buytheshoes11 MSN, RN

I know in our facility, for PEG meds you must crush each one (if the med is crushable, of course) and mix it with water with a water flush in between each medication. No "cocktails" are allowed per state rules. If a med falls onto any type of surface...

Congrats on your weight loss! :yelclap: Don't let anyone bring you down. There are plenty of overweight and obese doctors too. My mom used to work for a highly obese cardiologist.

You can definitely start looking now. It won't hurt to start putting resumes out and networking. You never know what may happen! Best wishes!

Would it be possible for you to find a different job? Like other posters have said, you've worked too hard to just throw everything away. There are days when I am physically and mentally exhausted after work, and days when I dislike my job, but I thi...

I really like Danskos. They look silly, but mine have conformed to my feet and given my arches the support they need.

For the skilled nursing at my facility the maximum the nurse can have is 18. This may not sound like a lot compared to some of the halls where I work (some halls have up to 28 patients), but the acuity of some residents on the skilled nursing hall ca...

We have per diem and part time nurses who are willing to come in when there are call-offs. Our DON never, ever helps out on the floor (it's nice to hear that you and your DON do!). There are times when a nurse from the previous shift will stay and he...

You will become more comfortable with this once you practice. When I was in school we practiced on dummies in skills lab before attempting this on actual patients. I'm not sure if you have simulation dummies, but if you do they are very helpful when ...

I graduated in early May and took NCLEX about three weeks later. I'm happy that I didn't wait any longer because I feel like I may have forgotten some important concepts. To study, I looked through the purple Kaplan book and just reviewed NCLEX quest...

I've always wanted to be a nurse and always wanted the "college experience" right after high school, so I attended a four year university for my degree. It worked out well.

No, we never had to do this in our skills lab. We assisted our patients, when needed, in the hospital though.

My boyfriend and I are both nurses. :loveya: I'm glad he would know better than to pull this type of move.

It's hard to understand the tone of many posts online, whether you are on this site or another. I think where some posters are just being to-the-point and maybe even blunt, some other people may misconstrue this as rudeness. Not to say that there are...

One thing new nurses have to learn is to grow thicker skin and realize that constructive criticism is just that - constructive. I think it comes down to how the other nurse is saying something, but in my experience that nurse is just wanting to help ...

Would it be possible to find another facility or job in nursing? I would give it a little longer until you leave nursing for good. It says a lot that you were promoted to the charge nurse position to quickly!

Where I work it is NOC shift that takes the crap from management. However, I have never seen a manager come in just to check in on the NOC staff and ensure things are going okay and to ask them if they have concerns. It would be nice to see our manag...

We use concentrators for the patients while they are in their rooms and tanks for when they aren't. However, we have a lot of issues with our concentrators malfunctioning, so in some cases we end up putting tanks in the rooms in place of concentrator...

Yes! This happens all of the time where I work. Because the nurses are not documenting behaviors on the MAR flowsheets and in their charting, the MD and pharmacy have been decreasing the amount and number of psychotropic medications some residents ar...

Nope, not where I work. However, she will be on call in case of any kind of emergency.

Have you tried LTC/SNF facilities yet? Also, would it possible for you to commute or relocate? Don't give up! You will find something.

I love the PRN nurses that I get to work with! Without them, we would be short staffed at least three times a week. I am grateful for them and the knowledge they share with me (they are nurses who have been in the field for years). The days that my s...

Like other posters said we always have to get an X-ray on patients with clogged PEGs. One patient is notorious for having a clogged tube and has had several tube placements, just to my knowledge, in the past year.

My mom is a nurse. When she graduated high school she went to college with all intents and purposes of becoming an RN, but, she met my dad and quit school to get married (luckily for our family!). She patiently waited for my siblings and I to grow up...

Thank you for this post. Some days I feel like I am working, working, working but getting nowhere. You sound like a great nurse!

Yes and yes to both questions. CNAs can also collect UA specimens too, where I work.