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  1. my fiance's grandfather is in the hospital and i am not close with my mother-in-law-to-be. i get small bits of info from my fiance but he doesn't really understand what is going on. so i called his...
  2. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    sorry u had such a terrible time. when i started my orientation was just horrible. worked thee six monthes and started looking into going back to school for something else. at the urging of some...
  3. patients who LIE about their symptoms!

    reading this post and all the replies i just had to respond. i don't think the op meant anything mean by saying her pt was "lying". i think op was just trying to voice her frustaration with trying...
  4. "YOU'RE my Nurse?!?!?"

    i'm 24 but appear to be 16 on a good day. i had a pt last week who refused to take medications from me because i was too young to know anything about meds and must therefore be attempting to poison...
  5. RN's who cannot insert IV's being Fired???

    while in nursing school i worked as a cna at a hospital that only allowed a nurse to start an iv after she was certified by the dept of nursing. this required 2 supervised, successful iv sticks....
  6. Please be nice to medical students

    i have been a nurse for almost a year. i work in a large teaching hospital full of residents and med students. a lot of them come in and with the attitude that they are better because they are going...
  7. Precedex

    i've had patients on this and its great. it can only hang for a certain time though, i think 24
  8. Title of "BSN" on badge?

    this debate just makes me nuts. adn's work hard for their degree and bsn's work hard for their degree. i have my bsn. i am proud of my degree, i worked hard to earn it. if there were some vast...
  9. gratitude for staff at clinical site

    :biggringi we always brought a gift for the clinical instructor at the end of each clinical. this sort of annoyed me because some of the instructors would expect it rather than appreciate it. the...
  10. Yeah, that's right, it's my fault.

    it's not only the general public who don't understand health costs and our salaries. i had a resident ask me about nursing shifts and whatnot. he asked me if because we work 12 hour shifts but are...
  11. i started as a new grad in the cvicu. i did have people tell me that i might want to get experience on med-surg first....and all the icu nurses told me if i wanted icu to start icu. my third week...
  12. can a pregnant rn safely work icu?

    i don't think there is any risk imposed by working on the unit that you wouldn't find on the floor. there are pt's with nasty bugs all over. on my unit we have a couple nurses who are pregnant and...
  13. Nurse Patient Ratio on Telemetry with Drips

    i work in the unit so i don't have first hand experience but i work with many nurses who just transferred from step down into the unit. they say that they had 6-7 pt on telemetry. a pt who is on...
  14. I am worth less for Christmas?!?!?

    my facility gives NO bonus pay for any holidays. they employ many international employees and have international patients as well. to give a bonus for christmas also requires a bonus for hanukkah...
  15. Birth Control Patch Warning

    i work in a vascular icu. three weeks ago we admitted a 23 year old female, she had a blood clot in her leg only three inches away from where she wore her birth control patch:uhoh21:
  16. Documentation

    i don't know that there is a minimal time interval for documenting. at my hospital there are policies for each unit stating when a re-assessment must be done, and that is when we chart. i don't...
  17. LPN's Role in the ICU?

    the state i live in allows lpn's only to hang ivf and some antibiotics. no ivp meds. they are not allowed to take verbal orders from md or allowed to do assessments. they are not allowed to titrate...
  18. Is buying a present for a pt. appropriate?

    i think its a nice sentiment but inappropriate. the reason is that it may be looked upon as crossing the line of professionalism. its not appropriate to accept gifts from patients
  19. Nursing T-shirts!!

    we had a t-shirt that listed the top ten reasons i became a nursing student. all gender neutral, some of them quite funny like... i wanted to see what it would feel like to be up at 3am without a...
  20. Help, I being eaten alive!

    hey mich 01085 i read your post and understand your frustrations. the truth is nurses who have been nurses for a while are often convinced that there is no way a new nurse can be right. i even had a...
  21. I really need help!

    jahbingrn i read your post and it sounds like my own orientation. i recently graduated. i had an 11 week orientation. i was hired into cvicu. my orientation consisted of three weeks of classroom,...
  22. ICU RN's responsible for CRRT or CVVH

    at our hospital dialysis nurse comes and sets up the crrt/cvvhd. the floor nurse is responsible for maintaining the machine, doing i&o and adjusting the machine volumes. there are tech's that...
  23. First med error!

    sometimes i think its amazing that more of us don't make errors. our mars have the sliding scale with the time the sugar should be checked and the diabetic flowsheets get the sliding scale written on...
  24. Cover Letter Help

    hey, i just graduated in may and to tell you the truth i've never even seen a cover letter. my instructors at school told me all i needed was a resume. ask your instructors what they say and if they...
  25. ICU FAQs for new orientees...

    :kiss i think this website was very helpful fo a new grad. i just started in ccu three monthes ago and this was very helpful. my hospital has a critical care class we all had to take but this web...