sonnie

Help!! I am the staff development coordinator at our small rural hospital and I am looking for new fresh ideas to spruce up the tired old yearly medication administration test. Does anyone out there have any good ideas they would be willing to share...

RN TO BSN? Shouldn't that read ADN to BSN??? We are all RN's just different education paths. I plan to continue on to at least a MSN so that I may teach someday when I am old and gray. I think education is always prefered to stagnation of brain c...

I guess it all depends on whether you want to be known as cheep but not easy or easy but not cheep!!:

deespoohbear, I am an assistant director of nursing, infection control nurse and staff development nurse! My duties include supervising a 40 bed rural hospital at night, educating nursing staff, precepting and mentoring new staff, developing competen...

I work in a 40 bed hospital that was forecasted to close along with 4 or 5 other hospitals about 15 years ago. Needless to say we are still alive and kicking!! Our success is rooted in our belief that all staff is family and we treat each other as s...

How do I handle night shift? One word Narcolepsy!!!!!! It used to drive me crazy on day shift waking up to an alarm clock and all but now I just regulate my medication and sleep like a baby! The Original Narcoleptic Night Nurse

The funniest thing I think I ever heard was a young handsome resp. therapist tell an elderly lady... " honey put this in your mouth now suck don't blow!" He was assisting her with her incentive spirometer

1)RN 2)13 3)Pacific North West 4)yes 5)pretty much 6)yes 7)exceptionally 8)yes 9)yep, that would be me 10)yes very much 11)No 12)a 30 minute lunch and 1-2 15 minute breaks 13)nights, but because of my other jobs can be found at work at any time 14)we...

Let's not stop with the BSN as the entry let's make the MSN the entry level so we can really call our selves "professionals". As you all know MD's have a BS in something but have post grad training and that must be what makes the difference!!!!

Let's not stop with the BSN as the entry let's make the MSN the entry level so we can really call our selves "professionals". As you all know MD's have a BS in something but have post grad training and that must be what makes the difference!!!!

Yes it's true that you may only have 1 or 2 patients in the settings you described, and yes you can sit there wide eyed and stare at them. What do you learn? You learn 1 or 2 major systems, and how to take care of the problems of those systems. Wh...

Yes it's true that you may only have 1 or 2 patients in the settings you described, and yes you can sit there wide eyed and stare at them. What do you learn? You learn 1 or 2 major systems, and how to take care of the problems of those systems. Wh...

I have to reccommend that most all new grads should try to get at least 6 months to 1 year of general medical/surgical experience. Why?? Because this is where you are going to see the "normal" stuff and really understand your patho/phys. Then if yo...

I remember glass urinals, (I have one!!!)glass syringes(have one of those too) stainless steel bedpans that always seemed to be kept in the freezer. When a hot water bottle was a red rubber vessel that was used for everything from warming babies, to...

Can you work full time and still go to nursing school and graduate? YES. Would I reccommend it? Depends. I worked 3 jobs + nursing school when I was attending. I had a full time pm shift at a nursing home as a cna, was the lab assistant for the n...

YEAH!!!!!!! HOLLYKATE I knew you could do it!!!! Happy NG tubbin' days are here!!! sonnie

hollykate Try a product called Zout. I have found that it takes out just about everything I can manage to get myself into!!! It works really well on betadine and so it should work on the benzoin. You may have to treat it a couple of times but it s...

Hi Guys!! I work in a small 40 bed hospital that employs approximately 30 RNs. Of these 4 are male and we have 1 male CNA. We love our guys and wouldn't trade them for the world! Yes, it is true men and women work differently, and sometimes it mak...

hollykate: Yes we can still use jelcos because our DON and I both absolutely HATE the retracting sheath cannulas and since we have had no problems with needle sticks from the jelcos our insurance carrier hasn't made a fuss about them. Don't cry over...

nursedude: cheese? or crackers maybe? sonnie

Emma, After teaching IV skills for 12 years all I can say is PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!! this is a skill that just takes time for most folks. Yes there are those wiz kids out there that can put a 20 g jelco in a prune blindfolded, but I p...

Nursedude I'm really hating this but... I have to agree with you 100% historically women have been paid far less than their male counterparts. My husband works for a rare metals manufacturing plant and makes only a few dollars less per hour than ...

Bed side manners: We are soul sisters!! I too work in a small rural hospital!! We are licenced for 40 beds we cover ER, OB, and med/surg. We try to staff by acuity but it is hard when your census can fluctuate in the blink of an eye. We have 1 RN...

Should you start nursing school at your age?? YES!! You will see that you are in the majority not the minority when you get into your program. I also firmly believe every RN should start their career as a CNA. This accomplishes two things, #1 It le...

nursedude did I hit a nerve????