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I'm not sure what to do! I have a history of contact allergies but had been doing pretty good since I had allergy testing and was avoiding allergens. But I just graduated nursing school and started working in a hospital in February. It takes awhile f...

I'm in the same boat! taking my CLC next week but I've got another 1.5 years at least to get my hours to sit for the IBCLC. I'm also stuck on nights :/ good luck! following

I know it varies from place to place.. But to what extent wad this position bedside care at your workplace? I've heard anything from 80% office work with some admission assessments and emergencies, to living up shifts on the floor once a week. I did ...

I only care for PP mags. They are strict bed rest, NPO, fluids at 75 (in general). No routine labs but hourly checks including some combo of vitals, breath sounds, DTRs, UOP. They always have a Foley.

I have eczema on my hands bad enough to result in cracked, raw, open skin. Dio you feel it is safe, hygeinic, and appropriate to work like this? Or who should I ask? My manager kinda said it was up to me. She advised me to file FMLA but my,doctor sai...

I did go last time this happened and the nurse told me it wasn't up to them. I considered calling infection control or going back to occupational health (it was about 2 years ago last time this happened and I went).

I am a new post partum nurse. I breastfed both of my children, the first only for a month due to lack of knowledge and support, they second is still nursing at 15 months. One thing that really excited me about taking this job was helping other women ...

Of course there are occasional medical indications for giving formula, adventure_rn, but this mom didn't have any. Had the mom chosen to give a bit of formula it would have been one thing, but that wasn't the case I'm not a fan of the "fed is best" ...

I'll be transferring from med surg to post partum in about a month. I've been on a med surg floor for 3 years so I don't remember that much from school. What could I study up on to prepare? Assessment tools, etc?

99% of the time hospitals are only going to hire people onto dayshift that have experience in that area. More often than not, they will just move one of their nightshifters to days. I understand how hard it is, I'm leaving dayshift med/surg in a mont...

I feel like sometimes I focus so much on the bad nights. Yes, this post is bragging but no one around me understands when I say how awesome this night was. I was charge nurse. 1. My medical receptionist brought me Ben and Jerry's and a burrito after ...

I hope this doesn't come off jerk-ish. I charge on my floor at night about 1/3 of the time. There are a few dayshift nurses that everyone, particularly all the charge nurses, is aware that these nurses make frequent mistakes, laps in assessment, etc....

We have 20 cc syringes we can use to draw cultures if we also need other labs. (Or if you only need one other tube you can even use 10cc because the culture bottles can take as little as 3ccs.) I find that using a syringe rather than a causing gives ...

Yeah, I know... I'm waaaay ahead of time :) But I thought there might be some people planning ahead like me. I'm graduating in December and I thought some others might like to discuss what you are doing to help you get in! I have a 3.7, I'm doing a m...

So, I'm a night shifter. I had the oppurtunity to train as a charge nurse so I took it. I knew that this mean I had to stay on nights but I wasn't expecting an oppurtunity to go to days to come up anytme soon... Well it did, a week later. Of course I...

I was reading a post about nurses coming to report with a blank paper and not knowing anything about the pt they were getting. This is so entirely different that what we do, so I'm curious what all methods people use. I've seen some places that give...

I am flattered when my patients like me as a person. Its wonderful when they think I'm a good nurse, but that's what I'm being paid to do. I'm paid to take care of them, not to care about them. But when they can tell I do care about them, and there i...

Yes. We can't have pts with an O2 requirement greater than eight liters. If we put a pt on a non rebreather, its likely we will end up calling an RRT.

I don't consider that to be a CNA task. We use alot of bed alarms and my coworkers are fantastic. If a bed alarm goes off everyone in earshot comes running. Our patients can't turn off their own bed alarms because they can't reach to turn them off wi...

I regularly give IV meds without waking the patient. BUT, I always tell them during 10pm med pass, "___ and ____ are due at 0000 and 0200. I'll try not to wake you unnecessarily if you'd rather me not, but I can't guarantee it." Of course I'm on a me...

This is off topic but I can't believe its not normal to have a policy stating you don't have to wake CIWA patients. Ours actually says to DO NOT wake them. Not even for meds unless they are truly time sensitive. Also, I find it crazy that people don'...

Holy Guacamole. I work on a medical floor that specializes and Geriatrics and we have TONS of confused/dementia patients. I've never seen these beds. We ONLY use restraints of a patient it going to hurt someone, and sometimes not even then. (We had a...

I find this a little overboard... You "hide" them in a interview for professionalism, not because they are secret. If I had tats on my arms I would hide them in my interview but also simply say, "I have some tattoos that would be visable at work, is ...

We aren't supposed to care flushes in our pockets? Even wrapped?

Can I just say... I'm a horrible stick. I'm six months in and hadn't had one successful IV start since clinicals... I read this a few hours ago then went into a patients room and saw his IV just sitting on his bedside table (Ugh). He was confused and...