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I've searched the entire forums, and I've found nothing, and I apologize if this thread is in the wrong place. My father and I were talking about the FBI, and he told me that minimum educational requirements to apply to the special agent academy in V...

I've developed a bad habit that's totally bit me in the you-know-where. I work on a med/surg unit that has 16 beds, my usual patient load is six to seven patients, and I get pretty busy most of the time. When I receive report at the beginning of the ...

Is it customary for people to receive HIV test results in person only, even if the results are negative? I got paperwork back from the doctor's office, reporting all my pregnancy, pap smear, and STD tests as negative, but saying that the results of t...

Ever since I graduated nursing school, I've worked at a reasonably-sized hospital, and the nurses only work with attendings there. Our hospital is considered a rural rotation. I only time I've ever met a med student was when one came in to shadow a f...

HAAAH! I thought I was the only one who noticed!!

I'm finishing up my resume, and I thought it was appropriate to include clinical opportunities that not everyone in my program was able to do. For instance, I listed, under my education of course, that I assisted school nurses with wellness checks, a...

I think I'm ready to leave my hometown and move to the next largest city. I've been a nurse for, hmm, a little over a year and half. When I got my job here, it was really easy, because I worked at the hospital as a CNA for over a year, so I pretty mu...

At the hospital I work at, everyone on the nursing staff is on probation for the first 90 days of employment. Then, there are peer evaluations done by the RNs. If the employee shows that they work hard and do well, then they'll be considered permanen...

The hospital I work at uses summary charting. I find it's not working for me because I'm too wordy and I go on and on and do a lot of double charting. I'm trying to meet up with a supervisor every so often who's teaching me focused charting, specific...

That's a great idea too. Thank you!

I work in a 200-bed rural hospital. It's the only hospital I've worked in since graduating nursing a couple years ago, so it's the only thing I know. :) As time goes on, it's becoming more apparent to me that the staff on certain shifts are nastier t...

At my place of employment, you tend to get guilted into coming in. I'm nights, and we're understaffed and we get called in as extra staff on top of who's already there, too. In the past, when I'd get a call, I was empathetic towards the nurses schedu...

"distinct personality difference"? What differences do you see between the staff on the shifts?

Yep, I agree on that one. The 6th and 7th MUST be rationale and documentation.

Expiration date can be considered a right. I learned it as P-DART-E. Patient Drug Amount of drug Route Time and Expiration. I don't know of a seventh one, but if I can take a wild guess, I'd say Patients' birthdate? It helps ensure that the patient...

I got written up for leaving a saline flush in a patient's room. I had went in the room with it already having the plastic cannula on it, ready to use, but the previous shift didn't tell me that the patient was getting an IV at TKO, so turns out I di...

Your flushes sound like ours. They do say "0.9% Sodium Chloride" on them. And I thought about the morphine or other drug in the syringe, but then I thought about how the patient didn't have IV push meds ordered. I do know who wrote me up. On the inci...

I do think I should bring up some things that have came up in my mind after reading the posts so far that I should have included in the first post. The CNA in question has a sarcastic sense of humor, from what I have gathered from working with her in...

Actually, this is kind of interesting, too. I tried to get feedback from my charge nurse about it that night. She said she was standing nearby, but wasn't pay attention. She's very knowledgable about things specific to nursing, but not helpful when i...

Actually, this is kind of interesting, too. I tried to get feedback from my charge nurse about it that night. She said she was standing nearby, but wasn't pay attention. She's very knowledgable about things specific to nursing, but not helpful when i...

I graduated from school a couple years ago and have been working at a 200-bed hospital in med/surg with opprotunites to float to other units since then. This is the only hospital in the area, and it's our small town's largest employer. I've learned a...

It's one of the next big goals of mine I want to achieve. I'd like to gain a few year's experience in ICU and then try my chance to be accepted into a CRNA program.

I really hope someone can give me some insight(specifically someone who's a supervisor or manager), because at this time, I'm very offended and upset. I was charge nurse on a unit a few nights ago, overlooking a female CNA who has been having a littl...

That's not tame at all. If I saw that, I'd pee a little! Beth ?

HAHA!