mouth shut with that flimsy tape they call tape. and another thing do you guys get the 1 nurse telling u that nurse whatever is a ***** and then nurse whatever telling you that nurse 2 is a ***** and nurse 2 telling you that nurse 1 is a *****... and you dont want to hurt anyones feelings so you just nod in agreement... cause to be honest im sick of playing this game, there are days where i would rather eat my lunch in the john than listen to another word of this dribble lol well glad thats off my chest

Hi there well i guess to answer your question, what most people consider is MRSA is an infection, which it isn't. MRSA is basically Staff.A that has mutated to be resistant to methicillin. so when you swab people for MRSA VRE swabs you aren't swabbing because there is an infection in that site, you are swabbing because you want to know if the person is colonized by that strain. so why is a person with MRSA on contact precautions... well yea why indeed... the person should and probably a good idea to be placed on Droplet precautions not just contact. if that person sneezes then that MRSA is gone "airborne" right? soo droplet precautions would make most sense. the reason we put people on contact precautions if they have MRSA or VRE is to limit its spread... most often its there as a reminder for the nurses to practice hand-washing .... lol more than the once a day wash.