myk_RN

Hi all, I'm a RN with BSN degree and have 5 years of Medical Surgical floor experience. I'm currently working on my Med-Surg certification. My GF is a RN/BSN as well with 6 years of Telemetry/PCU floor experience. She went to nursing school in Virg...

My hospital does a mix of 12 and 8, depending on the ward. I work at Med-Surg and our head nurse has tried to go with 12 hr shift but the senior nurses, who always works the 7-3 shift, vote against it. I'm okay working 8 hr. graveyard shifts but I...

When I was in College, almost half of our BSN class (about 12) were males. We called each other "FOCKERS" from the ben Stiller movie "Meet the Parents"

ahhh! you beat me to it! ok, seriously... lowest one I've seen while a patient is still awake and talking is in the 40's

could you give me links/websites to where i can do that? thanks.

Thanks for the replies. We will be taking a vacation in September...to visit friends in Hawaii, Cali, Virginia, Maryland and NY. We'll see how that goes. I would say that Guam is a smaller version of Hawaii. Pay is not so good here but RN job...

I was 25.

I don't think I'm considered a "new grad" or am I? What's 5 years of floor experience?

Ignoring the call bell is a NO-NO. But like whats been mentioned before, you can tell your patient that you wouldn't do petty things that they can do on their own. (in a good way of course) Now, about the non-medical related requests, it really dep...

Med-Surg nurse here! going on 4 years and I'm enjoying it. I've done ED and it wasnt for me. I havent tried ICU but I don't see that I'll like it much.

Our unit supervisor has been pondering to transfer into the 12 hr. sched. There are already some units in our hospital doing it. (They do 6 12hr shifts and 1 8hr every 2 weeks.) However, when she had the staff voting for it, many of the older...

They have crocs models that are closed toes and with heel backs.

There were 25 of us in my BSN graduating class and 12 of us were males. I work on the MS floor now with about 50 RN's, 1/4 of them are males, and 2 are gay. I'm seeing more and more male nursing students now when they do their rotation on our floo...

A few weeks ago, a patient in our Medical Surgical floor had a cystoscopy and TURP done. He came back to the floor with CBI orders from the Urologist. He was on CBI for a couple of days and one morning, the Urologist ordered "Foley to LIS". All...

25 when I got my LPN license...Junior in college 26 when I graduated with BSN. 27 when I got my RN license. I'll be turning the big 3-0 this year.

Last week we had a patient with a history of septic arthritis which was healing and had started to have abdominal pain. CT scans, XRays, and EGD was done and findings were just gastritis and no bleeding noted. Patient continued to complain of sever...

wow.... was the camera being recorded?

*bumps for updates on what the uro says....

This thread is useless without pics.... just kidding.

During my first year being an RN, I had an old catholic priest patient who had advanced dementia and was bedridden. Sometimes, he would burst out in anger and try to punch, kick, his nurses when they do morning care or change his diapers. One day,...

When I started working in 2006, I would have up 10 patients, 1 CNA in the swing shift. Possibly 1 more patient if there's a new admit. Our hospital has since worked towards JCAHO accreditation and was just granted full accreditation last year. ...

I wouldnt have given it. Verify with pharmacy and if no IVP Toradol is available, I'd call MD to change the route.

My GF is a Tele/PCU nurse and Im a nurse across the building in the Medical/Surgical unit. so far so good. Only gripe is our different schedules. She works swings/nights and I work graveyards.

Ha ha ha! Good read! well on point! I work with quite a few Murses, 3 of which I went to nursing school with. I had to print this out and put it in our staff lounge bulletin board. BTW, I'm Mike the Murse too.

Here' a couple that I like... "Nurses do it with care" and "Feel safe tonight, sleep with a Nurse"