squatmunkie_RN

I'm a new grad working on a high acuity cardiac/icu step down floor. It's very overwhelming at times and I **cherish** my days off. I am full time and my usual is to work three 12-hr shifts. So, when I am not working I am literally called and asked t...

The place I work for wants to get rid of all phlebotomist and make nurses do lab draws. I work on a telly floor. This means many lab draws that get ordered all ..day.. long.... K+, Mg+, Troponin, PT. Not to mention nearly everyone on the floor has da...

No Doz. And that started my caffeine addiction...3 Years later

I think you're one of the few to get what I'm saying. Taking in the fact that we have 6 tele pt's and no aid often times. So, it's 0400, I must get the vitals due at that time, draw my labs, and get all the meds passed that I need to in the AM. What ...

You're welcome! Relax and you'll be fine!!

Yeah, so let's not hold everyone else accountable for doing their job, because a RN can do it quicker? If you allow the hospital to have this mentality they never have to hire anyone but a nurse because we are the only ones professional enough to pro...

"not to confine the smell" LOL. I never thought of that as a possibility.

Happens ALL the time. We expect it as floor nurses now. I've also had transport drop the pt off in the room (while I'm with another pt) and not hook up the O2 to the wall. They literally just leave the pt... and I get tp the room and the o2 is in the...

Working on Ortho is different than Telly. When an orthodox pt starts having chest pains, super high blood pressures EKG changes they are sent to a Telly floor. Nurses now deal with taking care of not only calling the doc, giving meds, labs. It's ridi...

Exactly. The hospital doesn't care one bit about the nursing staff. It's all about saving them costs. I don't understand this "keeping my skills up, and knowing what type of veins my pt has" Don't you know that every time you have to start an IV? Pus...

Stay a paramedic. You're 47. You'll retire in a few years. Being a new RN you're going to make $hit money $22/hr average. The stress is high. The reward is hardly there. Don't redo it. If I was in your position I wouldn't. Take a vacation, and enjoy ...

I took HURST and passed NCLEX with 75 questions. I only studied the HURST book. Mind you I read and studied cover to cover. Be sure you know ALL normal labs (K+, Mg+, etc...) and what the signs/symptoms are of the lows/highs. Definately know which pt...

I'm relatively new to this career. I've been a RN 3 years, and worked at the same hospital up until a few weeks ago I changed hospitals. My old hospital job all we had was Lure locks...it seems so much safer and easier to use. The new place has blun...

I'm not a new nurse, just starting a new job. We have a dosage cal test tomorrow and they gave us some practice Q&As. This one I can't see how they got to this answer. (I've been a nurse 3 years and never have I seen a doc write an order in grain...

Oh, and it's not that hard to set your phone to only ring for certain contacts!

Any advice for someone working nights for the 1st time?

FMLA! Family medical leave act. They have to hold your job because of that. Not sure, how much maternity leave a partime employee gets but take it all, especially if you're going to work up to delivery time. DO NOT tell them you're pregnant. They a...

Thanks! I got it now.

I know an LVN who got fired for calling herself a PA. The doc she worked for allowed her to give so many orders without speaking with him. Never misrepresent yourself in the medical field. When people ask what I do, I say I'm a registered nurse. Just...

As a nurse why would you take that much morphine then get in a hot shower? You know what could go wrong. Don't complain about t now when you knowingly do something dangerous.

Experience...sure I've given boluses. Ive bloused (sp??) a unit of blood on a regular floor. The IVs don't last long after that. They leak...and infiltrate all the time. Maybe it's the type that my hospital uses, but that's just my personal experienc...

I doubt a 22g would last very long if I had to run blood/NS at 195ml/hr for the time it take for 2 units to infuse. That would be about 6 hours.

After reading though the comments, I have to say I'm surprised that some people would actually refuse to do the code. I'm going to follow the law and do whatever it is I'm legally required to do. Do you think the BON would stand behind you if you ref...

No way should you be able to do that. It's the patients choice, next of kin's, or medical power of attorney.

Just tell them you're a nurse and then they'll be more careful around you since you know the ins and outs.