Imafloat BSN, RN

Imafloat has 13 years experience as a BSN, RN.

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   OMG, I cannot believe it...I need PICU interview tips!

   Imafloat replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Make sure you let us know when you hear something! I got all caught up in your thread and I'm wondering how it
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   Ask a question till reporting nurse can't answer one

   Imafloat replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   It drives me nuts when they don't pay attention to what I'm saying because they're asking questions that I'll answer by giving them
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   What should I ask while shadowing a NICU nurse?

   Imafloat replied to bnc0725's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Make sure that the questions you ask you know why you are asking them. The nurse you are following is just a person doing their job. They aren't evaluating your interest in the Nicu, they know you...
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   Is it made of acid? Fire? Cactus stickers?

   Imafloat replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I teach my students and orientees, blood pressure before temperature. They question me, and I tell them, you'll see...they get the temp and totally get
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   Full Circle, My First Year of Nursing

   Imafloat replied to Imafloat's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I've now been a nurse for 6 years! I come back and read this article sometimes when I'm burned out, because it takes me right back to that time. I've left the NICU, because, get ready for it..........
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   What's up with veteran nurses hating on new grads?

   Imafloat replied to jennilynn's topic in General Nursing

   I don't have a problem with all new grads. I was once a new grad too, a new grad who absorbed everything like a sponge, who didn't tell the veteran nurses that what they were doing was wrong, who saw...
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   What do you think constitutes insubordination?

   Imafloat replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   There was a PCA on my old unit like this. I worked in a level III NICU. Once I had a surgeon call and tell me he was on his way up to do a rectal dilation on a patient in 10 minutes and to gather...
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   Does anyone take Topamax for migraines?

   Imafloat replied to HappyPediRN's topic in General Nursing

   I was on it for migraines. It stopped the migraines, but I had to go off of it. My side effects were that I felt like I was starving all the time, numb/tingling hands and feet, mental dullness, and...
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   Johnson & Johnson commercials

   Imafloat replied to Fribblet's topic in General Nursing

   I am pretty jaded when it comes to the negative politics and crap at work, but I love the reason I went into nursing. I love seeing those cheesy commercials, because they go through the hard walls of...
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    Magnet Designation

    Imafloat replied to Fribblet's topic in General Nursing

    I truly believe Magnet is a way administration can pat themselves on the back for a job well done. The patients can't even tell the difference between, housekeeping, nursing, respiratory, even...
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    Staff Satisfaction / Turnover

    Imafloat replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our facility was nominated for the best workplace for working mothers award. The survey for that came the week before my employee (dis)satisfaction survey. I had no idea and was leaving anyway so I...
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    Staff Satisfaction / Turnover

    Imafloat replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Call me evil but when faced with those questions on a survey I looked to the most brown nosing, administration favorite, know it all, in your face, smug nurse on the unit and matched my demographics...
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    Probably gonna get fired my first week...

    Imafloat replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand why they came to urgent care if they already had themselves diagnosed and knew what they needed before they got there. They could have better spent their time online at a Canadian...
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    Imafloat replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

    Feces.
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    Magnet Designation

    Imafloat replied to Fribblet's topic in General Nursing

    They will say that all the women who were forced back into the nursing field to support their families are now able to become stay at home moms again. They will say that the older ones were able to...