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We do! Betadine! Right when the doctor walks in, before the baby is out.

YES.. At my facility, if you do not get your annual flu shot, you do not get your annual merit increase.. :/

That schedule would seem okay as long as you are working days... If not, while working nights, in a row is the only way to go. I work nights so the only way I feel like I get any time off is by doing my days in a row. I still feel like my first day is shot just because I have to sleep. Working days allows for more flexible scheduling though.

No matter what the questions, answer honestly. Just be yourself and express your commitment and passion for the specialty. And do send a thank you card, and be persistent. I cant stress that enough. Good luck!

Now that I think about it, I can definitely relate. I have been having a lot of anxiety with swings of depression, and have been so inpatient compared to how I was a year ago. So bad that I've considered going to the doctor. I never thought how it could be related to night shift.

I honestly don't mind student nurses. On my floor, student nurses are assigned certain patients rather than a nurse so it doesn't really affect my time management and such. If anything, student nurses are a relief because they help complete tasks and on a busy day, that is invaluable. If they need help or if their clinical instructor is not around, I have no qualms about teaching the student nurse myself, although I don't really feel like I am teacher material lol.

I cannot believe the number of women who would voluntarily choose to have a csection, or that would prefer one straight from the get go. Women have been giving birth naturally from the beginning of time because it is what our bodies are made to do. The csection rate has gone up significantly in the last 20 years (a whopping 47%) and I can tell you it is NOT because lady partsl birth has become more risky. That is just ignorant. If you would just let your body do what it is meant to do, in low risk births, lady partsl delivery is much safer. Many births are complicated even by unnecessary inductions, which raise the risk of csection to 50%. Of course doctor's prefer to do csections. It's more convenient for them, it means less lawsuits, and insurance companies have much control as well. Most doctors these days have no idea how to really deal with natural birth, after all, they are there only when it is time to catch anyway, and many more are doing more csections every day. Hopefully this country will not one day become one where csections rates are higher than lady partsl births although it most likely will. The United States is the only country where medical doctors manage pregnancies and most deliveries. In other countries, most women are using midwives and only using doctors when they have a high risk pregnancy or had complications the first time around. AND OUR mother and infant mortality rates are higher. Pregnancy and birth is definitely a business these days and many people fail to believe that, but after watching "The Business of Being Born," I can definitely say that I realize that now and it has changed my life. I had my first son after elective induction with cytotec, cervadil, and pitocin (potentially dangerous drugs) and luckily was still able to deliver lady partslly. I had no idea at the time that my chances of having a csection double with an induction. Just a thought :) Csection obviously has its place and thank goodness we have that option these days in case of emergency but they definitely are over used.

Yes I did get the job :) and no my manager did not know ahead of time that I was applying for the job. I did not want anyone to know I applied for transfer until I got the job offer IF I did.

Thanks for the reply. I had my interview yesterday, and I think it went pretty good but trying not to get my hopes up. They asked me if I would like to shadow next week so I go on Monday. Hopefully that is a extremely good sign. Not sure if they let everyone they interview shadow or not. The manager said she wants to make an offer by the end of next week, so I plan to follow up with a thank you note and hand deliver it on Monday when I go in for my shadowing experience. Fingers crossed.

I have been a nurse for 8 months now so I am fairly new but I have learned so much and feel like I am finally gaining the confidence that all new nurses want to gain. I started out on a medical floor which is where I currently work. There is an opening in the family birthplace so I applied for a transfer and I received a call from the head of the department and set up an interview for Thursday morning after I get off work. This is my dream job as an RN and this is why I wanted to be a nurse. My goals are to be a WHNP and this is the perfect opportunity to get some experience in this specialty. I know that this position is highly sought after so I am extremely nervous about my chances and about the interview because I am extremely socially awkward at times. If anyone could offer some advice, or may know the types of things I may get asked, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

No, the patient got her morphine at 7 something before I was even done getting report altogether because I had to override the system. She got her pain meds right away... Where I work, a lot of times we don't even get done with report until 8pm, so we don't get things in full swing till then. I always see all of my patients right after getting report, and I usually do my assessment first thing and pass meds at that time as well. As for the new admit that got there at shift change, I should have at least started the fluids, I'm not sure how that didn't happen, it's been a while. As for the anitibiotic... I first have to wait for pharmacy to send it, which takes a while sometimes at my facility... And I don't think I mentioned this earlier, but before I could start the antibiotics, the patients IV went bad even though I had flushed it when I gave the morphine earlier, which I guess could have contributed to getting the anitibiotic going a little later... So yes, from 8pm to 11pm in the world of nursing is hardly any time at all.

I got a voicemail today from my manager telling me to call her before she left today. This always concerns me right off the bat. I am a fairly new nurse, just about to hit the 6 month mark so I'm still real paranoid about making mistakes or making sure I'm doing things right. I had a patient a few weeks back, and I remember this distinctly because she was so understanding a nice and I never would have though in a million years that she would ever have any complaints. She came in with her first kidney stone and was actually arrived to our floor before I came on. Orders were written at 6:50 pm, right before shift change. This woman was in extremely bad pain. I went in to check on her after getting report on her. She asked when she would be able to get some pain medicine and I told her as soon as the order was in I would bring her some. Being a new nurse I forgot I could override the system and get, BUT considering she IS A NURSE, and AT OUR HOSPITAL for many years, she knew I could so she suggested it. And I apologize and told her that I had never done that before so I forgot I could and that I would go get her some real quick. And I did. I wasn't even done getting report on all my patients yet, but I was happy to do so. I don't remember the specifics but as I'm told by my manager, she had IV fluids ordered and antibiotics that weren't hung until about 11 that night. Yes that's my fault, and sometimes time can get away from you when you have 4 other patients and not to mention, and pharmacy can take a while to get the medication up to the floor sometimes. I'm just in shock I guess. I always try to do right by my patients and this just took me off guard. I would just think that if I were a nurse being treated, I would have a little understanding about how busy my nurse can get sometimes considering I am busy all of the time. Just a little disappointed I guess.

I do find that when I am able to interact with my patients the way I want to, I retain much more information about them. Unfortunately, sometimes time gets in the way of that. Thats why I love admitting people and keeping them for the duration of their stay, I feel like I know them better and whats going on with them. I feel overwhelmed when I get patients that have been there for weeks, and I feel like I have to catch up.

Hello all, I am new the allnurses.. I have been an RN since January and have been working as a nurse on a medical floor at a fairly large hospital in my area. Although I have learned tons since beginning work as a nurse 5 months ago, and I continue to learn each day, I can't help but to feel overwhelmed and to feel like sometimes I know nothing! Sometimes I go all night taking care of my patients, running from here to there trying to get things done, and at the end of the night I feel like I know nothing about my patients unless I get time to look through their charts! And that's a very rare occurrence. It's like I can't keep it all in my head. Sometimes I can't even keep my patients straight in my head unless I take time to really think. And I work with a lot of nurses who have been doing this a while and it's like they can recall everything about each of their patients, and know what the doctor will order for a patient before they even do just because they are so experience and I really envy that. I don't know if this type of thing will come with time, but I really hope so because I want to be the best nurse I can be and I feel like I have a loooot of learning to do. Any kind of words of encouragement would be awesome! And it's nice to join you all on allnurses!