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I have now been an RN for 3 years- two spent on a med tele floor and in January I will be completing my first year in coronary intensive care. I feel like Im being bullied by my co-workers. I am small, thin, quiet, young (Im 28) and shy. I look about...

I found this once in a physician report Amazingly well considering his erection fraction is 20%.

When I was working in the psych unit for nursing school clinicals, there was an older man who had schizophrenia and believed that he was Jesus. He had a really patient sister that would come to visit him every Thursdays and would sit with him, maki...

The most important things I learned about my patients were the things I assessed myself. Before you go into a room 1. look up all pertinent labs 2. check off all medications 3. check off all orders 4. review their history 5. review their vital...

Lovern I was reading your blog and it is extremely similar to my own story. I worked as an EKG tech/CNA on the cardiac floor for 3 years while attending nursing school. Then worked as a RN there for 2 years before getting a position in CCU. The fir...

I am a floor nurse and I guess that ICU being more one on one care would entail you sitting or standing in one place for a long time. I guess the best advice to give is to eat something before you get to work and then once a craving comes..drink some...

I had a patient call me in the room because she swore her telemetry box was attacking her. she said I felt it grip my throat and I had to fight it. One nurse answered a call light and asked the patient while in the room if he moved his bowels. the p...

dont let an epileptic prostitute give you oral sex. klondike bars inserted in the vagina will give you a nasty frostbite your not pregnant if you inserted 5 lbs of crack into your vagina God wont love you more if you try and kill yourself in a church...

1. use the bathroom! dont hold it in 2. take good care of yourself- your feet especially 3. get some sleep 4. take a minute to take a breath 5. never leave a room saying you will be back in a minute...because that minute may never come 6. you are n...

I will be completing my one year as a nurse on the cardiac floor and I feel that I have honed a lot of my skills except one...time management. I always see nurses finishing their charting hours before I even get to sit down. A lot of times my error i...

Its usually that I can only get to my charting much later. I am not staying hours late like I used to do. I guess the problem is that I just feel like I will miss something if I dont assess everything. I know that a lot of the nurses chart by excepti...

my floor specializes in chf so there is not a day that goes by that I dont give natrecor. I work nights with usually 5-6 patients and I have had no problems. It may be a little time consuming at first because of the frequent vital signs but after 2 h...

1. pt who came in with a potato growing in her vagina, had previously been in for a tennis ball insertion. Her reasons were that the vaginal weights prescribed were to expensive. 2. pt with an earring stuck up his rectum that caused a rectal bleed (...

hi everyone..My name is Tina, I am a cardiac RN and work in a hospital in Wilmington. I am originally from Delaware but have been living here for 4 years. I enjoy the people down here and really love what I do.

I made A's in all my pre-req courses and B's in my nursing courses. The tests we had were always multiple choices and our finals were straight NCLEX questions. When it was time to study for the NCLEX, my friends and I just asked each other questions ...

When I was going through nursing school, I had deferred from graduate school for biology. I worked at nights as an aide and would watch people years younger then me with no experience boss me around and make me feel totally incompetent. I was suma cu...

I work on a Cardiac floor.. I asked my patient what activity he was doing when he experienced chest pain.. He replied ummm it was either cocaine or crack.

when they start paying cna (and nurses) a lot more money- and people realize the importance of their work they will change their work attitude. I worked at a nursing home which was ultraglam and paid their CNA's 13.00/ hr to start, more people were w...

My patient also had PEA- we were monitoring her heart rate which was normal and then when it slowed, we checked in on her and she had passed. She was very dehydrated and also was spetic. The heart has a plumber and an electrician. The plumbing stopp...

Does anyone know of a website or has a good assessment form that i can use when I make my rounds. We have computer charting and its hard to remember all of my assessment when I have to leave the room and chart. I was hoping that there was a good pape...

A night shift coworker was taking care of a 80ish old patient who was legally blind and had been considered confused. At about 3:00 she wanted to check the drainage from the patient's foley bag. She wanted to slip in and then out real quick so not ...

Christine...I hope this helps I am a cardiac nurse and this is just some things I learned in the past. I would not recommend carotid massage if your mom had coronary artery disease, or atherosclerosis which she may have due to increased cholesterol....

caring4u.net has all these great practice NCLEX test questions and really good links to different websites that can help you. At the hospital we search sometimes in AAFP.org which you can type in different disorders and find research done on it.

At my hospital, the starting pay is 17.50 for days and then add another 3-4.00 for night shifts and weekends. Its ironic that we have about 4 floors that are critical staffing now. We had a lot of people leave when we had travellers, once the nurses ...

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