HappyNurse2005

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  1. Pregnant while in nursing school.

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Shannie05's topic in General Nursing

    no, its not. its up to you. don't let them screw you over-they might try. when is your due date, and when is your proposed graduation date? i was pregnant in my last year of RN program. Started that...

  2. First day on the job as L & D nurse.

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Busy, busy, busy. I saw a delivery, a full term pit induction, was doing fine, had her water broken, epidural put in, from 6cm to 10cm and delivered in less than an hour. Baby had a compound arm...

  3. Anyone finish shift and not return to job?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to StatRNNJ97's topic in General Nursing

    what was the rationale for that??? how did a med surg floor do with no

  4. Co-worker hitting up the Dr.s for meds during shift?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to babiesX2's topic in General Nursing

    i wrote my post wihtout reading the above one first. guess im not hte only one who thinks this

  5. Co-worker hitting up the Dr.s for meds during shift?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to babiesX2's topic in General Nursing

    i think that is a drain on ER services. I went home once, vomiting, tired, diarrhea. Nothing I had to go to the ER for, its just a bug. But by your facility's policy, i woul dhave had to pay my 100...

  6. Start my L&D job September 5th!

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    11 days, 9 hours til I start L&D on September 5th! I'll be orienting on days til end of october, then on nights for a few weeks (on orientation) Ya'll, I am really excited. I had my interview and...

  7. Pneumococcal vaccination

    HappyNurse2005 replied to golfnurse's topic in General Nursing

    HOw funny this is being discussed now. Just today, I had a pt who i gave a pneumo-vax to, after she was screened and was declaered eligible (she's 86, that alone qualified her). i went into her room,...

  8. What do you call a PA?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to iHeartNICU's topic in General Nursing

    On the cardiac surgery pcu floor i just left last week there was one PA who we dealt with all the time, every day, and a few others in teh group we'd see fairly often but not every day. All of them...

  9. Does your facility use Medication Reconciliation forms ?

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    It's one of the new National Patient Safety Goals, to use medication reconciliation sheets. Does your facility use them? We started late last year. It's a pink sheet that goes at the front of hte...

  10. A nurse ate me as her young and I'm still paying for it

    HappyNurse2005 replied to RNnewgrad's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Did you get a change of shift report from off going nurse? Did that nurse tell you the pt was on a heparin drip, when next PTT was due, etc? ah, well, live and learn, right? no harm was

  11. Co-worker hitting up the Dr.s for meds during shift?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to babiesX2's topic in General Nursing

    PS- i dont fault others for asking, unless they continue to do so when asked not to. Or, of course, if against facility policy. I don't think it should be against facility policy. Shouldn't be a...

  12. Co-worker hitting up the Dr.s for meds during shift?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to babiesX2's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I suppose it depends on the doc and the nurse! Some docs I worked with in the unit I just left I wouldn't dream of asking them for an extra pen, much less a RX for amoxicillin. One of the PA's...

  13. Pneumococcal vaccination

    HappyNurse2005 replied to golfnurse's topic in General Nursing

    we do the same. it is part of the admission paperwork. If you are over 65, you automatically qualify. If you are 19-64 and live in prison, institution setting, have any chronic heart or lung or kidney...

  14. smoke free

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mel1977's topic in General Nursing

    Ours is smoke free, in theory. No employees can smoke on the hospital grounds, but the patients can still go to the smoking area and smoke! There is a bridged road going infront of the hospital....

  15. meds--are we supposed to know EVERYTHING??

    HappyNurse2005 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in General Nursing

    Well, here's some good math 1 tab q4h=6 tabs per day 500mg tylenol per vicodin tab x 6 pills per day=3000mg tylenol per day, not exceeding max dose. Our Lortab orders always say not to exceed 4g per...

  16. First Day of Clinicals

    HappyNurse2005 replied to nursesaideBen's topic in General Nursing

    really, why not? When i was in school, i had one aids pt that i knew about. YOu will face aids pt's in the real world, in any field of nursing, so why would you NOT have one in school? Especially...

  17. Floating to Different Units

    HappyNurse2005 replied to reading frog's topic in General Nursing

    I am (Currently) in a cardiac surgery PCU (post op cabg, valve, lung resections, etc) plus some medical cardiology thrown in (b/c a telemetry bed is a telemetry bed, whereever you can find it) we can...

  18. The War with the Floors

    HappyNurse2005 replied to zima60's topic in Emergency

    OK, here's my ER report beef. We have a "bed board" that is a computer program, so when a pt is assigned to us, we can see it pop up on the bed board. who they are, where they are coming from, why...

  19. Sleeping pill at THIS time????

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mediatix8's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, isn't HS considered 2100 in the hospital? ya know, like achs accuchecks, the hs accucheck is 2100? etc

  20. Advice Regarding Intra-system Transfer

    HappyNurse2005 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Is your current manager an easy going type?ya know, easy to talk to, gets along well with everyone? Do you know of anyone else who has transferred off? Did she behave well then? Find out the time...

  21. Sleeping pill at THIS time????

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mediatix8's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I think that if given a sleeping pill too late in the night, say, after 2a or so, that they might be too sleepy to participate in any tests they have scheduled. Like treadmill stress tests,...

  22. Start my L&D job September 5th!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's official now- I went to security to get my "women's and peds" name badge. Same as regular company nametags, but at the bottom, a blue stripe with the words "women's and peds" on

  23. Advice Regarding Intra-system Transfer

    HappyNurse2005 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Find out the HR policy for transferring. I am in the process of transferring to a different unit. I did not tell my manager until I was offererd the job officially, then followed HR policy by giving a...

  24. Pregnant nurses

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I think Proscar is one of them, if the tablet is crushed or broken, not to be handled by pregnant

  25. patients who LIE about their symptoms!

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had a pt w/ cardiomyopathy, EF 40%, CHF, htn, etc. In for exacerbation of CHF. Pt of internal med residents and cardiology. Pt was having short runs of vtach, 5 to 8 beats. Asymptomatic. well, at...