PediNurse3

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  1. Work bags: What do you take and what's in it?

    PediNurse3 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am starting a new job tomorrow and and just started cleaning out my work bag...what a mess! I've carried the same huge Vera Bradley tote for a little over a year and it's filled to the brim with a...

  2. Your thoughts/reasons patient is in pain or addicted or what...?

    PediNurse3 replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    Allergies to toradol, morphine, ultram, reglan, and zofran...and phenergan and dilaudid cause itching so please give them with IV benadryl as

  3. Your thoughts/reasons patient is in pain or addicted or what...?

    PediNurse3 replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    If I were in LTC, I would be in pain, too. My experience with pain management in adults is limited to what I saw when I worked in the ER, and there was a lot of it. Was it chronic pain? Acute pain?...

  4. All Hospitals the same?

    PediNurse3 replied to eyeball's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked at two different facilities and they couldn't be more different. It's definitely more than a difference in hospitals though, the units/floors are very different within the same facility....

  5. written up

    PediNurse3 replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't really give a good report until I went to work in the PICU. I got to the point where I could give a report that included the following in about 5 minutes - Name -Age -ICU day -Vent day -Post...

  6. Narcotic Descrepency!!!

    PediNurse3 replied to APatriganiRN's topic in General Nursing

    What a stressful thing to have to be carrying around on your shoulders! Why can't it be resolved before Monday? 12 missing pills is a big deal...ot something that facilities usually wait until the...

  7. What to say when asked: "Tell me about yourself"?

    PediNurse3 replied to NurseAndLovinIt's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I start by talking about how I got into nursing and take it from there. It works well for me because I didn't go into nursing right out of college and I feel like it gives the interviewer what they...

  8. Nurses writing Scripts for Doctors

    PediNurse3 replied to fawnsternurse's topic in General Nursing

    Are you saying that the nurses decide what the patient needs to be on and the dosage and has the doctor ok it at the end of the day? We are given physican delegation in our clinic so we are able to...

  9. Giving a flu shot to patients without a signed consent?

    PediNurse3 replied to Double-Helix's topic in General Nursing

    A flu vaccine and antibiotic are hardly the same thing. Antibiotics, beta blockers, diuretics, etc may be a necessary part of treatment. The flu shot isn't part of a patient's treatment plan, and it...

  10. How Long?

    PediNurse3 replied to Juwon's topic in General Nursing

    I was hired two months before graduation. I started my first job about two weeks after graduating, worked as a GN about a week, took NCLEX, worked some more, and had results a couple days later. I...

  11. What do you do on the drive to work?

    PediNurse3 replied to whitecat5000's topic in General Nursing

    My drive is fairly short now. When I drove 45 min to an hour, I would listen to books that I downloaded from

  12. Drug error

    PediNurse3 replied to coneartist's topic in General Nursing

    An incident report should be written. That is how we learn from mistakes and make changes to (hopefuly) keep them from happening again. And if you haven't, you should write one yourself so that when...

  13. Nurses and Dream Specialty?

    PediNurse3 replied to Juwon's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to work in the PICU when I went into nursing school. When the time rolled around to start applying for jobs (last semester of nursing school), it just was not an option. I was already...

  14. how much orientation did you receive as a new grad?

    PediNurse3 replied to tokmom's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My new grad internship in the ER was 12 weeks. There were tons of classes on top of the scheduled

  15. Pain meds IV push

    PediNurse3 replied to krista312's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in adult ER, pain medication was given IV push, and it was really nurse discretion if it was diluted in NS or not and how quickly they wanted to give it. In the PICU, depending on the...

  16. Preceptorship advice!!

    PediNurse3 replied to laceface24's topic in General Nursing

    Ours was a 'Capstone'...I did mine in an ER. I also worked as a tech in a different ER, and already had a job in the ER internship where I was working. I thought that it would be good for me to get a...

  17. Single moms and every 3rd weekend

    PediNurse3 replied to belle005's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain! Have you gotten clarification yet? HOpefully if your manager said that you could work every other weekend, she will keep her word- but I would not expect your preceptor to pick up...

  18. At what point do you say something?

    PediNurse3 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of the nurses that I work with is flat out lazy and inherently unsafe. Not documenting appropriatly (or at all), documenting things that were "done" without actually doing them, making errors,...

  19. At what point do you say something?

    PediNurse3 replied to PediNurse3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I understand what you're saying, and I know this because I sit next to her. We work in a clinic, and in pretty tight quarters, so it's not like we are on the unit in the hospital with our own patient...

  20. Why do docs do this?

    PediNurse3 replied to ebear's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe they do care. I wouldn't bother to talk to someone or ask them about their family if I didn't care...I would read a book or something. When I worked in the hospital, the doctors and NP's would...

  21. Uniform color by discipline

    PediNurse3 replied to annetter's topic in General Nursing

    I do agree that it "takes away freedom" to wear what you want, but those who feel strongly about it are free to work at a different facility. The first hospital that I worked at was color coded, and...

  22. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    PediNurse3 replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in a level I trauma center, the PICU, and now I'm in a clinic- and I can count the number of times that I've gone without lunch on one hand. I'm no good to anyone if I'm miserable so I...

  23. EPIC Computer Program

    PediNurse3 replied to al7139's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I used Epic when I worked in the ER and I felt like it was very user friendly and easy to navigate. I didn't appreciate it until I left that hospital and went to an organization that used a...

  24. Toradol after abdominal surgery (in infants)

    PediNurse3 replied to Double-Helix's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in (adult) ER, we never had Toradol ordered for abdominal pain. Head pain, back pain, neck pain, knee pain, arm pain, etc- but I don't recall giving it much, if ever, for abdominal pain....

  25. 2 new grads in charge?

    PediNurse3 replied to DedHedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Keep doing what you're doing. Look things up, question orders, give good care. Let her make fun of you...look at the source. Eventually, she will dig herself into a hole and find herself in a lot of...