what i find most new nurses try to achieve is a strict routine. that is honestly a giant mistake in my opinion; if you make a rigid schedule for yourself you end up setting yourself up for failure....
LordErrorProne-RN replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency
i had a pt come in for some non-sensical pain that she couldn't pin point an event leading up to the pain. got sent back to the waiting room. 30 mins later i get another sheet printed out with the...
LordErrorProne-RN replied to MadpeysRN's topic in General Nursing
Everything gets easier... to do, you get so profficient at it u can do it backwards upside down eating a banana and toasting marshmallows. BUT will it get less .... aggravating to your stomach,...
LordErrorProne-RN replied to Monica08's topic in General Nursing
This is what i do, and by no way am i saying thats what the text book way to do it is, its just what works for me. IF i decide to push a med and taking into account all the things u need to know in...
if they cloned you, and one of you had tattoos and the other didn't and you both applied to the same job, more likely than not the you without will get the job. as unfair as it is, looks do have an...
LordErrorProne-RN replied to LordErrorProne-RN's topic in General Nursing
Thank you all for the advice, as for my orientation time, its a way away from ending, she just said that if i was working on my own and the only RN on cause we were short i would take this and another...
Hi all First id like to say that this may seem paranoid on my part but i dont know where else to ask where people wont just run off and tell my preceptor of what i said, dont get me wrong i'm not...
OMG, let me tell something that ull find funny but is a reality where i work. so our ... sub manger .. the person who works under the unit manger, came to our report and sat and listened when we were...
LordErrorProne-RN replied to RNJill's topic in General Nursing
i dont know if its just head space error with me or something, but i find it incredibly difficult to understand how you ladies operate, like for the past 5 years i have tried to operate as a women but...
LordErrorProne-RN replied to nurse blondie93's topic in General Nursing
Thanks IVRUS Yea, you are right. i was just thinking about it from the stand point of where i work -surgical/obs- where i try to start with an 18 guage because you never know when someone is going to...
LordErrorProne-RN replied to nurse blondie93's topic in General Nursing
I could be wrong but so far as im aware you are not allowed to run blood through a gauge less than 18, the gauge isnt based on how fast you will be running it. packed cells should never be run through...