All_Smiles_RN

All_Smiles_RN

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  1. ADN = Difficulty Getting Job?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to Perseus Mandate's topic in General Nursing

    General hospital positions? No problem whatsoever. Maybe if you were looking into a case management position, or working with employee education, or public health, you may see BSN preferred or...

  2. Night Folks, I need your input!

    All_Smiles_RN replied to In_Chantress's topic in General Nursing

    My first day off (leaving work at 7:30am) I go home and sleep until 2pm on average and then go to bed at a normal hour that night. Some days though, I need to sleep until 4pm or 5pm immediately after...

  3. Best Florida City for my situation?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to hopeful84's topic in Florida Nursing

    The south side of Orlando into Kissimmee is the tourist area. Northern and downtown Orlando avoid most of that. Orlando probably meets most of your requirements, although nothing is going to compare...

  4. Orlando v. Tampa

    All_Smiles_RN replied to Butterfly03's topic in Florida Nursing

    I don't know anything about working for All Children's but on the flip side, my teenage brother was a pt there last year for open heart sx and it was a great experience. Well, given the circumstances,...

  5. Best Florida City for my situation?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to hopeful84's topic in Florida Nursing

    Nothing quite like NY. Miami

  6. signature/documentation

    All_Smiles_RN replied to abcrn84's topic in General Nursing

    Each page of our flowsheet has a place at the bottom for all personnel documenting on the patient to sign their full name, credentials, and their initials next to it. Throughout the rest of the page,...

  7. Cardiac stepdown vs. telemetry

    All_Smiles_RN replied to NurseCherlove's topic in Cardiac

    I agree with

  8. Med-Surg/Onc/tele

    All_Smiles_RN replied to nursekatie22's topic in Cardiac

    You need to take a basic ecg course before you start ACLS. ACLS does not teach you rhythms, they just review them and then focus on how to respond to various

  9. Strong Honest Opinions please, need help!

    All_Smiles_RN replied to oceantides's topic in General Nursing

    You only have one back. If it's already causing you trouble, nursing will only aggrevate it. There are other fields that can give you the satisfaction of helping someone. You can change to clinical...

  10. Anyone using a good electronic medication admin. system?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to suanna's topic in General Nursing

    At my old hospital we had these med carts we pushed around with a scanner and laptop on it. We'd scan the pt's ID band and then scan the meds before we gave them. If the med didn't match the the MAR,...

  11. Nice docs

    All_Smiles_RN replied to Elvish's topic in General Nursing

    Just the other day a neurologist checking on a pt he was covering for, came by the station and asked about my patient. While we were talking, he pulled up the MRI images on the computer and took a...

  12. What do you think of this?

    All_Smiles_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've worked on my floor close to a year now. I was approached recently by management saying that nurses on our floor need to attend the critical care course. I'm not in ICU mind you, but I love...

  13. POST OP NAUSEA -which drug do you like?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to Fairlythere's topic in General Nursing

    I prefer Zofran because it's doesn't have the side effects like

  14. What do you think of this?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to All_Smiles_RN's topic in General Nursing

    When they approached me with this, I told them I was not willing to sign the contract and that if they want to keep me, we'll have to work something else out. My asst mgr said she would talk to the...

  15. What do you think of this?

    All_Smiles_RN replied to All_Smiles_RN's topic in General Nursing

    No certification, no pay increase. That's not my issue at all though. I'm more than willing to take the course just to have more knowledge. My issue is the ridiculus

  16. Need counseling on a life decision

    All_Smiles_RN replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school is available now and will be in the future. These early years with your son are available now. No getting these years back

  17. Schedules

    All_Smiles_RN replied to emmybear2005's topic in General Nursing

    same for

  18. Student Loans

    All_Smiles_RN replied to Paulbear's topic in General Nursing

    At any rate, anyone can get a stafford loan, subsidized and/or unsubsidized. interest acrues during school, in subsidized loans govt pays it, unsibsidized it acrues. you don't have to start paying...

  19. Patient crashing / K+ Rider

    All_Smiles_RN replied to zacarias's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't think the K+ caused it. you certainly had it going slow enough. if there's not a contraindication, you can run NS at low rate and then connect your K+ at the proximal port. Dilutes it even...

  20. Hep B (slightly active) and PPD positive

    All_Smiles_RN replied to 12breakfree's topic in Florida Nursing

    About the PPD, your next step would be to get a chest xray to prove you don't have active TB. There were girls in my nursing school who had chest xrays instead of PPD's because they were exposed while...

  21. Saleries in central Florida

    All_Smiles_RN replied to carrieUK's topic in Florida Nursing

    To start, $18 or 19 for a new grad in small town hospitals, but when you work in the city, they start at 20-22. How about live in the small town but work in the city? How about work nights or weekends...

  22. advice for dealing with slacker co-workers

    All_Smiles_RN replied to NPs4health's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a similar situation. They wanted to take one of my stable pts to give to a nurse who didn't feel like taking an ICU pt that was being moved down to tele. My suspicion was because he was an...

  23. Improving Patient Satisfaction

    All_Smiles_RN replied to MrsMommaRN's topic in General Nursing

    The last thing I want to hear about is patient satisfaction. Every unit meeting we hear about our "scores" and how we need to improve them. Everytime I am in one of these meetings, all I "hear" from...

  24. I miss Nursing but .....

    All_Smiles_RN replied to sandlewood_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Take a pool position. That way you float from unit to unit each shift and don't have time to get caught up in politics and

  25. New nurse need help with stethoscope purchase

    All_Smiles_RN replied to RNgoolia's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a Littman Cardiology III also. Great stethescope. Shop around, I paid $130 or so for mine after looking