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  1. IPOC

    greyL posted a topic in General Nursing

    The hospital that I'm at uses IPOC (interdisciplinary plan of care). I'm a new grad so maybe I'm just naive about all this stuff, but I don't see the point. We have to have our IPOCs done by a certain...

  2. I have no confidence in myself!

    greyL posted a topic in Critical Care

    I've always been like this. Anything new just freaks me out and makes me nervous, and makes me do worse than I probably would if I just had a bit of confidence in myself. I have a new preceptor this...

  3. PICC line blood draw

    greyL posted a topic in General Nursing

    What's the proper way to draw blood from a picc line? The other day I flushed with 10 cc's of NS, then wasted 10, then drew blood. But the lab called to say that the results looked wrong (extremely...

  4. New international nurse endorsement requirements

    greyL posted a topic in Nurse Registration

    I'm a US trained nurse that has been considering working in Australia for some time now. I have a little over 1 year of experience. I wish I had applied earlier because it looks like the requirements...

  5. What to expect

    greyL posted a topic in Government, Military

    It's always been kind of a dream of mine to join the military as a nurse. If I were single, I would just join, but I'm in a relationship and will be getting married soon, so I hesitate. If I were to...

  6. PICC line blood draw

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    At my facility we use blunt tip

  7. I feel like I'm never going to get good at IVs

    greyL posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just when I start think that I'm getting better, and I've had a whole bunch of successful IV starts in a row, I end up in a rut of not being able to start any for a long time. And period of time when...

  8. I feel like I'm never going to get good at IVs

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    I wear glasses. Does that show up in standard eye

  9. Leaving before 1 year is over

    greyL posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I am a semi-new grad and I've been at my hospital for about 10 months now. I moved to the other side of this country for this job, and I recently just bought a whole bunch of furniture because I had...

  10. Leaving before 1 year is over

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in Nursing Career

    I wouldn't leave without having another job in place. I worry more about how it'll look on my resume, and I feel very guilty about leaving a job that hired me as a new

  11. What are other hospitals like?

    greyL posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm still a bit of a new grad. I've been working in a hospital setting for a little bit over 6 months now. I moved out of state for this job and I plan to one day move back (maybe in a couple of...

  12. What are other hospitals like?

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    Really? If I try and can't get an IV start, then the charge nurse does it. Or once in awhile, if we're very busy and we need the IV right away, the charge will go ahead and do

  13. Night nurses - being asked to come in on your night off

    greyL posted a topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, I will always be asked to come in on my night off. A lot of the time when I see a call from my hospital, I don't answer because I already know what they're going to ask, and I feel so...

  14. Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    greyL replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I call my patients "hon", "sir", "ma'am", "mama" or "pops", depending on the

  15. Night nurses - being asked to come in on your night off

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    I just feel like staffing doesn't understand. I've been awake all day. How am I supposed to go to work? And it took me a whole day to switch my sleep pattern over.

  16. What are other hospitals like?

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    I do plan to stay for at least a year, probably two. But I have no family out here, and I miss

  17. New Grad Starting on Telemetry - Some questions

    greyL replied to ann915's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I work in a cardiac progressive care unit, which is considered a step-down from our actual progressive care unit, but our hospital still considers it as critical care. It's good that you took a rhythm...

  18. Appropriate length of time to stay after being hired as a new grad

    greyL posted a topic in Nursing Career

    What do you think is the appropriate length of time to stay after a hospital hires a new grad? I understand that hospitals don't like it if a new grad just leaves after their first year. What about 2...

  19. Appropriate length of time to stay after being hired as a new grad

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in Nursing Career

    Thanks for the replies. It's not that I'm just trying to leave ASAP. For the most part, I do like it here (I do have one or two complaints, but I know it'll be like that at every place I work), but I...

  20. My Life with a Nurse: A Man's Perspective

    greyL replied to StatBlues's topic in Nursing Humor

    There are some bad nurses. I'm not going to argue that all nurses are great. But there is a lot you don't see. You don't see how that patient has turned the call light on every 30 minutes for...

  21. PICC line blood draw

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    It was because I just followed the way my preceptor showed me to do it. And because I had never had a problem with drawing blood from a PICC line before; though admittedly, I don't do it very often...

  22. PICC line blood draw

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, I don't mean to be difficult, but I'm unsure how this would work out. Hep flushes have to be scanned on a COW and witnessed by another nurse. I don't get PICC lines a lot because I'm in...

  23. PICC line blood draw

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    So I looked up our policy, and it says we don't have to flush first. But now I'm in a predicament! Our policy says to flush with 20 mL NS after and if there are no IV fluids running, to also flush...

  24. PICC line blood draw

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm ... I think that maybe we don't have

  25. PICC line blood draw

    greyL replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like an idiot, but what caps? I've never heard of anything like that. And I remember learning to waste 6, so I thought 10 would be plenty