angelaADSN

I am a student nurse working on my associates degree. I hopefully will graduate May, 2001. I am interested in home health, and was hoping someone could answer a few questions. I am not to crazy about staying cooped up in the hospital and I thought ...

Unfortantely, I live in mississippi! I am trying to find a assignment in Tupelo which is 2 hours from where I live because I do have 3 kids and a single parent. They will be gone to their dads in North Carolina for some of the summer. So I want a ...

Well you brought back some memories! I graduated in 5/2000. I went straight to the OR/PACU. I had to learn to scrub, circulate, PACU, and also ambulatory care. When I was learning to scrub I know I went home and cried almost every day for about 3...

Haha! Really want to know what I keep in mine! haha! Sutures, tape, and more sutures. After having them in my pocket all day. Bandaides, etc...

I have been working in the OR for a little over 2 years now. From time to time we have arguments with surgeons who are hard headed about their informed consents. For example, yesterday, we had a patient who was given 2mg versed IV and 50mg Demerol ...

To think I was griping about my 190 hours of sick time I have accumulated and will never get to use! That is pretty tough. I live in Clarksdale. If we call in we have to have a doctors excuse in order to get paid for sick time. If we are sick lon...

I thought the same thing. I just need something in black and white that proves it.

When I first started, I cried every night I went home. Now I am alot more stronger and have a lot more come backs. I get a long with the doctors pretty well. The doctors I work with are pretty good about working as a team. Occasionally, especially...

I am more like a floater, I guess you could say. I work PACU/surgery/holding and outpatient preop. All of these dept are by the same nurse manager. I only work outpatient when they are in desperate need of help. So once a month for them maybe. A...

At our hospital we only have one shift. 6:30am to 3pm. We have had problems with the past year of this mandatory overtime. Around March we put our foot down as a team and said no more!! So administration gave us approval to have a back up crew unt...

I work mon-fri. 6:30am to 3pm regular scheduled days. I take call 1 to 2 times a week and 1 weekend a month. Our call is split between 4 people. When someone is off on vacation we have a extra day of call. or early weekend of call. The days I am...

I have worked surgery/holding/ PACU for a little over 2 years now. I take call for PACU only. I love PACU! At our hospital it is patient care 1:1 for kids and critical patients. Every once in a while we can have up to 3 to take care of in an hour....

As far as our management and administration go, right now they have their ass up a crack. They have to make us the OR staff happy and the surgeons happy. First they try the remark of well, we have to make our doctors happy until OR staff turns in r...

For our eye blocks, the circulating nurse mixes up the block in the OR and hands it off to the holding room nurse. The holding room nurse then hands it off to the doctor. The holding room nurse sedates the patient with 1-2 mg versed before the block ...

Hi Cheryl! I was a nurse tech last year after I completed my first year of nursing school. I worked in a small hospital, so I made 6.68 hr. Which really stinks compared to the 15/hr. Memphis, which is an hour away from me pays their nurse tech's 14/h...

In our OR we set up for the lap with the laproscopic instruments, and a basic tray which includes, hemostat's, kellys, mayo's, army navy, scissors, needle holders. When it becomes open we have a tray on the side that is a chole tray that has all your...

Hi everyone! When I first started nursing school you couldn't tell me I would be working in a hospital, I really wanted to be a home health nurse. Then I did my clinical rotation through OR and loved it too. So I decided that I really liked OR the be...

I just graduated last may. I have been working in OR for almost 6 months now and love it. I had to learn how to scrub first, just general cases. I hate scrubbing in on cases but will do it when we become short staffed on scrub tech's. Our OR needs so...

I just graduated with my ADN last may. I started working in OR right off. I love it! There are really cool days and then there are those horrible days. But any area you go to, it's going to be that way. In our OR we are trained to scrub first, which ...

Hi everyone! I took my NCLEX Thursday! The computer shut off at 265 questions and I am so worried! Those test questions were nothing like the question and answer books I had! I couldn't use ABC's, or maslows chart. All my test taking skills couldn't ...

Hi Lauraw! I am in my 4th semester of nursing and graduate with my ADN this may. We also evaluate ourselves after each clinical day. Our whole class gets that lecture on organizational skill's every so often. BUT the thing about it is that there are ...

I am a nursing student and graduate in May. I come to the BB often for help! I don't expect bb to do my assignment but I come on here for opinions, advice, and help. Just because you didn't have internet when you were in nursing school therefor every...

Hi Riley! I too graduate in May. Our instructors are also giving us advice to take the NCLEX. The only problem I see with it is it cost 300.00 for 1 week 8:00 to 5:00. I have a hard enough time sitting through a 4 hour lecture much less an 8 hour lec...

Hi Cheri! I am in my sophmore year in the ADSN program. I am 23, married, with 3 kids. When I first started A&P all I knew was there are 2 arms, 2 legs, chest, and a head! lol! All I thought during that course was, "there is no way I can learn al...

Hi, my name is Angela! I am 23 however married with 3 kids. I am in my sophmore year in the ADN program for RN and enjoying it, now that I am getting the jist of things! lol! Anyways the LPN's in the South are used alot in the hospital, home health, ...