georgianurse89

I've been a nurse for 3 months. 3 MONTHS! and i have already reinvented myself 100X over. I was also the quiet type until i began nursing as a licensed professional. I LOVE what i do and even with only three months under my belt i don't have a proble...

I know what you mean...but try working in a LTC facility with drug seekers! It's much, much worse! At least at the ER you can treat and street. That's not an option here. I have a pt that came to us for anorexia/bulimia and b/c of her admitting dx sh...

And as for orientation...I followed a nurse one night and the next night i was on my own with over 20 pts. Oh and i graduated in June. So i definitely hope you get more orientation than i did!

I'm a new grad too and I work nights. And all of my orientation was at night. The only time i had to go in during the day was when I had to go in and fill out all those papers you have to fill out at a new job (insurance, tax stuff, acknowledgements,...

I deal with CNA's like this daily!! I've learned that all you can do is DOCUMENT and take care of your residents/patients. I take care of about 50 residents on some nights and about 30 on others (depending on what halls I'm assigned to) and my cnas (...

At our facility, we have a resident that has an MD order for ETOH (Mr. Boston's Vodka to be specific), I never question giving it. I mean, if you have alcohol induced dementia then there is a serious addiction and if the ETOH is withheld then you are...

I am also a new nurse i graduated in June, started my job at the beginning of August at an LC facility.. I have never thought of the "journal to self-assess" that is a fantastic idea! I've already been doing that in my head but if it's written i can...

I've been an LPN for only a few months now and I have heard MANY, MANY times that doctor's prefer to work with LPN's turned RN than straight RN's. We learn everything hands on. I suggest to everyone to consider LPN to RN. In Ga, there is no obviously...

dajulieness...sorry!! i copied yours to answer for myself and accidently hit enter and it posted! I edited it but apparently the edit didn't go through. sorry about that!

1) What kind of facility do you work for? (Hospital, Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Home Health Agency) Nursing Home 2) How often do you come into contact with bed alarms? we have bed and wheel chair alarms with SEVERAL residents 3)...

BOTH ARE DEF NOT OVERKILL! I am also a new pn as of about a month ago. I always go to possible job interviews in professional attire with a resume on cotton resume paper and a resume envelope. I fill out the application (i always bring a black pen an...

I am in the SAME predicament. During orientation the nurse I shadowed, would literally say, "this is not the way you are supposed to do it" "do as i say, not as i do" "if jahco is here be sure to NOT do this" I was told by another senior nurse, whos...

A lot of times at a facility I did a clinical rotation at, the pump would beep but there would OBVIOUSLY be no bubble. A nurse there told me that if the tubing has any residue on it (finger residue, adhesive, anything), the machine will beep like the...

I took medical terminology before A&P and it helped ALOT! if your school offers it i would highly recommend it. I recommend it to all pre-nursing students i come in contact with!!

Honestly, if my DON or charge nurse wouldn't listen to me and I just knew my pt wasn't him/herself and something was really wrong (and my pt had no advance directives or other statements stating that I couldn't pursue other medical help) then I'd cal...

Actually, LTC facilities are a great place to perfect those basic skills...time management...multiple patient management... you learn A TON of medications (the brand/generic name, their actions, their side effects, their classification)... you learn ...

and not to be ugly but the only difference between you as an RN and me as an LPN is some management classes. so technically it is your responsibility to manage those under you (which is us LPN's). so you may not have the experience to be a charge nur...

Well I'm an LPN in a LTC facility with 2 other nurses at night one is an RN the other and LPN. we dont have a "charge" nurse at night. theres no need. your residents are asleep, your cna's (if they do their job) stay busy doing their own thing. Even...

Let me start this by saying that I work night shift in a LTC facility with 46 patients (ranging of levels of care) OF MY OWN that I have to manage and ensure their meds are given within the time frame and two of them are PEG tube patients (one with a...

You can try but good luck! i work in a LTC facility that has had NO CHANGES to any rules/regs or procedures or anything in like 50 years. we dont have half of the equipment we need (if a pt needs fluilds, we have to send them to the Emergency Room at...

To me, if you are in a predicament where PALS and/or ACLS needs to be used, you don't have time to say "no, im not certified"! These aren't your slight fever, runny nose cases. As nurses, we should be knowledgable enough to handle/stablize any situat...

I know I'm not in Texas, but in Georgia...all of my classmates are having trouble! I am the only one out of 19 people with a job and working (we graduated in june and licensed in mid-july). My secret is.....FIND A JOB BEFORE YOU GRADUATE! Ga has nurs...