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I hate having to take a team plus be charge, which I haven't had to do very often, thankfully. We typically have "enough" staff to where the charge doesn't take patients. It's not a hospital wide rule, but my floor's rule is if they have to take pts,...

I had just turned 23 the month before

It may not take "effort" to explain every little thing I'm doing and why, but you better believe it takes too much time. And when all 6 of my busy med surg patients want something and they want it NOW, it's easier and faster for me to just do it myse...

Personally, I've never seen it ordered or have ever given it via those routes

Transdermal patch. Med surg floors cannot give it IV at my hospital

Thats BS. If the pt was A&O, she can make her own decisions regarding her care.

This is almost the number one thing that annoys me the most at work. This and playing middle man between the other departments. I've never understood why lab must call criticals to the nurse, who then must turn around and page and notify the doctor. ...

Assisting a urologist with a difficult cath insertion on a male at the bedside. He couldn't get it in, blood everywhere, tells me to clean up and leaves the room to get an OR ready for the pt. I scoop up a handful of trash to throw away, and the guid...

I graduated with $4,500 in loans for my ADN. Currently owe $3,068. I pay $100/month

My nursing school degree is AAS- associate's in applied science

Bladder scan first. It's a nursing intervention you can do on your own first without an order. The pt may not even be making urine, thus why they are not voiding, which would then warrant that call to the doctor, if bladder scan showed zero. The doct...

Oops just realized this was a NP thread

I work med/surg at the hospital. Had someone ask for a haircut. Ummm =\ lol

During clinicals for our CNA class, we were at a nursing home and while the majority of the staff were very nice, they were horribly lazy! 90% of them smoked and would just walk out the back door for a smoke break, literally every 30 minutes, for the...

Does anyone else get this a lot? I work on a geriatric M/S floor and I'm annoyed with pt's whose toenails look like they haven't seen clippers in years, all grown out and curled over, yet the family demands grandpa's toenails are an emergency and be ...

Dang it, two things I forgot, we do that too! Lol

We do bedside report on my floor, and this is what we give during report: Name, admit dx, relevant medical hx, are they A&O or confused? If they are on a heart monitor or not, how do they get up? (up ad lib, assist x 1, max assist, dependent bed ...

St Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK offers $8k sign on bonus to new grads in exchange for a 2 year work commitment. After taxes, it was a little under $5,500. The two other large hospitals in Tulsa offer sign on bonuses as well.

I passed nclex-RN last week in 75 questions in about an hour. I had maybe 10-15 SATA, definitely a few diseases and meds I hadn't heard of. I didn't have any audio questions. Felt like mine had a lot of peds, which I hadn't studies for. I studied OB ...

Wow! Mine was 39 hours

My QReview scores in order were: 89/125, 90/125, 91/125, 92/125, 86/125, and 99/128

I agree, try Hurst, whether it's the live or online review. I was a struggler in nursing school, barely passed second semester. Pathophys was hardest for me. I did the live Hurst after graduation and it just pulled everything together for me. Hurst w...

I took nclex-RN on Wednesday at 2 PM, shut off at 75 questions. Found out today I passed. I used Hurst for 2 weeks before I tested. It was the only source I used so I can't really recommend anything else.. I think Hurst really helped me, personally. ...

Establish the airway 1st. Cut the tube