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  1. Help Phenergan & Picc Line????

    surfer betty crocker replied to 1_Dedicated_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    alright sorry for beating a dead horse, but if vesicants are administered in a 'safer way' via central lines--blood diluting the vesicant, and phenergan is a vesicant that can cause necrosis to...

  2. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    surfer betty crocker replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    sent!

  3. I start next week any advice for new grad

    surfer betty crocker replied to keishapound's topic in Cardiac

    study, practice strips and be flexible. as a new nurse, many little things can throw a wrench into your night, things that a seasoned nurse wouldn't sweat. and on a cardiac floor add that patients are...

  4. pt. acuity/ratio on tele floors?

    surfer betty crocker replied to surferbettycrocker's topic in Cardiac

    ditto to the remarks about having to spend time trying to 'find' ancillary staff. i end up doing most of my toileting, cleaning and changing myself. its not that i mind the primary nursing model but...

  5. is it just new nurse adjustment period? or a bad fit?

    surfer betty crocker posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    hey all just looking for some pespective. first and foremost thank you to all on this site that provide real world perspective and encouraging feedback. basically my story is the same. have been a...

  6. If not Nursing, then what????

    surfer betty crocker replied to my3kids's topic in First Year After Licensure

    PL I too would fare much better in a more zen-like environment, but for now i will settle for 'less crazy'. as a newbie, i find it odd that the job becomes more difficult with each passing shift. i...

  7. How do you count the time?

    surfer betty crocker replied to paxpax's topic in First Year After Licensure

    hello OP-i feel your pain. being a newbie here myself. i personally think that being present, getting that bp regardless and following through and finishing the shift are all examples of great and...

  8. If not Nursing, then what????

    surfer betty crocker replied to my3kids's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Pink Lotus that is exactly why i became a nurse! your post took the words right out of my head onto the page. i thought oh i wont make enough and 'maybe i can get a solid foundation in 'western...

  9. What nurse/patient ratios do you work with?

    surfer betty crocker replied to heather1999's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :idea:i have 7 or 8 pts on a busy, heavy tele floor. if you took one pt. from each nurse on the floor, you could hire one more nurse and give that nurse a decent patient load, and unburden the rest of...

  10. Clueless

    surfer betty crocker replied to luv2shopp85's topic in First Year After Licensure

    are a bad case of the nerves gettin in your way? you said that you call the doc when a pt is going bad and you forget to take vs and 02 sats--but you just put it out there--so now, next time you know...

  11. advice needed ..

    surfer betty crocker replied to cherilee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    being a new nurse too, i can relate to how you feel. even though you had a year in you are still NEW to this particular hospital's routine and equipment. from my first hand experience, it is very...

  12. new nurse waiting for that aha! moment!

    surfer betty crocker replied to surfer betty crocker's topic in First Year After Licensure

    thank you both very much for the feedback. i never realized how difficult 'self evaluation' would be in the world of med-surg nursing as a new nurse. i have been told to 'give myself some slack' but i...

  13. new nurse waiting for that aha! moment!

    surfer betty crocker posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    hi all, new nurse here with literally a few shifts on my own. what i feel is very frustrating is that i have no idea how i am doing? i have gotten a few 'great job tonight' from my charge RN's when i...

  14. Sick to my stomach....

    surfer betty crocker replied to Virgo_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    NancyNurse I am chiming in late here, but i just read this post and it is as if you plucked the thoughts I have about being a new nurse in acute care, right from my head onto this post! I have no...

  15. New Grads in New york.....

    surfer betty crocker replied to doggybour's topic in New York Nursing

    were you a Paramedic or

  16. New Grad jobs in NYC?

    surfer betty crocker replied to rigbyk's topic in New York Nursing

    hi, just FYI many 'big name' hospitals in nyc will not hire nurses that have yet to take the NCLEX exam and pass. just double check the hospitals you are looking into. some may hire before you are...

  17. Please help...How can I handle my professor?

    surfer betty crocker replied to toriphile23's topic in General Nursing

    thank you erika for this post. as a future nurse, i am concerned that, because i do not see groveling or 'sucking it up' as attributes to my career self, that i may not be long for this profession....

  18. Are any new grads going to med-surg

    surfer betty crocker replied to awalke13965's topic in First Year After Licensure

    i have one semester left and i am considering working in med/surg--but my clinicals thus far have been horrendous. the nurses are too overworked and busy to be burdened with showing us anything and...

  19. sick of ADN vs BSN! like most of us have a choice anyway!

    surfer betty crocker replied to okie2's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I am still trying to figure out why this is such a contentious topic. Driven by ego would be my guess? For a profession that promotes "non-judgement" and "teamwork" and the greater good, why do ADN's...

  20. CONTINUED IN WHAT IS THE MAJOR REASON Why are they all leaving?

    surfer betty crocker replied to artistnurse's topic in General Nursing

    To all the wonderful nurses out there doing your job and hanging in there I salute you. I hope when you require nursing care some day in your twilight years that the new generation will do well by...

  21. Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    surfer betty crocker replied to szccdw's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I took my RN, then worked and got my BSN at the same time. I didn't get any clinical skills from the BSN, but I can write a mean paper on most anything, have it mean nothing, and still get a B....

  22. boston medical center new grad program

    surfer betty crocker replied to adrenaline197's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Hi Lena--I am just curious what did the nurse mgr mean by good qualifications? nursing school is very time consuming. im not sure what else i could do during school that would put me at the forefront...

  23. Anyone really love where they work?

    surfer betty crocker replied to jade-athyst's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    hi there--Is it really that difficult to find a nursing job at a boston area hospital? I am considering moving back to MA after school, but not if the jobs are scant. has anybody else had such a...

  24. *** A&P II Winter 2006 Club ***

    surfer betty crocker replied to kayel's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    same here!

  25. Direct Entry Programs- How hard to get in?

    surfer betty crocker replied to GoodyNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This may rile some people up on this site, which it is not meant to do, however I think that most ADN programs graduate more technically superior students. I have a Baccelaureate degree already but...