thesundowner

"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 that

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 DON sounds like a ***** - just tell the truth, mov...

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!! EVERY. SINGLE. STUDENT. Sigh. . .

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 her new job? I need ideas - thanks.

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 instead of actually paying attention to what I was ...

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 one of her old students now makes over $110k a year....

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 asking.

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 bought an $$$ "nurse" watch that, no joke, lasted 2...

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 nervous. I used to work neuro-tele and I recall the ...

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 daydreaming of a "normal" job, 9-5, m-f, no weekends, ...

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 you?

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) came over to access the patient's port and start ...

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 references, being neatly groomed. . .anything else?

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 now.

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 RN's have it worse - we are ultimately responsible fo...

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 miss anything with the patient. It is my job to r...

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 NOW!?!?")

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

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 don't go to grad school. . .I'm wondering why I w...

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 occasionally (which has been awful) but usually are just f...

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 approximately 100 hours because they are so swamped). Do you...

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 it? How does it work? I mean, on the floor - not in...

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 so much there and felt comfortable in my environm...

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 variety/newness - PLUS, when I float and see how god aw...

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 experience and knowledge (stupid EX-husband - long story, ...