Suninmyheart

At our hospital we have a decision tree for swabbing. Only pt's from SNF's get peri-swabbed and hospital re-admits within 30 days or those with a hx of it get nare swabs.

I just started the 8 week workshop called "Mindfullness-Based Stress Reduction" (MBSR). It is offered at my hospital and most participants are RN's and MD's. The focus is learning how to meditate and be in the moment. Has anyone taken this? I see man...

just a reminder about plagerism. your response sounds good but is paraphrased very closely to anothers words. www.entish.org/fallacies.html

I believe with the computer-based style of NCLEX testing, a 50% pass rate of a certain difficulty level is passing. Give me ambigious NCLEX questions, give me NCLEX scoring. Or give me death! :bowingpur Thank Gawd I am not a student anymore. Then aga...

Yep. And at the end of the 3rd day in a row, it takes a full 24 hours to recover. It is definately full time work. I do love the hours though. I also work nights and am quite hooked on the differential pay. Sometimes I put in 4 days in a row. 5 is un...

Back during nursing school, 2005 and 06, many of my classmates - and several teachers - spoke highly of this place after doing their LTC clinical there. i would say go for it. Word of mouth means everything in LTC. Good luck.

Definitely 3-4 in a row for me. I like having pts for several days in a row. But by the 4th day I tend to get overstimulated with all the beeps and alarms of the hospital environment and am sooo ready for a long quiet sleep.

I don't mind the policy because I feel the need to check in with pt's every 1-2 hrs anyway. But I am on a cardiac PCU and we do q4 vitals and have cns'a and resource. To me it is purely an extra minute of our time to intial the rounding to provide do...

There is such intense learning in the first several years of being a nurse I would suggest working full time for at least a year before going part time. Plus with a good solid year under your belt you will have many more job opportunities. There may ...

Grossmont is a wonderful hospital. The ratio is 3-4. You will find a very supportive team there. They are magnet and it does show. You will feel supported by coworkers and charge and find there is always someone to help. Just walk through the halls o...

It is standard in our ER to have a chest pain pt chew ASA immediately upon arrival. On the cardio unit I work on ASA is a part of the MD's tx protocol for MI. I thought this was nationwide and well known? Perhaps not. I am a new nurse and have never ...

I am stunned! We have 3-4 on nights WITH a telemetry tech AND a UC and sometimes a resource nurse. I would never, could never take that load. Oh and plus our CNA's do our vitals. Come to Cali.

I use SBAR (status, background, assessment, response) as a foundation for my report sheet. It is handwritten so I cannot post it but I love it. Basically in rows going down I have a line for each system (N,C,R,GI,GU,I,MS,PS,M). "M" is for metabolic w...

I must say I did not realize it was the educators forum and, gulp, I do not expect amusement or sympathy for I am outnumbered. Graciously, Sun :bow:

I have never been to Manhattan but I think you will find that SD is not as segregated/separated. Many central areas are very culturally/socially/economically mixed. There are some predominantly hispanic areas in south county and some predominantly ca...

I remember there was always some element of feeling like I was at the mercy of instructors as to whether I was going to pass or fail. I could have studied enormously and then gone in and wondered where in the heck those test questions came from. Plus...

I tend to agree. I also have always felt that practicing as an RN should be a 4 year degree minimum. I have an ADN.

And there are sooooo many references to this experience in so many great religious works... of Budhism, Islam, Hinduism, verbal tales of Ojibwe.... Thank you for sharing your experience. It reflects so many pathways to God. Thank you. I truly believ...

Definitely don't sweat it. I had a doc ask me the other day, in a crabby tone, why I didn't change the IV fluid order? I said "because I am not an MD".

Go in-person directly to the nurse managers of the units you are interested in. Have your resume, letters of rec., and a cover letter custom addressed. Drop it off if they are busy then follow up with a phone call several days later. I had to do some...

To add a little humor - I have a zillion stories about why my orientation "should" have been over but thankfully wasn't... I had to call a cna into the room to show me how to secure a urine specimen container. Seriously, it was a different kind and I...

An experienced nurse gave me report last night and passed on a few tasks. Ok I certainly understand that. As the night wore on I realized she had failed to replace critically low lab values and yet even documented in a narrative that "labs were monit...

Yeah I really can't see myself bringing it to the boss. That would feel pretty yucky. My busy night last night helped me forget all about it anyway. I had 3 of my patients all on multiple electrolyte protocols and I was playing piggyback wars all ni...

chuckle chuckle Yes definitely Allnurses. Cords. I have to untangle cords. It drives me crazy.

If it was daylight I would go for long walks and bike rides. Plus for years I have been so busy with school and before that a business. Now I am trained in my job, no deadlines, pressing projects, or textbooks consuming my time. There is a quietness ...