YuHiroRN BSN

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    The HARD Truth for most nurses

    YuHiroRN replied to Humaneclowninscrubs's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Cleaning an incontinent person, obese or not, sucks for sure. However, I'd much rather be the one doing the cleaning than the one who has to be
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    I think I cry too much about patients?

    YuHiroRN replied to c.dom's topic in General Students

    This, entirely. I started out in hospice as a nursing assistant 10 years ago, and after 6 years of working there I can count on one FINGER the amount of times I cried over the loss of a patient. Some...
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    Family member hurt my somewhat fragile new grad confidence

    YuHiroRN replied to BlueChocolateCat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is spot on. And I mean, if you think about it, we are just as guilty of this in reverse - horrible assignment, we ask for a new one the next shift if our unit if keen on continuity (which my unit...
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    Embracing Night Shift

    YuHiroRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    With a small child, one on the way, and a husband who's willing to stay at home/finish his education (I don't envy his job!), I couldn't imagine doing anything but nights. Fortunately, under normal...
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    Rare birth: Baby born completely encased in amniotic sac

    YuHiroRN replied to guest769224's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This is exactly my first thought when I read this headline
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    Best hospitals in SoCal?

    YuHiroRN replied to QuickSilver26's topic in California Nursing

    Travel nursing, definitely. You're looking at about 250 miles with hospitals on every street corner - let the agency do the searching for
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    I want to start a support thread for us unemployed New Grads in California

    YuHiroRN replied to coughdrop.2.go's topic in California Nursing

    I wish I found this thread when it started - I was like so many of you. Graduated in 2010 and desperate to find a job, it took 3 years and moving out of state to finally land a job that would...
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    Age of joining as AD RN

    YuHiroRN posted a topic in Government, Military

    I'm curious if any of you know anyone (or have personally) who joined Active Duty as an RN a bit later in life. I noticed so many of you are just out of school or about to to graduate, but my timeline...
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    PRN NICU with no NICU experience?

    YuHiroRN replied to adpiRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    My concern would be how many hours you'd actually be able to get vs. the length of time you're oriented. Your orientation could be phenomenal but if you are only scheduled once a month, your skills...
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    Whats your NICU experience?

    YuHiroRN replied to jackiei3's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    To be fair, OP simply said (a bit less tactfully, I suppose) what we say all the time: we don't do big people. But yes, oh yes, these babies can be just as smelly. But I'll take a premie nb diaper...
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    Whats your NICU experience?

    YuHiroRN replied to jackiei3's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Come into the NICU with zero expectations. I've had some of the best shifts of my life running my butt off w/ 3 feeder/grower babies and the worst shifts of my life w/ a much smaller but more intense...
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    Port protectors and scrub the hub

    YuHiroRN replied to varc's topic in General Nursing

    In our facility (children's hospital), our policy says to scrub after taking off port protector, which is Curos for
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    Random question.

    YuHiroRN replied to katierobin23's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've seen both on my unit, but most of us do head nearest the wall/head of isolette. With they type of isolette we use, it really doesn't
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    Formula Scanning

    YuHiroRN replied to nursechappell's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We just implemented barcode medication administration and are looking into scanning breast milk in the (hopefully) near future (I'm assuming also donor milk). As far as scanning formula, I don't...
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    "Home" for the Holidays

    YuHiroRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Are you and your nursing unit doing anything team-building and festiv for the holidays? My workplace has adopted a fun activity/contest for the holidays - 6 groups of clinical staff are assigned to a...
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    Post-Mortem Care

    YuHiroRN replied to sarabellum1's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    My FIRST experience w/ post-mortem care is forever emblazoned in my memory. There's no easy way to be introduced to it, I think you handled yourself just fine :) deceased patients usually are...
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    How do you de-stress?

    YuHiroRN replied to fordgrl76's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Snowboarding is my anti-crazy :) summer time, I just hit the beach. Being outdoors takes the edge right
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    Do you/ did you have a Nurses Cap? Pin?

    YuHiroRN replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Only the pin, which I'm thankful for because not that the hats are bad but I look AWEFUL in hats the pin is stuck to my graduation tassels, I don't want to lose
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    CNA's/PCT's how much do you make?

    YuHiroRN replied to Karen06's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Small non-profit inpatient center in Southern California, $15 +$2 differential on weekends (I work all weekends). Plus bene's... pays the
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    About to start Nursing School and having doubts

    YuHiroRN replied to wishywashy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Recently, my dad sat down with a military spouse as he works as a career counselor for active duty military and their families. This woman tells my dad she is thinking about going to back to school......
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    Taking picture of patient?

    YuHiroRN replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely not something I would have asked of the patient, and I can say this from experience because we have high-profile patients come through our facility all the time and I treat them/their...
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    Student caught stealing....

    YuHiroRN replied to RaggedyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow wow wow. If she can steal money from behind a healthy person's back, imagine what she would do to a
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    Help. Is my outrage justified?

    YuHiroRN replied to fairandbalanced's topic in General Students

    Don't be angry for your friend, what a waste of energy! She obviously didn't give herself a wide-enough gap to miss a question like that. Just don't fall into the same pattern as her and you won't...
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    BSN, New Grad in Cincinnati, Summa cum laud, volunteer nurse--NO JOB!!

    YuHiroRN replied to warmorrigan's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That is great to hear! Here in CA, I am having hard time finding work as a new grad also... and I have 5+ years CNA experience. It's a bit of a bruising to my ego, but I'm trying to keep my head up...
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    graduating/student resume

    YuHiroRN replied to beatrice1's topic in General Nursing

    This helps me as well, having problems getting my resume looked at by