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wow... the norm on my unit: 4 pts per nurse on stepdown 6 (normally) per nurse on med/surg with 7 about 50% of the time d/t constant capacity alerts in ER (we are main Lvl 1 trauma center in our area) Virginia Oh and this is for day and night shift (...

You truly had the best of intentions and you need to give yourself a break about the situation. However, (I'm a new nurse) I suffer from being timid and not wanting to wake patients/bother patients when I need to do something like turn them/administe...

My God. I could not have said it better myself (to the OP). On a side note, the powers at be were asking us what we'd like for nurse appreciation day. Hilariously enough, we all asked to have our own personal care partner for the day (CNA). No flowe...

Fill us in on what type of position you are interviewing for. :yelclap:

Public Health? (Are you a BSN?) Better hours, time to give education, and time for husband/family. I know this isnt exactly cardiac related, but it's something to consider. What about cardiac cath? You could look into specialized training for putting...

Please don't feel bad at all! I've always felt that I over analyze things and as a consequence, I have frequent "brain farts." I like to just stop for a second and write down what drips/fluids I have and what I need to accomplish. I tend to want to i...

We have bardcoded pt. identification bands that you must can prior to scanning meds (to ensure it is ordered). Also, when a high risk med is ordered (like Hep drip/Insulin/Cardizem) Pharamacy must approve it on our electronic mar before giving.

I posted about a week ago in regards to not being happy with my new nursing position. I made a decision to stick it out and transfer if and when the opportunity arose. This week I was thrown a bit of a curve ball. My manager likes to sit down with or...

My favorite nursing Dx thus far has been "Disturbed Energy Field." I took the liberty of trying to use this as much as possible (out of humor and spite) on my care maps. :chair:

Thanks for the reply! What sort of floor/speciality/environment do you work in/on?

I am in no way an experienced nurse. However, having spent half my life writing papers on such theories and theorists, I think the majority of these concepts are a) Common sense restated in high-brow academic verbage b) Poppycock. I feel that in many...

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Ahhhh. Well therein lies your problem. Your fellow nurses have the my pt vs. your pt mentality. :/ Again, good luck to you!

If anything, the lip is something to remember you by. If you sense the manager is a jokester of sorts, you can say you got discount lip injections :)

I do feel your pain and I know you are just venting...BUT: There is something to be said for killing people with kindness. Sometimes I wish I could activate a trap door to send some patients or family into oblivion. However, I certainly make them thi...

To everyone who has posted thus far, this is excellent advice! I'm getting some 3x5s as we speak!

HAHA! Tell me, what constitutes 6 months? Is it from your hire date or does it start from the time you are off orientation? How do I go about transferring? Do I need my manager's permission?:rolleyes:

My thoughts exactly.

I know this is not the first post, nor the last about job satisfaction amongst new graduate nurses. I work on a very busy medical surgical floor at a teaching hospital. I do realize that there is a clear difference between your expectations of your f...

I'm researching that as we speak. (or what I need to do to get there)

To be honest, transferring to another medical floor is not going to be an option for me. Thankyou for the advice, I will keep my eyes open!

Thanks for your reply! Btw, this is a tele floor, but a non-cardiac tele floor. We take care of people on cardizem drips, hep drips, electrolyte replacement and etoh protocol. Our main pt. population is end stage renal. I do think I can attribute som...

You are so right. This floor thrives primarily on how fast you can run your ass off, pass meds, fill out flow sheets etc... It's incredibly frustrating as the nurses on this floor might as well be nurses aides. I know nursing is inherently busy, but ...

I think the intention of the OP is a bit of sarcasm...

you've taken the words out of my mouth in terms of "work to live; not live to work." i would not, however, call in sick to be with my family, but i will not be guilted into taking more shifts or spend my life entirely immersed in my career. call me e...