DisneyNurseGal BSN, RN

CONGRATS. Pediatric Oncology is my passion, and I love taking care of this population! Couple words of advice. 1) SELF CARE. We see some stuff. Its going to be hard. You can't take care of them if you don't take care of yourself. 2) Celebrate t...

Perhaps she;s trying to better herself so she can leave the job she is most unhappy with. Either way it is none of your business. I have many work friends, that I occasionally text, but I don't share much personal information with them. We are work...

Answering the phone hardly constitutes free services. At the end of the day it is the employees responsibility to get to work for their shifts. If your employer is NICE enough to give you a courtesy call to let you know you are needed for work then...

So if your employer needs you to be there at 0700 you don't think the unit has the right to have the peace of mind that you will be there at 0700? When your turned your phone on at 0630... IF they had left a message and told you to report to work by...

When we have on call shifts, it is the expectation that we will be available at the beginning of the shift (to relieve night shift) or through the whole on call period. If we are needed at the beginning of the shift, my unit will call the employee a...

Yes the questions were very similar. Very NCLEX-ey, but there were NOT any questions where all the answers were correct, which is the most correct... Thank goodness. I have an iPhone an in the app store search "Pediatric Nurse CPN Review". The app ...

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No one lives in Primm. There is no housing, grocery stores, or services. Everyone commutes from Vegas. What you are going to save in Income tax you will waste in time and gas. Not to mention Primm to Victorville can be a 4 hour drive during holid...

Hi there! I don't have a CD to sell, but I just wanted to share a strategy I used... I just passed the CPN last month, and I too did not want to shell out the money for the review books. I purchased an app from the app store that had a like 10,000 ...

I don't think it's a HIPPA violation per se; however it is a privacy violation. I don't feel like pictures should never be taken of a patient's body ... ever. Would you feel different if the student took a picture of a patient's body part and used ...

Not true. I was 4 months pregnant with my last child before I had a positive urine test. I knew I was pregnant and did have the testing to prove it.. finally at 7 weeks we could hear the heartbeat.

Don't victim blame. Just because the OP did not have the response you think she should have had doesn't change anything, in fact can make a person feel worse about themselves. A person can not calculate or premeditate how they will react under any ...

Great question! One of those conundrums that comes with working night shift. I did it for 4 years on a Step Down Med ONC unit, so i've been there. I do not think the question is cut and dry. Like many things in nursing it depends on so many other ...

I swear, sometimes it seems I can not get through a shift without a patient or visitor complaining about something. From pain meds, to food quality to wait times, nurses hear it all! However, this past week, I had a couple strange complaints... 1) ...

Hi there! Congrats on the new job! Here is a link to another thread I replied on on a similar topic. The items I mentioned about how to prepare are going to be identical to your situation. https://allnurses.com/picu-nursing-pediatric/tips-for-movin...

I NEED to add another one to the list. My unit has over 500 DVDs for kids to choose from. Mom requested the Disney movie Brave. I went to where the movies were kept and the Brave DVD was gone. I informed the mom that another child was watching i...

GUARANTEED, at some point or another every bedside nurse has felt dumped on. I am sorry you had a bad night, that sounds super rough. My question is a simple one... at any point did you ask for help?

I worked on a unit that would detox and would also see a lot of (ahem), return patients with chronic pain issues. We decided as a unit to dilute pain meds because some of these patients LOVED the rush you get from pushing narcotics (they would often...

1000% not okay. You are stripping away the comfort and security of that child. Unless the child is of the age they can make the decision if they want the parent in the room or not, the parent stays. You can use positions of comfort and distractio...

Not even close to being the same thing. So based on your logic, next time I am teaching a new nurse how to insert an NG tube and she starts to hurt the child, I should push her hands away.. got it. No person should hand on another. There is no sce...

The man could have been arrested for putting his hands on the nurse. The threshold to call something an assault includes ANY unwanted physical contact. We should not be downplaying or accepting ANY act of aggression or violence against health care w...

Are you kidding me? I do things all day that hurt children. Lumbar Punctures, IVs, CPap, NasoPharengeal suctioning, I could go on and on. We do our best to mitigate pain with numbing creams, distraction, positioning for comfort, even medications; ho...

In my facility a tech is a CNA with additional training allowed to perform certain tasks, while working under the licence of the MD. Insert foleys, IV placement, assist at bedside while the MD inserts central lines etc.

Oh man sorry that happened to you! My favorite end-of-shift thing that people say when I am walking out is "SMILE". Why do people think it is okay to tell this to people?? If I want to have RNF (Resting Nurse Face), at the end of a 14 hour day, le...

The way I survive my plantar fasciitis is a foot roller. Do an amazon search for "foot roller" and you will see the contraption that I use and the end of my shift. 15 minutes per foot does the trick. I was experiencing the same symptoms as you, an...