CONGRATS! Hopefully you will enjoy your new position. I am also new to telephone triage and have been doing it almost a year now. My advice....find a really good experienced RN that you can shadow...
I am an RN in a family medicine practice. I have been here nearly a year after 20 years in ICU. This office did not have an RN previous to me. I am having difficulty getting appropriate calls...
Just last Friday, my husband's 90 year old grandfather passed away. He was completely alert and oriented right up to the end of his fight with cancer. He died on Friday, July 13th at 12:05am. He...
I always tell people I was a Nursing Home Administrator in my previous life. I went into it thinking I could change the world and really make a difference in the resident's lives. As it turned out,...
I work in a 14 bed CCU in Ohio and we have noticed a drastic changed in our patient population in the last 3-5 years. When I started in this unit in 1999, we got a lot of patients with MI's, Unstable...
I give a short medical history and history of this hospital stay. I then talk about events that happened in the last 24 hours. I go over IV lines and drips. I then go through the assessment and...
I have a personal one that just happened recently. The story starts 25 years ago when my grandmother died. To make a long story short, my parents and I had gone to pick her up for Christmas and...