thesundowner

thesundowner

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  1. Mission St. Joseph's Hospital, Asheville, NC

    thesundowner replied to earthling's topic in General Nursing

    "But like any one knows, you can have a beautiful bedpan, but its still full of stool in the end." ba ha ha ha I like

  2. Stopping patient care for another patient

    thesundowner replied to sAssy_NurSe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    if I am in the middle of medication administration with one patient, nothing short of a code blue/rapid response/pt about to hit the floor will pull me away from that. That is how errors happen. Your...

  3. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    wants to ONLY work NICU or be a trauma flight nurse, but only for two years because then they want to get either their CRNA or FNP before 2015 because there is no way they are getting a doctorate!!...

  4. Good gift for a new Case Manager?

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    My friend (who has been a floor RN for 3 yrs) just got a job as a Case Mgr driving to 4 different hospitals to do chart reviews. I want to get her a gift - is there something that would help her on...

  5. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

    thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    I just knew I'd upset a bunch of people by making the comment that I am tired of every nursing student standing there talking about how they are going to go to CRNA school and make a zillion dollars...

  6. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

    thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    I blame media and marketing and nursing school instructors! When I was just taking A&P pre-req, my instructor (a Phd nurse) would constantly tell us in class that CRNA was the way to go because...

  7. My friends have medical questions at all hours of the day...

    thesundowner replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    My friends used to always ask me the craziest health questions. . .until I starting answering "it's cancer" to every single question they asked. They quickly stopped

  8. What kind of watch do you wear?

    thesundowner replied to NellieOlsen's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Cheaper is better! I had a $5 watch from KMART for all of nursing school, 1 year of working as a nurse tech and then two years of working the floor before it finally broke. Then, I got all fancy and...

  9. rehab to med-surg insanity

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    So. . .I have accepted a new job and in a couple of months I will leave the relative calm of acute rehab and return to the insanity of a very very busy neuro-tele floor. I have to admit, I am a bit...

  10. bedside nurse vs. case management. . .daydreamin'

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a bedside nurse and usually love it (even with the chaos, stress, etc). Love the 3 days a week, the 12 hrs shifts, the flexibility of scheduling. . . But. . .every once in a while. . .I start...

  11. Things a New Med/Surg RN Will Need

    thesundowner replied to Cynthia.rn2011's topic in First Year After Licensure

    How do you like it so far? I'm going to the job fair they are holding on Friday. Can I ask how much they offered

  12. chemo administered on med/surg floor

    thesundowner replied to luellamae's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Wow - I had just logged on to ask the SAME EXACT QUESTION and saw this post. Yesterday, I also had a patient on my med-surg floor receive chemo. A nurse from our chemo floor (where their ratio is 1:4)...

  13. How to stand out at a nursing job fair?

    thesundowner posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Any advice about how to stand out at a nursing job fair where there will likely be 8 gazillion nurses competing for the available positions? Besides dressing sharply, having copies of resumes and...

  14. How to stand out at a nursing job fair?

    thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Avatar?!? What's that? That IS me in the photo. . .of course, the picture was taken back in my younger days. I don't look that good

  15. Certified Nursing Assistants - The Nurses think we have it so easy.

    thesundowner replied to hfullerCNA's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Holy crap CNA's have one of the hardest, most physically demanding jobs on earth. And they make *****. You are correct, physically CNAs have it much harder than RN's. But responsibility wise, yeah...

  16. Our jobs as nurses is to protect/help/serve the doctors.

    thesundowner posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As a nurse, it is my job to ensure that the admitting doctor and all of the consults accurately assess the patients, order the correct labs, order the correct meds, read the consults notes, and do not...

  17. Opinion, WWYD?

    thesundowner replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    sweet gig she has there. . .I think I'll start refusing admissions and see what happens! lol (next week you'll see my post titled "I was FIRED - not fair! What do I do

  18. Does anyone work as Rapid Response?

    thesundowner replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

    You sound like an awesome resource to have - wish you were at my

  19. Why did/are you getting your BSN?

    thesundowner posted a topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have been playing with the idea of returning to school to get my BSN (see my other post about feeling bored on the job) because I love school and may someday wish to go to grad school. However, if I...

  20. Low census. . .no work. . .

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    My floor has had extremely low census for over a month now. To the point where most of us RNs are only getting 1-2 shifts a week if lucky and the CNAs are in the same boat. We are floated out...

  21. Splitting pills outside of nurse's scope of practice?

    thesundowner posted a topic in Patient Medications

    New at my hospital - nurses are no longer allowed to split pills. So, if we have a half dose to give, we have to call pharmacy and they have to split it for us/send it up to us (which takes...

  22. primary care?

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone work at a place where the RNs do primary care - meaning, no CNAs or techs? RNs do everything for patient? (adls, toileting, vitals, etc) If so, how many patients do you have? Do you like...

  23. bored. . .wondering if I should make a change?

    thesundowner posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm asking for advice. I have been a nurse for nearly 3 years. I started out on a crazy med-surg floor at a 400+ bed community hospital, but had to move across the state after only 6 months. I learned...

  24. bored. . .wondering if I should make a change?

    thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    Update: I talked to my supervisor and am going to start floating to the med-surg floors and psych. Also, I have decided to go ahead and start working on my BSN. I figure that should give me some...

  25. bored. . .wondering if I should make a change?

    thesundowner replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like I am still a new grad in some ways. . .I have so much to learn. I get so mad that I ever left my first job because I know if I had stayed there I would be so much further ahead in...